It's autism acceptance month! And you know what that means.. ^-^ Happy autism pride! ^w^ Today I will be listing some cool facts about us and why being autistic is a good thing! :3

1. We have enhanced senses! Whether it be sight, hearing, touch, smell, or taste, we sense more than normies do! Ever noticed patterns and found interesting shapes on every day objects? That's like the advanced version of finding shapes in the clouds! =D Or maybe you're like me, I always get told by others that they can't hear what I'm hearing, and that I tend to hear things that other people might not hear or notice. Hey maybe that's why my fursona is part fennec, I'm all ears! XD So if you're autistic, next time someone dismisses you as being "sEnSiTiVe", correct them that it's not sensitivity, you just have enhanced sense of smell/hearing/sight/touch/taste unlike them boring normies lol

2. We're different, and that's not a bad thing! I've stopped taking weird as an "insult" and started taking it as a compliment. Because you know why? Normal is boring. Yeah you heard me, normies are boring. Weird is good, weird is unique. We autistic people are different and unique, but normies only make that out to be a so called "bAd ThInG" because they're trying to force us to be the same, to be the same boring dull normie like they are. Well I say screw that because if everyone was normal and the same, the world would be boring, that's why normal is boring and weird is unique. Normies hate different because they are jealous of us. In a world full of neurotypicals, it's like a dull, boring, depressing world full of dulls..greys..boring stuff...so that's why neurodivergent and autistic people exist, we're that fun bright neon rainbow in amongst all the boring greys of normality. So next time someone wants you to blend in and be normal aka boring like every other normie, don't listen to them, they're jealous of your cool uniqueness. Autistic people are made to stand out from the crowd, not blend in. That's why masking isn't healthy for you. If you can, be yourself! Especially around your friends, you know you've got a real friend if they love and accept you for who you are instead of judging and criticising you.

3. Everyone says we're superheroes, and well..it's true! https://autisticandunapologetic.com/2019/06/29/5-reasons-why-autistic-people-are-superheroes/ There's been a whole article explaining what makes us real life superheroes, and it's not just a common interest that my fellow autistics have, some of us really are superheroes. Like me! I like to be my own superhero all the time ^w^ I stand up to toxicity and antisocial behaviour, I stand up for what's right, that's why you see me come off as a sassy, hostile, badass vixen, because I am defending against toxicity and bullying. The haters only hate me because they went insane after I stood up to their toxicity and cut them off, so that's why the rabid haters are out for blood, they may try to lie about me and villainise me, but at least me and my real friends know who the real villain are.. ¬w¬ that's right, the haters! Also don't listen to losers who think we aren't superheroes, these sad sore losers are ableists, and ableists want to brainwash us into believing that autism is what they claim a "tragic mental illness disease ohhh the tragedy, ohhh the drama... BAWWWWWW!!1!11!11111" they can fuck off lol autism has nothing to do with any of that. Autism is an identity, it's who we are, it's not an "illness", it's not a so called "tragedy", and we don't need a cure. Studies have shown that cures kill, because autism is not an illness, illnesses can be cured, but autism can't, because it's an identity. Trying to stop autism is like trying to stop people from being cishet and lgbtqia+. You're wasting your time ableists. ;3 So autistics, ofcourse you can be superheroes and don't let some dramaqueen ableist tell you otherwise. UwU Here's a picture of me being a superhero :3

4. Each autistic is born with a special talent! Whether it be dancing, singing, acting, voice acting, story telling, drawing, music making, art in general, and more. For me, I was born an illustrator, when I was just 2 years old, I picked up the sketcher board for the first time and started doodling. I enjoyed drawing dogs because they were my most favourite animals and special interest. I may of not been a professional artist (like I am now) as I first started out, but hey, it was a start, and my drawings might of not been that good, but I was enjoying myself, I was very little, and everyone starts somewhere. So I've been drawing ever since. I started from sketcher boards to pencil and paper and now digital, and I still enjoy it to this day! I've also learnt other talents along the way such as sewing and the things I've mentioned before. What's great about autistic art is that even our own art styles are amazing and unique in our own way! I haven't seen an artstyle anything like mine before, as mine is a combination of cartoon and anime style. I like to call it, the cartoonime style. Cuteness is my specialty, please go follow if you like cute things :3

5. We're way bigger fans of things than normies will ever be UwU By the power of special interests! >:3 To ableists, they lie that we're "oBsEsSeD" because they are jealous of us ausome autistics UwU But the truth is, our interests have nothing to do with "limitations" and are no where near "rEsTrIcTeD" as the ableists claim. We just have a few favourite things in life known as special interests. This can include (but never limited to) hobbies, animals, countries, languages, places, media, objects, too many to list
Like for example, I can share you some of my special interests. I really like Spongebob, I've been watching it since the very beginning as the first episode was released in 1999 the year I was born, so I grew up with Spongebob :3 I love both old and new Spongebob, I've had some Spongebob pyjamas I loved as a kid (I miss them) and I have a cute Spongebob imagination top that I wear today :3 I really enjoyed playing the Spongebob edition of Drawn To Life, that's what got me into Drawn To Life to begin with. I have some plushies and I have some chibi styled keychains of Spongebob characters that I really like :3 They're on my ita bag along with some cool badges of all the things I like :D I like lots of things ^w^
There are also some animals I really like, I don't know if they are special interests or no, but maybe they are, maybe they were at some point, who knows. Anyway, I really like dogs, foxes, and guinea pigs, I like foxes cos I feel I connect with them, and I use to own lots of dogs and guinea pigs and they were the sweetest things <:3 I miss them, but I'm glad I've now got my new guinea pigs Choco and Chip, they're the only family I've got and they're my really good friends, I hope one day I could get a dog again cos I miss all my dogs :<
I also reeeally like plushies, I have lots that I love, plushies are very comforting and like friends to me :3 I love to cuddle with them, play with them, and even having one on my lap as I watch tv or do stuff makes me really happy :3 I can't wait to make plushies of all my ocs, it's gonna be a delight >w<
Before I discovered ocs and furries (I never heard of them until 2017 ok. 0-o), I really liked mii characters thanks to Streetpass Mii Plaza and Tomodachi Life (bring to switch please!!). And Miitopia was good but it felt too much like an idle game which is what I don't like, so I like Tomodachi Life better cos it got me liking mii characters and was my special interest for a while. I still like them ofcourse! but now I discovered ocs as my main special interest, and I love games with character customization for that reason! Cos I get to add my ocs and sona in games ^w^ I reeeally like making my ocs and developing the universe that they live in ^-^ My ocs are my children and when someone likes them as much as I do and draws them fanart, it really does bring me so much joy 💛 I am so thankful to the point that I feature fanworks on alot of places like my carrds and twitch streams ^-^ So thank you to all my fluffies, your gifts mean a huge ton ^w^ I wonder if my ocs will ever be featured in an animation meme, fan comic, or fanfic one day, that would be so awesome! >w< But yeah that's my main special interest, my ocs :3 I love making art, comics, animations, roleplays, and even plushies and fursuits of them, they really mean alot to me and right now I am sewing a plushie of Cody's fox form, they really do bring me alot of joy and comfort :3 So that's my main special interest, I could infodump this all day if I could, but I wont right now because this post is explaining why being autistic is a good thing not a bad thing. Still, please talk to me later about oc making and please feel free to ask questions about them, I'd love to discuss!

Autistics may be different and that's not a bad thing, but we are also a spectrum, so no autistic you meet it gonna be the same, we're all different and unique in our own ways, have different talents and special interests, and we all have our own unique quirks and behaviours, that's what makes us so amazing ^w^ I was diagnosed at a very young age, but please know that you're never too old or too late to have a diagnosis. Being aware of being autistic could help you find out what works best for you. There is misinformation going around where people claim that every single autistic "nEeDs RoUtInE tO sUrViVe" when that's not true. Yes, some autistics like routine, BUT NOT ALL. I hate routine, I'm sick and tired of being forced to do this at 1 o'clock, that at 2 o'clock, this thing next week, that thing next month, all these things next year. I hate it. Too much worry, stress, and anxiety for me. I'm an autistic who despises routine, I'm a random, spontaneous fun girl who likes to live spontaneously with no planning whatsoever, it makes life so much easier for me and it's much calmer that way. I can do things just whenever and it's just chill maan... UwU Please also note that just because you met one bad autistic person or few bad autistics DOESN'T MEAN WE'RE ALL LIKE THAT. There's this creepy man called Chris Chan for example, he's autistic, but everyone knows he's a bad person, but autistic people are NOT like him at all, please understand that we're all a spectrum and that every autistic is completely different, even me. So please don't go thinking we're all the "same", there are good autistics out there, like me! So never judge a book by its cover, mkay?

My story (tw: abuse, manipulation, ableism, mentioning the usage of slurs): I was raised by a toxic abusive "family" who bullied and abused me for being different, they neglected me alot and never treated me like family whatsoever. They always chased me around and beat me up whether it be physically, by words, but most likely both. The first school was no better either, they treated me with the same abuse because it was an ableist school for normies, school and "family" villainised me alot because I was different, they were a bad influence, I learnt rude words (like swears and bad words beyond that) because they used those words to bully me and kept throwing horrible r slurs at me just because I was different. They villainised me for snapping and striking back after being treated like trash, when I've always believed that self defence is the right thing since day 1 whether it be by words or actions. Abusers and ignorant jerks tried to villainise self defence and tried to teach me to ignore bullies aka lie down and be a doormat for them to walk all over, when let me tell you this. how are you suppose to ignore being hurt by insults, being constantly poked, teased, followed around, and attacked physically. How are you suppose to ignore theft and vandalism. How are you suppose to ignore that hm? Here's the thing. You don't. You stand up to bullies and you show them you're no pushover. That's how some bullies became afraid of me when I stood up to them and protected myself. I sure showed them! >:3 Heh, no one messes with the vixen ^w^ And if you disagree and still think I should lie down and be a doormat aka ignoring then fuck off because you don't know me, you don't know what's best for me. I do. That's why autistic people are so misunderstood. The people that understand us the most is always gonna be us, that's unless a miracle happens and we get a close friend or carer that's like family, and they actually take the time to love, support, and fully understand us like a real family does. Anyway, all these years I was brainwashed by the "family" that my autism was a so called "mental illness tragedy" crap and that I should be ashamed of myself because they were always trying to shame me for who I am. That's why I kept quiet about it all these years. That's why I masked all these years. That's why I kept autism, my identity, a secret. Because I was ashamed of who I was, when I should of been proud of who I am. At the time in 2018, I didn't realise the so called "friends" I had at the time were nothing but backstabbing fakeys. I trusted them with my secret when I came out to them as autistic, and they broke my trust, and promises. and my heart. As soon as they stabbed me in the back and betrayed me over some crappy smear campaign ( I can never catch a break from being smeared and framed.. :/ ) the first thing they did was leak my secret of my identity of being autistic, and thus, this secret was no longer a secret. It made me feel even more ostracised..until in 2019 I looked into researching my identity, all this time I was wrong about it being something to be ashamed of, but it wasn't my fault, it was the "family's" fault, it was ableist's fault, it was their fault that they brainwashed me into believing that all these years, because all this time I never realised how this silly fictional belief they lied to me about was all a fake just to abuse me while weren't able to. Anyway I researched online about autism and why it's a good thing and why we shouldn't be afraid of our identities, so I made my first autism pride art in 2019, and that was the start of slowly starting to accept my identity of who I am... ÚwÙ I also found out that autistics have their own pride flag, this made me really happy :3 I decided to buy an autism pride flag of my own ^v^ I love it :3 I'm gonna put it up on my wall once I get my house painted. Maybe I'll wear it as a cape when I go fursuiting if there's any pride events :3 I could wear it like a cape and be an autistic superhero fox ^-^ that would be awesome ^w^ But on times I ain't wearing it, I'll pin it on my bedroom wall, but I'll do that once my house is painted and I get a loft bed. Someday! >:3 Soon I'll be seeing about a diagnosis incase I have ptsd or not. Because of all the abuse and trauma I went through, I now have trust issues thanks to betrayal. /sarc But on the bright side, trust issues has helped me dodge some bullets a few times, she keeps me safe, and she helps be avoid being heartbroken as much because I'm less attached to people who might betray me, and I take alot longer to bond than most people now. But real friends come to stay, it's only the fake losers that stab people in the back. We're gonna see about a diagnosis to find out if I have ptsd or not, and sometime we're gonna get a service dog to help me get through a world that was built for neurotypical normies. I am a little, so age regression is a really good coping mechanism and really brings me alot of comfort after times have been rough.. Ú.Ù It wasn't my fault I was abused for being neurodivergent and different, I've always related to the ugly duckling, not cos I'm ugly cos I'm actually really pretty, but cos of what he been through. The "family" was always the family of ducks and I was the ugly one. Me and the ugly duckling have some things in common like being bullied for being different, being the odd one out, tryna find a place to stay where we can belong, and tryna find our real family. I know my real family is out there somewhere, it's certainly not the "family" by blood, but I know my real family will treat me like family and will love and care for me like a real family should :3 so someday I will find my littlespace family, someday I will find my flock of swans.. ^-^ Anyway, that's my story. Each autistic person's story is different and we all have different experiences in life, so thank you for listening to me and thank you for taking the time to learn, understand, and accept us. Please avoid harmful companies like autism speaks and support good charities instead. We need to be understood and accepted, not shamed and cured. Never oppress who we are and never suppress our behaviours, there is nothing wrong with being autistic, it's important to be ourself and embrace who we are. We are not any less human than anyone else, we are autistic, unique, and we stand out, and that's perfectly valid. Thank you for listening