These look like something my wife (shes a teacher) has in our kitchen with her stuff. if this is what they are imma bust into them when I get home. Idk how I missed the kites and darts as a fan of Martin Gardner
I’m happy that OP had a nice day, but yeah, classifying things as autistic activities vs non autistic activities is so incredibly cringey and unhealthy.
I like math, always have. I’ve been told by multiple people that means I’m autistic. This year I literally had someone point at me and say “you’re autistic. You like math, you’re autistic”. They don’t know me near well enough to know something like that, and frankly it’s very belittling to be reduced to “oh, you like this thing, that tells me everything about you as a person”.
I’m glad understanding is up and the stigma is decreasing, but please everyone chill.
“You like math; therefore, autistic” is such low brow judgement, if I ever heard one. Next they’re going to say, “if you really like ‘don’t jump on a crack or you’ll break your mother’s back,” you’re autistic.
My brother, who got a PhD in pure mathematics at age 27, is someone I suspect of being, if not autistic, at least neurodivergent. Last year, I was being accused by several of being autistic and had relayed that to him; we were discussing each other's tendencies and trying to decide, among other things, whether they mattered.
Then one morning I woke up to an unprompted text from him containing one of my favorite sentences ever:
It just occurred to me, if I do have some species of autism maybe it doesn't disturb me too much because I like trying to figure out the rule sets in complicated systems ….
What's the harm in this person recognizing that their autism plays a role in their enjoyment of specific activities? If it were more stereotypical (a model train set for example) would you have the same gut reaction to go "you don't have to be autistic to enjoy making model trains buddy"? Plenty of demographics enjoy a family/neigborhood barbecue, does that remove the cultural significance of the black cookout? Do you patronizingly comment that everybody likes cookouts?
I genuinely don't get the impetus for neurotypical people to hop in the comments of neurodivergent people posting about the intersections of neurodivergence and joy to just go "well makes plenty of people happy, what does that have to do with neurodivergence???" Like, do y'all just think if a neurodivergent person isn't talking about the ways their brain doesn't work "right", then they have no right to talk about something and how it relates to their condition? Just kidding, y'all complain about and diminish that too
Nevermind the three sentences preceeding it asking questions and reframing the comment in similar situations to demonstrate how/why it can be seen as patronizing. Genuinely, how do you see your original comment supportive? Honing in on the last sentence of my first paragraph and summarily dismissing me as "angry" is also a really convenient way of ignoring the substance of my criticism.
I'm not mad, I'm a bit annoyed at the trend I was commenting on, and pointed out how comments like those are the flip side of people dismissing the struggles of neurodivergent people. Your response here echoes the same dismissive and patronizing tone of your original comment, so I must be missing something. What am I missing?
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If you pick the shapes just right, you can make tilings but will never be able to make a repeating tiling.
(In reality it's been 2 days)
You'd love quilting.
These look like something my wife (shes a teacher) has in our kitchen with her stuff. if this is what they are imma bust into them when I get home. Idk how I missed the kites and darts as a fan of Martin Gardner
Math shaped blocks.
Made my afternoon 😁
This is what I'm calling polygons forevermore.
Autistic? Why do you need to be autistic, gimme!
This renews my desire to make a giant Penrose tiling on my floor.
The field is called Tessellation if anyone's curious.
It shows up a bunch in Islamic art.
You tellin me them there autisms are secretly Islams? Not in MUH MURICA
Holy shit I forgot about these things. They always felt good quality and had a nice weight to them.
They fuckin did. I can still feel the soft, smooth matte texture. May favorite was the red trapezoids
Reminds me of tangrams
This is just art, buddy.
You don’t have to be autistic to enjoy making art.
Edited to add that for the 0.1% of people who thought this was “patronizing,” it was intended to be supportive.
“This is just art, man. Everyone can make art, you don’t have to qualify it by saying it’s autistic.”
No one has to be apologetic about making art.
But keep being angry!
But you see, normal adults don't just do fun things that aren't on the pre-approved adult appropriate list of activities. /s
Way too many don't. Most, I'd reckon.
This is how I feel whenever I see a post from autism comms.
It's just like: [normal ass thing] + teehee autism amirite guys?
I’m happy that OP had a nice day, but yeah, classifying things as autistic activities vs non autistic activities is so incredibly cringey and unhealthy.
I like math, always have. I’ve been told by multiple people that means I’m autistic. This year I literally had someone point at me and say “you’re autistic. You like math, you’re autistic”. They don’t know me near well enough to know something like that, and frankly it’s very belittling to be reduced to “oh, you like this thing, that tells me everything about you as a person”.
I’m glad understanding is up and the stigma is decreasing, but please everyone chill.
I'm autistic and needed 2 hours of tutoring per day to make it through math. I'm great at liberal arts. It's just people things not autistic things.
Yeah the stereotypes definitely cut both ways.
“You like math; therefore, autistic” is such low brow judgement, if I ever heard one. Next they’re going to say, “if you really like ‘don’t jump on a crack or you’ll break your mother’s back,” you’re autistic.
My brother, who got a PhD in pure mathematics at age 27, is someone I suspect of being, if not autistic, at least neurodivergent. Last year, I was being accused by several of being autistic and had relayed that to him; we were discussing each other's tendencies and trying to decide, among other things, whether they mattered.
Then one morning I woke up to an unprompted text from him containing one of my favorite sentences ever:
I’m sure the venn diagrams have a large intersection, but they’re not 100%
What's the harm in this person recognizing that their autism plays a role in their enjoyment of specific activities? If it were more stereotypical (a model train set for example) would you have the same gut reaction to go "you don't have to be autistic to enjoy making model trains buddy"? Plenty of demographics enjoy a family/neigborhood barbecue, does that remove the cultural significance of the black cookout? Do you patronizingly comment that everybody likes cookouts?
I genuinely don't get the impetus for neurotypical people to hop in the comments of neurodivergent people posting about the intersections of neurodivergence and joy to just go "well makes plenty of people happy, what does that have to do with neurodivergence???" Like, do y'all just think if a neurodivergent person isn't talking about the ways their brain doesn't work "right", then they have no right to talk about something and how it relates to their condition? Just kidding, y'all complain about and diminish that too
Giving the impression that something is an autistic trait, or indeed a sign of any condition, when it isn't, is harmful and wrong.
It's quite different when it's an element of culture, because to an extent culture is a matter of self-definition.
The fact that you took my comment as “patronizing” says everything I need to know about you.
I hope you continue to have the day you deserve somewhere else.
Genuinely: go be angry at supportive comments somewhere else!
Nevermind the three sentences preceeding it asking questions and reframing the comment in similar situations to demonstrate how/why it can be seen as patronizing. Genuinely, how do you see your original comment supportive? Honing in on the last sentence of my first paragraph and summarily dismissing me as "angry" is also a really convenient way of ignoring the substance of my criticism.
I'm not mad, I'm a bit annoyed at the trend I was commenting on, and pointed out how comments like those are the flip side of people dismissing the struggles of neurodivergent people. Your response here echoes the same dismissive and patronizing tone of your original comment, so I must be missing something. What am I missing?
I can imagine nudging an edge and now everything is misaligned
I can't imagine adding a piece without it happening
STOP
I should just go to the teacher store, get a bunch of those kid games, and once in a while just play with them. Insert cat with newspaper meme here
somewhere in one of my parents' photo albums is a picture of one of these that i put together in 1st grade in ~1992
Have a nice VAE
Hexagons, parallelograms and trapezoids, oh my!
The all go in the square hole.
lol, math shaped!
When I was in 3rd grade I spent a lot of after school hours in my younger brother's classroom doing exactly this. It was awesome lol