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me: *is a stylish asexual*

me: acethetic

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#gif

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when you start shipping the purest, most innocent character with the most ruthless asshole character

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Two wrongs don’t make a right but two wrights make a heck of an airplane

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Social skills: noticing when repetition is communication

So there’s this dynamic:

Autistic person: The door is open!

Other person: I *know* that. It’s hot in here.

Autistic person: The door is open!

Other person: I already explained to you that it’s hot in here!

Autistic person: The door is open!

Other person: Why do you have to repeat things all the time?!

Often when this happens, what’s really going on is that the autistic person is trying to communicate something, and they’re not being understood. The other person things that they are understanding and responding, and that the autistic person is just repeating the same thing over and over either for no reason or because they are being stubborn and inflexible and obnoxious and pushy.

When what’s really happening is that the autistic person is not being understood, and they are communicating using the words they have. There’s a NT social expectation that if people aren’t being understood, they should change their words and explain things differently. Sometimes autistic people aren’t capable of doing this without help.

So, if this is happening, assume it’s communication and try to figure out what’s being communicated. If you’re the one with more words, and you want the communication to happen in words, then you have to provide words that make communication possible. For example:

Other person: Do you want the door to be closed, or are you saying something else?

Autistic person: Something else

Other person: Do you want to show me something outside, or something else?

Autistic person: Something else

Other person: Are you worried about something that might happen, or something else?

Autistic person: Worried

Other person: Are you worried that something will come in, or that something will go out?

Autistic person: Baby

Other person: She’s in her crib, and the baby gate is up. Is that ok, or is there still a problem?

Autistic person: ok

#ref

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cher gives us the kind of content we want to see

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mmmmm whatcha say

#audio

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The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles, California.

#books

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How to Spice Up a Slow Writing Day

#tRUE #writing

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Mean Girls Deleted Scene - School Dance Bathroom [x]

#movies

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If you took our two good male characters Max and Nux out of the movie, Furiosa and the girls (and to a lesser extent the Vuvalini) would still have motivations and character development and narrative arcs. But if you took the women out of the movie, the men aren’t left with a plot of their own. THIS IS INCREDIBLE TO COMPREHEND. I have spent complete minutes lost in wonder at how rare this is to find in any movie, especially a big explosiony one. Without Furiosa, without the women she is freeing and the women she is returning to, who raised her to be the woman she is, this movie just does not exist.

A Very Long Post On Fury Road’s Feminism (x)

This is an important thing to consider when you’re writing. Take out your characters one at a time and figure it out - does the story exist if they don’t? This will tell you who’s really central to the story and reveal whether you’re using a character as a prop. In other words, it tells you who your main character really is. Too often I see people set out to write about a woman, and it turns into a story where she could be replaced with a sexy lamp with no impact on the story.

#ref: w

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Do you like the colours of the sky? Book edition

#photography #books

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R.I.P. Barbara Park, author of the beloved “Junie B. Jones” books. Park has passed away at 66 after a long battle with ovarian cancer. With irreverent, slangy titles such as “Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus” or “Junie B., First Grader: Cheater Pants,” the six-year-old’s adventures are instantly relatable to kids, and became classics for all of us who grew up with them.

Park lives on through the “Junie B. Jones” books–all of which you can buy here–and in the series’ interactive website.

#oh no D: #i loved those books aww

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Was just scrolling down my dash then these two came together and everything just worked itself out.

#audio

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The world paints pictures everyday, you just have to look in the right places.

#photography #wow

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Hoàng Su Phì, Vietnam Đỗ Quyên

#photography

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when you finally come out of your room

#lol