Tabby | 20s | she/her, she/they at level 5 friendship | Singaporean Chinese | here to look for interesting things | writeblr is @storytelling-unlimited | blacklist 'nsft' to avoid nsfw topics
Was working on the Chapter 4 video and I kind of got sidetracked and made this AMV inspired by Audrey's Tumblr header. Probably can't post it on YT bc of copyright but I think Tumblr is too broken to care.
people always say autistic people think in black and white, but then they *teach* us in black and white. good girl, bad girl. good (normal) behavior, bad (abnormal) behavior. you have to be consistent with these kids
my therapist gave me a feelings chart and when I circled more than one told me to choose one feeling. in social skills group, they were always asking questions like, “is talking about airplanes expected or unexpected behavior?” and “it depends” was not the right answer- talking about airplanes is unexpected, inappropriate, abnormal, bad behavior (at least when you are one of Those Kids. when you like things too much you aren’t allowed to like things anymore)
here is your behavior chart, you either get a sticker or you don’t. here is your anger scale, you aren’t allowed to say you don’t know. we need an answer that fits into a graph because we are graphing your anger. here is a social story where everything is so simplified it resembles real life about as much as stick figures resemble people. here are your right and wrong answers and you play, move, think wrong
special educators are some of the most rigid people I’ve met. you have to follow the program. it has to fit on this chart. you have to be consistent with these kids
endless discourse cycle of "not doing drugs is pathetic loser behaviour" -> "making fun of people for not doing drugs is high school bully behaviour" would be resolved instantly if ppl simply recognised that doing drugs is like anorexia in that both are socially encouraged but only until you cross the line into disabled and/or unemployable
Remember that the calls for the national guard to intervene are calls to use state violence against Palestinian, Jewish, Arab, Muslim and other pro-Palestine students. They’re calling for deadly violence against Jews in the name of “anti-antisemitism.”
Speaking of Singapore radio one time they were playing that Renee Rapp and Megan Thee Stallion song and for whatever reason, on a song about women being attracted to women, they felt the need to only censor out the word “gay” in the second verse. Like, I have to ask What Is The Point Then?