just as glad – Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0

opalkissedthoughts:

to other autistic people, I keep seeing things about how autistic people don’t “play pretend” as children but in all honesty? that’s all I did as a child. I was late in stopping. I played pretend for so long, up until 13 I think, that people thought I was weird for it

anyone else relate?

Yep. The consensus among researchers who actually consult autistics is that autistic people do have imaginations/play pretend, but it looks different than an NT kid playing pretend. Most of us are more methodical about it and keep more real life rules in play than NT kids do.

lierdumoa:

prokopetz:

The gender-neutral form of “ungentlemanly”/”unladylike” is “unseemly”.

There you go – now you can express your primly understated distaste for someone’s conduct without making any assumptions about their gender.

Uncouth also works.

geekandmisandry:

aunt-mimi:

When somebody says that “a man likes to feel like a man,” all I hear is “A man likes to feel superior to you and it’s your job to make him believe it.”

Someone said this to me once, that a man needs to feel like a man, I replied “well I’m not stopping him” and had to watch this fragile creature try to explain to me that my strong personality could demean men.

Like, if I have to pretend you are a strong man and cater to that then clearly you’re not that strong dude.