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[Captain Marvelous]

She made a movie about an autistic person and cast a non retard and then all the twitter autists shit their pants.

that's so dumb. you don't need to be retarded to play a retarded character just as much as you don't need to be a wizard to play harry potter.

I think what people took from this was that Sia immediately cast a neurotypical actress as soon as the original backed out, and didn't try to go for another autistic actress. There's also the fact that Sia lashed out at anyone who opposed the recasting, which only added more fuel to the fire.

 

[Miss Violet Beauregarde]

I think what people took from this was that Sia immediately cast a neurotypical actress as soon as the original backed out, and didn't try to go for another autistic actress. There's also the fact that Sia lashed out at anyone who opposed the recasting, which only added more fuel to the fire.

Man i feel bad for whoever is forced to make that movie.
Not sia though, she deserves everything that happens to her.

 

[Banana Bread]

This might have been posted here before so apologies if I’m late, but it showed up in my Youtube suggestions and I just... . Like yes it’s totally normal for spergs to not follow gender roles/stereotypes but that doesn’t make you anything other than your natal sex, one would think that being a concrete thinker and not really understanding abstract concepts, along with being less concerned with socialising so not following trends just because everyone else is doing it would make you immune to this ideology but apparently not. Tried to watch it and hear her out but this woman is just so brainwashed it’s hard to listen to her.

 

[Miss Violet Beauregarde]

So apparently today is autism day so expect more autism on tumblr

I've got some exceptional stuff from it.

Spoiler: Why would they put autism day right after april fools day?

 

[howyadoin]

This might have been posted here before so apologies if I’m late, but it showed up in my Youtube suggestions and I just... . Like yes it’s totally normal for spergs to not follow gender roles/stereotypes but that doesn’t make you anything other than your natal sex, one would think that being a concrete thinker and not really understanding abstract concepts, along with being less concerned with socialising so not following trends just because everyone else is doing it would make you immune to this ideology but apparently not. Tried to watch it and hear her out but this woman is just so brainwashed it’s hard to listen to her.

Autistics think in black and white. That’s why they think if they don’t fit into the strict, stereotypical view of male or female, they think they’re something else altogether.

 

[Amber the Hedgehog]

Autistics think in black and white. That’s why they think if they don’t fit into the strict, stereotypical view of male or female, they think they’re something else altogether.

I don't think it's that autistic people think black and white, what I have read on the topic it sees more like they have hard time with abstract consepts and simplifications. Just to be clear I'm not an expert on this so please don't take this post as facts. I'm just describing my current understanding what I learned about autistic thought process from reading and listening experts. Including autistic people who are passionate about autistic people understanding normals and normals understanding autistic people especially in therapeutic settings.

So think about a house, you probably have mental picture if a stereo typical house made from a box with triangle at top and few squares cut off for windows and doors. You know that is simplification at best, most houses aren't like your mental picture, but you know they don't have be. The mental picture is just a visual steretype about a collection various features that allow you to recognize a house. You know that not all houses have all the features, let alone have those features exactly the same but you don't need all that specific info to talk or make plans about houses, even about houses you haven't seen before. This normal but an autistic person has hard time with that. They don't naturally go with mental short hand of like that house stereotype but think one specific house for example their home. In their mind "a house" isn't really a word that describes all houses but a word about their home that get applied to other buildings that are kinda like their home becouse others are wierd like that. To an autistic each of those house are individual different consepts that someway some more some less remain them about their home but to everyone else every house is exactly as much a house than the last. They do learn that's how words work in society but often still struggle with it because thinking in vague consepts isn't natural for them.

This why they struggle understanding that human streotypes aren't quide lines that need be followed. One hand stereotypes gives them a solid example to a consept, something to build understanding on but other hand they hard time understanding how much people can not be like the stereotype and still fall under the consept. When they think a girl they have a solid detailed picture of a person that doesn't just describe common girl features but is exactly what a word "girl" means and that person gets compared to others if they fall under the word. Nobody will be exactly like that of course but many will get pretty close because the mental girl is built from real life where there group trends.

Then comes the issue that will some that everyone else will without a doubt see as girls but will be uncomfortably far from the autistic mental example. It would be so much more comfortable to the autistic if those girls were more streotypical and this gets especially true about themselves, when they don't get close enough of what their mental girl is. The others can be just seen as avoided or filed under different category, but yourself? You are always there and will hear others putting you in this girl category even though you aren't like the mental girl. It can feel so wrong especially when there all the pains, tribulations and changes of puberty going on witch often are gendered. Getting to put yourself in this different category that explains why you aren't fitting in with your mental image can look like freedom. You aren't failing as a girl becouse you aren't a girl. You get to put yourself in different category and in case FtMs guide how to become a man, something you didn't get as a girl. This can give sush mental relief especially when option of opting out or at least slowing down puberty is flashed. Of course transitioning or calling yourself a nonebianery doesn't solve autism but the temptation thinking it does makes sense.

 

[Father Brown]

I don't think it's that autistic people think black and white, what I have read on the topic it sees more like they have hard time with abstract consepts and simplifications. Just to be clear I'm not an expert on this so please don't take this post as facts. I'm just describing my current understanding what I learned about autistic thought process from reading and listening experts. Including autistic people who are passionate about autistic people understanding normals and normals understanding autistic people especially in therapeutic settings.

So think about a house, you probably have mental picture if a stereo typical house made from a box with triangle at top and few squares cut off for windows and doors. You know that is simplification at best, most houses aren't like your mental picture, but you know they don't have be. The mental picture is just a visual steretype about a collection various features that allow you to recognize a house. You know that not all houses have all the features, let alone have those features exactly the same but you don't need all that specific info to talk or make plans about houses, even about houses you haven't seen before. This normal but an autistic person has hard time with that. They don't naturally go with mental short hand of like that house stereotype but think one specific house for example their home. In their mind "a house" isn't really a word that describes all houses but a word about their home that get applied to other buildings that are kinda like their home becouse others are wierd like that. To an autistic each of those house are individual different consepts that someway some more some less remain them about their home but to everyone else every house is exactly as much a house than the last. They do learn that's how words work in society but often still struggle with it because thinking in vague consepts isn't natural for them.

This why they struggle understanding that human streotypes aren't quide lines that need be followed. One hand stereotypes gives them a solid example to a consept, something to build understanding on but other hand they hard time understanding how much people can not be like the stereotype and still fall under the consept. When they think a girl they have a solid detailed picture of a person that doesn't just describe common girl features but is exactly what a word "girl" means and that person gets compared to others if they fall under the word. Nobody will be exactly like that of course but many will get pretty close because the mental girl is built from real life where there group trends.

Then comes the issue that will some that everyone else will without a doubt see as girls but will be uncomfortably far from the autistic mental example. It would be so much more comfortable to the autistic if those girls were more streotypical and this gets especially true about themselves, when they don't get close enough of what their mental girl is. The others can be just seen as avoided or filed under different category, but yourself? You are always there and will hear others putting you in this girl category even though you aren't like the mental girl. It can feel so wrong especially when there all the pains, tribulations and changes of puberty going on witch often are gendered. Getting to put yourself in this different category that explains why you aren't fitting in with your mental image can look like freedom. You aren't failing as a girl becouse you aren't a girl. You get to put yourself in different category and in case FtMs guide how to become a man, something you didn't get as a girl. This can give sush mental relief especially when option of opting out or at least slowing down puberty is flashed. Of course transitioning or calling yourself a nonebianery doesn't solve autism but the temptation thinking it does makes sense.

This is the view I came to as well, it explains why autism is so strongly associated with complicated and niche identity labels. In troons, for example, pretty much anything other than 'trans woman' or 'trans man' increases the likelihood that someone is autistic. So, virtually all varieties of genderqueer, genderfluid or other non-binary identities are more strongly associated with the 'tism than 'binary' troon identities.

Similarly, all the more recherche sexualities (e.g. demisexual, grey-ace, pansexual, aromantic) are all strongly associated with autism as is confusion and uncertainty over sexual orientation. The uncertainty is often really strange when viewed from the outside, because it usually seems as though the uncertainty is totally unwarranted. This makes sense if you assume that they're 'over-specifying.'

This only a small part of the autism-troonism connection, but it's a particularly important part of the story behind all the really weird identity labels.