#queer autistic

[spilled-ink-n-blood]

i hope every genderfuck, trendercore, xenogender person knows that i appreciate you very much for existing. without you wonderful weirdos expressing gender the way you do i would not have the confidence to be me. you guys make me feel comfortable and i want to befriend all of you !!

#lgbtq #queer #gay #mlm #nblm #trans ftm #transmasc #transman #genderfuck #trendercore #xenogender #mogai #mogai friendly #autism #queer autistic #actually autistic #actually neurodiverse #neurodivergent

[thermodynamic-comedian]

soon it will be autistic boydyke autumn. get ready

#listen to subvision NOW. #boydyke #autistic #queer autistic #lesbian #sapphic

[kayas-kosmos]

Autism Symbol Dragon.

This is the autism symbol as a dragon. I did this to represent the influence my autism has on my art. This is a public domain drawing and anyone can use it for any reason.

I really like the infinity autism symbol over all others, especially the Godawful puzzle piece. It really encapsulates the diversity of our community and how unique every autistic individual is. But I wanted to do a little spin on it by turning it into a dragon to add some extra meaning. A dragon to me is the symbol of the imagination itself, since dragons are so diverse in of themselves and can look like or represent anything. But as well as imagination, I think the dragon also represent resilience and a ferocious passion.

My webcomic is absolutely full of different types of dragon. Here are just a few examples:

(Can you tell dragons are one of my special interests?)

I was diagnosed at about 3 and I've had a very mixed relationship with being autistic until recently. There was a time when I really hated having to bear the label of “autistic” and tried for years to erase that part of me because of the stigma. Being an artist allowed me to get away with being a bit weird because I could chalk it up to just being "an eccentric artist," but there was also the side of me that needed extra accommodations and help, the less glamorous side. I would often push myself to be as neurotypical as I could in these areas and I developed a debilitating fear of becoming a burden on others, to the point where it started damaging my mental health. Eventually, I developed panic attacks due to overworking myself (and struggles with accepting myself as queer), autistic shutdowns became more frequent and this lead to further humiliation and a further disgust towards my autism.

It wasn't until I became a freelancer a few years ago that I realised how much damage trying to hold myself to neurotypical standards was having on me. While being able to work remotely was a dream since it meant not having to deal with the sensory nightmare that is using the local bus service, it also meant I experienced autistic burnout more frequently. Then I came across the autistic community on Twitter, where I started to discover so much about myself and how my brain works.

I also made a lot of incredible friends through this and even had the courage to publicly come out as queer. Now I fully embrace being autistic, even the parts that society deems “unacceptable” like stimming and not making eye contact. I am happy in who I am and no longer see myself as a burden.

Sadly, there is often a discussion about whether autism should be cured or not, a discussion that should absolutely not be happening because autism is not a disease. If you "cured" my autism, you would also remove my art. My art and my autism are inseparable and one does not exist without the other. Autism has given me the ability to think outside the box and traits like my monotropism allow me to hyperfocus on a project until its completion. Having spoken to many autistic creatives throughout my life, a good chunk of our struggles do not come from being autistic itself, rather society’s refusal to accept or accommodate us. Many of us could achieve great things and truly innovate society, but there are too many systemic barriers in the way preventing us from doing so, and no amount of “hard work” or “conquering our disability” (fuck inspiration porn, seriously) can change that because individualistic solutions do not fix systemic problems. Simple solutions such as disability benefits that actually properly cover our living costs, a higher wage for carers of disabled people and proper work accommodations (including the option for remote work) would mean the world of difference for us.

Now personally, I am a bit more radical in my thinking and I believe the current system of Neoliberal Capitalism needs to be done away with entirely because ableism is built into Capitalism itself. This is what has drawn me to ideas such as anarchism and the Solarpunk movement. In particular, I try to live by the "12 principles of Permaculture" to the best of my ability. I think "Embrace Diversity" and "Produce No Waste" can be applied to living as a disabled person, since disabled people are often seen as a waste product under this system and embracing our differences means we are not wasted.

For those of you who have followed me for a while, you may have noticed that my art, like me, is weird. I love to embrace the weird and the quirky. My creatures are whimsical and bizarre. My characters all tend to be quirky outsiders. I have always been drawn to surrealism and absurdism, the work of Salvador Dali in particular really caught my attention.

Art has always been a safe way for me to explore the unusual and alien, and it has been a voice for me when speaking words fail. I use it to explore the things that frighten me and to help process a chaotic world. As weird as my art is, I think the weirdness and absurdity is a reflection of how weird and absurd our modern world is and how little sense it makes to me anymore.

There are often themes of environmentalism and the profound beauty of nature, influenced heavily by growing up in an area of natural beauty. Furthermore, the theme of "empathy for monsters" is a personal favourite. Maybe the reason why there are so many weird, twisted and grotesque monsters and creatures with tragic backstories in my webcomic universe is because I see myself in them - just weird little off-putting things that want compassion and to be understood.

As I have grown as a person, so has my art. The more I learn about my autism, the more I can open up and the better I can express myself.

On a final note, if you would like to support me and the work I do, please consider donating a Ko-Fi. It would really help me push towards my goal of finally launching my webcomic, plus it would also allow me to talk more about important topics surrounding disability, sustainable living and art/creature stuff.

Happy new year, everyone! And especially to all of my autistic and neurodivergent comrades out there.

#autism #actually autistic #neurodivergent #queer autistic #autistic artist #fantasy artist #digital artist #fantasy illustration #autism symbol #infinity symbol #creature design #dragon art #dragon artist #autistic art #autism art #permaculture #solarpunk

[queeresthellhound]

I genuinely do not think a lot of people understand how much of an impact my husband not just offering but genuinely *wanting* and *Being Excited* about learning ASL has on me.

Let me explain:

I am semi-verbal. I have always been semi-verbal. I will always be semi-verbal. Speaking is unbelievably hard for me. I CAN speak but I do not enjoy speaking, I do not feel like I can express myself fully when I speak. I’m a polyglot, I love learning languages but I hate speaking. If I could I would sit in silence my entire life and I would be so so so happy.

When I was a child I learned ASL before I learned to speak because my parents thought I wasn’t ever going to talk. And learning ASL and signing was The Most Empowering thing for me.

ASL is the only language where I feel like I can express myself freely, where it’s completely effortless. And it feels like constantly stimming while I communicate which is the most amazing feeling in the world to me. ASL is genuinely joyous to me. It feels amazing and beautiful and *easy*. I never realized how *easy* it is for most people until I found other people who sign and I could actually say what I was thinking without having to figure out a puzzle for every single word.

No one in my life has ever wanted to learn ASL because it’s comfortable for me. The second people find out I can speak, no matter how difficult it is for me, they want me to speak. But my husband *offered* to learn My Native Language so that he could talk to me in the way that’s most comfortable for me. I’m tearing up at the thought of it. There will never be an act of love as beautiful to me as that. Never.

My love language is literally ASL. And it’s a tragedy more people don’t bother trying to learn it but it is the most beautiful thing in the world for someone I love with all my heart to be beyond excited to learn it. And of course he wants to learn it for other reasons but damn… learning a language so I can live a more free, beautiful, joyous life.

“I can’t help it, I love the way men love”

#gay #mlm #trans mlm #autism #semiverbal #queer autistic #queer #gay relationship #gay pining #asl #sign language #american sign language

[enbycrip]

Yup, that includes nonspeaking and partially speaking autistic folks too. And learning disabled autistics. And autistic folk with lots of co-occurring conditions. And autistic wheelchair users ♿️ and other mobility aid users. Did you know that increasing evidence is being found of co-occurrence of autism and hypermobility disorders, including Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes, Marfan Syndrome and Joint Hypermobility Syndrome?

That includes queer and binary and nonbinary trans autistics - did you know autistic folks are about three times more likely to be trans or gender-nonconforming than the general population?

That includes sex workers too - did you know sex work is one job a lot of autistic folk can actually manage to do, and that’s really vital when it’s so difficult for so many of us to access disability benefits and reasonable accommodations in paid work?

That includes autistics with mental health diagnoses, including schizophrenia and psychosis. Autistic folks in prison and with criminal records too - do you know that the U.K. Government’s own disability strategy notes that about 40% of people in the criminal system are neurodivergent and/or learning disabled?

That includes Black autistics, indigenous autistics and autistics of colour, who are not only horribly more likely to be the targets of violence, including fatal violence, from law enforcement and from paid carers - the Judge Rotenberg Centre, notorious for subjecting autistics to *electric shocks* as punishment, primarily hosts BIPOC folk - but are also far more likely to be misdiagnosed or go undiagnosed?

#autistic acceptance month #centre autistic voices #acceptance not just awareness #autistic #autistic adult #queer autistic #nonbinary autistic #trans autistic #autistic and physically disabled #autistic sex workers #fuck autism speaks #intellectually disabled autistics #nonspeaking autistic #autistic mobility aid user

[autistic-people-are-awesome]

https://neurodivergentinsights.com/autism-infographics/autism-and-sexual-diversity

#polyamarous #poly #ace #aro #asexual and autistic #lgbt+ #queer #gay #bi #bisexual #autistic #autism #asd #queer autistic #poly and autistic #bisexual and autistic #pansexual and autistic #lgbt+ autism

[galacticscrotum]

Why can’t I just be like Mr. Potato Head and interchange whatever body parts I want for the day? I can’t use a binder or trans tape or bras because it’s too shitty sensory-wise. But I don’t want too surgery because my boobs are nice sometimes

#enby #queer autistic #autistic enby #non binary #nonbinary #genderqueer #genderfluid #genderfuck #multigender #metagender #gender confusion

[nonbinary-gothb1tch]

#autistic women #autistic girl #autistic community #autistic feels #actually autistic #autistic culture #autistic adult #autistic pride #autistic spectrum #autistic #autistic experiences #being autistic #autism #autistic things #disabled autistic #autistic greatness #queer autistic #autistic tumblr #autistic tips #autistic trauma

[tallysgreatestfan]

Saw some cool moodboards for some other identities, so I thought I make an autistic bisexual woman moodboard

#bisexuality #bi positivity #queer #LGBTQ #neurodivergence #actually autistic #queer autistic #moodboard #aesthetic #queer moodboard #queer aesthetic #image description added in ALT

[triple-a-444]

No idea if this will even reach any NTs but uhmmm what actually is empathy?? (/genq) Like people say putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes. To me that is feeling what they feel buttttt I’ve just found out that might not be the case. But if I was in someone else’s shoes (like literally speaking) I would feel the shoes. Apparently it might just be understanding. Is it? Ahhhhhhh.

(Asking for a friend /hj)

#autistic experiences #queer autistic #autistic community #autistic #actually autistic #autism #autistic things #being autistic #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurospicy #wtf is going on #adhd

[cass-cain-wayne23]

Let's just clarify something's

Autistic people are valid

Self diagnosis is valid

Autistic people can have PTSD

Autism is a spectrum

We should be able to talk about the autism experience (online and irl) without being belittle or yelled at

Physically disabled people can have autism.

If someone views a comfort character as autistic it's valid,

Violent autistic are valid

Autistic people can be queer

It's okay if autistic people are ace or aro

Autistic people who have meltdowns are valid

Autistic people who have internal meltdowns are valid

Autistic people can have other disorders

Autistic people can have bipolar disorder

It's okay to be childish

It's okay to have comfort shows and toys that are childish

It's okay if autistic people can accommodations

People who do not have autism, don't get to tell us what is autistic or not.

Non verbal autistic are valid

Autistic people who can't work are valid.

#sorry for the rant #autism #queer autistic #autistic things #actually autistic #autistic adult

[spectrumgarden]

Anyways I found an undercover radfem in the autistic & disabled community! If you dont want them hiding in plain sight right next to your queer friends (or your queer self tbh) maybe consider reblogging this so more people can be aware & block them.

turns out tumblr bugged for a second, in a very, very glorious way. And revealed that @weird-and-unwell is the same person as @live-love-laugh-lesbian , they clearly tried using their autism / disability centered blog to reply to my post. But for some reason tumblr also sent me a notification from the blog they use to reblog their terf and radfem shit. Feel free to check for yourself, it's really not that hard to find. (Also some very. Uhm. Interesting political takes from the people she reblogs from. Shouldnt be surprising but whatever. New favorite terf theory just dropped! Apparently trans people are part of right wing politics. Yeah. We fit right in there huh. They love us /j)

#actually autistic #autistic adult #autistic community #actually disabled #cripple punk #crip punk #queer autistic #queer cripple #c punk #i cant even have a normal ass morning #9am BAM weirdo in your face who acts nice to you but runs a main blog interacting with people who act like you should die

[trannyhobbit]

when you see/hear a joke that's supposed to be funny but then your brain goes :

" well technically no, so it is not funny. "

#autism #autistic problems #actually autistic #autistic spectrum #autistic things #autistic community #neurospicy #neurodiverse stuff #neurodivergent #its the neurodivergency #its the autism #the tism #queer autistic #queer #joke post #not funny #the struggle is real

[sp4rkl3gutz]

random rant ? / i'm fucking confused

at this point idk if i'm aromantic or homoromantic i cant tell the difference between close friendships and romantic relationships they are the same " romance " isnt real like that's just a rush of dopamine that u get from being around someone u like u can have that with completely platonic friends what the fuck is romance but also like i do feel more inclined to wanting to do stereotypically " romantic " things with the same gender and kiss them and hold hands and go on dates but dont rlly feel different abt them other than a deep platonic but also kind of gay connection ? ( plus sex can be nice and idk if i'm bisexual or homosexual but i definitely have a strong lean towards the same gender sexually ) but like i can like feel completely platonic but also more close ? like how tf do i explain bcs like i would kiss and hold hands and go in dates with all my friends ( if that was not seen as an inherently romantic / non platonic thing ) but like in a completely platonic way ( / serious ) but also i only feel this way towards ppl who r the same gender ? so maybe it is romantic attraction but also like i dont feel any different between someone i'm supposed to be romantically attracted to and just a friend like it's the same thing ??????? romantic attraction is just friendship ??????????????????????????? sorry if this made no sense i'm just kind of confused + autistic and dont rlly understand the concept of sexuality and gender like idk i'm if a guy was a girl was a guy was a girl was a thing was pretending to be a guy and yea lowkey wanna label myself bcs i just wanna know wtf i am and like be able to relate to ppl / find ppl that share similar experiences but i dont wanna accidentally use the wrong label and be disrespectful i am genuinely sorry and accept any criticism if this was worded hdisrespectfully that was not my intention

#‧˚꒰ posts 🐾 ꒱༘⋆ #aromantic #aspec #homoromantic #gay #queer #asd #autism #actually autistic #queer autistic #romance #romantic attraction #label #labels

[galacticscrotum]

Relationship labels genuinely make no sense to me. Are we friends or lovers? Who fucking knows? Would you not fuck your friends? And I don’t even care about looks that much cuz I can fall for anyone when I get to know them and like their personality. Why even have relationship labels? Why do we need one friend to be a more special friend than the rest? Is this the autism? The queerness? The genderqueerness? The non-monogamy? All of the above?

I don’t understand humans

#autism #autistic #actually autistic #queer #genderqueer #genderfluid #genderfuck #queer autistic #i dont understand