Every time I open my closet I try and think wwtfd aka What Would Tan France Do?

Being friends with the Fab 5 would include:

-stealing karamos jackets at every opportunity

-“ANTONI STOP MAKING GUACAMOLE”

-tan accidentally insulting your outfit and then apologizing profusely

-bobby getting you more and more pillows because “they just looks so good with your room!”

-you and jonathan continually playing with each others hair

-messing up tan’s hair just for fun and him tackling you

-jonathan laying his head in your lap whenever theres nothing on it

-dancing to ‘i wanna dance with somebody’ with antoni in the kitchen and accidentally letting the pasta boil over

-pajama parties

-karamo talking you through it whenever youre hyperventilating about something

-trying to help bobby decorate even though you just want to hang up posters of cats

-“vinyls on the wall is NOT decorating please stop ______”

-tan helping you choose outfits for dates

-watching love simon and alex strangelove at every opportunity

-“antoni is sweet tea a meal substitute”

“NO STOP”

notloganhowlett:

me before watching Queer Eye: how is a show like that supposed to be emotional?

me watching Queer Eye: *sobbing* THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!

sonneillonv:

No lie, I do appreciate how Tan and Karamo speak out on this to the others, and the others LET THEM, and give them the floor when they’re talking about how being brown/black and being gay intersect. Similarly to the way they give Jonathan the floor when he’s talking about the difference in presentation being being, for example, someone like Antoni and Bobby who straight people generally don’t find threatening, and being someone like Jonathan who, in his own words, never had a CHOICE about being in the closet because “Sky is blue, water is wet, Jonathan is flamingly homosexual”. There are different experiences here, but Queer Eye actually gives them air time to talk about intersections of prejudice??? and that’s… so weirdly cool????

What I’ve seen of this show I’ve actually really enjoyed

smol-bean413:

Me: My special interest came out with new content! 😀

Someone: Neat!

…

Someone: Why don’t you consume said content?

Me, staring blankly into the middle distance as I think about the raw fucking emotion I have for this thing:…give me a week to work up to it.

Autistic Lifehack: Hearing Problems

dynjir:

cdrshiphard:

thischick25:

laughingmyaspergersoff:

If someone says something that you only partially understand:

DON’T ask for clarification with a generic “What?” or “I’m sorry?” (In my experience, people will repeat the phrase the exact same way without helping you to understand).

Example:
Them: “Hey, do you like pahganabasa?”
Autistic Person: “What?”
Them: “Do you like pahganabasa?”
Autistic Person: “I’m sorry, what?”
Them (annoyed): “Do you like pahganabasa?”

Instead, DO repeat the part that you did understand, and substitute a “What?” for the unintelligable part.

Example:
Them: “Hey, do you like pahganabasa?”
Autistic Person: “Do I like what?”
Them: “Pineapple pizza?”
Autistic Person: (Understands the words!)

I’ve also had successes with “I’m sorry, I only heard the first half of that sentence,” or actually verbalizing my interpretation of the part I heard incorrectly as a question: “Pahgana… basa?”.

Sometimes that makes the speaker think that they might be mumbling, or verbalizing in a way that makes them difficult to understand (because there are times it’s really not your brain–it’s their mouth).

This is also a lifesaver if you have Auditory Processing Disorder. It stopped the amount of annoyed sighs because ppl thought I was deliberately ignoring them or them saying the same thing but louder (which does not help when volume isn’t the problem)

This and also repeating what you heard back to the speaker really clears up whether you’re interpreting what they said correctly or not. From there, you guys can figure out where the misinterpretation occurred.