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I have never wanted anything in my life so bad!

Introducing AVA: a platformer RPG staring an autistic space pirate!

hey all! as some of you may remember, I’ve been working on a project with Social Cipher, an indie group focused on driving neurodiversity inclusion and empowerment through representation. Social Cipher was founded by an autistic woman and has autistic narrative consultants on the team as well (that’s my role! ☺️).

the game is aiming to provide representation to autistic youth but is playable by a wide range of audiences. it’s a 2D platformer with RPG elements, and it includes an emotional system that impacts conversation and gameplay in order to represent how Ava’s autism affects her throughout the game. the story follows Ava, a space pirate in a solarpunk-inspired world searching for her missing brother Zeke. and of course, no adventure would be complete without an adorable animal companion: meet Pud, Ava’s alien pet :)

the game is still in the early stages of development, but these are the new redesigns of Ava and animation + game development are well underway! I’ll be continuing to share updates throughout the development process so stay tuned if you’re interested! I’ll leave you all with this animation of Ava and Pud settling in to their quiet place ❤️

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autistic self diagnosis is valid

a person: i’m autistic. i don’t have a professional diagnosis.

a neurotypical: you can’t! self diagnose! autism!!! onLy a dOctor can do that!!!

most doctors: don’t know what autism looks like in people other than nonverbal white cis boys

most doctors: recommend abusive therapies for autistic kids and teens

most doctors who specialize in diagnosing autism: refuse to evaluate adults

an autism evaluation for a minor teen who wants one: requires having supportive parents who understand that autism is not a tragedy and looks different for every autistic person, and that many autistic people can talk, have friends, do okay in school, and otherwise fake looking neurotypical

an autism evaluation for an adult: very expensive and often not covered by insurance in the U.S., also extremely difficult to get in France

an on-record autism diagnosis: can be used to deny you custody of children, to have your kids taken away, to forcibly institutionalize you

autism advocacy orgs that actually help autistic ppl like ASAN, AWN, AANE: Here are some resources for figuring out if you could be autistic. Professional diagnosis is a very personal decision and is not required for knowing that you’re one of us. We support you as an autistic person even if you don’t have a paper diagnosis.

a sincere autism self diagnosis: harms no one even if it’s incorrect, enables the person to feel part of a community of people with similar issues and learn more about autism, a gateway to learning about autism acceptance movements, often the first step toward self acceptance and self esteem

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apparently controversial fucking opinion: some of us need closed captions/subtitles to understand what is being said in a video and don’t want to see fan transcribers demolishing captions with zalgo text or giving their own commentary/cracking stupid jokes when we turn those on 

i promise your jokes/theories/fucking leet speek for some reason can stay in the comments and not in the captions where i have to keep rewatching the video to figure out if that’s actually being said or not

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Someone: Hey don’t you love [special interest]?

Me: Pssh…. I mean. It’s ok I guess

My brain: Oh so we’re LIARS now?

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Queer + ocean phone screen for @quoth-the-sparrow

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Thank you for expanding on the image description!

So this is really awesome! These are Disney princesses reimagined as disabled and drawn with service dogs. The artist, Arien Smith, drew these in 2017, but they have become viral only recently. Arien features all types of dogs in his portrayals as a way to educate about disabilities and service animals. He also does other dog related art. Arien can be found on Facebook under Royal Service Dogs or the major barkana. Hopefully more artists, or, you know, actual major film/tv/book creators begin to incorporate disabilities and service animals rather than pretending like they don’t exist (but that’s a different rant for a different day, 🙃).

Image descriptions: Disney princesses Cinderella, rapunzelle, tiana, sleeping beauty, belle, Snow White, and Pocahontas featured with various disabilities and service dogs of various breeds assisting them in daily lives. The last image in of a Facebook post that features the same pictures, but as line drawings, so they can be colored in.

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Destroy the notion that intellectually disabled adults are children in adult bodies.

I don’t care if they only watch Sesame Street because it’s one of a few things on TV that’s cognitively accessible to them. They are not children unless they are actually children.

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This was a wonderful addition

If you’re tired of neurotypical bullshit and you know it clap your hands

👏👏

#autism #actuallyautistic #autistic #autistic experience #actually autistic #autistic culture #spoonie #autism acceptance #autistic memes #spoon

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Anti autistic things to stop doing

Rhee Rhee memes. It’s meant to make fun of autistics w/higher support needs

Using Autistic as an insult. (Wow you’re so autistic or what an autistic meme.)

Calling each other R*tard.

Making fun of autistic people’s tics or special interest.

Making fun of physical differences.

Getting things autistics need banned (it’s ok to have stim toys like fidget spinners etc.) as long as you don’t get them taken away from those who need them.

Having fake therapy animals STOP THAT

Supporting Autism speaks The are a hate group. Need proof watch the I am autism add

Asking an autistic what thier thing is.

Tokenizing you’re autistic friends by going oh my stepsisters cousins best friend is autistic. Umm ok I know folks with brown hair I don’t point it out when I meet folks with brown hair.

Saying stuff like accommodations are unfair/cheating and just ways disabled folks get ahead.

Not listening to autistic friends and peers when they tell you the truth of our existence buck vs bell (forced sterilization.) still legal. Disabled folks can’t marry w/out one person loosing healthcare etc.) both true facts.

Telling an autistic or nuerodiverse kid in you’re school that they are most likely to be as school shooter. (It’s untrue and offensive. Especially when we hate that people get hurt seeking an education.)

Saying autistics don’t have a culture or cultural values

Telling autistics it’s thier perspective when they report bullying to you when 33% more than ¼th of all bullying victims according to Pacer.com are autistics

Making videos of you doing something nice for the autistic kid so you can get attention… it can be embarrassing for us

Making us you’re “autistic friend.” So you can impress other people with out charitable or kind you are and then drop us when you’re done that hurts.

Using us for our accommodations

Not realizing those “special classrooms” and “special bathrooms” are apart of disabled segregation. When they all should be accessible

Telling autistics not to headcanon characters as autistics (Even after we show you proof.)

Forcing person first language on us without asking how we identify.

Laughing at socially awkward tendencies because you don’t know who could have an invisible disabilitie

Dressing up like asylum victims for Halloween when thier graves have numbers instead of names.

Also no Sexy mental patient costumes if the first wasn’t offensive enough rape and sexual assault is 8 to 9 times more likely to happen to folks with invisible disabilities. 3% of all rape cases are disabled folks (to put that in perspective 1% of the world population has green eyes and you’ve seen folks with green eyes.)

Also stop making mental patients the villains in you’re horror movies or ghosts. Simply ,because they have an invisible disability that’s A.) Lazy writing B.) stereotyping an at risk community.

Also autism is HIGHLY genetic so ^ making fun of above things makes fun of us,our parents,our siblings,our nieces ,and in some cases our ansestors.

Autism has been around since prehistoric times not just 1940s

#autism #actuallyautistic #autistic #autistic experience #actually autistic #autistic culture #spoonie #autism acceptance #autistic memes #spoon

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What the fuck? Why? Sometimes I really hate nuerotypical people.

Puppetgate

Those of you who aren’t on autistic twitter are missing out on Puppetgate.

Hold onto your pants because this is going to get UNREAL.

1. A London playhouse reveals that it will be doing a play about a family whose non-verbal autistic child is being sent to an institution.

The autistic child will be represented by a puppet.

2. Autistic Twitter: “A puppet? What the fuck? Like we already feel like we are treated as inhuman things with no voice.”

3. Play supporters: “but Julia from Sesame Street is okay right?”

4. Autistic twitter: “…true but why a puppet?”

5. Playhouse: “because of child labour laws. You can’t ask a non verbal autistic child to perform in a play day after day.”

6. Autistic Twitter: “but why couldn’t a small adult actor just…”

7. Playhouse: “okay and here is the puppet!”

8. Autistic Twitter: “Oh dear god what is that unholy abomination?”

9. Playhouse: “it’s great right? This puppet is going to be SO MUCH more like an autistic child than a human could ever be!”

(Seriously)

https://twitter.com/allinarowplay/status/1092410318960148481?s=21

10. Autistic Twitter: “how could that creepy goblin represent an autistic child better than an actor could?”

11. Playhouse: “Well you see because he’s a non verbal autistic and aggressive so things get pretty physical and also it would be stereotypical and insulting to make a human play an autistic person but if we use an inanimate object it’s fine.”

12. Autistic Twitter: “We are NOT okay with this.”

13. Playhouse: “You haven’t even seen the play. We consulted with so many autistic people.”

14. National Autism Society: “Yeah you consulted us and we told you that this play was problematic and that you should make some major changes including dumping the puppet.”

15. Playhouse: “And we took those notes under advisement.”

16. NAS: “But you didn’t make the changes.”

17. Playhouse: “No. Because you just a read a script and we know you’ll all feel differently when you see it.

18. Autistic Twitter: “So… can autistic theatre critics get free tickets so we can see if?”

19. Playhouse: “No we can’t afford to give out free tickets to critics.”

20. Non-Autistic Critic: “Actually you offered ME free tickets and I turned them down saying you should give them to an autistic critic.”

21. Playhouse: “…Hey look, opening night!”

22. Non-Autistic Critic: “So I went to see it and… it’s really weird. The parents are terrible people and I cannot for the life of me understand why they thought an adult man with a grey faced goblin sprouting from his groin making autistic noises was more realistic than an autistic actor playing the child themself.”

23. Non-Autistic Autism Advocate: “I went to see it and it was SO GOOD. I totally forgot that Laurence was a puppet he seemed so much like a real autistic child in that he was not human and he didn’t even feature that much in the play.

The heartbreak of the family dealing with the tragedy of autism was so real and honest and I have NO idea why people are offended by this wonderful play that portrays autism as a family-destroying evil.

24. #ActuallyAutistic Critic: “GUYS I WENT TO SEE IT AND OMG. Theatre isn’t sensory friendly, non sensory friendly performances, no trigger warnings on anything even though it’s full of ableism and screaming people.

Plot of the play is that the kid is being taken by social services to go to an institution.

Big plot twist is that the mom called them herself because she couldn’t handle the autism anymore.

Puppet just flaps around and occasionally attacks people. I actually really love puppetry but this was messed up and not well done AT ALL.

These people are all terrible. Dad has been taking shits on the Mom’s pillow and blaming it on his non-verbal son.

Puppet gets pinned to the ground in that move that can kill people.

The puppet’s care worker says that autistic people are animals who have reincarnated as people, and he’s still the best human being in this play.

This is play is an ableist shitfest written by allistics for allistics about the tragedy of autism and how it destroys families.”

25. Autistic Twitter: “Sorry, did you say the Dad SHITS ON HIS WIFE’S PILLOW AND BLAMES HIS SON??”

26. Allistic Twitter: “This play was SO brave to be so honest about how awful autistic children are! So refreshing to see a play showing the PARENTS’ viewpoint for once!

(SERIOUSLY)

So that’s where we are right about now. If you want to go be angry the hashtag on twitter is #puppetgate

Here is a link to Shaun May’s amazing and horrifying review of this tire fire of a play.

https://shaunmay.co.uk/allinarow/

#autism #actuallyautistic #autistic #autistic experience #actually autistic #autistic culture #spoonie #autism acceptance #autistic memes #spoon

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I know I post a lot of positivity and I stand by that but life with autism isn’t always super easy and its totally okay to struggle with it. Its okay not to always feel thrilled about it; feeling like that doesn’t make you a bad person. Just remember that you are fantastic for who you are. Accepting yourself or your diagnosis might be a process and that’s absolutely fine. Autism acceptance month isn’t just about others accepting us, for a lot of people its about working toward self acceptance too!

#autism #actuallyautistic #autistic #autistic experience #actually autistic #autistic culture #spoonie #autism acceptance #autistic memes #spoon

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So how ‘bout “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck?

Gotta love hefty doses of ableism and non disabled people defending it because “it was for his own good” and “it was a different time”. Not to mention the racism and sexism! I hate this book and will fight people over it.

#autism #actuallyautistic #autistic #autistic experience #actually autistic #autistic culture #spoonie #autism acceptance #autistic memes #spoon #of mice & men #books #literature #fuck this book #john steinbeck #disability #disabilties #diaabled

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Why autism moms think autism is a tragedy: “my poor child will never talk the way I think they should”

What autistic people think sucks about autism: executive dysfunction, autism moms being like That

#actuallyautistic #actually autistic #autism #autism moms #negative #executive dysfunction #autistic memes

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Anachronism; a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists. Autistic people often feel like we were meant for a different time. Some of us the future, some of us the past. This one is for my Autistic time travelers. The Anachronistic Autistics.

Get yours now at the link below:

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/4669245-anachronistic-autistic