#ableism warning

I don't know if Urana intended him to be Disabled™, but he is AMAZING disabled representation!!

Source: Me, a disabled person

//Ableism

It's really weird being medium support needs, tbh. Because, like, here's the thing. I know all the therapy and shit I got as a kid was designed to break me and remake me into something that could work a job. And I have a love/hate relationship with the fact that it, on the most pragmatic level, worked.

Because on one hand, yes, I'm employed. And on the other...the actual literal psychological torture that it took to make me this way made me every kind of dysfunctional. I can't work on any task that falls even slightly out of the workflow I've built for myself. I lose hours to meltdowns because of minor procedure changes (meltdowns which look like panic attacks, because that's one of the big things they forced onto me, that things that look like meltdowns are unacceptable). I regularly have coworkers who support me pull me aside to explain that I have once again socially clowned on myself (thank you Hannah and Tiffani you are real ones). I regularly get in trouble for not understanding things that were not explained to me, even when I repeatedly remind people I need things as explicit as possible. I forget things. Dear god, do I forget things. I've spent nearly as much of my life in autistic burnout completely incapable of working as I have actually employed.

And I think about it a lot because there's a low support needs person in my department. (She told me herself she was autistic, shortly after she was hired. It's not my place to disbelieve her, and I believe fakeclaiming is inherently bigoted.) Maybe I should say was, because she got promoted to head of a different department three months after she joined us. She's completely indistinguishable from a neurotypical person, to the point that she reads to me as a threat. I know workplace ableism favoring her is not her fault, just like I know it's not my fault, but it doesn't make it hurt any less.

I don't quite know where I'm going with this, really. Maybe I don't follow enough other medium support needs folks. Maybe I'm not trying enough.

just like with multiversus and bloons adventure time tower defense, his disability has been removed for the sake of marketability, and this time there isn't even fern because fuck anything past season 5 am i right (sarcasm)

i just feel like finn losing his arm, both times it happened, was a major part of his character and growth as a person, and this just feels like disability erasure. this happened in bloons adventure time tower defense, despite that more or less serving as a weirdass piece of marketing for adventure time's finale. and this happened in multiversus, with only a single release of a skin with him having his prosthetic.

huh???

huh??????????

Hey! If you use tiktok maybe stay away from the trending page currently. 'hyperfixated' is trending and there's a lot of misuse of the medical term and a fair amount of neurotypicals are using the terms as a trendy and quirking synonym to interest/obsession. Stay away from tiktok for a few days until the tag calms down if it will bother you :)) hope the warning helps, especially for ppl with adhd and stuff often in their fyp (as now it will be filled with random content instead of ND content) 👍

Hmm, I would like to make it clear that I am not officially diagnosed autistic, these past years I have had thoughts and feel like I might possibly be. I would self diagnose, but I second thought literally everything so I do not trust myself with that. Should anyone have a problem with my own words of this subject, I understand and accept that and would encourage you to say your own thoughts.

But I definitely see your point anon. A lot of people not only use the word Autistic as an insult, they show that they clearly do not think of Autistic people as people. And in a fanbase that is filled with neurotypical fans that are proud to be bigoted, it definitely does not help the neurodivergent fans.

Others simply label him as Autistic just to get away with their ableism as well. It is all incredibly unfortunate. Especially for newer fans, who are actually being able to finally learn these things with not as much bigotry as before.

I would like to make it clear though, I also meant that labeling Goku as Autistic is a bit iffy due to the source material as well. Ever since DragonBall, Goku was made the butt of the joke when it came to intelligence. Super unfortunately dialed down on the joke at times (the anime. The manga as well, probably worse but I prefer to just. Not acknowledge the manga if I can) but it was always there. Even in Z and GT.

He was on his complete own for years and there was only so much Grandpa Gohan could teach him for the brief years they had. And even then, Goku has, at times, had a short attention span unless it was dead serious or if it was something he was actually excited to learn about. Yet nearly every joke on him is about him being seen as stupid.

One smaller reason to be wary as well is his head injury. His head injury in itself is just, not really a valued thing for me personally. The Saiyans being an inherently evil race in the beginning was, in my opinion, was stupid but I digress.

There is also the fact that a LOT of fans baby him, treating him like some infant rather than the literal adult who has been through traumatic experiences that he is. Which is not what anyone wants, for the love of Goku, please know he is an actual character with thoughts and emotions that are not strictly "pure".

I try to make it so that I personally do not do that but I could be doing better perhaps. I do apologize sincerely if it has seemed that and will try to do better.

Queuing this up to post sometime tomorrow, to give anon some time to get bored and sad.

Ordinarily I would just delete and ignore anon hate, but since this seems to be doing the rounds of the fandom right now, I thought it might be as well to post it for comparison purposes.

So far as I know, people on both 'sides' have been getting similar attempts at shit-stirring - and people who are neutral or barely involved have also been getting abuse, suggesting that the troll (or copycats) may be trying to keep the drama going and to make it spread more widely.

It's also worth noting that they obviously haven't bothered keeping very close tabs on who's actually said what (or that they just don't care), because their accusations / grievances bear little resemblance to anything I've actually said this week.

Screenshot below the cut. Cw for ableist slurs, suicide bait, accusations of CSA, and of course anon hate. (Plus incoherent rambling.)