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a character who truly, legitimately goes “but why does that matter?” about their feelings when someone who cares about them asks. and the sudden falling of everyone around them’s faces as they realize that this person doesn’t recognize themself as someone who needs or should be taken care of. i want Everyone to hurt. surprise at the idea, worry for them, horror at not having noticed. do you see this person who doesn’t think of themselves as a person?

reblog to thank ur mutuals for providing enrichment to ur enclosure

kinda want him gagging on it (his own blood)

Thats the context for this meme???

I feel like I've been robbed the whole time. This is magical.

this is better than anything id hope for the context

@humandisconnected if this is too embarrassing we can delete this, but we LOVE clicking back into Tumblr and knowing, if our notifs explode, that it's probably you liking and reblogging 😆🙏🏻💚💚💚 and we mean that genuinely, it brings such a smile to our face!! especially reading your comments in the tags. feels like we are microdosing on social interaction as a mutual.....👁️👁️ /silly /pos

It is embarrassing BUT im so honored that you can tell when its me… i love going through all of your posts and i’m glad it makes you happy because i absolutely love leaving comments and tags on your posts!! Its how i show my affection for you as a mutual without talking to you directly… <333

same!!! 💚💚💚🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻 we are basically doing parallel play...sometimes with different dolls...and we love seeing yours!! the latest art your did with your S/I was sooooo...UUUUWAUGH we're still thinking about it 🤤 thank you for being our mutual and treating us with your posts!! 🙏🏻 /gen

all the “peer pressure is bad” education we give kids is practically useless because all it cares about is telling them that Drugs Are Evil rather than the much more useful lesson of ‘the person who responds to you saying you don’t drink by telling you they’ll find a way to get you to is also going to be shitty about all your other boundaries’.

god forbid you teach kids that their consent should be respected rather than about the inherent immorality of all the sinful actions of their peers

I think some of the loneliness of autism is that you feel like you hurt people just by Interacting Wrong, but you don’t know how to Interact Right, and the more effort you put into it, the more exhausted you are and the more artificial it comes across (with the end result of people still being upset with you). and it’s not anyone’s fault for not liking Being Interacted With Wrong, and it’s not your fault for doing it so wrong, but it is very, very lonely.

anyway, every single book I write ever is going to secretly be about autism

in case this was too negative, I CAN sniff out other autistic people like an ant scenting pheromones, and I DO automatically love them right from the outset. honestly, there are some people whose autism doesn’t mesh well with mine, but the base love is still there because I know we’re alike, and I know that have shared painful experiences. so it’s not all hopeless! you just need to find other ants 🐜