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i’m the normalest guy on the planet btw. #normalboy #normalcore #boynormal #normalguythings

so basically the five people who wanted to uphold his exile were in the right

I love it when folks get the "-ist" and "-est" suffixes mixed up. Like, I'm fully prepared to believe that you're medieval, but medievalest? That's a bold claim!

#that character is NOT your 'specialist princess' unless you can tell me right now what they specialize in (via @jennynext)

i have personal beef with everybody who has ever taken umbrage with something

This vexes me

It's a little bit funny when I talk about how what passes for autistic advocacy on Tumblr often operates by openly throwing other neurodivergent people under the bus – critically including other autistic people whose communication needs don't conform with a very specific archetype – and folks come at me assuming that I'm some clueless allistic who's being mean to them for no reason, because Does This Look Like A Blog A Neurotypical Person Would Run.

I have insisted for a long time that while the stereotypes that neurotypical people have about autistic people are awful, they're also predictable: it is a pretty standard set of consistent, wrong beliefs. Nobody, however, believes more bizarre things about autistic people than autistic people. Autistic people are out here reinventing eugenics, Mary Baker Eddy-style Neo-Gnostic Positivism, deterministic teleology, all sorts of things from first principles that are, crucially, also wrong. It's fascinating, if somewhat frustrating. (My usual joke about my one friend's Facebook page is 'Neurotypicals Don't Understand All Autistic People Use Clear Communication' Says Autistic Woman Who Constantly Ghosts Others For Months.)

I'm not sure I'd call the prevalence of eugenicist rhetoric in certain stripes of online autistic advocacy a reinvention, per se; "nerds are literally, materially a more 'highly evolved' clade of humans" is a mind-gremlin that's been clinging to nerd culture since before the Internet was a thing, and certain online spaces seem simply to have absorbed it wholesale.

There's a pretty compelling case to be made that it's an uninterrupted continuation of the eugenics movement and early cognitive science.

“my father is a boy and my mother is a girl so i’m mixed” is the funniest possible response to someone asking your gender and it came from 6’5 Viking footballer and notable weird little guy Erling Haaland on a Snapchat

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?

the concept of cancelling people for supporting their country in the world cup is so fucking funny i’m sorry

people’s minds have been melted by the internet and performative activism discourse. they don’t actually care that countries have been ‘problematic’ (their fave word) in the past (name me one large country who hasn’t in one way or another seriously) they just want to guilt trip and cause discourse because for some reason being aware has circled back around to moral checking and thought policing in order to feel superior because everyone feels too watched on the internet and are just ultimately terrified to come across as a bad person, so it’s the safer option to act morally superior than voice an actual personally thought opinion

people like saying community when they mean demographic