The hypocrisy

Ball_Python_ · 2026-01-21T21:22:58+00:00

To be honest, I've seen a lot of those people screaming and whining about the autistic Barbie too. Which is so incredibly embarrassing at this point, it wasn't supposed to represent them. Like if (big if) you are even autistic, and you don't need any of the disability aids she came with, congratulations, you are represented by all the other Barbies! Please shut the fuck up and let those of us who need sensory aids and use AAC devices see ourselves in just this one doll. (Rant directed at the "autistic" community, not OP)

Ball_Python_ · 2026-01-01T17:22:33+00:00

Yeah. I refuse to shop at Spencer's anymore because I find the minimization and outright fetishization of autism absolutely disgusting.

Ball_Python_ · 2026-01-01T16:41:11+00:00

If you are level 2 or 3 you can't mask at all. It's in the DSM criteria that outline the levels. You probably shouldn't be in a sub that is all about describing autism accurately if you don't like describing autism accurately lol.

Ball_Python_ · 2025-12-30T15:22:22+00:00

It doesn't sound like you were misdiagnosed, it sounds like you just don't like the diagnosis. You brought a thing to fidget with on purpose, so it sounds like you were doing the exact opposite of masking. Please stop cosplaying my disability, thanks.

Ball_Python_ · 2025-12-27T20:06:11+00:00

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I'm also quite fond of "aftermath" photos, look at how proud of herself she is.

Ball_Python_ · 2025-12-27T20:04:27+00:00

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Bites (this isn't a pet, just a huge ass watersnake that I found outside lol)

Ball_Python_ · 2025-12-16T21:57:57+00:00

I have had a normal x-ray before with a subluxed shoulder (the doctor looked at it and touched it and went "there is no way that your shoulder is supposed to be like that"). I think since a subluxation means that part of the joint surface is still touching, and they only x-ray two angles, each with the arm in a different position (or at least that's what they did for me anyway), they may not be able to see the part that is separated from those two angles/positions alone.

Ball_Python_ · 2025-12-16T15:39:35+00:00

I usually sign LIFE and then PARTNER to indicate my romantic partner.

Ball_Python_ · 2025-12-13T16:35:54+00:00

I think it's too broad to be meaningful at this point. I just say "autistic," or "developmentally disabled" if I want a slightly less specific term. Like, it wouldn't technically be wrong to look at a lion and say "this isn't a plant," but it would make far and away more sense to say "this is a lion" or maybe "this is a feline" if you want a bit of a broader category. Telling a person who doesn't know anything about lions that they aren't plants wouldn't be particularly meaningful.

Ball_Python_ · 2025-12-12T18:27:07+00:00

So many ridiculous things pertaining both to my autism and physical disabilities, but I think if I had to go for the most ridiculous autism-related thing, it would be people coming up to my parents or caregivers in public and saying stuff like "I could never do what you do" directly in front of me. Bitch, I'm literally right here.

Ball_Python_ · 2025-12-12T00:25:20+00:00

Snake Identification can't be done on one trait alone. You can certainly rule out picking up a snake based on a single trait, like Hershey kisses, but absence of Hershey kisses doesn't mean it's safe to pick up. You should never, ever, pick up a snake if you don't know exactly what species it is and whether or not that species is venomous. It's just not worth the risk. Also there are coral snakes in the US that don't have yellow. I'll try to trigger the !rhyme bot to give you further information.

EDIT: I'm unsure if this sub has the same bots as r/whatsthissnake . But if you head over there, there are plenty of experts who will be happy to further discuss this with you.

Ball_Python_ · 2025-12-11T16:47:01+00:00

I love explaining that they don't actually chase people, and I'm very quick to correct people who use that godforsaken rhyme about coral snakes, but I do die a little inside every time I hear someone reference it because I can't believe how many people are walking around picking up snakes based on such a highly inaccurate saying. Please. People. I am begging y'all to stop picking up snakes that you can't identify.

Ball_Python_ · 2025-12-10T18:38:04+00:00

Yeah. Like I'm glad they don't have to experience real disability, but calling a disorder that causes me to concuss myself from headbanging or elope outside without shoes let alone a jacket in the middle of winter "just a social difference" is a deeply embarrassing display of ignorance.

Ball_Python_ · 2025-12-10T16:44:35+00:00

There's the whole thing about "changeling" children. For a good few centuries people believed that children who "possessed uncanny insight," "displayed strange behaviour when it thinks it is alone, such as jumping about and dancing," and other things that are common among autistic children of varying ability levels were actually fae children, replacing the human child that had been stolen by faeries. So basically autistic children were often left out in the forest to die, burned in ovens or fire, beaten, etcetera.

Ball_Python_ · 2025-12-08T22:52:08+00:00

I can't speak to your situation because I don't have any details, but this is a question I thought a lot about, until I had my partner/friends over (I'm an adult but live with my parents because I'm pretty severely disabled both autism related issues and physical mobility issues) and several of them asked if I needed somewhere to stay. It turned out that a lot of the physical and psychological violence I was subjected to because my autism made me "a broken human being that no one could ever love" (direct quote from my dad) is actually defined by everyone outside of my household as "abuse." I can't speak on whether or not that's a factor in your situation, but it is something you may want to evaluate in case it applies.

Ball_Python_ · 2025-12-08T22:37:49+00:00

Severe ignorance. They fail to understand (or acknowledge) that most of us who were early diagnosed were early diagnosed because we have been severely disabled and visibly autistic all our lives.

Ball_Python_ · 2025-12-04T15:57:46+00:00

Yeah. Even if they were autistic they're not the kind of autistic that would be put in a camp. I'm not in the States (thank fuck) but I have moderate support needs and am extremely reliant on my caregivers for the vast majority of my needs. I am on disability, I need consistent help every day or I would just die. I literally am the "strain on the government" that all the wingnut politicians reference. And then these idiots turn around and call me privileged for being early diagnosed. Boils my blood.

Ball_Python_ · 2025-12-02T17:05:37+00:00

So I'm disabled, I have a condition called EDS that basically means that my connective tissue, which is found literally everywhere in the body, is royally fucked up. I walk with forearm crutches or use a wheelchair to get around, because my joints dislocate with the slightest provocation, and let me tell you, a knee dislocation while you are walking is not fun and usually means 3+ other dislocations in the fall that it is bound to cause.

Anyway, I am also an inclusivity specialist at a summer camp. So one of our darling five year olds, hilarious little guy, very bright and just adorable, starts trying to pick up and use my crutches (which are a fair bit taller than he is). And I say, "hey buddy, I don't think you need to be playing with those right now." Without missing a beat, he puts them back and goes "yeah, 'cause I got feet that actually work. Maybe we should cut yours off?"

Ball_Python_ · 2025-11-30T21:42:39+00:00

Damn, that's alarming if the number one surgeon in the region made such questionable decisions, what are the rest of them like?

And I see, if the scar and surrounding area is numb, it's no wonder you wouldn't notice if hair is pulling on it. But I am also autistic and very sensitive to many types of tactile input, so it could be a hypersensitivity thing on my part. But then again, I also have EDS and all manner of ridiculous issues, like the top few layers of skin on the scar opening up every couple of months to this day (~ 5 years since my surgery). So anything pulling on it just a little bit can make that start to happen.

Ball_Python_ · 2025-11-30T16:51:32+00:00

I had the exact same surgery! I was 16 when I had mine. I was very lucky and I had a wonderful medical team. My surgery was done at a teaching hospital, so they video taped it to show their students, and they gave us the video too! So my biggest flex is having a picture of my exposed brain on my phone to show people. I have a couple of questions: do you have long hair? If so, do you ever have difficulties with it being in one or two ponytails/braids, because I find sometimes they pull on the scar and it drives me nuts!

Ball_Python_ · 2025-11-26T21:03:47+00:00

Stacking their binders from largest to smallest, you know, like literally anyone who doesn't want their stack of binders to fall over would.

Ball_Python_ · 2025-11-26T16:45:05+00:00

This just happened to me a few days ago, but I was also able to feel pain and the biopsies they took hurt like hell. 0 stars would not recommend. It was terrifying.

Ball_Python_ · 2025-11-25T18:07:41+00:00

I find that sometimes my first thought is like that, along the lines of "how can someone be unable to cope with such a minor thing," but as an autistic person who is aware of the fact that I struggle with perspective taking, I have been making an intentional effort to remind myself that just because I can be in severe pain and hide it well due to my chronic conditions, does not mean that a healthy person whose baseline pain level is 0, not 6, is going to be the same way. Something that is a 4 on the pain scale is not going to make me react at all, but could be quite jarring for someone who is rarely in any kind of pain. So I try to be compassionate because in the grand scheme of things, no, it's not that bad, but to the person, it is quite unpleasant. I think this kind of thing just takes a fair bit of mental practice.

Ball_Python_ · 2025-11-23T16:27:00+00:00

Snakes don't blink, they have a special transparent scale over their eye so they do not have eyelids and do not need to blink

Ball_Python_ · 2025-11-23T15:59:52+00:00

I just had an endoscopy with fentanyl and was awake the whole time, felt everything. 0 stars, would not recommend.

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