Panda Boy

I actually never heard of the sundae bar theory and it really does take away the dualism of “mild” to “severe” or “good” to “bad”. And that’s a good thing because we shouldn’t put someone on a graph that is some measurable distance away from being “normal” as if one end of the spectrum is considered close to “normal” and the other end is considered “barely human.” Because when we see an autistic individual that is going to show up in our minds even before we meet them.

eventually, frustrated, someone just asks you: “what’s so hard?” and you stare at them, blankly, and you wonder the same thing yourself.

Friend: I refuse to go into 2018 with 2017 problems…

“I also think it’s weird in movies, when someone has amnesia, and they wake up in the hospital, a lot of times surrounded by friends and family, but when they open their eyes they go ‘WHO ARE YOU?!’ because that’s not how you act when you don’t recognize somebody. That’s very rude. It would be chaos out there if every time you saw someone you didn’t recognize you went ‘WHO ARE YOU?!’. I always try to be really polite in life, so if I had amnesia, you’d never know it! I’d wake up and they’d be like ‘Hi John, we’re so happy you’re awake’ and I’d just be like, ‘Oh, hey man… How’s it going? Oh hey dude, nice to see you again’ because that’s how you act when you can tell that someone recognizes you and you have no fucking clue who they are.”