Noelia. My obsession with books began little by little but then I met my parabatai and all went mad, now we live in a fairytale, surrounded by unicorns, unicasos, mermaids. Multifandom blog. You're welcome to my own fairytale, c'mon and enjoy my little world. P.D I love anime and manga, I'm a proud otaku.
Can we all take a moment for Molly Weasley who knew her family so fucking well, she had “prison” as one of the options on her clock that told her where everyone was.
Well to be fair to Molly:
Arthur, regularly tinkered with enchanting muggle things, against the law
Bill, curse breaker and tomb raider for private (goblin run) corporation. Almost certainly has raided tombs that the Egyptian MoM and muggle government weren’t happy about.
Charlie: illegal dragon smuggler with buddies on the weekends, apparently.
Fred and George. Enough said.
Ron is best friends with Harry Potter. Harry is always on some Bull Shit.
Ginny idolized the Twins growing up.
Literally the only person who she doesn’t have to worry about getting arrested on a daily basis is Percy. Who commits treason in the 7th book.
A hero with the courage to face a dragon with only a
whip
A queen that is not petty and forgives people that
spit on her or try to attack at her own court
A woman whose intuition and capacity for learning from
experience enabled her to wake dragons out of stone
A revolutionary that fights to change the status quo
and help the oppressed
A queen who plants trees, builds armies to defend her
people, negotiates for trade, works on projects for irrigation, compromises for
peace, but also a queen that is not afraid to turn to fire and blood if that’s
necessary to protect her people’s freedom
A curious, intellectual mind that constantly seeks to
learn more, that listens to Ser Barristan’s lessons in military matters, that
goes to the House of The Undying seeking knowledge and stays in Meereen to
learn and take responsibility for her actions
A bookworm
A queen that listens to all
A queen that values all people regardless of status,
nobility, culture, gender or wealth
A polyglot
A person capable to adapt and respect different
cultures, but also someone that tries to change things that are wrong
“She’s used Littlefinger for all he has. As she said, ‘Thank you for all your lessons’. He has nothing left to give her. So she is so empowered. She has a family behind her. She has Littlefinger, Cersei, Margaery, everyone’s wisdom and teachings all behind her.She’s a real, true leader of Winterfell now. And that’s where we first see her – as a very protective, empowered lady in charge. It’s the first time you ever see her like that, and it’s so amazing to see her like that – kind of owning her destiny.“ ~ Sophie Turner about Sansa in S8
seriously though it would be an enormous help if more people understood that autistic brains/bodies (and some other conditions too) very VERY frequently don’t process sensations and emotions in normal ways and INSTEAD replace them with bodily and emotional responses that are total nonsense in an NT context
like i have chronic pain, i have an always-on headache that used to be around a 2-3 on the pain scale and is now a 6-7 most days. but periodically i find that instead of actually feeling a level of pain i can rate, i have a series of puzzling physical sensations like nausea that miraculously get better when i take painkillers and go lie down in the dark. because they were actually pain signals. pain signals that got turned into something else at some point in my body. so i have days where i feel GREAT and pumped to do stuff and then i’m like WHY AM I NOT FUNCTIONING WELL and i go lie down in the dark for a while and it gets better?? because i was actually at an 8 which is Can’t Function levels for me, but 90% of that pain was invisible to me, turned into nausea and manic energy and weird sudden mood shifts instead of “pain”.
I don’t experience normal thirst signals most of the time, either. I get cravings for ice cream and lime popsicles and watermelon instead of being thirsty. I had to learn that “i suddenly desperately want ice cream” is my body’s way of saying “put some water in this bitch”.
I also get nausea instead of hunger signals a lot of the time. nausea is one of my body’s favorite go-to signals to send, in general, so it can mean almost anything. when my stomach turns i have to go through a checklist of possibilities to figure out what i’m actually feeling. this is a big reason i eat a lot of snacks. it’s step number 3 or 4 on my “why do i feel sick” list and happens at least once a day.
and anyway this shit is important for non autistic people to know because we can’t always tell you what we’re experiencing, but also sometimes we can get really upset and overwhelmed with trying to even understand what we’re feeling. doctors especially need to know this. how can i tell you what’s wrong with my body when my body doesn’t know how to use its own language for communicating what’s wrong? when it routinely sends me a mishmash of signals that are totally useless for figuring out the problem? it’s not impossible but it requires an understanding of just how different the place i’m coming from really is. you can’t get anywhere by treating me just like an NT patient.
but most people aren’t even aware that “body signals” are a real tangible thing that can be effected and “go wrong” when your brain and body are built weirdly. literally any process in your body can be broken, that should be obvious, but people are so oblivious to the things their body does automatically that they aren’t aware they exist, and therefore don’t know they can break. it’s really important to make people aware of these functions. there are so many disabilities that happen when a hidden function breaks and it’s impossible for abled people to grasp those disabilities without comprehending that that’s an actual thing their body does for them.
Autistic and ND folks, this might make sense of a lot of experiences you’ve had, and can help put it into words in a way that can be shared with doctors, friends, and caregivers alike.
