#neuro typicals are encouraged to reblog

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White cishet nt wine moms will put signs in their kitchen that say “i tried to be normal once; worst two minutes of my life, I’d rather be weird” without acknowledging the fact that masking is a very real thing that disabled and neurodivegent people do that can lead to burnout and absolutely destroy our mental health and we do it to avoid ableism from those exact same privileged people because even though they think being “weird” is quirky and funny they aren’t weird like the kids they bullied in school for talking to themselves and the kids they tormented and hurt and killed for deviation from the norm and so maybe neurotypicals shouldn’t talk about “being weird”, and “pretending to be normal” because your “weirdness” is not liking ranch on pizza but my “weirdness” could get me bullied, beat up, or killed so maybe don’t compare us

#actually neurodivergent #actuallyadhd #actually autistic #actuallyautistic #actaually adhd #adhd #autism #neuro typicals are encouraged to reblog #nts are welcome to comment but please don’t clown or derail

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Please be aware of this double standard.

Freddie Highmore was nominated for a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Shaun Murphy on The Good Doctor.

Now, as an autistic person, I think he’s done a great job of playing a character who is his own individual person. Shaun Murphy has a distinct personality as well as a past, aspirations, motivations, wants, needs and flaws. He doesn’t feel to me like a really bad cookie cutter of “random senseless behavior because hey this character is autistic” that tends to plague actors who play autistic characters. Scenes from Shaun’s POV show what drives his behaviors and tendencies. The “savant” stuff appears to be a really good memory and may also be his visual thinking, which is often portrayed by showing him mentally assembling or disassembling things.

I know the writers and crew are neurotypicals, but it feels like they’re really doing homework instead of showing what they *think* autism is. Freddie said in a Facebook Q & A that autistic consultants are helping with the show, so there is that. (Now let’s get the whole bunch away from Autism Speaks, blaaaah!)

The show’s creators stated that Shaun is supposed to just be Shaun, not a representative of all of autism everywhere. Everybody presents their autism a little bit differently, so of course Shaun may or may not remind you of you or an autistic person you know. I happen to share similar autistic traits to him, such as clasping my hands together (done that all my life!) and the way Shaun moves his body is similar to how I move mine.

But there is a double standard out there that NTAB* people often engage in regarding autistic / disabled people. I’m going to say “autistic” a lot below, but you can imagine “disabled” is there, too. Please take note of what I’m pointing out.

Neurotypicals who pretend to be autistic for movies or your TV screens get rewarded for acting in a way unnatural to them, and their ‘autism’ disappears as soon as the director yells “Cut!”

Actual autistic people who behave their normal way are judged, bullied, called cringey, excluded, are shut away and some of us get abused and murdered by our caregivers. 

Nobody yelling “Cut!” is going to make autistic people stop being autistic. We are often forced to act neurotypical via damaging therapies, and those of us trapped in a 24 / 7 acting job never see any reward for it.

We, as autistic people, have to listen to parents saying they wish we were never born or how they wish they could change us to be the person they “wanted” instead of who we are. We have to hear about people longing to cure and prevent us. We have to listen to charities talk about what tragedies we are and how burdensome we are on our families. We deal with being dismissed, spoken over, ignored and silenced.

Somebody can play us on TV and get rewarded and lauded for it, but us being ourselves is something to mock and destroy.

This is the truth any time an able-bodied actor takes on the role of a disabled person. It sends a message that disability is only acceptable if it can go away as soon as a director yells “Cut!”

We live in a society that rewards people who pretend to be autistic for entertainment, but shuns actually autistic people in the real world.

It’s a very dangerous double standard. 

Please be aware of it.

-( Anyone can reblog, and I encourage you to reblog so this spreads around. )-

* NTAB = Neuro-Typical, Able-Bodied

#actuallyautistic #autism #the good doctor #shaun murphy #freddie highmore #tw aba #tw murder

[putris-et-mulier]

Disabled cheat sheet

NTABs okay and encourage to reblog

Subcommunities 

None of these groups are mutually exclusive and so you can fall into the category of one or more (or all) communities it's just a matter of whether you agree with the philosophy or not.

Cripple Punk #cpunk: specifically for people with physical disabilities and the aesthetic tends toward traditional punk fashion

Coined and defined by Tai as: cripple punk rejects the “good cripple” mythos. cripple punk is here for the bitter cripple, the uninspirational cripple, the smoking cripple, the drinking cripple, the addict cripple, the cripple who hasn’t “tried everything”

Spoonies: specifically for people with chronic illness who use the spoon theory created by Christine Miserandino. The philosophy is much less problematic™ and tends to be motivational.

Neuro Punk #nupunk: specifically for people who have neurological divergences

Coined and defined by me as: "Neuro Punk is a subculture among disabled people, specifically ones was neurological divergence. It’s for those who are mentally ill and unapologetic for it. For those NDs who are clinically or personally diagnosed. Those in treatment and out of it.Those who reject society as inhumane just as society has rejected them from humanity. Those who prioritize the intersectional members of their community and don’t consider one condition more “important” than any other."

Slang

Ableism: bigotry toward disabled people

Ableist: adjective for ableism

AB or able-bodied: someone who is not physically disabled

NT or neurologically typical: someone who does not have a mental disability

ND or neurologically divergent: someone who has a mental disability

NTAB: someone with no disabilities

YD: young disabled (person)   

#nucpunk: those that consider themselves part of both the Cripple Punk community and the Neuro Punk community

Mutant: someone who is born disabled and/or has a congenital disease (inspired by X-Men)

Mutate: NTAB who becomes disabled (inspired by X-Men, used to refer to superheroes who aren’t mutants like the Avengers)

Inspirational porn: memes or commercial use of disabled people/aesthetic to inspire NTABs

Crip face: when an able-bodied actor plays a disabled character

Accessibles: items used to improve ability like wheelchairs, crutches, etc.

#Cripple Punk #Neuro Punk #Nuc Punk #cpunk #nupunk #nucpunk actually disabled #Ableism #actually disabled