my favorite thing to do around autistic people is to tell them that autism is the reason why they tiptoe so much because it seems like almost none of us were ever told about that and ALWAYS the reaction is “THAT’S THE REASON? WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”

loving these replies. autistic people seem to never know this particular thing even though it’s considered among of the most consistent symptoms of ASD. it’s great

a favorite gym class activity of mine was for the gym teacher to tell me that front foot running is bad and to focus on heel running instead and i would be like “oh ok yeah” and then go right back to front foot running immediately

but now i have calves as hard as titanium so who’s laughing now

come to think of it, the only gym teacher i had who didn’t ever once tell me this also weirdly intuitively recognized my neurodivergence and randomly gave me a stress ball she found lying around her (extremely messy) office so hmmmm