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thatautismfeel

That autism feel when you have met (even just online) the greatest people thanks to your special interests.

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fanhackers

The idea of fan cultures, or “fandoms,” cultivating fan fiction writers began at the earliest in the 1920s with societies dedicated to Jane Austen and Sherlock Holmes, but took off in the late 1960s with the advent of Star Trek fanzines. The negative stereotype of “fans today is that of obsessed geeks, like “Trekkies, who love nothing more than to watch the same installments over and over…” However, this represents a core misunderstanding of what it is to be a fan: that is, to have the “ability to transform personal reaction into social interaction, spectatorial culture into participatory culture… not by being a regular viewer of a particular program but by translating that viewing into some kind of cultural activity.” Henry Jenkins, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and expert on fan culture, likens fan fiction to the story of The Velveteen Rabbit: that the investment in something is what gives it a meaning rather than any intrinsic merits or economic value. For fans who invest in a television show, book, or movie, that investment sparks production, and reading or viewing sparks writing, until the two are inseparable. They are not watching the same thing over and over, but rather are creating something new instead.

Casey Fiesler, Everything I Need To Know I Learned from Fandom: How Existing Social Norms Can Help Shape the Next Generation of User-Generated Content, p735

Update: Now with link to an open access version of the paper and correct page, apologies for the typo.

(via studiesof-fandom-original)

#fandom #fandom issues #fandom positivity #fandom history #transformative fandom #neurodivergency #neurodivergent fans #autism relevant #autistic fans #intense interests #special interests #geeks #nerds #nerdy interests #(An Actually Good Hot Take TM)#(And also some Fandom History because No Tumblr Did Not Create The Concept of Metafandom)#not dgmn #digimon fandom relevant #advs fandom relevant #02 fandom relevant #the geeky one #the nerdy one #autistic fans helped create this fandom from the ground up #never forget it #we built your character and ship shrines and wrote you 50k to 100k+ words epics and built the old lj comms in 2000s all of it was us TOO #*Prefer followers do not add comments unless positive and in the tags Please #(When you reblog+lrt posts hating on geeky-slash-nerdy interests like that... all your Autistic followers see. Just Saying. Its All Ableism)#(Like even just the concept of them like. Existing??? Like. Anyway Cringe culture is dead Bye)

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compassionatereminders

If you're mentally ill, chronically ill or otherwise disabled, do yourself a favor and consciously work to dismantle the "if you're too sick to go to work you're also too sick to be on the computer" mindset which got drilled into most of us during childhood. You don't have to deny yourself joy. You don't have to directly or indirectly punish yourself for not being able to do certain things. It doesn't help anyone. All it does is make you even more miserable than you have to be. So make sure you don't punish yourself for being sick. Make sure you don't subconsciously sabotage yourself with the idea that you have to be punished for not being abled. Make sure you embrace the joy you can find instead of denying yourself out of unnecessary guilt.

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howtoautism

Anonymous asked:

how to tell all nerdy autistics that theyre valid and I love them

#howtoautism #izzyizumi autism #autism #autism issues #autism stigmatization #nerdy autistics #nerdy interests #intense interests #special interests #autism positivity #autism humor #how to guide #ME #SAME #not dgmn #(Maybe relevant)

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izzyizumi

Autistic people with stereotypically nerdy interests are amazing, wonderful human beings who deserve all the love and respect in the world 💜

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koushirouizumi

I see this huge movement here to acknowledge, protect, and support autistics who don’t fit the classic symptoms of our disorder. And that is fantastic (it is a spectrum after all), but we can’t let the stereotypical autistics fall through the cracks in the process.

So here’s to the stereotypical autistics:

- Those of us who are socially awkward and come off as being rude.

- Those of us whose special interests are things like planes, trains, maths, and physics.

- The autistics who relate to animals, aliens, and robots more than other people.

- The autistics with low empathy.

- Those who can’t stand being touched.

- Those who want to eat the same foods every day.

We are all fantastic. Just because we are the object of every joke about autistic people and the source of every trope doesn’t mean we aren’t valid people with individual personalities.

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koushirouizumi

Autistic people with stereotypically nerdy interests are amazing, wonderful human beings who deserve all the love and respect in the world 💜

#pro autistic #autism #autism issues #autism positivity #autism support #autism acceptance #special interests positivity #special interests #nerdy interests #nerds #geeks #geek culture #not dgmn #(MAYBE RELEVANT)#(Relevant to Wider Fandom Issues)

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koushirouizumi

Autistic people with stereotypically nerdy interests are amazing, wonderful human beings who deserve all the love and respect in the world 💜

#pro autistic #autism #autism positivity #izzyizumi autism #nerdy interests #special interests #(Y E S)#(I'M SAYING IT)#ME #not dgmn #(EXTREMELY IMPORTANT)