this probably falls under "you might not be as non-autistic as you think harp" but consider
you know those 'touch tanks' that ppl do for their toddlers
that but we're all adults. there's a storage tub full of rice you can just stick your hand in while you sip a beer. there's also a kiddie pool of cornstarch goo you can slap in a satisfying non-neutonian manner. like just 5-6 stations like this.
it'd be a pretty fuckin great party my dudes
let they who have not been tempted to just stick your entire arm into the pick-your-own-polished-rocks 5-for-a-pouch throw the first stone
but we're not gonna throw it because we're too busy weirdly fondling it
it's still a good idea though
"let us all go stick our hands in this pool full of beans because it's oddly satisfying" would be a great icebreaker
@wigglytuffitout wait is this like,,,, not an allistic thing
@nuttgodd see i've seen it as like a stimming thing??? and unfortunately sometimes the Autism Mommies like to praise themselves for inventing ideas like "i made a kiddie pool full of cooked spaghetti colored different colors for my toddler to play in"
but personally i choose to believe that the urge to just bury your arm in the tank full of polished rocks is more universal and we should all embrace it as part of humanity because hhghgnghhh i wanna tuch the it
@wigglytuffitout I think there's probably a ton of very normal urges and behaviors that people suppress or are shamed for yeah, to be honest I really don't know much about the autism spectrum somehow
@nuttgodd i don't know much either, other than occasionally reading things about how it presents differently in afab folk and going "oh no i resemble these remarks" (though i still think that if you picture an autism spectrum as a graph, i'm not on there, but just barely not on the page to one side of it lol - but it's all a little "this woulda been useful when i was in elementary school i guess" now)
so i am perhaps not the best arbiter of if something is allistic or not LOL
@wigglytuffitout yeah also like it seems from an outsider perspective that it isn't well understood by a lot of people? Like i have a lot of behaviors that match up but are probably just because I didn't go to school and didn't have """"normal"""" stuff beaten into me
@wigglytuffitout basically it seems like ableist allistic culture tries to tell us that anything not deemed normal for schooling is a sign of something
the only thing that bothers me with this plan is like, what do you do then with all the rice or beans or whatever? because that's food and should be used for stuff
do they like... rinse off enough that you could feel ok eating 'em after you've thrown a party where everyone's been just sticking their hands into the pile