you never know what someone is going through. for instance i didnt know i was going through anything until about 2 years later. i thought i was just chilling

HR will need to hear about this

The journey of a blue marble

The I Spy live action adaption looks great

This is pretty cool compared to many rube goldbergs for reasons including: 

- the amount of YEET

- Clever use of magnets and physics

- Re-use of sections that play multiple purposes or have reentrancy. 

Never let them know your next move

Wow.

My NT friend: doesn’t this silence bother u

Me, autistic: are u telling me u can’t hear this incredibly loud fridge

The lights have sound

Electronics have sound

Appliances have sound

If electricity runs through it, it has sound.

Rarely is there actual silence (and that does bother me due to lack of sensory input).

This is why the barn uses me when they think the horses are reacting to a noise they can’t hear. I’ll likely find it (it’s usually the heating or the electrical box in the indoor).

I also know when the electric fences are on.

For years I was convinced that I was either hallucinating or had hearing damage, because electronics always made this high-pitched whine that was closer to being felt than heard, and nobody else knew what I was talking about. Then I met other autistic people.

Always always always! It was worse when there were those big TV monitors all around instead of flatscreens, but fridges and shit, always.

wait people don’t normally hear the lights?

Nope!

I don’t know if it’s that NT people can’t hear the things or if NT people can and do tune out the things thoroughly enough never to consciously notice either the things or the tuning out

it’s NT people tuning it out. Part of the issue with ND people is that the brain is basically bombarded with input, all the time, and there’s a significant amount of energy put into filtering. If the filter is borked then you get “THE FRIDGE IS LOUD” instead of “This person’s face is doing a Thing”

...My family got an ultrasonic pest repellent in the ‘80s and I could hear it. I’m sorry, I’m always gobsmacked when I find my people.

Every year my mom vandalizes a reflection calendar with pictures of Keanu to make a “with Keanu” calendar for her friend. These are some highlights:

The work of Ed Fairburn

WHAT.

WHAT.

REblog if you are Asexual, support Asexuals, or spend most of your time actually thinking about Superheroes.

The so-called Hangover Mask (1947) was invented by Max Factor.

Max Factor Ice Cube Beauty Mask, 1947.

"This experimental arrangement of ice cubes in a mask is being tried out in Hollywood by Max Factor Jr., movie make up man who think it helps actresses cool and refresh their faces between scenes on hot studio sets. [...]" Science Illustrated

Why wait until the morning after to wear this? You could put one on for the party and use it as a convenient delivery system for cubes of cheese.

If it went round the back of the skull I would be scouring eBay for one!

“Our Lady of New Frontiers, Nichelle Nichols”

My last painting of 2022, and I wanted it to be a painting carrying me into the new year, a tribute to an amazing and inspirational woman.

Star Trek has been a show I have watched since I was a wee one. I started with TNG as a child, but when I finally watched TOS in college, its impact was undeniable, both today and especially during the time it aired.

Although the famous speech says “final frontier”, Nichelle Nichols was a woman leading the way onto new frontiers, a beacon of hope, resilience and possibility. So that is what I wish to carry with me into the new year.

prints can be found through my site: www.lindsayvanek.com

with adhd/autism it's funny like. people will call you weird all your life, people will bully you for your "outlandish" behaviour, people will criticize literally everything you do as "not normal", BUT THE SECOND YOU GET DIAGNOSED (or suggest you might have it) they're like "huh what but you're so normal, you're literally the most normal person I've ever seen, you're literally so normal and absolutely nothing is wrong with you? why would you have that now all of a sudden???"

God Shit OP

every year around christmas me and my grandma play this fun family game called “maybe you want to put jesus in your room instead, sweetie? :)”. now, it’s important to note that the jesus referred to in our game is not actually the real jesus christ, but instead a wooden figure i made in 2011 that has an uncanny resemblance to the lord and savior himself

so what happens is that i place jesus in our living room, and my grandma smiles and asks me if i don’t want to decorate my room with him instead. i ask her in return if she thinks my jesus figure is ugly (which he is), but she reassures me that this is not the case. however, a couple of days later jesus mysteriously disappears from our living room, and appear in my room instead

now, the real jesus christ might have been able to perform a miracle like this, but please remember that the jesus in our story is only a figure made out of wood. he can not move on his own, so i think we can safely say that my grandma is the prime suspect here

the first year i would often confront my grandma about this, but she would always make up an excuse and never straight up tell me she moved him because he’s so ugly it’s an embarrassment to the family

eventually i grew tired of her lies, so now we only move jesus around in silence. one second he’s in the living room, the next he’s back in my room. in a way i think this adds an extra element of excitement to the holiday season, because you never know for sure when jesus is going to be moved again

and so it begins..

i was not fucking ready for this photograph

… this photo makes the whole thing so much better and I cannot stop laughing help I need oxygen

I feel like witches are sedentary and wizards are migratory. A witch has a home, a cauldron, herbs, you go to them with your problem. A wizard wanders, disappears, shows up at inconvenient times to fix nothing. am i making sense

Wizards have towers though

a wizard tower is more like a tome silo than a home, I think. they don't really live in it. they leave towers here and there as they wander.

if you're looking for a wizard, knocking on the door of its tower is definitely the worst way to find it

you get it