Reblog if you will never. Ever. Use AI in your writing.

a lot of my autism masking is just making myself more palatable for other people and my therapist said "does spock make himself 'more palatable' for others?" and had me promise to keep unmasking like:

Genuine question as someone diagnosed in my mid 20s. What's wrong with masking? It makes the lives of everyone around me AND my own social functioning easier. Like duh don't mask with friends out of shame of your personality and interests (I'm working on this), but in like the day to day?

Like yeah it can be effort, but it's ALSO effort for other people to deal with me if I'm being a confused autist. Masking in the day to day just feels like the autism equivalent of not taking up two seats on the long-distance-bus because even if you'll be more comfortable for the whole bus ride, you'll make the 4 or 5 people who use that seat more comfortable for their short journeys with you.

Wikipedia because I'm not confident in my ability to explain things.

It's also worth noting that it depends on the individual. Some autistic people find masking easy or even subconscious, whereas for others it requires exhausting amounts of constant effort, and for some is impossible entirely.

Sometimes you are entitled to two seats because you take up two seats and you need and deserve the space

i feel like it depends on the day for me. like, how i start my day dictates how well i can manage masking. if i make it to all my buses on time and wake up on time and all that good stuff, my day is easy peasy lemon squeezy! but if i fuck up the timing and see my bus drive away as i'm running up? my whole school day collapses unless i get a little time to unmask (which, thanks to being in an alternative school, happens pretty early in the morning)

Imagine giving your f/o the same issues as you.

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giving shane my stomach pain and shitty ass legs

shane [ stardew valley ] & ticci toby [ slenderverse / creepypasta ] selfshippers dni please !!

giving tord from eddsworld my shoulder pain and my period pains and my chronic migraines. making his life worse ❤️

[bravely] i like it when the smaller one tops

this is really just my favorite tiktok

there’s so many things going on here that we can’t talk about right now

how dare you hide this in the notes

hats

2026 I Will Not Obsessively Ruminate On Stupid Bullshit That Makes No Sense And Is Not Real

i'm trying So Hard it is Not Working

I be like ''lord'' ''god'' ''jesus christ'' and the mfs dont even mean anything to me

first rule of storing tupperware is have fun and be yourself. second suggestion is slam the cabinet door quickly and don’t worry ‘bout it.

I think every movie regardless of time period or tone should have at least 1 (one) trans person in it. Like at the beginning of The Godfather some Sicilian tgirl should come to Vito and be like “Godfadda, I need money for my breast implants” and Vito should be like “I’ll never forget what you’ve done for this family. I’ll find you the best surgeon in New York”

my mom brought her ILL-BEHAVED, UNWASHED DOG into our HARMONIOUS HOME

that is the most black cat looking black cat i've seen in my life, good for them.

she has been practicing since she was very young

What a dignified and shapely beast…

how come they make you reinvent the concept of dinner every evening. I have to make dinner come true every evening like some kind of unpaid genie intern

Generational differences!

*weeps uncontrollably at 9 o'clock in the morning*

God, I love randos on the internet who just want to be kind.

if vampires existed in real life i think there would be shady companies advertising "organic blood" sourced from "willing donors" who are coincidentally all poor people being paid like $5 per blood donation. and like haughty vegan vampires who only drink a synthetic blood drink thats brewed in a way thats actively worse for the enviroment. and radical traditionalist vampires who go on tiktok and claim that true alpha chads have to drain and kill people and anyone who leaves their victims alive is a liberal cuck. enter the world of hypothetical insufferable vampire politics with me.