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3:42am May 4, 2015
Anonymous asked: thank you for your answer to my ask about autistic language, it made a lot of sense. i guess what i wonder/worry about--and i'm not saying it's your responsibility to answer, you are not the Grand Arbiter of How We Communicate and i don't wanna push that on you--is like. am i "allowed" (in the figurative sense, no one's going to physically stop me) to sit down and pass stones? even if i'm not "speaking"? even if i'm doing it "wrong" and just getting sensory pleasure from the stones?

Yes you can do whatever you want with stones and anyone who tells you otherwise is an asshole.

I’ve been told that (some of the time) I don’t rock the way “real autistic people” rock. I rock many different ways and I have seen other autistic people doing every single one of them. So when people say things like that I know it’s from ignorance at best and malice at worst.

I also got told real autistic people flap hands up and down not side to side. Funny, when I was in special ed I saw very young autistic kids doing both. I do both. Good grief some people will find anything to nitpick.

I call them the Stim Police and hold them in very low regard. Any movement or activity that you do is valid no matter why or how or when you learned it as long as you’re not like… Throwing rocks at people or something. And yeah I’m not the arbiter of this but I know it’s true.

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