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youweretold:

can you BELIEVE that yesterday it was canonically confirmed that:
– sherlock is a virgin
– sherlock is tired of people assuming he’s a top
– sherlock is Creeped Out ™ by moriarty, in no uncertain terms
– sherlock literally tried to kill himself by overdose rather than spend the last six months of his life without john

Why is it that some autistics can watch the same show over and over again? Or the same with music and books and so on and never get tired of it?

askanautistic:

– Repetition/routine being soothing.
– Predictability.
– Familiarity.
– Sensory enjoyment (from certain sounds or visuals or movements etc.).
– Less overwhelming to the senses due to being able to predict/being desensitised to certain stimulus through frequent engagement with that media.
– Better understanding due to frequent engagement with that media.

All of these things can reduce anxiety and increase enjoyment, and can be more or less stimulating depending on the media. I always wonder why allistics are less likely to want to watch things as frequently as autistics commonly do.

In a world where everything is often scary and unpredictable, it’s nice to be able to visit worlds in films/programmes/books where the setting will always be the same, the characters will always be the same, the same events will unfold and the same conclusions will be reached. Autistic people generally dislike change and prefer sameness, and so repetition is a way of achieving that.

– Ben

sexpot-titzgerald:

sprinklesobourbon:

thegestianpoet:

seansoo:

but why do we have to get married and have children

why can’t we just get a group of friends and live happily ever after in an apartment and share the profits

i’d be much happier that way

this is the most millennial thing ive ever read 

Nothing wrong with this, you can have roof parties and grill food.
Better yet just save up together and buy a small house split the bills and mortgage.

– the nuclear family as an economic unit has really only existed for a few hundred years, across part but not all of the world

– the nuclear family unit is the easiest to exploit under capitalism, because parents have to work externally to provide for their children. They work to pay for child care for their children while they work. They work to earn money to feed their kids and to give them nice things to make up for all the time they spend away, at work.

– a huge amount of labour is necessary every day to keep a family fed, their house clean, etc. some families are wealthy enough to outsource this by hiring staff, most are not.

– capitalism is a pointless middleman in this. we should just live cooperatively.

– share houses and intentional communities are awesome

– people of different life stages function well together because they have complimentary needs and abilities

– kids are less of a stress and burden in a home with lots of different adults to provide support and love, as well as sharing household tasks.

– destroy capitalism through cooperativism.

gotitforcheap:

bonerfart:

apparently the guy in that “when you’re X and haven’t told anyone in 5 minutes” meme with his forehead veins popping out in class is cool with that pic going viral and it was meant to be a joke in the first place and i dont know, there is something comforting about knowing meme subjects are happy with what’s happened to them cause a lot of the time the decision to go viral is out of their hands

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