sometimes, people don’t understand that we are hated for being autistic. “But I don’t hate autistic people!”.
That’s right! Because you don’t know how autistic people are.
You know, people never bullied me for being autistic. Because neither me nor they had the terminology. Nah, they punished me for being weird. And what made me weird to their eyes? I spoke weird and often stumbled, and I spoke like a grownup anyway, and I wouldn’t shut up about Ancient Greece. I moved weird too, because I was (am) really clumsy, and I didn’t have any friends. I was boring and didn’t catch jokes (made at my expense) and I didn’t look them in the eye, and so on and on.
If you asked any of the people who bullied me for years whether they hate autistic people, they’d say “no!”. Because they don’t hate autistic people, but oh boy do they hate weird people. Perhaps they don’t hate autistic people, but surely they hated me for being obviously autistic.
I’ve been trying to explain this concept to a lot of people. You did a really good job summing it up.
ive seen people online claim to support autistic people and then kind of mock/ostracize others for not immediately picking up on all the unwritten online social rules
See also: Japanese-American intermnent camps during WWII. 100,000+ American citizens stripped of any and all rights they had, thrown in prison without trial, all because of who their ancestors were.
Or the crack epidemic being caused by the CIA, and then the subsequent murder of Gary Webb who exposed it.
MK-Ultra (TL;DR: gov. believed mind control existed for some fucking reason and tortured human subjects w/ extremely dangerous drugs (i.e. LSD) to ‘combat’ it)
i dont even have sources for this bc theres just so much fucking involved in it, but start here i guess for the syrian oil warfare
theres like so much more so feel free to add
idk if this is exactly related but another fucked up thing the US government did is that they granted immunity to nazis who conducted fatal human experiments so they could use the data obtained from them. Just look up Unit 731 on Wikipedia and you’ll be able to read about it (some of the experiments in the “Activities” tab are extremely graphic. just a warning.)
Also don’t forget that they looked to undermine and infiltrate civil rights movements. The FBI sent death threats and suicide baiting letters to MLK and they wire tapped him as well. FBI also sent agents into the Black Panthers and also Marcus Garvey’s organization to break up the group and sew discord.
So the short version of the story is that my Dad left us earlier this year, my mum doesnt have a job, and i am currently unable to work due to extreme anxiety issues and an upcoming mental evaluation in a couple months.
Since he left my dad has been giving us barely enough money to get by and has been paying the bills for the house.
Today he told us that he is going to stop paying for our phone and internet bills and will be giving us even less money for food.
My Dad has always been an emotionally abusive bastard and i dont want to have to beg him to keep supporting us, so i am begging all of you instead to donate some money to my paypal so i can cover our internet bill and phone bills and get some food shopping without having to go ask him.
My Paypal is harrysevhickey@gmail.com and anything you could donate will help us a lot.
Im going to start looking for a job again to try and support my family and am also going to start looking into how divorces work in the uk so i can help my mum find some legal solution to this whole situation.
Please could you share this post around if you can to help us out even if you cant donate it would help a lot, thank you all.
to anyone who donates $5 or more I’ll draw you a bust sketch. Just lemme know your paypal Email when inquiring for a sketch so that I can confirm that you did donate. Examples below vvv
Donate at least $5 to Frost to get a bust sketch from me, examples above ^^^
really weird to think that samus aran, the woman who was raised by alien birds and has had to fight multiple parasitic alien clones of herself, probably has had the most normal life out of all the major nintendo protagonists
Mario: *teams up with a baby version of himself to fight alien mushroom people*
Link: *gets transformed into a wolf by traveling between different dimensions due to shadow magic*
Kirby: *has a rogues gallery consisting of everything from a magician cartoon mouse to reality-warping god machines that live in space*
Samus Aran: *goes to an alien planet, beats up some jerks, collects her paycheck, goes home and reheats some leftover ravioli and passes out in front of the tv*
The only reason Samus wears the Zero Suit for Smash Bros is so nobody knows her real off-mission wardrobe is an oversized t-shirt with an unidentifiable stain near the collar and a pair of shorts with the word “JUICY” written in an alien language written across the butt
I still find it fucking insane that we can just put things in the tag and jack might see, he might interact with it, he might buy a fucking hat someone recommends. He feels in some ways like another community member, it’s so special this relationship that he has with us 💚
