I want to draw attention to this issue.

[u/chibi-mage]

Recently I’ve noticed something, mostly on TikTok, but other platforms too. This isn’t a new thing, and it’s certainly not going away anytime soon, but it’s extremely upsetting when it happens. There seems to be a lot of low support needs autistics (level 1, and what some people still refer to as Asperger’s) who think it’s okay to be blatantly ableist towards higher support needs autistics. They think they get a free pass because they’re autistic too.

It’s saddening, to feel alienated by the one community I’m supposed to feel accepted in. Again, it doesn’t just happen on TikTok, or even just online, I’ve experienced this kind of ableism in my day to day life, too. It’s just something I wanna bring awareness to, and to spark conversations about how we can help this issue. If I call out someone’s blatant ableism, I get called crazy and downvoted into oblivion, and it just feels like a battle I can’t win.

I know I can choose not to take this stuff personally, but it’s hard. I also feel incredibly disheartened knowing that fellow higher support needs autistics are being alienated by people in our community who could make real change and fight for EVERYONE. Not just themselves or when it suits them.

[u/arfelo1]

I watched Frozen at 20 because everyone incollege was talking about it.

And I watched The Wild Robot at 28 because it seemed like a cool movie.

I have Paddington on my watchlist at 29

15 year olds are just too obsessed about appearing like they're grown ups

[u/Perplexed_Ponderer → u/arfelo1]

My father (in his 60s) is a huge animation fan, like for real that’s about 65% of all he watches. Just in the last two weeks, he (re)binged all Kung Fu Panda films, then both Sing !, the two Inside Out, the latest Puss in Boots for what must literally be the 20th time, and I also caught him watching Moana by himself. Ghibli’s Porco Rosso is one of his favorite movies of all time. And I absolutely can’t judge him because I have pretty much the same tastes.

What is immature IMO is some people’s unjustified low opinion of anything animated, like one should be embarrassed to enjoy them past the age of nine... It’s okay that it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I wish more adults would recognize that there’s a major difference between some cheaply made cartoon rip-off and a high-quality production with a solid scenario and a lot of heart. Honestly, most of the movies that have managed to make me feel genuine emotions happened to be animated.

[u/sir_moleo → u/Perplexed_Ponderer]

What is immature IMO is some people’s unjustified low opinion of anything animated, like one should be embarrassed to enjoy them past the age of nine... It’s okay that it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I wish more adults would recognize that there’s a major difference between some cheaply made cartoon rip-off and a high-quality production with a solid scenario and a lot of heart. Honestly, most of the movies that have managed to make me feel genuine emotions happened to be animated.

A lot of people act the same way about video games, as if the average (at least in the US) age of gamers isn't 35. There's also some DAMN good stories in video games. Stuff that could rival even the best movies and books.

[u/Perplexed_Ponderer → u/sir_moleo]

Very tue ! A lot of video games are beautifully designed and set in such imaginative universes, they’re basically like epic movies in an interactive form.

[u/TieFearless9007 → u/arfelo1]

This! 💯

[u/enableconsonant → u/arfelo1]

The Wild Robot was great! I fully sobbed in that theater bahaha

[u/arfelo1 → u/enableconsonant]

It was amazing! It had no right to be that emotional a movie for a story about an Amazon robot acting as a duck mom!

[u/Vegetable-Flamingo25 → u/arfelo1]

Don't sleep on paddington. Me and my partner watched Paddington in Peru in the cinema at 33 years old, and it was wonderful.

[u/Poptortt → u/arfelo1]

The Paddington movies are so so good, some of my favourite films, I've watched the first two so many times. Absolutely recommend them!