"Man, you're annoying everyone with your MELTDOWNS", that's how gamers clapped back at David Jaffe after his rant about God of War Laufey 🤦
The State of Play reveal, where Fay replaces Kratos, split the audience. Jaffe called the spin‑off "terrible" and predicted a flop, but the community turned on him: accusing him of toxicity, cheap click‑hunting and citing past flops. Looks like the franchise creator's clout among modern players too...
@pathfinder @autistics And the "could be" is critical. It's only "could be", not "necessarily is".
I hope you're right. But if so, it means that the straightforward, stark contrast between #tantrums and #meltdowns is a gross oversimplification — that many, perhaps most, neurotypical tantrums are much more similar to autistic meltdowns than they're being given credit for.
To me, the stereotyping of neurotypical tantrums as manipulative is almost a mirror image of the stereotyping of autistic communication difficulties as "mindblindness". I do believe it's important to secure more tolerance for meltdowns, but it shouldn't be done by caricaturing their neurotypical counterparts. Maybe ordinary tantrums deserve, at least in many cases, more tolerance than they get. The manipulative worst case shouldn't be assumed as a default, even for neurotypicals.
I keep seeing the emphatic claim that "Meltdowns are not tantrums", with the supporting argument that #meltdowns are not voluntary or manipulative.
The bizarre part to me is this—
—so you're saying that ordinary neurotypical #tantrums ARE voluntary and manipulative? That whenever a neurotypical kid throws a fit, they're doing it calculatedly and for effect??
That possibility would never have crossed my mind in a million years.
Admittedly, in addition to being autistic, I'm an only child and I have no children of my own. But still, it takes my breath away to think that neurotypical kids would be so cold and reptilian. That even their furious angry outbursts can't be taken at face value, as honest expressions of their feelings.
And neurotypicals compare US to robots and chimpanzees!
Can the world really be like this?
Not every meltdown is a tantrum. Sometimes it’s a nervous system in overload, not a child pushing limits. This is a calm, honest look at what’s really happening—and how understanding it changes everything.
#AutismParenting #Meltdowns #Neurodiversity #ParentingWithCompassion
#REPORT: #Hegseth Is Having "#Manic" #Meltdowns #tyt #yt
Kids, puppies, kitten, calves, foals - all animals that live with humans should at a young age experience stimming, meltdowns, different gaits, mobility devices and such as normal parts of society. Which. They. Are.
#habituation #stimming #meltdowns #NeuroDiversity #disability #diversity #normativity #education #pedagogy
Cue Fultishing Meltdowns: Leftists Freak Out Lamar Jackson’s retweeting Charlie Kirk star-news.press/wp
,Cue Fultishing Meltdowns: Leftists Freak Out Lamar Jackson's retweeting Charlie Kirk star-news.press/wp, 2025-08-19 20:00:00 #Cue #Fultishing #Meltdowns #Leftists #Freak #Lamar #Jacksons #retweeting #Charlie #Kirk
Ich habe eben die Folge 11 des humanrights-Podcasts fertig gehört.
Schlimm. #Autismus im psychiatrischen Kontext. Über die Anwendung von Foltermethoden zur Behandlung von #Meltdowns …
Wie gut, dass es solche Stellen gibt, die aufklären.
https://www.humanrights.ch/de/ueber-uns/podcast-artikel-allefolgen
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