why the FUCK did my hair not magically turn into the nonbinary flag the instant i came out this is an outrage
@Lumb protip: forgive me father for i have sinned and punish me daddy i've been naughty ARE interchangeable
tried our hand at drawing Correspondence. keep glancing at the paper expecting it to burst into flames
anyway, of course we went for the one that hits closest to home for us—To Assemble a Name from Scars. in sunless skies, it comes packaged with this description: To reforge a link in the Great Chain. A name written in the blood of your old self. Forgiveness where none is owed.
@autistikai anime antagonist hair, in my case
@RobinHood "i thought about asking you out in college too, but you're even cuter and more confident now!" — my most recent ex-girlfriend
@RobinHood Friend: "I have something to tell you... I... I'm a girl."
Me: *crush intensifies*
@RobinHood We're like swordfighting and that whole Princess Bride thing happens
"You're pretty good, but I must tell you something: I'm not actually a man!"
And then I change my sword to my other hand
"Aha! However, I'm not actually androphilic!"
And then she changes sword hands too.
staring from the position that autism and schizophrenia have pretty similar presentations on the whole, and recalling that the modern psychiatric stereotype of schizophrenia was dramatically revised in the mid-20th century in order to pathologize Black Civil Rights activists, the intensification of anti-Blackness and police violence for Black autistics suddenly makes a lot of sense huh?
fun little-known fact, autism and ADHD are both documented to co-occur pretty frequently with hallucinations. this makes three (3) "different" "diagnoses" which, pragmatically speaking, are characterized primarily by
1) perceptible oddity
2) executive dysfunction
3) divergent sensory processing
4) (optionally) psychosis
what is the third (3rd) diagnosis not so far mentioned? schizophrenia. schizophrenics are the ones we subject most directly to madness stigma and are widely, not-very-consensually treated with anti-psychotics that are very hard to tolerate, and don't solve the problems that actually make it hard to live with schizophrenia.
what are those problems? social discrimination and functional deficits related to executive dysfunction — the classic "I know the lightbulb is out and I have a lightbulb and a stepstool, but I haven't replaced the lightbulb and it's been weeks" kind of problem, writ large.
these are, in fact, support needs common to autistics and ADHD people.
The witch glared at the spellbook.
"Fresh virgin blood," she muttered. "That's a stupid ingredient."
"Can't you use your own?" her raven asked.
"Depends on whether the author meant 'Never had sex' or 'Never had sex with a man'."
"Did a man write the spell?"
"Hah! Good question."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own