I’m always kind of wary of narratives of autistic interaction that are like “well, autistic people just aren’t interested in relationships, they don’t like meaningless social interactions”
Because I think there is a mix of trauma, alexithymia, and false narratives being pushed by literally everyone else that leads to this being the narrative that even autistic people tell when it might not actually be the whole story
Because, like, my mum remembers me being excluded from play by other kids before I have my first memories
We know that allistic kids can tell something is “off” about an autistic kid in seconds and not want to play with them
And we know that some of the methods used by neurotypical kids to bully neurodivergent kids is winding them up - deliberately setting off sensory issues or using frustration triggers that they’ve identified - and that leads to autistic kids being told “that’s not bullying, that’s you over reacting”
And this treatment begins very young
So now you’ve got an autistic kid who’s, say, nine or ten, and they don’t play with their peers - they sit with a book or on their Nintendo or whatever
And when people (parents/clinitions/etc) ask them “why don’t you want to play with the other kids?”, you get the combo of knowing that “other kids bully me” isn’t believed and alexithymia meaning that they know that the idea of playing with other kids feels Bad but they can’t quite put their finger on Why
And when they try to rationally look for an answer, the first one that’s likely to come up it’s all of the technical aspects of playing with other kids, like not liking small talk because it’s “pointless”, that come up instead of the trauma
And yeah, I’m wary of perpetuating this narrative as autistic adults that “autistic kids just don’t like that kind of play and autistic people prefer to be alone, actually” because it just kind of reeks of the “the other kids only pick on you because you’re smart” narrative that absolutely did nothing to help me deal with the trauma of being bullied or lead to healthy relationships in my adult life
It’s funny cause now as an autistic thirty-something a lot of my interactions with other autistic people are playfully, extravagantly, gloriously meaningless
I think both of these can be true. Im an autistic who understands social cues really well and can shoot the shit with just about anyone. I’ve been bullied for a lot, but missing small talk cues isn’t one of them. And even though Im successful at it, I still hate pointless small talk. Conversations that dont amount to anything piss me off and I will simply opt out of them. Id rather be alone than be annoyed. I love other “pointless” activities, but shallow socialization is a waste of my time. For some autistic people im sure disliking casual socialization is a result of being traumatized by it, but for some of us we also just organically hate it.
CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it’s part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions
if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators
THEY ARE TRYING!!!!! SIGN THE PETITION TO GET THE DISNEY ANIMATORS’ UNION RECOGNIZED
this petition is from IATSE (union), btw! it actually has credibility, unlike most change.org/etc petitions! please sign it!!
For the record, accidentally tapping on Tumblr live when it randomly appears every week does not count as using Tumblr live for the sake of this poll. This is only referring to purposeful use of the feature.
I’d appreciate it if people could share this for a larger sample size!
63 THOUSAND votes, and less than 1% of people use this feature, staff, take the frickin hint
Yeah. They did that. I bet the ‘clarification’ came as a result of some strong legal threats.
So be aware in the coming weeks that if your favorite actor reportedly says something shitty about the strike that makes your blood boil? Check the sources. There’s going to be a lot of uh, spin in the news.
When I was a kid, I regularly lost reading privileges for “having an attitude” and “acting out”.
It wasn’t as simple as being told not to read during other activities- one of the first times it happened, I remember being six years old, watching my stepfather pull fistfuls of books off my bookshelf and throw them to the floor in a heaping mess while I cried and asked him to stop.
It was weird. Every other adult I knew described me as exceptionally well-behaved, but at home, it was the opposite, and it was blamed on “learning bad habits from that shit you’re reading”.
Because I couldn’t read at home, I spent all my free time at school in the library, reading with my friends.
When I grew up and moved away, I realized that my family life was toxic and abusive, and the “attitudes” I was being punished for were standing up for myself, standing up for my younger siblings, and resisting actual, real-life psychological abuse. Because I’d learned from what I’d read that my family wasn’t normal, not like my parents said it was, and in my stories, the heroes were the people who spoke out when it was hard to.
It is insane to me that there are students right now who can’t access books. It is insane that books are being outlawed. It is perverse that we are stealing away an entire generation’s ability to contextualize their lives, to learn about the world around them, to develop critical thinking skills and express themselves and feel connected to the world or escape from it, whatever and whenever and however they need.
That is not how you raise a compassionate, thoughtful, powerful society.
So many notes ppl confused by corn wielding Colima dog wait until you see the dancing figures…..blow your mind. Teach you true love
humankind…what more can I say. I can only aspire to have such deep and rich a human connection with anyone in this life that will be as radiant as a ceramic figural pair of dancing xolos
They’re also at the center of a roundabout
Mexican here, fun fact! While we call them “Dancing dogs”, they’re a young pup and an old dog, and the older one is revealing wisdoms right on the pup’s ear.
You’ll recognize the older dog bc he’s got wrinkles!! It’s a wonderful scene!!
