Some of my most polite customers are teenagers and some of the rudest, most demanding customers are middle aged people and old ladies. So fucking rude
“Real life isn’t that diverse!!!!!“
do you ever consider that maybe that’s because you grew up in a white middle class neighbour and went to a white middle class school full of white middle class children just like you and maybe there was only one kid who felt brave enough to come out as something other than cisgender heterosexual and then they probably surrounded themselves with other lgbtq+ people if they could
your idea of real life is your skewed little outlook from your upbringing so quit whining about diversity because there’s characters you don’t see yourself in.
*aggressively collects money in a video game*
*never buys anything with it*
write autistic protagonists
write autistic girls
write autistic super heroes, shapeshifters, guards, royalty, teachers, and literally every role/title that exists in literature
write autistic parents, who are good parents, who are loving parents, who use their quirks to help their children succeed and grow
write autistic love interests. write autistic people as people who other people have crushes on, who are worthy of that kind of love, who can get date, get married, and do literally everything we’re told no one would want to do with us
write autistic lesbians. write autistic bisexual characters. write autistic pansexual, asexual, and aromantic characters.
write autistic characters who aren’t just side characters whose autism sometimes is a “burden” to the main Alistic™ protaganist. write us as more than a trope for your allistic audience to sympathize with and feel sorry for. Write us boldly. Write us like real people, who have feelings, complexity, and worth. We aren’t a cheap trope.
This!
Also, write Autistic villains. Too many people say you can’t say a villain is Autistic because they think it excuses the villain’s actions. No. Guess what: Autistics are fully human and as such are fully capable of evil. Write Autistic villains and when you do, don’t make Autism the reason they became a villain.
stop downplaying/avoiding stereotypically “"unattractive”“ features in your fanart to make a character fit boring conventional beauty standards 2k∞
in the 5ish minutes since ive posted this ive lost 3 followers so reblog to make the assholes disappear
