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8:45am July 19, 2014

refined-sugar:

if you aren’t autistic and you write ~autistic headcanons~ you’re an ableist asshole

Wait what?

I wasn’t aware that people had to be a certain kind of person, to have headcanons about that kind of person.  By those standards, headcanons would get pretty boring and restrictive pretty fast.  And yes, I’m autistic, I just completely disagree with this kind of thing.

Notes:
  1. miss-dansukker reblogged this from alliecat-person
  2. alliecat-person reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    I have a lot of mixed feelings about how autistic headcanons are used, but this is nonsense. Oh, and autistic people can...
  3. geekshallinherit reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
  4. goosewizard reblogged this from darpy-mainaccount-notused and added:
    It depends how you do it. If you’re a lazy pos who falls back on stereotypes when describing an autistic person, then...
  5. refinedsugarr reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    I don’t feel comfortable with nt people treating autism like its a cute little quirk that people have. I wouldn’t write...
  6. darpy-mainaccount-notused reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
  7. theriddlerontheroof reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    Yeah, I think it’s fine if non-autistics make autistic headcanons, so long as they acknowledge that they aren’t autistic...
  8. j-asexyrex reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
  9. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from refinedsugarr and added:
    Wait what? I wasn’t aware that people had to be a certain kind of person, to have headcanons about that kind of person....