terfs keep mentioning the % of autistics who are trans/nb and that we're 'brainwashed'

and because i'm an asshole, i decided to look into why so many autistic folks are trans/nb. it's not an inaccurate statement, at least the first half, but terfs lie through their teeth so i decided to get to the scientific root of it.

the answer blew my fucking mind.

the study on gender and autism i found said two very specific things about autistic people: we are more mentally resistant to things like social conditioning and binarism. we like our secret third things, y'know.

an excerpt:

“The finding that non-binary identities are most elevated seems to support hypotheses focussed on autistic resistance to social conditioning, which are consistent with existing evidence of the same effect with respect to self-description of sexual orientation. Perhaps elevated rates of trans identity in autism might result from a rejection of the binary cisgenderist norm, which combined with a below-typical concern for social norms could promote the disclosure of the identity.”

94% of autistics surveyed for that paper identified themselves as non-binary.

other studies have found autistic people have higher levels of critical thinking, and require more evidence to maintain or convert to a belief system (hence why many of us eventually fall away from religion) than allistic people.

which means, at least from my perspective, that:

a) the 'brainwashing' terfs are accusing the trans community of inflicting on autistic folks would likely not even work if they tried.

b) the current binary definition of gender flies directly against embedded autistic modes of thinking to begin with.

you cannot brainwash someone into thinking something they already believe.

This essentially suggests that autistic people are likely to be NB because we are in fact resistant to the relevant brainwashing.

[copied from a reply by @maxens]

the "god DAMNIT" kills me Every Time

Zac's hesitation does it for me.

After having the conversation multiple times about how many people (myself included) had stopped writing for years until the Sandman on Netflix came along and grabbed us by the neck.

And after watching the screaming reactions to Good Omens season 2, (and all the meta and analysis and thoughts about plot structure, and suggestions for what makes sense for season 3.)

I have decided that Neil Gaiman's secret agenda is not the screaming or the angst.

I think his secret agenda is to make us all WRITE.

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reworked an old gomens piece so I can make it into a print!^_^

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My favorite set of Color keys I painted for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. I spent 2 years+ on this project and it was an absolute joy. It’s amazing seeing how close Mikros animation got to these paintings with the final shots. Set design is done by Sean Sevestre. I painted these while I was in nyc!

shaggy & scooby go to the krusty krab

idk y’all should treat fat men better. and i don’t mean mildly chubby guys i mean honest-to-god love-handles-and-double-chins fat guys. stop calling them shit like discord mods or gross weebs or nasty creeps or neckbeards or that they’re stinky or sweaty or beer bellied or whatever else. fatphobia isn’t cute, even repackaged in a neat little box of “ew men”

We know you want to burn down capitalism.

But for today, just don’t answer your boss’s call off the clock.

We know you believe in ACAB and think they all should get the wall.

But for today, just don’t call 9-1-1 on the guy screaming outside of your apartment.

The memes are fun. The memes are aspirational and keep us reaching for the horizon.

But look down, too, at what actually is.

Endure pains now—suffer the inconveniences now—knowing that they likely involve unpleasantness.

The Revolution™ is fun to imagine and involves no pain. But the real world does involve pain, and it’s necessary to exercise the muscles needed for future work and opportunities.

Not to mention - The Revolution™ is something that, for a lot of disabled folks, is damn near impossible to imagine a scenario where we survive. I have relatives who rely on insulin to live, if the system goes down for more than 3 months without effective distribution lines being reactivated - they're dead. I have a physical disability that makes even walking even short distances impossible sometimes, if there is a major disruption of electricity, fuel, or food, I'm starving. Sure I have food storage, but that only lasts so long (not mentioning my partner who is also disabled and has severe dietary restrictions)

And this is why Community Support is so important. Instead of focusing all of our energy and time on the things and people we hate, it is important to put time into helping people around you survive. Direct Action isn't just protests and picket lines and riots, it's also soup kitchens, community gardens, food pantries, assistance for seniors and disabled folks - shit like this. Offer to help pick up someone's groceries, offer someone a ride to their doctor's appointment, offer to watch someone's kids for them, help where you are able to. Help people they way you advocate for them to be helped.

The Revolution is built on the backs of billions of small acts of support, love, and care. A revolution that ignores the downtrodden, the poor, the disenfranchised, the marginalized - leads to only more ignorance and cruelty. More pain and death and suffering.

Remember the people that our government forgets. Protect the people that our government attacks. That is Resistance. That is a Revolution.

To quote Alice Walker:

"The real revolution is always concerned with the least glamorous stuff. With raising a reading level from second grade to third. With simplyfying history and writing it down (or reciting it) for the old folks. With helping illiterates fill out food stamp forms--for they must eat, revolution or not. The dull, frustrating work with our people is the work of the black revolutionary artist. It means, most of all, staying close enough to be there whenever they need you."

Always nice when math helps make it all the more clear how ridiculously reasonable the worker demands are.

This is what the studios have brought everything to a grinding halt for.

So this was the unanswered messages in my ask box a couple of days ago:

and this is the unanswered messages in my ask box today,

and I'm incredibly grateful to everyone who has said such nice things about the season, and I'm sorry to everyone who had emotions they weren't expecting, and I'm impressed that so many of you have theories and don't plan to answer, validate or really even comment on any of them, but mostly I'm just sorry because I probably won't read whatever you've sent, not because I don't want to but because if I was doing nothing but reading Tumblr asks as a full time job I still wouldn't catch up with the thousands of asks coming in.

I'm glad you care.

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Sometimes being an artist is feeling like a baker seeing a chemist making the deadliest liquid in the world and wishing you could make the deadliest liquid as well but you're a baker, not a chemist, and then you feel like your bread is worthless

If it helps, as a writer with artist friends often feels like being a chemist surrounded by bakers. I'll spend ages coming up with a hypothesis and then lock myself away for weeks or months only to emerge with a small vial of glowing liquid. Yes it took a lot of work, and yes I'm proud that I've created it, but it pales when I look across at the bakers. In the same time, they've made so many delicious things that make living a delight. Chances are they've fed me and kept me from despair while I was locked in my lab. And I envy their wonderful craft.

what tall femmes see when they look down at me

lil babycat mymble

spirit bomb of love

Well that explains a lot.

This is so much funnier now that we know that Hank has recorded an entire season of Dimension 20 with Brennan

happy pride to him exclusively