The amazing disability activist Amy Sequenzia has said on her fb that she wants this to go viral. If you see it, please, please share it.
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Some Loose Onion Translations
He’s certainly strange and a bit of a mischievous kid, yeah, but he’s certainly not malicious and mean. He just has a different way of communicating than Steven does.
Let me give you some logical explanations as to his behavior so you doods stop calling him a root alien yeah?
Chip Thief- This is probably the least weird thing a kid would do. He sneaks around and causes mischief to get attention and stave off boredom till Dad comes home. Nothing too serious or strange, but he probably to be at least a little more disciplined? It’s all fun and games until ya steal something serious from the temple kid.
Steven Face-Onion doesn’t like food. So he played with it and carved Steven’s face. Afterwards he tried to eat, but couldn’t, because when you play with food for too long it’ll get kinda stale an you lose your appetite. So he spit it out. He wasn’t sending some weird “I’ll eat Steven’s face” or anything. He just tried to eat some food after messing around and failed.
Snaaaaaake- Kids like showing off their pets right? Onion wanted to show Steven his pet snake and since Steven found what was going to be his snakes lunch he thought it would be cool if Steven would like to feed him. You know, like giving your friend a bone to give to your dog? Yeah like that. It’s not weird for Onion to feed his snake live mice cuz that’s just what he does as a snake owner.
Birthing Video-Sometimes the whole “showing your kid how you gave birth” thing isn’t as weird to some families, and is a way of showing how much you love them. Like “This is you. This is when you came into our lives. This is you’re first breadth. Isn’t is amazing?” type of thing. He wanted to share that moment with Steven, not because it’s creepy, but because it’s important to him. He even has what appears to be his baby picture in his treasure room.
Treasure Box Room- Onion realized that Steven’s not gonna appreciate his stuff the way he does. So instead he show Steven something he knows they both like. The toys. He even goes so far as to give Steven one, as a way of apologizing for a previous episode, as well as a sign of friendship. It’s something that can finally connect the two.
Moooouuuuse- Onion realized that Steven didn’t want to have his snake eat a live mouse in front of him. So Onion decided at the end to show Steven that “Don’t worry-I didn’t give it to him. It’s okay.” He might have put it in his mouth cuz he’s not supposed to take them out of the house, or he might still be teasing Steven in his own, weird way. Either way I hope he washed his mouth afterwards…
So there! Onion’s not threatening or scary. He just has a different method of communicating and expressing himself from Steven, which is why the kid comes off as creepy. So don’t demonize the kid is all I’m saying?
Get it? Got it? Good.
I’m getting some square pizza.
Yes this is precisley what I thought of Onion
Yeah Onion is deeply ASD 2K15…
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autistic pride is so important because autistic children like myself are constantly treated as and made to feel like burdens to their loved ones, their family, and even society as a whole.
we literally get people saying things like “if i was autistic, i would kill myself” and caretakers who get sympathy for wanting to kill autistic kids. people will justify our existence only by how productive we are and how neurotypical we can appear. when parents find out their kid is autistic, it should not be immediately followed by an apology.
like, no, being autistic is not always fun or easy to deal with, but you can’t separate me from my autism, and i can’t keep feeling like i’m some kind of unfortunate happenstance.
autistic pride is important. i am not a burden. and if that means i’m ‘romanticizing autism’ or ‘glorifying it’, so be it.
autistic kids deserve better than this.
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If ur against vaccinating children because it “causes autism” you can go ahead and unfollow me
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Autism isn’t something a person has, or a “shell” that a person is trapped inside. There’s no normal child hidden behind the autism. Autism is a way of being. It is pervasive; it colors every experience, every sensation, perception, thought, emotion, and encounter, every aspect of existence. It is not possible to separate the autism from the person—and if it were possible, the person you’d have left would not be the same person you started with.
This is important, so take a moment to consider it: Autism is a way of being. It is not possible to separate the person from the autism.
Therefore, when parents say,
I wish my child did not have autism,
what they’re really saying is,
I wish the autistic child I have did not exist, and I had a different (non-autistic) child instead.
Read that again. This is what we hear when you mourn over our existence. This is what we hear when you pray for a cure. This is what we know, when you tell us of your fondest hopes and dreams for us: that your greatest wish is that one day we will cease to be, and strangers you can love will move in behind our faces.
—Jim Sinclair, “Don’t Mourn For Us” x (via andrandiriel)
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REBLOG if you could love someone with autism, aspergers, or the like.
I always see “reblog if you would love someone with self harm scars, anxiety, depression, suicidal tendencies, ect.” but honestly, I worry more about this. I may be able to love who I am, but I don’t think I or anyone else could ever love someone like me. Prove me wrong please.
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