#rnilkbutt

feuilly is one of les amis, not a central character but a nice boy who got killed along with all the other amis in the rebellion

Well shit, now I know who Feuilly is.

on fics i love i give kudos from my account and off my account lol like pls let me show my eternal love for this sfory

WTFFF I DO THAT TOO

yeah np!! and i mean personally i Love works he’s been involved in while still condemning His actions and trying not to support him as a person so i mean it’s okay to like what he’s written (excluding the prejudiced stuff) but not him as a person

yessss yes thank you, its just the people who bash his works because of his personal beliefs that really irk me. liiike i don’t support him but i love his work.

i still really like his work,, his work doesn’t really reflect his sexism as far as i know/have realized

lots of people are sexist af,, saying “oh i’m going to hate this guy solely for him being misogynist” is kinda,

i mean unless he’s really bad, like. howard stern bad. some people just aren’t educated. but if hes irredeemable/doesn’t accept criticism in regards to feminism THAT’S shitty af

Well apparently this is a point of intra-community debate in the autism community r/n but “special interest” as a term was coined by the medical establishment to pathologize autistic ppl’s behaviours, regardless of the fact that in many cases that behaviour is perceptibly very similar to NT/allistic behaviours.

So some people are like “omfg only autistic ppl can reclaim this word!”

But frankly that’s silly to me, because obviously ADD literature uses the same fucking term to apply to a very similar behaviour set (or possibly the same one, IDK I am not comorbid) so it seems completely fucking ludicrous to say ADD people can’t use it.

Those are the only two neurodivergences that I have seen the term applied to by authority groups, however, so I would feel fairly safe saying anyone outside both those groups would do well to stay away from it.

Of course, of course, if you are self dxed with either/both or have enough confusion to be looking into diagnostic criteria further (eg you could realistically cann yourself “questioning”), feel free. You’re a part of the community(/ies) at that point.

Now you’ll note up there it says something about being similar to NT behaviour sets. That’s true, it is. However, because NT people never had their interests and hobbies turned into a symptom, turned into something diseased and broken, something emblamatic of their failure to behave in properly human ways, or used as proof of their lack of will power in other areas outside that interest, NT people should super duper stay away from it.

Basically if the term hasn’t been used to disempower and pathologize a group you belong to, don’t use it.

So, in answer to the actual question: Yes. Unless you are autistic of ADD, you should not use the term “special interest” to describe yourself, your behaviours, or your interests.

EDIT: Just as a reminder, if you think you might be part of one of these groups, even if you can’t put your finger on why you think that, the idea isn’t just being born of nothing. Brains are complicated stuff, and they often collect data we don’t even realize is being collected. Those odd suspicions and gut feelings aren’t appearing out of the ether.

If you’ve got stuff that you think of as Special Interests, well shit, there might be a reason for that! It shouldn’t be used as a casual term for random ppl off the street who picked it up from overheard conversations or something. But if you’ve sat down and thought about it and been like “this ‘special interest’ term sure does seem to fit really, really, really well” then that’s not happening in a vacuum. It may well be a Special Interest and you just haven’t had the opportunity ti recognize it as such in a larger context.

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THE BIBLE SAYS YOU SHOULDN’T LIE (i think --)