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UwU

A sticker design for a very specific type of person

OwO

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THE YIPPEE PONY!!! :3

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bruh if people want me to stop sympathizing with villains they need to stop making the villains the ones who want to change broken systems

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🐾buri hamachi!!!🐾

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entomologists are the most fucking wild people ive ever met

i pointed out a cool wasp to one and she just picked it up with her bare hands and started showing me different features she was using to identify the species

on a walk with another one he just paused, turned, violently shoved his hand into some rotting wood and offered me a tunnel web spider like oh okay i guess-

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a person online: i hate it when adults act like childish little freaks in public, smh. you’re an adult, you should be able to order your own food without help. get over yourself. also, why are some people, like, waaaaaaay too into the stuff that they like? omg, and the people who CLEARLY can’t even have one (1) normal conversation without acting Weird??? it’s embarrassing, u guys are embarrassing, get help

the same person five seconds later: we gotta remember to love and support the autistic community u guys <3

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no jkjkjk lololol

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Something very simple that allistics have such a bizarrely hard time understanding.

Autistic people don't have "better hearing so sounds are louder." Generally we have average hearing (of course with variation), our auditory pain threshold is lower than an allistic's so sounds hurt at a lower level. The typical allistic threshold of pain (barring any physical or neurological condition) is 130 decibels, a little bit quieter than a jet engine. They can hear gunshots, subway trains and car horns all without pain, though gunshots are above their threshold of discomfort.

For us it varies of course, as with all things autistic, but my threshold is somewhere around where people start talking too loud -- 65-70 decibels. That's a massive divide, so of course it's nearly impossible for allistics to conceive that things that don't even cause them a little discomfort are causing me intense pain, just as it was always impossible as a kid for me to conceive that the sounds that had me going into screaming meltdowns from the pain weren't even uncomfortable for everyone else.

I remember as a kid I would completely lose it before and during thunderstorms, cowering in my room with my hands so tight over my ears I was hurting myself every storm until age 17, and people would suggest to my mom to buy me a thundershirt and it pissed me off -- they really couldn't fathom that it wasn't just anxiety, but that the fear was sourced from physical pain. (Or, you know, that I was her child and not a family pet.) Of course I was going to have a phobic reaction when I saw lightning because by early childhood I learned lightning meant pain was imminent. My mom didn't believe this either and would attempt to "desensitize" me by trying to get me to go outside during storms and fireworks -- because I didn't have the knowledge to explain "Hey, I'm scared because this is actually painful for me," I just assumed people were yelling at me to get over it because it was painful for everyone and I was just uniquely bad at dealing with it.

Even after learning that it hurts us, they don't seem to care, and I can only assume that they don't really process and understand the fact they were just told. They write it off because it is an experience they don't share so they can't imagine it. Just another way that understanding is divided between autistics and allistics despite how what's actually going on is so simple and easy to understand. And that doesn't even touch on autistic children going through this divide who cannot communicate the process their brain is taking.

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made on blinkies.cafe, text on the second blinkie from this post

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“I EXIST IN WAYS YOU CANT IMAGINE”

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also idk what transgender child needs to hear this the salon/barber will not give u a cool emo haircut you gotta do that shit with scissors and a razor at your sink

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So So Happy pins.

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Ride the Wings of Pestilence by BluePandimonium

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rainbow stamps

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