Aunt-kats-chats - Hyperfixation Station

Why must all fanfics who portray Autistic! Zuko make him an awkward turtleduck?? (Speaking as an autistic person)

I think it's related to an odd fetishization of autistic people as "soft" and "vulnerable" and "helpless." Making someone "autistic" is a way to "babyfy" them and make them more "cute" and "awkward." People not interested in actually writing autism accurately; instead people who want to write "awkward turtleduck" Zuko use "autism" as a crutch to further that characterization. Interestingly, I have read a few fanfics which try to write neurodivergent Azula, and it never looks anything like the common depiction of "autistic Zuko."

Full disclosure: I'm not neurodivergent myself, and I'm not sure what the best way to depict autism is. It just seems to me that common "Autistic! Zuko" portrayals aren't very accurate.

how can you simultaneously believe "the largest therapy for autistic children is basically torture & the largest autism organization is a eugenicist hate group" but also "diagnosis is a privilege"

Something I have trouble with as an autistic woman is knowing whether or not I'm friends with someone unless I ask them and even then I question it

For example a teacher told us that we could work with friends for an assignment and I had to ask someone I considered a friend if we were friends before I asked him to work with me on the project

I'm so tired of the "I'm just a girl" memes. Stop infantilizing yourselves for the sake of internet clout. Do you see men using "boys will be boys" to paint themselves as nothing but idiots? No!

Stop finding ways to shrink yourself and take up the space that men take for free!

AAAAAAAAA

I sang the “mr sand man/man me a sand” to my bf while he sang the normal version and his reaction (in typical cat owner fashion) was “LOVE!!!” As if he was scolding one of his cats and not listening to his girlfriend (me) sing a meme parody of a song he likes

mr sandman was playing in this gas station and the cashier and i both sang “man me a sand” at the same fucking time without hesitation

The fact people are so upset with pornhub requiring Age Verification in certain USA states is so bizarre but funny to me. Women are being abused and trafficked and raped yet apparently your reason for boycotting is the fact you now have to be 18 in certain states to access porn??????

Watching an Instagram account that makes sandwiches through history. Needless to say I might try to replicate these recipes in university

Watching the bear season 3 and so far I have lots of feelings about it