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king arthur was welsh. merlin was welsh. camelot was in wales. the lady and the lake she pops out of; welsh. excalibur; magic inanimate welsh object. etc.

on the way to see family, i drive past a lake that in which is welsh legend, is the last resting place of excalibur.

Arthur is a Welsh name. It means ‘bear’. He’s likely derived from a Gaulish bear god

In the form of King Arthur, he is an anti-Saxon mythological WELSH figure, representing the native Brythonic people of Britain against the Anglo-Saxon invaders, dating from the 500s AD

The version appropriated by the English in the 1100s is the shitty boring sanitised version - they did it because they were trying to compete with the romance tradition on the continent at the time but didn’t have anything of their own to romanticise

Merlin is called Myrddin

Percival is Peredur

Kay is Cei, and also was subject to enormous character assassination in the English version - in the Welsh version he’s much closer to Arthur’s right hand man

Guinevere is Gwenhwyfar

There is no Lancelot, no Galahad, no tedious affair story

There is no Camelot. Arthur’s seat was Caerllion - modern Caerleon, putting him into both the region of the Silures (one of the most fearsome and warlike of the British tribes, modern South East Wales) and the old Roman fortress, which would have been an impossibly huge Palace for a warlord at the time.

They all have super powers and get up to wacky hijinks involving hair care, giants, strange giant wildlife, spectral revolving/glass fortresses in the Celtic sea, and a really fucking weird chess match. Also a cloak made out of beards.

What the fuck is the round table

fusiform face area: a part of the brain that is dedicated to recognizing faces. may be underactive or used for other purposes in autistic people. part of why so many of us can't recognize people

perseveration and cognitive rigidity: getting stuck on certain ideas or rules and concepts, unable to move on or look at alternatives

routines can be part of perseveration, for example i always have to have my coffee from the same cup and use the same spoon. if i can't find my spoon, i start to fall apart and it ruins the rest of my day.

AAC: alternative and augmentative communication, aka ways of communicating that aren't talking verbally. please look this one up to see the full range of what it can mean

uneven cognitive profiles: having very high skills in some areas and very low skills in other areas

processing speed: is one of those areas that's often much lower in autistic people. same with language comprehension being lower than visual reasoning.

selective mutism: becoming unable to speak when overwhelmed. not the same thing as being always nonverbal. also happens in anxiety disorders.

wandering/elopement: leaving the place you're supposed to be (for kids), getting lost. not the same thing as premeditatedly running away from home (please stop mixing them up. that's why i included this in the list. an autistic seven year old who wanders away from a school field trip because they got overwhelmed and didn't know how to ask to go home is not intentionally trying to run away forever). i used to do this because it didn't occur to me to tell people when i wanted to leave when i was overwhelmed, and would just walk away from my grandparents' house or my sister's soccer games and my parents would have no idea where i was when they noticed i was gone.