as small as a world and as large as alone

8:11pm December 23, 2013

goldenheartedrose:

emeraldincandescent:

madesomecocoa-gotengaged:

emeraldincandescent:

You know what I would like to see? A portrayal of an autistic person as religious. Maybe even has their religion as their special interest, so they can name all the saints or have memorized the Quran or something. Basically, why are all the cishet white boy TV autistics cishet white boy atheist autistics? 

I think it’s because of the insistence that these cishet white boy autistics have to be ~logical.~ that’s why they’re always good at math or science, never reading or writing or art. because the allistic people writing them can’t wrap their heads around the fact that autism isn’t monolithic, or that intelligent people can have religion without sacrificing their intelligence.

Yeah, that last question was mostly rhetorical. But you raise very good points.

This I find really interesting, because one of the first blogs I ever had featured anywhere where I talked about autism was on TheCaffeinatedAutistic where I talked about what it was like to grow up autistic in a church environment. And it was featured on ThAutcast, and that was amazing, but soooooo many of the comments were all “I thought that autistic people CAN’T believe in anything”? And that pissed me off so much, because it basically invalidated my entire belief system and made me question my diagnosis and siiiiiiiigh.

But yes, I would love to see an autistic character portrayed as religious.

I’ve seen autistic characters portrayed as almost spiritual savants, and that’s as disturbing to me if not more so, as the atheist thing.  But I’d love to see realistic religious autistic people, not … that.

On this whole topic, see:

http://youneedacat.tumblr.com/post/68195209692/anyone-noticed

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