“An examination of the top 133 videos providing informational content on autism, which totaled 198.7 million views and 25.2 million likes, showed that 27% of the videos were classified as accurate, while 41% were classified as inaccurate and 32% as overgeneralized.”
“having songs stuck in your head is echolalia” is not something my tourettic ass expected to see on my dash this evening, And Yet
(echolalia is the repetition- ALOUD -of words you’ve just heard or read. when present outside of a very young child’s language development, it’s a symptom of multiple mental and neurological conditions. I don’t know what it’s like in ADHD or ASD but for Tourette Syndrome it’s disvoluntary- meaning, we don’t want to do it and may be able to temporarily delay the Need, but we will have to eventually)
oh I do love the Leverage Gloat when the mark has only met one or two of the leveragers. POV you are being arrested for corporate malfeasance and your company’s inept new IT guy, a european duchess, and three random weirdos are lined up with their arms folded smugly like a boyband
Two far-flung fandom grownups keeping in touch via memes and a garbage pile of interests.
Always into Fall Out Boy, Star Trek, Teen Wolf, Good Omens, Pride and Prejudice, fibercraft, food, and being queer as hell. Currently sailing aboard the Revenge.
Em (any pronouns) and Lu (she/her).
