“The Hero” Leitmotif Playing In The Background Of “Live Or Die”… A Song That Plays In Charlies

Everyone should watch generation loss right now I think

mr slime man needs help getting the box closed!!!

HOW THE HELL DID I FORGET TI MENTION YASMIN FINNEY????

I love doctor i loved the teaser trailer i loved little details like the doctor hiding behind donna's mom or ncuti being there or that game master that everybody is talking about but i am not catched up enough yet, i love it and i have been having the flappy hands since i saw it

live i wanted to try to save them again :(

please reblog with your answer in the tags so i know which ones of you are To Blame….

why is every new detail that shane drops about his life so INCREDIBLY FUCKING WILD and yet he reveals them as if he’s mentioning that he caught a movie the other day that was kinda neat

“oh yeah i went into church with a friend and i immediately got a nose bleed”

“yeah i heard laughter coming from the foot of my bed but i just shrugged it off and went back to sleep”

“i ate worms and bugs as a child”

“my dad was struck by lightning”

DUDE IS THAT A SPIDER???!!!!1?1!1!!!

it did, thank you very much

WHAT IF I TOLD YOU EPISODE 1 COMES OUT TOMORROW

would THAT make you happy?!

kenk

good ending.

I jist want to show them the excitement i have for this thing :(

I think what a lot of non-autistic people don't understand is the relationship between special interest and empathy.

I love hearing people talk about their special interests because it makes them happy, and it makes me feel good to see other people happy. I talk about mine with the understanding that even if they don't get the actual thing, talking about it makes me happy and they like to see me happy.

This works really well with other autistic people, moderately well with those who have other divergences, and is an absolute minefield when talking to neurotypicals.

When I talk about my special interests with another autistic person, there's an understanding that I'll talk now about mine, and it'll be their turn soon. If we have similar interests, it rapidly devolves into excited fawning over something. If they're different, I get to learn about something new from someone who loves that thing more than anything.

When I talk with someone with another divergence, like my friend with ADHD, there's an understanding that maybe what I'm doing doesn't make sense, but it makes me happy, and it's not hurting anybody. I'm more careful about picking topics that are "of general interest", and more attentive to cues that it's time to talk about something else, but any person in this category who I know well enough to get like that around knows to just tell me to stop in a gentle way. We acknowledge each other's differences and respect them.

I don't usually start talking about special interests around neurotypicals. Unless we already have a very close relationship, there's no way for them to get the kind of enjoyment I would expect an autistic person to get from seeing me so happy. If I try to ask leading questions to get someone to "take their turn" and talk at length about something that makes them happy, they generally don't get it, and the conversation fizzles. In addition, neurotypicals usually don't understand that I'm not going to notice their subtle hints to stop talking, and will start to get frustrated by the time they clearly ask me to stop.

The only neurotypicals who actually get this kind of empathetic enjoyment are those who already like seeing me happy, like my parents or siblings, and even then, I can't really tell if they're getting much out of it. Opening up that much is risky, and often just not done. I know to be careful.

Basically, all this led me to this idea: autistics want to talk about our special interests because we want other people to feel the joy we feel. Other autistics pick up on that. Other neurodivergents pick up on something, even if they're not sure what, and neurotypicals make absolutely no sense whatsoever.