Saw a thread on Twitter of "gifts to give a person with ADHD and autism" that was full of stereotypical and quite frankly patronizing items, so here's a list of I (autistic individual) want instead as a gift

my first favorite hobby is yapping. second is being extremely quiet and not talking ever at all ever.

when the autism is being an actual mental health problem instead of making me obsess over fictional characters again:

the problem with autism is sometimes you want to do something (brave) but you need someone to gently walk you through each step so you know what will happen. and people don’t like doing that

i had to phone a taxi today, scary

every time i see this post i think of that person who posted on reddit that they wanted to go to subway for the first time but they were scared they would say the wrong thing so someone gave them step by step instructions for the entire process and what all the choices would be and when they would ask what question and i just think

someone will

someone out there will see you and say "yes. the world is scary. but let me hold your hand and show you how to do it anyways"

everyone needs that someone, and everyone can be that someone

The subreddit r/explainlikeimscared is a surprisingly good resource for this. People are always very kind and thorough from what I've seen, and I spend a decent amount of time there giving walkthroughs and answering questions when I know the process.

listening to music with headphones is so awesome especially when it shoots straight into your brain and you can pick out all its little layers like sandwich ingredients

mc screenshot paintover practice of gem's base

:3

Grian quotes that probably shouldn't be relatable but are

"I've got an overwhelming amount of things to do, which means I've done none of them."

"It's all fun and games until you need three braincells instead of two."

"You see I've got this weird brain condition called stupidity."

"What I actually need is therapy."

"If you just ignore the problem it'll go away."

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most jobs are anti-feminist because they discourage you from texting all the beautiful women in your life during work hours

I'm telling my kids this is Dungeons and Dragons.

huge budget tv shows are out here using cgi for everything to cut costs while game changer gives its art department a wilder challenge every episode

They had a great time! 👍

"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level

what my atoms are doing is their fucking business man i'm busy trying to stop my dog from eating tissues directly out of the box

nuclei don't touch, but the nucleus is not the core of reality. reality is made of electrons dancing. reality is made of bonds.

you pet your dog and the atoms that are you brush up against the atoms that are him, and the electrons that are you press into the electrons that are him, and both of them change their movement.

electrons of course are not really particles and do not really move.

you pet your dog and the electron-orbitals of your skin overlap with the electron-orbitals of his fur, and both are changed by the contact. you are not made of little motes floating alone in a void. you are a single unfathomable chord formed of a trillion vibrations, and so is he. and the note you play is changing at every moment by what you touch and how you breathe, and so is his. and atoms do not really have edges, and to touch is to interact, and when you put your hand on your dog the universe does not know that you are separate. the song expands to hold you both.

every so often scar mentions the snails and grian or gem will go “oh, you know, they’re around…” knowing full well it’s just a matter of time before scar discovers them munching on the inside of ore mountain. and everytime he brags about the mountain being solid all the way through (cub certified!!) i know grian and gem are giggling to themselves