all owls are autistic

AAAH LOOK AT THESE HANDSOME GUYS!! I think their outfit concept is from Victorian London, they even look like some kind of inventor AND IT'S AWSOME!!!

I think I'll go to bed hugging this photo now(⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠)

she got angry and said "then they need to pick a different word". and so you need to pick a different word.

don't think this is exclusive to public spaces like the mall or the park or whatever either. she has a tablet and access to the internet, just the same as you do. she can read, write, and make her own decisions. she has a husband.

I worked at what's called a level 2 intermediate care facility, the people in our care had needs that exceeded what could be met in a group home environment. I was told that, in order to qualify to live there, you had to have "a primary diagnosis of either mental retardation or cerebral palsy and an IQ under 70".

most of the people I served will never speak so much as a single word. so many of you could not even spare them a single thought, hundreds of people chimed in to speak up and make it about anyone else.

this is about my friend who was born with hydrocephalus, he's supposedly blind but you can tell he can see enough to track where you are. when you call each other retarded, I don't think about how I'm autistic, I think about how he's not supposed to be able to understand spoken words but I once heard him laugh at a joke.

he'll laugh if you scratch under his chin. his mom thinks he would have ridden dirt bikes, if...

it makes me angry that I have to spell this out for you. I used the slur because I wanted it to be completely unambiguous who I was talking about. the modern term is "intellectual disability", but I thought surely if I just said the fucking word itself everyone would know I didn't mean autism and ADHD, right?

of course not. everyone forgets about them. everyone.

a comic about different ways autistic people communicate and show we care!

shoutout to @3leafedclover , @mickeymusketeer , and my partner for helping me out with this one and also for letting me use your characters (black cat with shades, orange dog with the mickey plushie, and orange/white dog with the 'nervous' vest, respectively!), y'all are awesomes!

Greater Sooty Owl (Tyto tenebricosa), family Tytonidae, order Strigiformes, Australia

A great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) and fledgelings in California, USA

Oh Whatever - Submitted by alliveirrr

slow down for your disabled friends. thats like a bare minimum kindness that we shouldnt have to ask for. i love that youre so quirky and walking fast is a cool personality trait to you and all that but i bet you can count your physically disabled friends on less than one hand