If You're Autistic, Your Special Interest Is There To Bring You Joy And Meaning, Not To Somehow Become

If you're autistic, your special interest is there to bring you joy and meaning, not to somehow become your "special autism talent" which makes up for you being disabled. Don't let ableists imply otherwise.

Optical illusions are a lie. I can count the dots.

Hey, what’re you doing? Woah, are you drawing? Is that supposed to be you? It doesn’t look like you. Oh, is that like anime? You like anime? Oooh oh my god, you should draw me. You should totally draw me.

Anyway this disability pride month I would like to shoutout disabled folks whose creativity has suffered because of their condition. I’m talking people with hand tremors and pain that stop them from drawing, knitting, and playing instruments. People whose thinking has become so disorganized that nothing they write makes sense to other people. People with chronic pain who can no longer dance. People so over medicated in a fruitless attempt to maintain stability that the wells of their imagination have run dry.

I see you and I love you. You are more than your creative output. You are not a shell of what you used to be. You are a whole, complete person, regardless of what your creativity has been, is now, or will be in the future.

The Knight is a bit weird under his armor. I would say that's it's not even an armor but a chitinous shell