Benny
mutantboy.bsky.social
Benny
@mutantboy.bsky.social
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Awkward Autistic. ✡️ My hobbies include reading, writing horror stories, and watching Ghosts on loop. I'm funnier in BSL.
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A little bat pup came to help us give out treats to trick-or-treaters. She liked my curio cabinet and also the magen david from the plant stand. Cutest, funniest little being.
You are. You're kind, you're talented, you're interesting. People might not always recognise or value it enough, but that doesn't mean you don't have lots to offer. Not that you need to put your many positive attributes to a practical/measurable use in order to be worthwhile, of course.
Look, ppl, if you scoot a little & I scoot a little we can work together to make walking down the street less shit. Instead of refusing to move at all or not bothering to look where you're going. (I also didn't take my ADHD meds today so I felt like I was literally going to expire from frustration.)
Braving Selfridges itself to check out the Frankenstein merch was horrendous. It was too hot, too busy, difficult to find the merch, and the merch was ridiculously expensive (£85 for a t-shirt!). Braving the streets to get to the art show was also pretty horrendous.
Went out and did things, today!

The Frankenstein: Creating a Tale Eternal exhibition at the Old Selfridges Hotel was great. It's made me all the more excited to watch the film!

Wes Lang's Thank You G-d art show was also delightful! Birds and skulls, what's not to love?!
London: Time and Tide photography exhibition at Art in the Docks. I collabed w/ Briony Campbell on ‘Pieces of Me’ & ‘Distance is Nothing’ (film originally for Out of Touch Festival, shown at Bloomsbury Theatre!)

Briony’s pieces are collabs w/ Autistic ppl about our experiences/relationships.
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It takes 2.6 seconds for me to go from “there’s something beautiful in every human being” to “get me off this planet”
And we both turn and walk away from each other and then I hear, 'BEN!' and I look round and he shouts across the hall, 'WE MISS YOU!' And I had to mention it somewhere because I am actually really chuffed.
He chased me out. 'Ben I like your shoes! And I like your hands. And your shirt!' My hands?? Think he was grasping a bit! Very cute, though. So I thanked him and chatted to him a bit more and he was bouncing around all happy (he's normally not that happy). Then I said bye again...
Had a different reading group this week and clearly it made my usual group appreciate me more because one little boy was like, 'Ben I made you something, come look!' So I looked at his building block structure and complimented him on it. Then said bye and left the class...
Wins this week: Bro's dog (extreme firework fear) slept through fireworks when I was dog sitting. AND the TV was muted (I was reading)! Situationally mute girl who's in one of my groups is always visibly VERY anxious and I've never seen her smile EVER but she proper beamed when she saw me today.
I got called daddy/dada three times this week. And a little girl who wasn’t feeling well (she got overheated) said, ‘Can you read me a story and I’ll feel better.’ Then, ‘Can you read me another story and I’ll feel better.’ My heart!
Kids. When they’re not handing me bogies or coughing in my face or repeatedly shouting ‘chicken banana’ or trying to climb fences or shoving each other or repeatedly asking for something you’ve already repeatedly said yes to (???), they’re quite cute.
Seeing Atreyu on Friday was ace. Being a(n autistic) teenager mostly felt very shit most of the time but somehow listening to music from back then still feels good. So seeing Atreyu perform The Curse was like revisiting my teens in a good way. I hate leaving the house but I proper enjoyed myself.
G'mar Chatima Tovah.
Interesting article! Informative. Worth reading in full. Makes it clear how idiotic/fascist the whole thing is. The EHRC basically renders itself unfit for purpose. How can someone create pseudo-laws it would be unlawful to actually enforce? How are people this incompetent in such important roles?
"They’re doing an awful, evil thing based on a self-evidently foolish strategy, one that has repeatedly failed for them. And they’re doing it without even the pretense of values. One day they believed in trans rights, the next day they didn’t." www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...
Britain’s Bathroom Ban
The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.
www.liberalcurrents.com
I won’t let her wait on me, she’s had a tough week and was sobbing yesterday with hypermobility related pain. But how lucky I am to be so loved and cared for.
I’m proper overstimulated and unwell (last night my gf asked me which hot dog buns I wanted for dinner and I covered my ears like, ‘no no no’ because choosing was Too Much - this is the level of overloaded I am this week). And today her messages:
Feeling a bit better today. Cat woke me multiple times for fuss, then for food, then for more food, then to go out in the garden. But after that I went back to bed and actually stayed in bed until past 9am! And the dogs are actually really chill despite the lack of an early walk (we'll go later).
Went to see Deaf Republic yesterday and on the way on the tube I suddenly started laughing uncontrollably at something that wasn't even that funny because I was so sleep deprived. Embarrassing! And then, still distressed-laughing, was like, 'I'm so tired!' which at least cracked up my gf.
I combed the cat because he can't groom himself as well as he used to. So because of one combing session in which he was on the table, he has now also decided that if he gets on my little makeshift table I *have* to comb him. And of course I am obeying because I can't resist my little old man.
Elderly cat (I adore him) gets me up multiple times per night. Demands fuss, demands to be let outside to drink water from the garden (apparently the kitchen water won't suffice), demands food, turns his nose up, demands to be let out, demands food gain (in hopes you offer him something different).
Dog sitting misadventures: Constantly in a state of exhaustion & disregulation. Different rules for both dogs makes things difficult. House is in a state of refurbishment so I have to go upstairs to shower/pee and the dogs have to remain on the other side of the stair gate so they freak.
She’s not actually allowed on the sofa but I felt this was an exception. Don’t tell my bro!