being autistic is getting told your whole life that you need to start caring what other people think then developing social anxiety and getting told you need to stop caring what other people think
as an autistic who desperately wants to be understood so over explains and gives too many details and talks too much for the comfort of others, it feels detrimental and gutwrenching when someone says "you don't have to say all that, i get it." but then. just. doesn't get it.
being chronically ill and getting asked about what youve been up to is so embarrassing like “oh ive been rly focusing on making sure im eating and sleeping enough”
I should read majin tantei nougami neuro again I keep thinking about aya asia and how there's a certain kind of art that tears its way out of you desperately because it's something you need to say to someone.
Never stop trying to explain yourself and connect with people willing to listen and strive to understand you. But sometimes you gotta stop burning yourself out drawing people maps to yourself when they're not trying to find you.
I'm seeing people celebrate a Vtuber's arrest for Lolicon thinking that it won't touch them bc they're drawing 'normal art' or they hate 'problematic' works and I cannot stress to you how dangerous this line of thinking is with the rise of Conservatism going on.