Steph 💜🩷💛💚

Society lets white autistic people stim freely as “quirky.” When we do it, it’s “inappropriate.” The double standard is exhausting. Our stims deserve the same respect as anyone’s coping tools

[ID: Three collaged, crappy photos of my TV screen depicting a scene in season 9, episode 15 of "90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After". "Our mom, like, came home for the holidays. Georgi, like, wasn't with her. She said that he was working and he couldn't get off work, ..." (quotation continues on the next image)]

[ID: "... which I find kind of weird, 'cause who doesn't have, like, work off? Time off for, like, certain holidays." The image is a second collage of three crappy photos of my TV showing the rest of the scene of Darcey's daughters having a "it's one banana, how much could it cost? Ten dollars?" moment.]

These girls don't know one single person in their privileged lives who has ever worked retail and/or in restaurants 🤦‍♀️

#90dayfiance

I found that shit annoying and redundant enough when I watched the show on cable and dealt with commercial breaks, let alone when I'm paying you to cut the ads!

(This has been a gripe post about 90 Day/Discovery+)

Ad-free streaming platforms would be A LOT better if they'd cut the fcking "COMING UP [spoils entire next scene]" bumpers before where the ads would normally go.

Like... have some faith in your product? that the viewer has enough interest to wait literally 3 seconds to see what happens next??

a black and white photo of a snow leopard laying on the ground looking at the camera . Alt: [ID: GIF of an adult Snow Leopard in an enclosure lying down before rolling over onto their back.]

Apparently today is International Snow Leopard Day so happy birthday (/j) to all of the Best Big Cats on Earth 🖤🩶🤍

No, they don't. Same reason a certain sect of them seem to fly into a rage when they find out a woman they find attractive doesn't actually have giant black eyelashes, purple eyelids, etc. IRL

It's Facebook. 💀 Why would you attempt this on the one social media app possibly *more* fascist than The Bird App?

The poetry of waking on an October morning not to birdsong, but to cawing crows.

A Native American woman in traditional jewelry holding her middle finger up text on the bottom of the image says fuck Christopher Columbus

Happy Fuck Christopher Columbus Day

The absolute worst thing RFK has done is equate autism with ‘suffering.’ I keep seeing and hearing non-autistic people going on and on about wanting to reduce ‘suffering’ and I’m just like- are autistic people suffering bcz of their autism or bcz of you??

The wave after wave of negative attention on autism right now doesn’t stay online. It shows up in job interviews, in classrooms, in doctors’ offices. It makes people suspicious of our needs. It makes them question our worth

Imagine watching the world argue about whether the way your brain works is real, valid, or even welcome. That’s what many autistic people are going through right now. It's not "controversy" to us it's erasure.

If you're new to captioning videos for your content, you might feel as if you don't know what you don't know. Meryl Evans' "Does Your Video Make These 6 Common Caption Mistakes?" is a great resource to help make your captions better.

meryl.net/common-capti...

No, bitch, I don't *want* to reconcile.

I want to *de-*concile. *Un-*concile.

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a sign that says you misunderstood Alt: [ID: GIF of a man in a suit and tie facing toward the left while speaking. Caption text shows him to be saying, "You misunderstood."]

I want to distance myself from the two people in my family amoral enough to be MA//GA, and this well-meaning search engine keeps giving me example ""reconciliation"" letters. Like... 😤😤😤

patrick star from spongebob squarepants is holding a walkie talkie and saying wee-woo Alt: [ID: GIF from the same "SpongeBob" episode from later in the scene. Patrick yells frantically into his walkie-talkie with desperate, terrified eyes. Caption text shows him to be repeatedly yelling "Wee-woo" (meant to sound like a warning siren).]

And then this is the analogue for when the symptoms ✨get physical✨

[ID: Screenshot from an episode of "SpongeBob SquarePants". Holding a walkie-talkie, Patrick is standing on a dark street at night and peering into the distance at someone standing under a street lamp. Caption text shows him to be saying: "It's just standing there... *menacingly*!" Poster edited the person (read: fish) under the street lamp to be labeled as "literally nothing at all" and Patrick to be labeled as "anxiety".]

Second night detoxing from cannabis (not even Med is legal where I'm visiting 😭) and I'm too "think-y" to sleep. I don't think I have the physical anxiety symptoms, so it's just... profound worry/dread I can't shake.

Turns out alcohol is still not a worthy substitute in my brain's book, either!

Hell yeah

Cringe of the highest degree

Feeling fucked up remembering that time I tried to show my mom empathy during an argument, saying "it must have been hard, dealing with xyz..." in ref. to something SHE'D tearfully mentioned to me years prior only to be told

"I don't appreciate you trying to psychoanalyze me" 🫠🔫

A purple spotted background with bubble text that reads : How meltdowns show up In Black women

A purple spotted background with text that reads : Due to racism, sexism & cultural pressure to 'stay composed' meltdowns may look like Emotional shutdowns Withdrawing from people Dissociation or going nonverbal Quiet crying in private Being misread as 'cold 'angry' or 'rude'

A purple spotted background with bubble text that reads : Black autistic women often mask their distress to avoid being judged, punished or labeled we may hold it in until we are alone leading to burnout, exhaustion & delayed meltdowns Masking helps us survive but it's dangerous & not sustainable

A purple spotted background with text that reads : The system is the problem Black autistic women are: Underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed Punished in schools & work places for showing distress, what kinda bs is that.. Dismissed in medical settings STILL, our meltdowns are often criminalized or pathologized instead of supported

Autistic Meltdowns in Black Women ♾️

[ID: Pic of a caramel apple empanada from Taco Bell, broken open to reveal the yummy filling within. A graphic on the image says "Limited Time", but we're not talking about that rn.]

Rare "w" for me this year: Taco Bell opening a location just down the street from me and THEN!!

Announcing the return of caramel apple empanadas 😵‍💫🥹...

Feeling overstimulated by the new iPhone UI? this was shared with me
Reduce Motion (Settings > Accessibility)
Reduce Transparency
Simplify your Home Screen
Turn off parallax/auto effects
You're not imagining it. It’s a lot. A whole fucking lot 🥴

Apple: if your updates cause sensory distress to part of your user base, that’s a design failure. Autistic users deserve better. Accessibility should be baked in not buried in settings menus it’s so annoying I feel like screaming lmaooo

bangs. "They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'" Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building. "They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

🎶 There's a possum in the tea 🎶

Screenshot of pokemon super mystery dungeon with a Munna saying “All that exists in this world is pain!”

a picture of a sheep with the words " i 'm sending you to blood world " above it Alt: [ID: GIF of some kind of stuffy or plushie, with a high contrast "infrared camera" color scale applied to it, being suddenly grasped and pulled by a hand into the bright red background. Black text reads in all caps: "I'm sending you to the blood world"]

My uterus once per month:

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