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roe-and-memory · 30 days

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for a little while after he comes to radiator springs, lightning definitely is in a constant state of fight or flight (mostly flight)

it comes with the trauma of being neglected and rejected repeatedly, hes terrified the the town will do the same thing to him that his parents did — or they’ll be just like the people he wanted to desperately to be friends with — so on, and so forth.

it also comes with the unmasking process — getting insanely overstimulated insanely quickly because being tied down feels Crowding . and having this many people care about you, to the point it ends in almost constant conversation with someone, can start to feel suffocating. and the fact he cant prepare himself for the day anymore because its such an out of wack routine doesnt help one bit.

so, he needs an escape.

its dumb, kind of, and sometimes his little adventures around the desert suffice enough, but it starts becoming more of an issue and he starts needing somewhere repetitive to go.

the cow fields just on the county line, the gravel road that leads to a deserted farmhouse, its age showing in each plank of wood that hangs off its nails, rotting from the rain and weather, grains of sand embed in each crack — lightning finds comfort in one of those empty fields.

first, its leaving to go sit in the long grass, pulling little bits and pieces of it out of the dirt and taking interest in how, somehow, after years of abandonment, it seems to thrive - how the cows keep living, being fed occasionally by mater, but for the most part just surviving off of the grass in their pen. he wonders why they stay. - he would find himself watching the sun disappear behind the mountains and cliffs of cadillac range, taking deep breaths, basking in the sound of the wind whistling and crickets chirping.

when his fears start getting worse, he steals one of the plastic lawn chairs out of docs shed and leaves it out there, sometimes stealing a beer out of the fridge despite how much he hates them. he rarely drinks them anyways, maybe a few sips or so for enough of a buzz to get rid of the anxiety in his bones, but otherwise he always gets home with a bottle still half full, going to waste down the drain.

doc never worries about this. its a part of the process of teaching someone that Some People in the world arent out to get them — sometimes people genuinely mean it with their care — so he can understand that these mini getaways are just his kid taking time to calm down, rationalize, and figure stuff out.

as the months pass, he becomes less terrified, he doesnt need to really disappear anymore, he starts taking sally out there with him. he lays a blanket in the grass and they stare at the sky together in silence.

the longer he stays out there in that field, the more he realizes hes here to stay. he doesnt need to come out here to calm down, instead he can sit in his bedroom and breathe.

eventually, that plastic lawn chair is deserted in that field, the smooth, white surface becoming scratchy and dirty with rain and wind. no one goes out to clean it, because no one needs it anymore.

#cars 2006 #cars fandom #lightning mcqueen #pixar cars #cars headcanons #memory’s headcanons #doc hudson #sally carrera #lightning is autistic #he also has abandonment issues #hes so terrified that his found family is gonna leave him just like the real ones did #he has no idea how much they love him #and it breaks my HEART #get this boy therapy pls #or a comfort item #whichever one works best (probably an item)#i adore him

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lightning-system · 4 months

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As a medium/lower support needs autistic who works with young higher support needs autistic:

We all matter. We all have the same diagnosis. We all deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.

But we are not the same.

I can mask and might be seen as 'odd' or 'weird' in public. The students I work with are seen as 'dangerous' and 'practically little kids'.

I can go to university and work with accommodations. The students I work with likely will never live independently and a few might find jobs that support them but still pay them less than an abled worker.

I have full control of my finances. The students I work with aren't allowed to make independent financial decisions, even if capable.

If I say 'no,' I'm making a choice. The students I work with can't say 'no' without being labeled as defiant and difficult.

I can feed myself, bathe myself, and take care of myself with extreme challenges. The students I work with are unable to take care of themselves without high levels of support/one on one support.

I had an IEP in high school but was mainstreamed in classes. The students I work with take separate classes and some rarely get to interact with their abled peers.

Our experiences are fundamentally different. Higher support needs autistics will experience a specific type of ableism I never will, and can never fully understand.

Lower support needs autistics need to stop saying we understand what higher support needs autistics are going through and then present autism as only being disabling because of society/lack of acceptance because that is dangerous. We need to stop saying every autistic person is capable of everything if given the right support because that leaves out huge parts of our community who will never be able to do certain things, regardless of support.

We are worthy of existence regardless of our abilities.

Autism is a spectrum. It is not the same for every autistic person. Autism acceptance and advocacy has to come with accepting, acknowledging, and listening to our higher support needs peers.

#disabled #disability #actually autistic #autism #low support needs #medium support needs #high support needs #autistic pride #advocacy #acceptance #lightning rambles #important

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non-alphabeticalsoup · 4 months

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Like father, like son 🍓🍊🍋🍏🫐🍇

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a-very-zilly-gooze · 5 months

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the lightning thief series

🤝

the ballad of songbirds and snakes movie

reawakening my middle school hyperfixations since 2023

#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #the lightning thief #tlt #rick riordan #pjo #the hunger games #thg #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #hyperfixation #autism moment #actually autistic

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cdmodule · 11 months

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A few months ago I drew out some headcanons related to various disablities & other physical conditions and decided to finish them up now that It's disability pride month ( Even If not all are necessarily disablitles <3 )

[ First time doing Image descriptions so I'd appreciate feedback! ]

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d00dlef0x · 2 years

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Nothing funnier to me than suletta being a cringe fail loser 99% of the time and yet is getting mad bitches just by being nice and a bad ass mech pilot

#the autistic swag of a socially akward teen #witch from mercury spoilers #witch from mercury #its like the fucking mater a lightning mcqueen meme #‘hey guys its so nice that i won so i can be back in school!’#miorine and guel simultaneously: i want you #‘w-wha’#suletta mercury #miorine rembran #guel jeturk

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hopelesscatdad · 4 months

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Controversial headcanon.

Lightning isn't autistic or has adhd in my mind.

If anyone has autism it's Jackson Storm based off his book.

#pixar cars #lightning mcqueen #jackson storm #so tired of the omg he stimmed *once*#or the fucking dinosaur interest #and that's enough to deem him fully autistic #meanwhile my autistic ass sitting here watching this happen as it does with every Fandom #god forbid a character has a strong interest or hobby #btw Sally is super obsessed with route 66 history and also stims repeatedly in the first film by literally hopping when happy #so is she autistic too now?

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healingpuppys · 1 month

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Could I request a stimboard for Annabeth or Thalia from PJO possibly :0 /nf

here ya go!! we’ve made a annabeth one before so we hope you like this!!

Thalia grace stimboard

art by: carrotz.png on instagram

🌩️💙🏹 | 🌩️💙🏹 | 🌩️💙🏹

☆ Requests: Open ☆

#age regression #pet regressor #petre blog #sfw agere #age regressor #pet regression #petre #animals #autistic stimming #stimboard #pjo stimboard #pjo thalia #thalia grace #thalia stimboard #lightning stim #storm stim #chain stim

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pleasejustletpercyrest · 4 months

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Constantly thinking about quest deadlines. Like, I understand there needs to be not only the danger of monsters and gods and such, but also the clock ticking for the storyline to be so compelling, but also like DAMN you’re choosing 12 year olds to TRAVEL ACROSS THE COUNTRY and you’re giving them what? A week? 10 days? It varies, but every time WITHOUT FAIL the gods are like “oh yeah btw you know this life threatening journey? Be back on Monday”.

Additionally, they do this to kids, 12-15 year olds who have DISABILITIES!!! Bro can get an extra 30 minutes on a standardized test with an open book policy but GOD FORBID he gets more than seven days to fulfill a heroes quest. You can’t look at me and tell me this is not just another “tee hee fuck you” from the gods, like less than three days into their journey in the Lightning Thief, Percy, Annabeth and Grover were like “hey we have time, let’s go completely off track and go see the Gateway Arch! Let’s not take this margin of free time to try and get ahead, I wanna see some cool shit!” And I support them, I adore them, but really? You’re looking at Mr. Jackoff and his ragtag band of hyperactive, vaguely autistic preteens and you’re like “yeah they’re gonna get there on time”. Be SO FR right now.

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light-glue-blazed-terracotta · 18 days

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ethubs pride and prejudice au. etho = mr darcy, bdubs = elizabeth bennett. can anyone hear me

#ethubs #this has definitely been done before but i was just struck as if by lightning with the Vision #elizabeth/bdubs - headstrong and deeply caring and loves to be mad and is loyal to their families over everything #mr darcy/etho - aloof and kind of rude and awkward but probably just autistic. Lurks in social settings.#etho would def do the hand flex after helping bdubs onto a horse btw.#idk who the other characters would be but imo if we're going off of the 2005 p&p film adaptation then tango is mr bingley imo #doc is mr bennet and ren is mrs bennet just bc i think itd be funny #i need to watch the movie again and assign cubitos to all the characters just because.

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roe-and-memory · 2 months

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sally but shes ALWAYS freezing cold.

no matter the weather, somehow shes cold Somewhere, and for the most part its her hands. her fingers get cold and kind of achy sometimes, and its a PAIN and she nor doc can figure out whats wrong with her - doc can chalk it up to something chronic, but not exactly what.

lightning, on the other hand, is Constantly warm. he is in a constant state of overheating at some point or another, and OH MY GOD she loves it. hes like her own personal furnace.

she’ll sneak up behind him sometimes and snake her cold hands up the back of his shirt, pressing them into his skin and he “HATES” it. it scares him every time because he never expects it. sometimes, to add her sweet little salt to the wound, she’ll hug him with her hands still under his shirt and effectively spread the cold from not only his back but to his chest too.

as much as he pretends he hates it, he seriously doesnt mind at all. he loves her so much he really doesnt care.

i think this cold chill has also effected how well she slept at night - piled under blankets that did nothing but make her uncomfortable - and she couldnt ever really sleep without tossing and turning. when lightning came around however, she could fall asleep with almost zero issue because she could just cling to him like a lifeline and he’d keep her warm. like, whenever they even end up napping on the couch, shes always sure shes holding onto him somehow (both for personal comfort of both him and herself, it helps him deal with his nightmares as well, as well as keeping her from getting Awful pain in her fingers and hands by dampening it).

she has little telltale signs of being uncomfortably cold too, and over the years he learns these and whenever he notices the trembling of her hands of the twitching in her fingers, he’ll hold her hands.

he also starts wearing sweaters/jackets around his waist or packing one into his bag so if she ever gets cold at a race or just Anywhere he can offer it to her. he doesnt wear sweaters much anyways.

and after races sometimes she’ll grab him by the face and kiss him and hes covered in gross boy sweat but also his cheeks are so red and warm from the sun and heat inside his car (and probably from seeing her) that she just lingers holding onto him (before promptly scrubbing her hands with hand sanitizer, and when she gets the chance, Soap. because that feeling of sweat sticks to her hands and makes her feel like she wants to scrub her skin off hashtag ocd girlie ((me cameo)))

#cars 2006 #cars fandom #lightning mcqueen #pixar cars #cars headcanons #memory’s headcanons #cars 3 (2017)#doc hudson #sally carrera #sally has ocd #lightning is autistic #i think sally probably has some sort of chronic arthritis in her hands #and just general circulation issues #(also another favourite hc of mine is lightning having rosacea)#hes like the opposite of her #but in the most sweet and loving way ever #guh i love them #salqueen

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lightning-system · 4 months

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i am in so much pain.

this is the part of being disabled that sucks.

i took my meds. i tried to stretch. i tried to rest. i got water. i got food, went to the bathroom, got in comfy clothes, cuddled my cat.

i did everything right.

i am still in pain.

i am always in pain.

#disabled #disability #actually autistic #actually disabled #lightning rambles #chronic pain #chronic illness #chronically ill #ehlers danlos syndrome #arthritis #pots

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punkeropercyjackson · 4 months

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Yeah i'm not done with them LMFAO Sorry for Bnha posting in 2024 besties but also i won't be stopping any time soon

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champmorado · 5 months

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screw it, mater and lightning mcqueen both have autism and bpd (CANON, TRUST ME)

#every character has bpdtism btw #pixar cars #cars fandom #tow mater #lightning mcqueen #cars headcanons #autism #actually autistic #autistic headcanon #bpd #actually borderline #actually bpd #bpd headcanon #bpdtism

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rjalker · 1 year

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Giving this its own post too because I'm right and I'm going to say it no matter how many bigoted autistic people it pisses off.

I’m so fucking tired of neurodivergent (usually just blatantly autistic coded) characters being evil and we’re all just supposed to pretend it’s okay because uh *checks notes* “autistic people are pure innocent babies and can never do anything wrong” (Even when they're doing blatantly evil shit on purpose and having fun with it)

No. Shut the fuck up. Normalize beating the shit out of bigots even when they’re autistic. I’m so fucking tired of other autistic people saying it’s okay for them to be bigots because they’re autistic.

Especially if you're allistic and you write an autistic character who's an absolute fucking trashcan of a bigoted human being but then you pretend it's okay because "they're just a wittle baby uwu" you need to delete the fucking save file and stop infantilizing autistic people.

Pro tip, all of you assholes: Putting autistic people up on a pedestal and pretending we can never do anything wrong or never be bigoted is literally just another form of infantilization and ableism, and especially when you're claiming we can't be bigoted, you are actively oppressing other people.

Knock it the fuck off.

#actuallyautistic #actually autistic #writing tips #writing advice #autistic #autism #ableism in media #how to write disabled characters #writing autistic characters #writing disability #Rjalker watches Black Lightning #<- since the scene I'm talking about is from there.#Dr. Jace #I hope she dies but I'm not watching the end of the show to find out #Black Lightning

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wanderingmind867 · 6 months

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I get why Annabeth didn't want to go on the thrill ride of love with Percy. Although Percy complains she's just making things complicated, she's really not. I'd have the same problem. Not everybody can live care free and not worry about being judged by others. I get why she didn't want to do it, is what I'm saying.

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