ch0chalapan0cha:

tunaka:

“are you a boy or a girl” i am the harbinger of your demise

basically

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lucjan:

fraction of void

catfoxwolf:

Awkward silence comics.

(Full view here.)

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osoviejo:

Bear illustration (by Sammy Brennan)

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realsocialskills:

quixylvre asked realsocialskills:

…In trying to explain to my mother what “anti-skills” are, she wants me to provide a list of examples. Could you, in a single post, provide a list of anti-skills that autistic people are routinely taught, perhaps also an addendum with anti-skills that are merely occasionally taught instead of consistently?

Some anti-skills I can think of off the top of my head, with some relevant links:

• Inability to say no
• Figuring out what people in power want, and doing it automatically
• Appearing enthusiastic and happy about doing so
• Suppressing and hiding all negative emotions; maintaining an happy affect at all costs
• Holding still in order to appear more neurotypical, even when it makes it impossible to understand things or communicate
• Denying that you’re disabled; lacking awareness of your own disability or impairment
• Hostility towards adaptive equipment and disability-related coping strategies
• Contempt for the body language and other discernibly autistic traits in others
• Inability to tell who is a friend and who has another agenda (this can lead to destructive involvement with ideological groups)
• Pushing yourself really hard to speak when other forms of communication would be more effective and less draining
• Becoming convinced that you don’t really care about other people and aren’t able to understand or relate to them, and so you have to rely on rigidly following rules instead
• Becoming convinced that you don’t have any body language
• Becoming convinced that you’re good at things that autistic people are stereotypically supposed to be good at, at the expense of spending time on things you’re actually good at

I also talked about some anti-skills in this post I wrote for someone considering working as an aide for an autistic kid.

These are some of the anti-skills I know about, what are some others y’all know about?

liquidnight:

Silvia Grav

Untitled, 2011

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