Shoutout To The Dedicated Cheerleaders Of Wips Who Comment On Each Chapter And Motivate The Poor Fic

I had heard about audism before, but never about oralism.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with me ♡

What do verbal, hearing people have against sign language?

I'm a hearing-able and "usually" verbal person, but since I'm autistic I sometimes go into verbal shutdown.

Both because of that and because I simply find sign languages to be important languages that should be more normalized around the globe, I really wanted to have the opportunity to learn my country's sign language properly.

However, whenever I mention that to certain people, they'll tell me it's useless and pointless because I don't know any deaf, hard-of-hearing or nonverbal individuals.

Like????? Excuse me?????

I don't know about other countries, but we don't have the chance to learn sign in Portuguese schools and I personally think we should be taught to communicate easily with everyone in our own country before being taught how to communicate with foreigns.

Sign languages are languages like any other. When my friends chose to learn French and German no one told them it was useless because they don't know any French or German people, so what's the big deal with sign language?

I apologize to any and every deaf, Deaf, hard-of-hearing, non-verbal or semiverbal person reading this for how rude some jerks out there can be.

(Also, sorry if hearing-abled isn't the correct term, I can’t really find an answer anywhere)

"everyone should care about accessibility because most people will become disabled at some point in their life" is a logical argument and I understand its popularity

however, everyone should care about accessibility because disabled people are fellow human beings living in the same society as you who deserve the same rights as you

thank you good night

me while writing: ah yes, this character should do this, it feels so natural with what they're saying

me while editing: why the FUCK does he lean on the doorway SEVENTEEN TIMES IN THIS CHAPTER

“Autistic people need special accommodations” and “autistic people should not be infantilized and talked down to” are schools of though that can and should co-exist.

Also this autism acceptance and awareness month please stop using the term going Nonverbal or going nonspeaking when you are having a temporary loss of speech. Use a term like verbal shutdown or speech loss episode instead. As a Nonverbal autistic I am tired of speaking people using the term Nonverbal or nonspeaking to describe their verbal shutdowns

Autistics of Tumblr, what is your favorite or most random vocal stim?

I used to say "Eren Jaeger" in a deep voice whenever I saw a bird.

Transphobia isn't just directly saying you hate trans people.

Transphobia is knowing their pronouns and choosen name and not even trying to respect those because you've "always known them as the other gender".

Transphobia is saying "trans woman" and "trans man" instead of just "woman" and "man", as you do for cisgender, when that information is completely irrelevant.

Transphobia is refusing to accept that if a teenager is responsible enough to decide which course they'll be taking, which will have an impact in their future work life, they are responsible enough to know what they want to be called.

Transphobia is relying on the statistics that show that neurodivergent people are more likely to be trans in order to "get a point across" and tell the world how it is all in their head.

Have you ever heard about gender disphoria, sweetie? Do you even know what gender is?

Not saying you hate a community directly doesn't make you less prejudiced than someone who does if you do these things. And being part of a community doesn't mean you can't be prejudiced towards that same community.

From a non-binary who doesn't exactly identify as trans, but who is aware of all your struggles, I wish all of you the best.

And no one, no one in the LGBTQ+ community will ever have the right to exclude you from it.

Be proud.

There’s nothing inherently “scary” about someone talking to themself in public.

There’s nothing “scary” about someone rocking back and forth in public.

There’s nothing “scary” about someone pacing back and forth in public.

Some of y’all are just ableist.

The autistic mood of knowing you should ask questions back to people but only remembering hours/days after and wondering if they felt hurt or upset because of it.