a person online: i hate it when adults act like childish little freaks in public, smh. you’re an adult, you should be able to order your own food without help. get over yourself. also, why are some people, like, waaaaaaay too into the stuff that they like? omg, and the people who CLEARLY can’t even have one (1) normal conversation without acting Weird??? it’s embarrassing, u guys are embarrassing, get help
the same person five seconds later: we gotta remember to love and support the autistic community u guys <3
you know, in hindsight this reminds me of something
when i’m at work, people get mad at me for not hearing them the first few times. like, openly agitated. they’ll assume that i’m stupid, or rude, or careless. sometimes they will indirectly chastise me for ‘not paying attention.’ at which point i say “i’m sorry, i’m hard of hearing. you were on my right side and i’m severely deaf in that ear,” and they go “oh my god i’m so sorry i didn’t know.”
yeah. you didn’t, did you? the only available information you had about me was… that i didn’t hear you say something. the thing you hated enough to comment on was that i couldn’t hear you. you don’t get to backpedal once you find out that i have can’t-hear-well disease. i shouldn’t need to present a diagnosis to expect decency from you
if you attach negative characteristics to “didn’t hear what you said,” that will affect how you treat d/Deaf and hard of hearing people. if you attach negative characteristics like “weird and childish” to utterly harmless and well established autistic traits like “doesn’t make eye contact,” that will affect how you treat autistic people. it’s not rocket science
“Yeah, right. You cut us down, you ship us to your factories, you pulp us, print on us, fold us into little airplanes, wax us and drink coffee out of us, roll us into little balls to throw at each other in school, slap a strip of adhesive on a stack of us and use us to remind you to add paper clips to your shopping list … and you think you’ve tamed us.”
You know, I’m not surprised that something exploding with such force it breaks the camera has happened on a hydraulic press channel. I’m a little surprised at the fact it was post-it notes.
having a full on breakdown because there’s only two more days off before i have to go back to work
i’ve come to the realisation over the last few days that i haven’t been feeling consistent dread and my pretty constant pain has *significantly* eased to the point i’ve had a few days where i’ve barely even noticed it
no wonder i just immediately start crying at the thought of going back to that place where almost every interaction just makes me feel like a total moron
