[Image text: “#autismawareness How would you feel if your parents were raising money to research how to make sure nobody ever has a child like you?”]
Cancerwareness: How would you feel if your parents were raising money to make sure nobody ever has a child like you?
Cysticfibrosisawareness: How would you feel if your parents were raising money to make sure nobody ever has a child like you?
Taysachsawareness: How would you feel if your parents were raising money to make sure nobody ever has a child like you?
Do you realize how ridiculous this sounds?
Maybe your fucking parents care about the troubles and issues you’ve suffered and hope another child doesn’t have to suffer you absolute morons.
You’re making a common but very dangerous mistake by comparing autism to cancer and chronic illnesses. Unlike cancer, autism is a fundamental part of how our brains are built, which means that autism cannot be separated from who we are as people. Autism isn’t an illness, it’s a neurotype - it’s something we are, not something separate like cancer that is happening to us and which is inherently negative. When you want to remove or cure our autism, you’re saying that you want to cure or remove a central part of who we are, a defining part of our personalities and how we experience the world, and that’s a very dangerous sentiment to have towards your child.
The suffering associated with cancer is caused by cancer.
The suffering associated with autism is not caused by autism, but by how society treats autistic people.
Stop comparing them.
If you don’t want an autistic person to suffer, just stop making them suffer.
What she means: The fact that in episode one Allura skips Lance while she’s assigning the lions probably directly relates to Lance’s insecurities about his place on the team because unlike the others, he was not told directly what characteristics of his make him suited to be his lion’s paladin. That was intentional. Lance feeling like a seventh wheel was planned from the literal start. It’s all connected.
You stop that
Oh my god I’ve seen some dumbass reaches before by this fandom but this one is just absurd. I’m going to say this over and over again until you children get it through your heads: Stop fucking painting Lance as this poor baby child who’s too fragile and too frail under his insecurities. News flash people, EVERYONE IN THIS SERIES HAS INSECURITIES. Lance’s insecurities stem from the fact that not everything is working the way he had imagined. I could go on and on and write a ten page paper meta on Lance’s character explaining exactly what this is.
Allura didn’t JUST skip over the blue lion’s characteristics. She didn’t just ignore Lance. She was about to explain when Lance INTERRUPTED with an overconfident spiel about himself to make himself look special.
Allura: The Blue Lion– Lance: –wait wait takes the most handsome pilot of the bunch? *smirk* Allura: …The Yellow Lion…
At that point she wasn’t going to waste time trying to explain what qualities the Blue Lion would require because Lance has already decided what they are regardless of whether or not they were the real qualities. When a dudebro goes up to you and flirts and tries to be smooth af but ends up being rather douchey by interrupting a briefing MULTIPLE times to make it about himself, I HIGHLY doubt all of you would react with “Awwwww he has insecurities! Poor bby uwu”
The fact of the matter is this: Lance is confident, suave, and creative. However, he is very overconfident and very self-inflating. He despises being second to anyone which is why he hounds after Keith with unnecessary hostility despite Keith’s initial attempts of a neutral first meeting. (However this does not mean he’s incapable of receiving orders from a superior.)
Being chosen by the Blue Lion made his head unnecessarily huge. Clearly being the Blue Lion’s pilot made him feel even better than Keith, because despite how Keith had felt the energies the Lion had not chosen him as her pilot. However, due to recent events, Lance is beginning to understand himself as a piece to a whole rather than a special hero. He has to work with his self-imposed rival and understand that there is a time and a place for his humor and his confidence. Therefore, his insecurities do not stem from a personal self loathing (fucking hell ive seen this shit everywhere) but from the fact that he’s being placed under a position where humility isn’t a simple situation, it’s absolutely necessary.
Lance went from one third of a douche-canoe self-appreciating jerk who was more than happy to ignore his colleagues exclamations to not do stupid things and ended up failing his team’s simulator course–to a crucial member of a team whose confidence no longer has to reside in just himself but in all.
Let me scream it from the rooftops: LANCE IS NOT AN INSECURE PRECIOUS CHILD WHO NEEDS PROTECTION.
He is going through a process where he can’t just think of himself as the most special, most qualified, or as the best of the bunch, but as a supporting member to the rest of the group. He’s the Right Leg of Voltron, he has to know where to take the best steps to lead an attack–and this is a lot different from the Best Hero image he planted for himself early on.
So fucking STOP treating him like this wounded puppy and believe in his ability to stand strong and become the person he’s supposed to be. GDI TUMBLR I AM GETTING SO SICK OF THIS SHIT
I love keith!!!!! My kid !!!!! He deserves the world and I Will Give It To Him !!! You ever need to talk abt keith to someone I am here and ready to yell
someone: talks about healthy coping mechanisms and behaviors
some dumbass: HAHHA NOT EVERYONE CAN BE NEUROTYPICAL KAREN!!!! LOL
Real talk if we could stop doing this that would be awesome, I’m sure people already think enough “if I’m coping then maybe I’m not actually nd and am just faking it” thoughts without “we can’t all be neurotypical” posts’ help :)
if this skin doesn’t replace the snowflake effects in her ice-beam/ult with bees, i’m going to be extremely disappointed
you had one job, blizzard
i’m sure this has occurred to you by now, but Beekeepers don’t shoot a stream of bees.
that would be like expecting the Firefighter skin to make her shoot fire
buddy idk what sort of beekeepers you’ve been dealing with but where i come from, they keep the bees in those big ol’ suits of theirs and release clouds of bees as needed
