funereal-disease:

orbispelagium:

lizardywizard:

rewby:

hey so i know that dismissing all the “this is just like when ___ happened in ___ book/movie/tv show” posts as “white privileged liberalism” is real popular right now but like

a lot of autistic ppl process real life events through fiction

and comparisons are the only way we can understand the severity of something

(heck my four year old brother is autistic and he only speaks referentially he literally can’t understand something you’re saying unless someone has said it in a tv show)

so like when i say “oh this is just like when umbridge took over at hogwarts” what i mean is “this is a funny thing to say, yes, but im also contextualizing my experience in a way that means i can understand fully the emotions and social context involved because i’m autistic and don’t understand these things like allistics do”

(allistics are welcome and encouraged to reblog)

Not just autistic people but anyone with brainweirds around empathy, too.

Also, if people aren’t allowed to draw parallels to fiction, what’s the point of writing allegories at all?

I am so done with the idea that things experienced by different groups of people are necessarily discrete and possess – nay, require – inferential distance. Everything is like everything else and all experiences are a continuum. Stop setting up false binaries.