I'm kind of curious how many of the people who are against spanking (as I am) because of the whole "if they can't understand why you're hurting them, that's abuse" thing are also people who have no issue with piercing infants' ears. Because there's so much hypocrisy from all kinds of people in the world that I just KNOW there's at least a small ( Read more... )

(This is in no way endorsing one method over another. Just an observation of differences. Especially since there are some foods that just should not touch, ever. It all depends on the foods.)

Other autistics: "These foods must not EVER touch each other!"
Me: "These vegetables are bland as heck. Gonna grab a glob of mashed taters and gravy and dunk it ( Read more... )

Question came up on an autism community, "have you ever had a party phase?" My answer:

No. I hate parties, always have. I'm an introvert. I don't like crowds. Even spending a few hours with between 1 and 4 friends is draining for me. I *like* socializing with a few friends for a few hours, but I do need time to recharge from it.

I did go to a couple ( Read more... )

I live in this weird dichotomy in talks about family. Like, my first 9 years of life were pretty good, apart from being bullied at school for being weird (read: autistic, non-binary trans without knowing it until my teenage years, and bisexual). In those years, home was my one safe space. My parents were great. My only complaint about them during ( Read more... )

I really don't get much out of sex. It's too much work as well. I liked bottoming the one time it happened, but I'm too anxious about STDs to really do it again, and I've since developed IBS and the occasional haemmeroids (which have been greatly helped by buying a Squatty Potty {oh great Satan I hate the name of that product but it really does ( Read more... )

On an autism community on FB, someone was discussing the tendency of autistic people to be more sensitive to rejection. This was my response:

I think the biggest reason is the fact of not knowing what we said or did to warrant being rejected. Could explain why I developed such an abrasive and divisive personality, cussing like a sailor and generally ( Read more... )

I could never have kids. It's my firm believe you shouldn't have kids if you're not going to love them equally and unconditionally, a conclusion I came to after seeing all the people who have had permanent mental scars because they weren't their parents' favorite, or because they were disowned by a parent for being LGBT of some kind, or because ( Read more... )

I posted this to Tumblr earlier, in response to one of those posts showing up in my recent activity ( Read more... )

Me: (Just talking normally)
Them: Please sir, there's no need to get angry with me!
Me: Um... excuse me? I wasn't being angry?
Them: You cussed ( Read more... )

I find it very amusing that you think autistic people are noisy, when I’m autistic and yet offline I am very quiet and I personally find neurotypicals and other allistic (“normal”) people to be irritatingly loud all the blessed time.

Seriously, neurotypicals/allistics:

1. Apparently love pointless conversations. Seem to be so much in need of ( Read more... )