not saying you can't like it, I find it pretty charming stripped of its context. but you gotta remember that it does actually have a context, and that that history is real and not the rose-tinted fantasy you might (like all of us sometimes do) wish it was.

once you realize they really are just a bunch of puffed up dweebs, it's so hard to even acknowledge their bullshit. like... I have things to do, dog...

puppet spam is by far my favorite. I miss drawing him

that's a fun idea! I imagine their chest opening up like a body horror monster to let out viruses that are little goblins and the like, lol.

it's the wooooooorst. been trying to get over it for so long. it didn't work at all, but I think the sheer exhaustion of being in a constant state of near-panic about it has forcibly ground down some of my nerve endings, so it's a bit dulled. well anyway, that's bummer shit. sorry lol

all the greatest hits mentioned

I think about other people so much: their motivations, fears, how they want to be perceived, how to tell when they're upset or approach them with a problem. I make a lot of effort because I thought all that came naturally to allistics. to my horror I found most don't think about that stuff at all!

it's frustrating because autistic people aren't actually worse at communication in general. autist-autist communication is just as effective as allist-allist (if not more so!) and alistics do just as poorly communicating with autistics as autistics do with them journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...