#blue pumpkin

[autiebiographical]

It should be the autistic person's choice to disclose their diagnosis, even if that disclosure is done by carrying a plastic blue pumpkin.

#autiebiographical #autie-biographical #halloween #blue pumpkin #actually autistic #autism #autistic #web comic #comic strip #comic #slice of life

[hyperlexichypatia]

In addition to all the other reasons autistic people have given for why you shouldn't make autistic kids use blue pumpkins for trick-or-treating (it's objectifying, it's othering, it's Autism Speaks propaganda, it's marking them for violence), I wanted to touch on the stated reasoning for it: That a signifier is needed to "explain" why a nonspeaking autistic child cannot say "Trick or treat."

That only makes sense if a nonspeaking autistic child is trick-or-treating alone, with no caregivers or other people who could speak on their behalf.

Is that likely?

Look, I am all in favor of kids trick-or-treating alone, or in groups with other kids. Helicopter parenting is harmful, and stranger kidnapping is rare (most kidnappings are by someone the child knows). And I am all in favor of nonspeaking autistic kids having all the same freedoms and opportunities as neurotypical kids, including developmentally necessary free play and mischief-making. I am, in all likelihood, the most radical youth-and-disability-liberationist you know. And even I would be a little bit wary of sending a nonspeaking autistic child out trick-or-treating alone without an AAC device, an interpreter, or a friend or family member around.

Can you really imagine the bulk of the blue-pumpkin-parents demographic sending their nonspeaking children out alone? I certainly can't.

So this scenario, this needing a visual signifier "explaining" a child's speech disability, is not a real scenario. Realistically, overwhelmingly, nonspeaking autistic children trick-or-treating will be accompanied by at least one speaking person.

So why the blue pumpkins? Because the othering is the point. The objectification is the point. You want your child to be visually marked as defective. It conveys no useful information.

#neurodiversity #autism #actually autistic #halloween #trick or treat #blue pumpkin

[autball]

I got your Trick or Treat…

Obligatory disclaimer: Stunts performed by professionals in a controlled environment. Do not attempt. [Image description: A 4-panel cartoon by Autball.

1: Two ND characters (light green/green gradient on left, magenta/purple gradient on right) stand together, a full moon with a wispy cloud passing in front of it in the night sky behind them. Light green/green is smiling and asks, “So are you guys doing the blue pumpkin thing?” Magenta/purple, smiling, replies, “Nah, I don’t think I should have to out her to the whole neighborhood just to get people to be decent.”

2: Same scene. Light green/green, no longer smiling, asks, “What’s she gonna do if she can’t speak?” Magenta/purple, smiling, replies, “We made a cute little card that says ‘Trick or Treat’ that she can flash if she needs to.”

3: Same scene. Light green/green looks concerned and asks, “Well what if someone gives her a hard time anyway?” Magenta/purple, smiling and reaching off-screen, replies, “Oh, I’ve got something for that too…”

4: Same scene. Light green/green is smiling again, and Magenta/purple is now holding an orange yard sign with black lettering that reads, “I’M BEING A DICK ABOUT CANDY. TRY NEXT DOOR.” Magenta/purple, smiling, says, “I figured it would be more useful to broadcast THEIR whereabouts to the whole neighborhood instead.”]

#autism #autistic funny #actually autistic #autistic #autism acceptance #autistic characters #autistic artist #blue pumpkin

[thealanwrightblog]

The famous Brause 361 Steno ‘Blue Pumpkin’ for use with dip pens. On their way!

#Brause #blue pumpkin #361 steno

[jwinsorart]

Day 23: sunflower. Ugh this yellow on black just looks so vibrant and stunning. Why does black paper just make all calligraphy look like a million bucks?! 🤤

🖋@jetpens Brause 361 Steno Blue Pumpkin Nib

@speedball_calligraphy Oblique Nib Holder

🎨 @drphmartins Iridescent Saffron Yellow

📜 Black mixed media

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[voodoo-art]

Behold! all of my 'sona's as pumpkins!

#frog #bird #vaporeon #pumpkin #blue pumpkin #halloween #fursona #pokesona

[madhatterbabe]

#blue pumpkin #autism #special needs #food allergy #food sensitivities

[katiajewelbox]

Life imitates art, or art imitates life? This Crown Prince pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) certainly bears a striking resemblance to the Russian samovar (device for heating and brewing tea). The Crown Prince pumpkin is considered one of the finest pumpkins for sweet and savoury dishes. Pumpkins are a nutrient dense food that contains high concentrations of vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin C, and vitamin K as well as dietary fibre, folate, potassium, and iron. The vitamins are associated with reduced cancer risks, and improved eye and skin health. Iron and folate help strengthen the immune system while potassium lowers blood pressure. Healthy recipes cooked with fresh or canned pumpkin flesh will help you add these nutritional benefits to your diet. Beware of the autumn “treats” that are really “tricks” - there are lots of junk foods that have pumpkin in the name but contain only artificial spice flavouring instead of real pumpkin!

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[autisticsociologymajor]

The problem with color coded pumpkins

In case you haven’t seen, it’s a thing that children who go trick or treating might have a colored pumpkin. The point of this is that the color of the pumpkin is supposed to symbolize something about them.

I’m specifically talking about blue pumpkins for autism in this post.

Some online articles will say that blue or teal pumpkins are used to “bring awareness,” or “raise awareness for how Halloween affects ‘children with autism spectrum disorders’” (their words, not mine) or (this was literally one I just read) “a nonverbal way to communicate the child has ‘special needs’.”

The truth of the matter is that it doesn’t bring awareness to anything except the autistic child and the fact that they’re autistic.

Wtf do people think is going to happen??? WHY?? I would be fkn HUMILIATED if my parents made me walk around basically with a huge badge that told the world what I don’t want them to know about me (the fact I’m autistic) Fkn. Humiliated.

People generally DO NOT understand autism enough to give a dam anyways?!?! They will see that pumpkin and MAYBE know what it means. That absolutely does not stop them from being d!cks to the person trick or treating if they display autistic traits & the other person happens to not understand a dam thing about autism.

It puts a target on them. If enough people know what the color of their pumpkin means, it opens them up to a world of hate and discontent. Does nobody understand that?

V!0lence, bullying, exclusion, infantilization (yes, in a way you can infantilize autistic children, sorry not sorry)… how about the “autism isn’t real” people?? The ones who will straight up tell a child to their face that they aren’t autistic because they happen to not “believe in it”?? Or even more sinister, the ones who will try to take advantage, knowing through symbolism that the child may be more prone to gullibility?

Would you make your gay kid walk around with a rainbow pumpkin to tell everyone they’re gay? Your kid with POTS walk around with a turquoise pumpkin? Kid with IBS with a periwinkle pumpkin?

“It brings awareness!” TO WHAT?? If people are not going to research autism on their own, they’re not gonna research it just because they see a fkn blue pumpkin. Where’s the correlation?? Fkn awareness. To your child, yes. To autism, no. Absolutely not. Not in this hateful, disgusting society. Stop underestimating how “stuck in their own ways” and how uneducated non-autistic people are when it comes to their insignificant opinions about autism. They. Don’t. Care.

FOR EXAMPLE

A few kids came to my house today with blue pumpkins. The first was very early in the evening — a little girl who 1) didn’t say trick or treat and 2) didn’t hold out her blue pumpkin for me to put the candy in. She held her pumpkin closely and tightly with two hands in front of her. She just stared at me while her 5 siblings crowded around her. She was clearly visibly overwhelmed. And her parents were nowhere to be seen. Her oldest sibling must have been about 10-12yrs old.

Because I’m autistic & deeply understand what these situations feel like… how did I respond to her?

The first thing I saw was the god forsaken pumpkin. I said trick or treat to her and didn’t get all b!tchy and whiny when she didn’t say it back. I just kept on & asked her if she liked *this candy this candy or this candy*, held them out and let her point/nod at which she liked. I gave her candy first so she could walk to the end of my driveway first, away from her siblings who were clearly overwhelming her by crowding around her so tightly. When she didn’t hold her bucket out for ME, I came to HER. When she loudly shouted some phrase that her sibling immediately felt like telling me means “thank you” to her while she ran to the end of the driveway, I didn’t make it a point to turn it into a fkn issue that she didn’t say the words “thank you.” She said it in her own way.

How would a neurotypical who either knows nothing about autism or has outdated, biased opinions about autism possibly have responded to that girl?

Likely, they would’ve told her she can’t have candy until she says trick or treat or they would’ve somehow made it a point to bring awareness to the fact she didn’t say it. They might have ignored her completely. Or pointed out the fact she appeared as if she was in a “bad mood” in front of everybody. They would’ve responded to her with sourness and discontent. They likely would’ve given her candy last since they probably wouldn’t have liked her perceived “attitude.” Some a$$holes might have even tried to physically pull her pumpkin away from how closely she had it hugged to her body just to drop a piece of candy in it. And they most definitely would’ve made it a big deal that she didn’t say thank you as “thank you.” They most likely would’ve treated her with indifference or some degree of caution, and she likely would’ve noticed.

Imagine this happening to you several times in one night when you’re already overwhelmed. It doesn’t matter that she had a blue pumpkin. People do not understand autism. They do not care. They do not know how to accommodate or treat us with dignity & equity because they know NOTHING about us!! The us that is represented by US… NOT some fkn organization who claims they understand us yet won’t even allow our voices to be louder than theirs for a single fkn second.

Secondly, I live in a small town. There is one elementary school. One middle/high school. Kids she knows now will know her until if or when she or they move out of this town. There’s a very strong chance that kids she goes to school with saw her with her blue pumpkin. There’s a strong chance at least one of their parents recognized and drew ATTENTION to it with their own child/family. Not awareness. Attention. If one child in a small town knows something, so do the rest of them. If they didn’t already know, they do now. And kids can be mean. Especially to autistic kids.

Blue pumpkins don’t bring awareness to a dam thing. They draw attention to autistic children, and that attention often isn’t good attention. Even if it’s well intentioned… people still do not understand enough about us to know how to treat us right now. Even if they know about autism from awareness advertising, they do not understand. Knowing and understanding are completely different. And you never know who will understand and who will not.

#actually autistic #spoonie #autism #sociology major #sociology #society #social issues #autistic adult #autistic feels #autistic things #autistic experiences #blue pumpkin

[princessgemsart]

I’d been wanting to do this since last year, but thankfully I now got it done just in time for Spooky Season. ^^

For those who don’t know, the Blue Pumpkin for Halloween symbolizing those on the Autism Spectrum and as someone on the spectrum herself, I thought it would be a very adorable painting to make.💙

Enjoy

#blue pumpkin #painting #autism spectrum #asd #autism #halloween #jack-o-lantern #pumpkin

[strixessabre]

The chaotic 1900 live and Kitboga REALLY ties the artwork together man

#ink #iinking #traditional art #owl #great grey owl #great gray owl #ink art #blue pumpkin #occult #esoteric #illustration

[fatcatswaggerdesigns]

Hello Fall - Cute Blue and White Chevron Pumpkin

A cute white pumpkin with light blue chevron zig zags. It has a cute little stump and curly vine. Its soft pastel colors make it cozy. Hello fall!

The pillow has a customizable monogram on it!

T-Shirt | Pillow | Art Print

Spreadshirt | Zazzle | Society6

#hello fall #autumn #fall home decor #white pumpkin #blue pumpkin #halloween #thanksgiving #happy harvest #pastel #warm and cozy #chevron #zig zags #boho #bohemian #bohochic #Hello Fall Cute Blue and White Chevron Pumpkin

[wealthypioneers]

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#Pumpkin #Jarrahdale Pumpkin #Blue Pumpkin #Pumpkin Seeds #Jarrahdale seeds #Pumpkin Dill #giant pumpkin #Pumpkin Polar Bear #Sunlight pumpkin #Pumpkin Cotton Candy #Winter Luxury Pie #Porcelain Doll #Pumpkin Fireball

[autball]

Make Pumpkin Colors Meaningless Again! (Except the teal-for-allergies thing. That one’s cool.)

A 4 panel cartoon by Autball entitled “Proper Handling of Blue Pumpkins.”

1: A yellow/dark yellow ND adult, a red child, and a slightly smaller green/blue autistic child stand in front of a Halloween Pumpkin display, looking happy. The display contains blue, green, purple, and orange pumpkins, with a sign at the top that reads, “Blue Pumpkins are for Autism!” The ND adult says, “Hey, found the pumpkins! Which ones do you guys want?”

2: Same scene. Red child says, “Well the blue one would go great with my Mario costume. Can I get it even though I’m not autistic?” ND adult replies, “‘Course you can! And what about you love?”

3: Same scene. Green/blue autistic child is happily choosing an orange pumpkin. ND adult says, “Great! Let’s go get stuff for the trick or treaters!”

4: The children are now walking away holding their pumpkins of choice, looking happy. The sign that read “Blue Pumpkins are for Autism!” is no longer on the display. ND adult is whistling, eyebrows raised, while surreptitiously placing said sign behind the display it once sat atop.

#autistic funny #autism #autistic #actually autistic #autistic artist #blue pumpkin #halloween

[littlekhada]

lil bro sketches dump

#star wars #thrawn #thrawn books #thrawn trilogy #eli vanto #my favorite adorable space pumpkin little boy i just love you so much my preciousssss #my little meow meow #my babygirl #some random blue dude #thranto obviously #thranto #grand admiral thrawn

[jwinsorart]

A beautiful flourished bunny from @thepostmansknock 🐇The big, bad burn out monster is coming for me, so I decided to just trace this cutie. I've been feeling burnt out for awhile and I tried going easy on myself and being less strict about my daily practice but it hasn't helped. I think I need to experiment more and try new things. Hopefully this doesn't become chronic. Wish me luck!

🖋@jetpens Brause 361 Steno Blue Pumpkin Nib

@speedball_calligraphy Oblique Nib Holder

🎨 @scribalworkshop Iron Gall Ink

📜 @cansonusa Pro Layout Marker

#calligraphy #satisfying #ink #dip pen #pointed pen #flourishing #cursive #brausesteno #blue pumpkin #nib