In 4th grade, my bff was in a death feud over chess with a boy in our class but instead of competing like normal people they decided that the best way to determine who was chess master was for each of them to select one of the two biggest idiots in class and teach them to play chess, My Fair Lady style, and see whose idiot won. We are just now, 22 years later, grappling with the moral implications of this exercise.
Me: *telling my own story to show that I relate to them and understand their pain and offering solidarity and help the best way my autistic brain knows how*
unironically people need to learn to say “they haven’t done anything wrong i just find them annoying”
I personally think people need to understand that if someone hasn’t wronged you or anyone else, you should NOT dislike them. You don’t have to like them; just remain neutral.
nope! this is the kind of attitude the leads to you picking apart every little thing a person does digging through their past for dirt and problematizing everything about them, exaggerating harm, assuming the worst about them, putting words in their mouth, etc, to justify the fact that you simply don’t vibe with them when the truth is that you will not get along with everybody you meet in life and it’s extremely possible to be civil to someone you don’t like. you don’t have to be friends with everybody its fine. it’s certainly nicer than falsely accusing them of some heinous shit rather than admit that you’re not some Disney princess who’s never had an unfairly mean thought in her life and loves everybody and sings with little birdies and is never bitchy or irritable. sometimes you get annoyed for stupid reasons and understanding that your personal feelings about a person aren’t necessarily related to their morals or worthiness as a human being is the first step to being a civil adult.
Image ID: a tweet from username Buddy Lee (Jesus Saves) reads: “We are more truthful and honest than non-autistics!!! I think autism is a gift from god because all the good qualities we bring!! unfortunately, in this sinful world that hates god and morals we are seen as evil people when our behavior is one that honors god and Jesus Christ.” Some of the words are in all capital letters. End ID.]
Im not even sure where to start with this. But I’ll try.
We are more truthful and honest than non-autistics!!!
Funny joke. Autistic people are not more honest or truthful. We are humans with faults just like every non-autistic person. If autistic people are honest, then how come so many of us mask? Masking is a type of dishonesty (this is not a moral judgement, it’s not bad to be dishonest for your own safety). What about those of us who try to hide how much we are struggling?
I think autism is a gift from god because all the good qualities we bring!!
Autism isn’t inherently good. It doesn’t give us “gifts”. Autism is defined as a specific set of deficits (or struggles or symptoms or whatever vocabulary is correct these days). Autism is a disability, it is a disorder. If “autism” doesn’t make your life more difficult it’s not actually autism.
That’s not to say that autistic people can’t experience joy or talents. Of course we can. However, autistic people having talents isn’t a symptom of autism, it’s a symptom of being a human. Also, there are a lot of autistic people who have severe deficits/struggles and yet do not possess any special “gifts”. They are just as valuable and important to our world than the “gifted” ones.
Our behavior is one that honors god and Jesus Christ!
I’m a trans lesbian who loves to have premarital sex, masturbate, smoke weed, swear and curse, support abortion, and hate the US government. None of those things are in line with evangelical or traditionalist Christian values. I know there are other opinions in more liberal Christian groups, but I’m sure this person does not come from one of those.
Please tell me, does this erase my level 2 autism diagnosis? Does this mean I’m cured? Because by behavior certainly does not align with honoring Jesus Christ.
Autistic people aren’t pure little angels here to be put on a moral pedestal. We’re PEOPLE. With faults and complexity and problems and everything else that comes with being a human.
Conclusion: Traditionalist christianity is toxic and ableist. Autistic people are humans and therefore we have human traits.
[Image ID: White text in a Galaxy background reads If you: Derail my posts; are an “aspie”; run a sh/ed blog; are under 16; are a TERF; think cripplepunk is for mental disabilities; think that autism isn’t a disorder; are pro-transabled, trace, transage, etc; are pro-map or pro-zoo; are a transmed; want to completely demedicalize autism, I will probably block or mock you. End ID]
As an atheist autistic with low to moderate support needs…I loathe this “autism is a superpower from god” stuff.
Thank you for this post.
i’d also like to reiterate, as a semiverbal autistic JEW, that anything comparing any potentially-genetically-related medical conditons to “superpowers” are literally just a repeat of Eugenics rhetoric.
Straight up the gas chambers were originally used on disabled and autistic people, and the Nazis specifically used them because *Hans Asperger* said it was the most “humane” way to remove human life.
i unironically believe electricity is the closest thing we have to magic in this universe. consider:
it’s basically what human “souls” are made of (your consciousness is the result of miniscule amounts of electric charge jumping between neurons in your brain)
when handled incorrectly or encountered in the wild, it is a deadly force that can kill you in at least half a dozen different ways
when treated respectfully and channeled into the proper conduits, it is a power source that forms the backbone of modern society
if you engrave the right sigils into a rock and channel electricity into it, you can make the rock think
there is a dedicated caste of mages (electrical engineers) tasked with researching it in ivory towers
whatever the fuck Galvani was doing with those frog legs
look at this and just try to tell me it isn’t a kind of summoning circle
19th May 2023
Reblogged From what-even-is-thiss
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