I Headcanon Steven Universe Himself As Autistic And I Don’t See A Lot Of People Talking About It. Because

I keep coming back to this video essay

The simulacrum of feminine performance | explored through The Substance

Especially the concept of a simulacrum. This idea of hyper-reality.

Of course of how it pertains to gender but also how it seeps our way into so much of our culture. We're so separated from our inherent existence and instead who we are is filtered through several layers of society

I haven't spent enough time considering this in the depth I would like to write a full analysis of these concepts and how they apply to me and others but I've got so many seeds of thoughts around this topic.

I think eventually I might write a personal essay on how the simulacrum of womanhood affects me as a nonbinary person, especially one who's autistic and struggles with a social identity. I think there's so much to explore on this topic

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Gender is complicated as fuck. I know I have a gender, I can feel it as apart of me. But woman feels like sandpaper on my skin and man feels like a concept I can't begin to understand, let alone relate to. I can't describe it with feminine, masculine, or somewhere in-between because I truly don't believe masculine and feminine are real things. I like being called girl or boy because they feel endearing, but not a description of who I am. I haven't felt like a person for most of my life, the lines between myself and the world around me are blurry at best.

If I had to describe my gender, nail it down to one thing, I would say my gender is the fact that every element in our bodies came from a dying star. Stars are the reason we have life, the center of our solar systems. Stars are ancient things. Extraordinary things. And I am them, they are me. It is through them that I am apart of the world.

So who I am is Stargender and genderqueer. My whole being is inherently queer.

5000 years ago.

Barren ground caribou By: Leonard Lee Rue III From: Wild, Wild World of Animals: Wild Herds 1977

Happy international asexuality day! I'm proud to be asexual!!!

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Everytime I try to lock in but can't I say I'm locked out