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BBC announces special for Autism Acceptance Week starring Michael Sheen

The BBC has announced a TV special starring Michael Sheen, which is set to air during Autism Acceptance Week.

The BBC has announced a new TV special, set to air during Autism Acceptance Week.

Titled The Assembly, the episode will arrive on BBC and iPlayer in April. It will feature around 35 people who are autistic, neurodivergent or learning disabled interview Good Omens star Michael Sheen.

No question or subject will be off the table, promising viewers half an hour of "chaos, delight" and plenty of revelations.

"I was thrilled to be asked to be a guest on The Assembly. It’s such a fresh and exciting idea and I can’t wait for what I’m sure is going to be a surprising and challenging experience," Sheen said in a statement.

"I really don’t know what to expect, which is both exhilarating and a little bit terrifying."

The Assembly is an adaptation of the French show Les Rencontres Du Papotin, which has seen neurodivergent journalist's interview the likes of politician Emmanuel Macron and Call My Agent’s Camille Cottin.

The Assembly will arrive on BBC and iPlayer in April.

Do you ever think about the leather vest from Bucky's first appearance as the Winter Soldier? U know the one. The one with the buckles and the black leather and the ability to sexually frustrate someone until they literally explode. The one that I would 100% let Bucky wear as he fucked me. Yeah that one. Anyway do you ever think about that vest and just die.

DO YOU MEAN

THIS

FUCKING

VEST

?????

Because I DO, anon. 

I DO.

What really sucks is when you know you should be doing something but physically/mentally cannot bring yourself to do it no matter how important doing that thing is.

I think something a lot of other people can relate to is the way that you get so conditioned to discomfort that you stop registering it.

I remember sitting at the table with my family, eating dinner as a child. I’d try to eat, because of course I was hungry. But sometimes the flavor or texture was so repugnant that it moved into a category of Not Food.

“Two more bites before you can leave the table.”

“I can’t,” I’d say, trying to explain the impossibility.

But because I was a child they heard, “I won’t,” and made me sit at the table. I’d sit in dull agonized silence, bored and hungry for hours until bedtime when they’d give up. I’d hate myself for not eating and my parents for forcing me to sit there. The few forcefeeding moments ended in vomit.

They’d say, “If you don’t eat this you can’t eat a snack later,” and I moved past trying to communicate my discomfort into accepting that I’d just be hungry.

That state of affairs didn’t last, because my parents realized nothing could force me to eat so they catered to my palate, worrying they’d starve me. But the message stuck. If you can’t do anything about a situation, just accept the suffering.

A few years later my mother called me off the playground to ask, “Are you limping?”

I shrugged. My feet had hurt for a long time, but that was just the way things were now. My mom pulled my socks and shoes off and gasped. The soles of my feet were covered in huge painful planters warts.

“Why didn’t you say anything?!” She demanded but I could only shrug at her. I’d learned a long time ago that saying things about my discomfort didn’t matter, so now I had no words. Sometimes things hurt and sometimes they don’t. I simply accepted and did my best.

Now as an adult trying to learn to improve my own conditions can be hard. If I make food that I can’t eat I’ll force myself to sit at the counter still, full of guilt and self loathing, trying to will myself to eat it.

At first I needed my betrothed to gently take it away to present me with something I could eat. Now on my own I can usually admit that it’s not happening before too long and get something else, but I still feel guilty.

Laying in bed at night waiting for my betrothed to finish getting ready I let out a huge sigh of relief when they turned the lights off.

“Why didn’t you turn them off if they bothered you?” they asked the first time it happened.

“I didn’t even know it was bothering me until it was gone.”

Assessing my physical state now to see if I can improve it is something I’m still relearning but I’m relieved to finally have the space and support to do it.

10 Signs of 'Pathological Demand Avoidance (AKA Persistent Drive for Autonomy)

Neurodivergent_lou

now this, this is my roman empire

"Nine and Donna would've hated each other" WRONG they would ADORE each other they would be the two cattiest bitches in the book club. Donna would lean over and tell him "honestly sounds like Rassillion was a bit of a cunt" and he snorts so hard he almost regenerates right then and there

Why might autistic people ask the same thing over and over?

Neurodivergent_lou

A lot of autistic people are labeled as "smart" just because they have a few unique talents.

They're then expected to continue being smart according to whatever is expected of them.

For example, it's possible for someone to appear to be a math savant just because they notice a few additional patterns or memorize a few additional formulas. It's possible for someone to appear to be a computer savant just because they acknowledge that computers do what you tell them literally and do not follow human social customs.

They're then expected to be "smart" on command, always get perfect grades, be able to make a career out of it, and never struggle with anything. They're often also expected to be "smart" when it comes to things that are completely irrelevant to their special skill.

But that's often unreasonable. Expecting someone to be able to get a career in math just because they can solve math problems in their head is like expecting someone to be able to get a career as a basketball player just because they can spin a basketball on their finger.

petition to shorten "classic literature" to "clit"

big fan of how horror/comedy are the same thing actually. the absurdity of horror vs every joke being real to me

“it's up to you” please don't stress me out like this 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

My brother: Guantanamo is in California

Me autistic as hell and memorized criminal minds: no it’s perpendicular to Cuban airspace. When flying there air traffic and the pilot have to negotiate a 90° turn, it’s called the gitmo twist.

Come here, baby gays, and let me tell you the story about how James Somerton made me so fucking angry with a single line that I had to make this post.

As I now know, most of his audience is young queers and there are things we NEED you to know.

The fight for marriage equality was a massive fucking deal and I will tell you why with a very personal story.

My mom was a nurse during the AIDS crisis. And I mean she started working as a nurse out of school in 85. My mom was on the front lines. She worked with so many AIDS patients that it genuinely altered her brain chemistry. My mother was a homophobe before her nursing career. She was a massive supporter of gay rights until she died in July because of what she saw during her career.

And what did she see?

She saw people who had been abandoned by their families dying with their partners at their side.

And then suddenly…the family would materialize, ban the partner from the room, kick them out of their homes they had lived in with their dying partners for decades, and then watched them ban their partners from even attending the funerals or visiting the graves. Imagine being denied your right to grieve.

And why was this possible? Oh simple. They weren’t married. They weren’t legally bound, the partners weren’t considered next of kin because they weren’t fucking married.

I watched my mom pass. It was horrible and painful and traumatic and terrifying. But it was closure. And I wouldn’t have it any other way because I know…that who my mom wanted by her when she passed was my dad. Because she was scared, she wanted her partner by her side and she was terrified she was going to die. My dad couldn’t be there. He had to work, which sounds cold but understand he had been off work for a month by that point and he was the only one who had health insurance. He wanted to be there, we had made plans to take her off the life support when he came back (we were 4 hours from him) but there was a freak accident and she passed the night after he left to return to work.

Why am I telling you this? Because I need you to understand how important this is to some people. So you can understand how big a slap to the face it is to have people say “marriage equality isn’t that important”. You can understand why someone like James Somerton rolling his eyes at marriage equality and implying we weren’t focused on job equality and discrimination (information that is WHOLEY untrue) would make me see red.

It’s not trivial. It’s not meaningless. It wasn’t about “assimilating” or “appearing normal” (we’re already normal).

It’s about people who had their children taken from them because they weren’t the biological parent. It’s about people who never got to comfort their loved ones in their final days. It’s about people who weren’t able to comforted by their partners in their final days.

So the next time you think “why waste your time on something as trivial as marriage?” Remember my mother. Look up testimony from victims of the AIDS crisis. Remember the people who advocated for marriage equality were the survivors who were torn from the love of their life.

Remember that we advocated so damn hard to give you the right to grieve.

reblog if you’re NOT tumblr famous, but you ARE tired and kinda gay

Rant

I’m fucking sick and tired of being treated like a god damn infant in my school because I’m autistic I’m tired of kids and teachers baby voicing me the second they find out I have autism I’m in fucking high school I can drive and get a job and they treat me like I’m 5 literally a random teacher who wasn’t a special ed teacher came up to me whall I was working and said to me in the most stupidest baby voice “do you like trains?” Like what the hell. I’m sick and tired of random teachers coming up to me in class talking to me in a baby voice this happens a lot sometimes I don’t know who the teachers are even they just come into class to talk to me I voiced my concerns to others but they just said “oh there just talking to you like that because your IEP.” My IEP shouldn’t make them talk to me like a baby and they barely even follow my IEP anyways they were supposed to let me leave class if I got overstimulated or listen to music if I got overstimulated but when I am overstimulated they just tell me to sit in class cause it’s not fair to other people in class IT SHOULD BE FAIR FOR ME THOUGH BECAUSE ITS IN MY IEP I’M LITERALLY ON THE VERGE OF TEARS AND YOU SAY THIS!? This is why autistic people don’t feel safe or comfortable in school because there being treated like infants I barely feel like I can focus in school because a random teacher comes up to me or people are too loud and I can’t listen to my music which calms me down. One time I started stimming in class and my teacher told me to stop because it was distracting to the other students how I literally fucking stim is I wiggle my fingers under my desk i always have to mask to please others because I make them uncomfortable but they don’t even fucking try to make me comfortable at all I’m sick of every second of the day I’m treated like an infant it makes me wanna scream being underestimated because my autism I’m a person too I should be treated like how you treat everyone else people tell me “oh it’s easy to be autistic.” NO ITS NOT if you lived a day in my shoes you couldn’t handle half the shit I do and that goes for any disabled person never tell someone there disability is “easy” it’s never easy there’s always setbacks and struggles..anyways I’m sorry for ranting just a lot has been happening lately and people have been blaming my autism. If you read all this thank you and have a good day.

its baffling seeing people on here being all shocked about how other ppl didnt have sex or do drugs or drink or go to parties etc etc in high schools like. sorry i was too busy getting bullied to do all of that stuff i guess. why are you surprised that there’s losers on the cringe loser website

LET'S TALK ABOUT LOKI'S SHOES (ACTUALLY, HIS WHOLE WARDROBE)

Production costs aside, clothes tell the audience about how characters think of themselves.

Loki's shoes in the S2 finale raised a lot eyebrows, but I find them quite fitting: they are comfortable, practical, and most importantly, they are humble. The camera brings this to our attention to communicate his evolution in character.

Loki has always dressed well, often times ostentatiously. Whether he is at war, passing as a Midgardian, or held captive as an Asgardian prisoner, Loki communicates his social class and sense of superiority through clothing. For him, clothing armors his fragile sense of self and against others' opinions of him. He intends to be perceived as deadly charming but ultimately unapproachable.

His attire in the first Thor movie is roughly equal parts green and gold, signifying his royal status. His style is dressed down for his brother's misadventures in Jotenheim, yet overall both silhouettes are lofty, princely, but not hardened or threatening.

In Avengers, Loki's look has more black and leather, with exaggerated emphasis on his shoulders meant to intimidate as he assumes the role of villain. The silhouette is very hard, heavy, and edgy. Gold detailing is prevalent as well. Combined with the goat's helm, this is Loki's most pretentious outfit, which speaks to an undercurrent of low self-esteem and a compulsive need to impress. There's no mistaking he is the main antagonist of the story.

In Thor 2, Loki's attire is similar to Avengers but the overcoat is exchanged for a less bulky version (perhaps conveying he is less guarded now that the effects of the Mind Stone are no longer influencing him). Loki's role likewise pivots from the harsh lines of a villain to the more flexible edges of a reluctant villain-turned-ally. This aligns with his character arc when he protects both Jane and Thor, seemingly sacrificing himself.

In Thor 3, Loki's silhouette is streamlined even further. The overcoat is done away with in favor of what appears to be a leather doublet, pauldrons, and vambraces. Gold accents are minimal. While stylish, Loki's attire is more practical than showy, and his helm serves the dual purpose of protection as well as weaponry. At this point in his arc, Loki has become a full antihero, joining his brother's side in rescuing as many Asgardians as possible, and eventually dying in a vain bid to protect Thor from Thanos.

The TVA does something very fun and interesting in taking away Loki's ability to dress himself. Since Loki cannot use his magic in the TVA, he is forced to wear the same clothing as his captor/advocate, who eventually becomes his best friend and peer.

Perhaps, on a subconscious level, this helped Loki to feel included. We know by his pwn admission that Loki fears being alone and desperately craves a sense of belonging. At the same time, he intentionally dresses to put people at a distance, thereby protecting himself from potential rejection at the cost of isolating himself further.

When Mobius gives him that TVA jacket for the first time, Loki seems uncharacteristically pleased. It is not an attractive jacket by any means, yet he neither scoffs at it nor refuses to wear it. Instead, Loki puts it on and is content when Mobius says it looks "smart" on him. He continues to dress like Mobius and, indeed, mimic some of his mannerisms such as placing his hands on his hips. Without clothing meant to push people away, Loki opens up, has more fun, and makes friends.

Loki's choice of attire as he assumes the mantle of God of Stories (and time) is fascinating. Setting aside the clear design inspiration from the comics, Loki's silhouette is soft, remarkably so. His colors are earthy hues of green, and the only bit of flare are the light gold trimming and crown. The look brings to mind the garb of sages and wise wizards rather than royalty or warriors. He's powerful yet approachable because there is humility in his bearing. And that humility springs from a well of healthy self-worth, self-love, and a deep love for others.

The shoes are not meant to be attractive. They are meant to help him ascend the throne, nothing more.

i really do love the idea that the whole plot of glee is just spencer's mom's schizophrenia daydream happening in her mind

I love when people are Moved by Hozier and get mad and start calling him Andrew.

I am autistic. I cannot do math extremely well, unfortunatly. I can, however, tell you just about anything you would like to know about the fluffy angel in the bow tie, or the dorky snek babygirl with the pretty yellow eyes.

“take me to church is 10 years old today”

Nobody talks about the hard parts about autism.

Nobody talks about not knowing when you need to eat, drink or pee. Not knowing when you're in pain, or why you're in pain. Not being able to communicate what you need.

Or when change is so hard to deal with you have meltdowns and outbursts. When you can't control your anger and hurt yourself or others. When you can't emote unless you're breaking down.

Or when you can't understand what someone is saying, what you're reading, anything. When you can't even try because trying makes it worse. When you ask for help but not getting what they say just makes you more frustrated.

And so many more difficult experiences we have to deal with that no one likes.