Aspie Copter

- We’re criticised for not making enough conversation, but when we do actually really get in to a conversation we are told we’re ‘too intense’.

- We’re often trained to maintain unbroken eye-contact during conversations, yet in reality too much eye-contact is called ‘staring’ and makes people very, very uncomfortable. 

- We’re encouraged to ‘express’ ourselves more, yet our actual, genuine emotional reactions are usually deemed ‘innapropiate’ or ‘unnescessary’. 

- We’re told to be friendly and confident when approaching new people, but are then warned that we ‘come off too strong’.

- We are told to try and make interesting conversation, but are also taught that speaking about our interests will only ever annoy other people. 

- We’re asked to explain our difficulties and anxieties, only to be told that these explanations ‘make no sense’ or that our worries are unrealistic and invalid. 

- We’re expected to force ourselves in to social situations that feel overwhelming and draining yet still somehow remain friendly, good-tempered and pleasantly sociable. 

- We are encouraged to develop good self-esteem, while at the exact same time being taught that everything about us is wrong.

Video tour of Icleand featuring long clips of the Aurora Borealis. Long original caption is shared below:

For the girls who can’t figure out a balance between “creepily” staring at somebody and not making eye-contact at all 💕

For the girls with loud, obvious stims 💕

For the girls who are shy, quiet, or socially awkward 💕

For the girls who obsess and talk about their special interest frequently 💕

For the girls who don’t shower for days, have messy hair and unclean teeth because they forget daily self-care 💕

For the girls who don’t care about fashion or make-up because they’re too fixated on other things 💕

For the girls who are called “shallow” for being fixated with fashion and make-up 💕

For the girls who can’t “blend in” at school, work or in social situations 💕

For girls in special-ed 💕

For girls who are smart but assumed to be less so because they are in special-ed 💕

For girls who are in special-ed that “highlights” to everybody that they aren’t “normal” or neurotypical against their will 💕

For girls trying to get out of abusive special-ed 💕

For girls who are bullied or ignored because they act different from neurotypical girls 💕

For girls who prefer to keep their Autism a secret but have rumors about their Autism anyway 💕

For girls who don’t fit in 💕

For girls who don’t want to 💕

Florida Panther

The Florida panther is an endangered population of cougar (Puma concolor) that lives in forests and swamps of southern Florida. Florida panthers are usually found in pinelands, hardwood hammocks, and mix swamp forests. This population, the only unequivocal cougar representative in the eastern United States, currently occupies 5% of its historic range. In the 1970s, there were an estimated 20 Florida panthers in the wild, although their numbers have increased to an estimated 230 by 2017. In 1982, the Florida panther was chosen as the Florida state animal.

For allistics who have ADHD and similar disorders, “hyperfocus” is a common term.

Based off of something an anonymous friend of @candidlyautistic wrote about being autistic in a society made for allistics.

I relate really heavily to the story and decided to write something based off of a mixture of my own experiences and what was written in the story.

Colour-blindness is not exactly something high on an artist’s list of things to consider, so you might be wondering why it’s important at all. The simple answer is, your audience. Color blindness, colour vision deficiency, or CVD, affects approximately 1 in 12 dmab (8%), and 1 in 200 dfab people in the world. 

While you as an artist may have Trichromacy (full color vision), if you end up with a color blind client, or even if you are just designing something for a public audience, knowing what color blindness is and how it affects the way other people view your work is important.

Four Types Of Color Blindness

Protanopia is a severe type of color vision deficiency caused by the complete absence of red retinal photoreceptors.

Those affected have difficulties distinguishing between blue and green colors and also between red and green colors. It is a form of dichromatism in which the subject can only perceive light wavelengths from 400 to 650 nm, instead of the usual 700 nm.

Pure reds cannot be seen, instead appearing black; purple colors cannot be distinguished from blues; more orange-tinted reds may appear as very dim yellows, and all orange–yellow–green shades of too long a wavelength to stimulate the blue receptors appear as a similar yellow hue.

Protanopes are more likely to confuse:

Black with many shades of red

Dark brown with dark green, dark orange and dark red

Some blues with some reds, purples and dark pinks

Mid-greens with some oranges

Deuteranopia is a type of color vision deficiency where the green photoreceptors are absent.

It affects hue discrimination in the same way as protanopia, but without the dimming effect.

Deuteranopes are more likely to confuse:

Mid-reds with mid-greens

Blue-greens with grey and mid-pinks

Bright greens with yellows

Pale pinks with light grey

Mid-reds with mid-brown

Light blues with lilac

Lacking the short-wavelength cones, those affected see short-wavelength colors (blue, indigo and a spectral violet) greenish and drastically dimmed, some of these colors even appear as black.

Yellow is indistinguishable from pink, and purple colors are perceived as various shades of red.

Tritanopes are more likely to confuse:

Light blues with greys

Dark purples with black

Mid-greens with blues

Oranges with reds

People with monochromatic vision can see no colour at all and their world consists of different shades of grey ranging from black to white, rather like only seeing the world on an old black and white television set. Achromatopsia is extremely rare, occurring only in approximately 1 person in 33,000 and its symptoms can make life very difficult. Usually someone with achromatopsia will need to wear dark glasses inside in normal light conditions.

In cerebral achromatopsia, a person cannot perceive colors even though the eyes are capable of distinguishing them. Some sources do not consider these to be true color blindness, because the failure is of perception, not of vision. They are forms of visual agnosia.

Color Spectrum Comparisons

Checking Your Work In Photoshop

Photoshop has a feature for viewing your work in Protanopia and Deuteranopia colour blindness filters.

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