People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
RULES:
This is just art, buddy.
You don’t have to be autistic to enjoy making art.
Edited to add that for the 0.1% of people who thought this was “patronizing,” it was intended to be supportive.
“This is just art, man. Everyone can make art, you don’t have to qualify it by saying it’s autistic.”
No one has to be apologetic about making art.
But keep being angry!
But you see, normal adults don't just do fun things that aren't on the pre-approved adult appropriate list of activities. /s
Way too many don't. Most, I'd reckon.
This is how I feel whenever I see a post from autism comms.
It's just like: [normal ass thing] + teehee autism amirite guys?
Edit: Like this.
I’m happy that OP had a nice day, but yeah, classifying things as autistic activities vs non autistic activities is so incredibly cringey and unhealthy.
I like math, always have. I’ve been told by multiple people that means I’m autistic. This year I literally had someone point at me and say “you’re autistic. You like math, you’re autistic”. They don’t know me near well enough to know something like that, and frankly it’s very belittling to be reduced to “oh, you like this thing, that tells me everything about you as a person”.
I’m glad understanding is up and the stigma is decreasing, but please everyone chill.
I'm autistic and needed 2 hours of tutoring per day to make it through math. I'm great at liberal arts. It's just people things not autistic things.
Yeah the stereotypes definitely cut both ways.
“You like math; therefore, autistic” is such low brow judgement, if I ever heard one. Next they’re going to say, “if you really like ‘don’t jump on a crack or you’ll break your mother’s back,” you’re autistic.
My brother, who got a PhD in pure mathematics at age 27, is someone I suspect of being, if not autistic, at least neurodivergent. Last year, I was being accused by several of being autistic and had relayed that to him; we were discussing each other's tendencies and trying to decide, among other things, whether they mattered.
Then one morning I woke up to an unprompted text from him containing one of my favorite sentences ever:
It just occurred to me, if I do have some species of autism maybe it doesn't disturb me too much because I like trying to figure out the rule sets in complicated systems ….
I’m sure the venn diagrams have a large intersection, but they’re not 100%
What's the harm in this person recognizing that their autism plays a role in their enjoyment of specific activities? If it were more stereotypical (a model train set for example) would you have the same gut reaction to go "you don't have to be autistic to enjoy making model trains buddy"? Plenty of demographics enjoy a family/neigborhood barbecue, does that remove the cultural significance of the black cookout? Do you patronizingly comment that everybody likes cookouts?
I genuinely don't get the impetus for neurotypical people to hop in the comments of neurodivergent people posting about the intersections of neurodivergence and joy to just go "well makes plenty of people happy, what does that have to do with neurodivergence???" Like, do y'all just think if a neurodivergent person isn't talking about the ways their brain doesn't work "right", then they have no right to talk about something and how it relates to their condition? Just kidding, y'all complain about and diminish that too
Giving the impression that something is an autistic trait, or indeed a sign of any condition, when it isn't, is harmful and wrong.
It's quite different when it's an element of culture, because to an extent culture is a matter of self-definition.
You're hilarious.
You think the point is to convince people they're autistic when they describe an activity they do.
But that's not remotely the point. The point is to make people who already know they're autistic laugh at the thing they do so frequently that other people perceive it as weird.
It's an "in" joke among autistic people.
It's not about you, bro. It has nothing to do with you.
You don't understand it, and you're not supposed to.
When socializing, autistic people already have to spend literally 100% of our whole waking lives making everything about you, and you just naturally demand that we do that and you spend literally 0% of your lives trying to figure out what we're about or trying to learn anything about us.
You try to make our communication between each other somehow about you. Well it's not.
We're allowed to have our own "in" jokes, and if you don't understand it, you're free to not bother trying. It won't bother us at all.
Guys, is it autistic to have fun?
The field is called Tessellation if anyone's curious.
It shows up a bunch in Islamic art.
You tellin me them there autisms are secretly Islams? Not in MUH MURICA
I can imagine nudging an edge and now everything is misaligned
STOP
I can't imagine adding a piece without it happening
Hexagons, parallelograms and trapezoids, oh my!
lol, math shaped!
The all go in the square hole.
I should just go to the teacher store, get a bunch of those kid games, and once in a while just play with them. Insert cat with newspaper meme here
Autistic? Why do you need to be autistic, gimme!
Math shaped blocks.
Made my afternoon 😁
math shapes
This is what I'm calling polygons forevermore.
When I was in 3rd grade I spent a lot of after school hours in my younger brother's classroom doing exactly this. It was awesome lol
You'd love quilting.
lol "math shape"
These look like something my wife (shes a teacher) has in our kitchen with her stuff. if this is what they are imma bust into them when I get home. Idk how I missed the kites and darts as a fan of Martin Gardner
I remember playing with these blocks at school when I was a kid!
If you pick the shapes just right, you can make tilings but will never be able to make a repeating tiling.
Holy shit I forgot about these things. They always felt good quality and had a nice weight to them.
They fuckin did. I can still feel the soft, smooth matte texture. My favorite was the red trapezoids
Looks like a Rangoli
if you like this kind of thing, paper piecing quilting is right up your alley. it's basically this with fabric then you sew it together
Half my neurodivergence adores this, while the other half screams in terror at how much focus would need to be maintained to keep it even.
somewhere in one of my parents' photo albums is a picture of one of these that i put together in 1st grade in ~1992
(In reality it's been 2 days)
oh damn this gives me flashbacks to my diagnosis 😅
I need these in my life
Have a nice VAE
I have just moved into a new home, and this has given me an excellent idea for some entertainment for guests. I have a very large whiteboard that is magnetic, which I could have some magnetic blocks for people to play with
Where to I get these? Asking for a friend…