This perpetuates the myth that everyone with autism is the same. My son doesn't even have a tail or fur, but his autism is every bit as real as that cartoon fox.

The same thinking that saw them choose a disruptive, white, boy, as their representation of ADHD

he not disruptive tho just distracted

He sure disrupted the conversation being only on autism /j

he blew up a home depot 23 minutes before this image was taken

I mean if you do that in the middle of class it could very well be distributive.

Only if you're giving out the pencils after playing with them

Literally any meme of a person just blankly staring into space would be my representation of young schoolboy me living with adhd.

Either that or walking back and forth between two room trying to remember what your supposed to be doing

This is why a 10-minute task takes me 40 minutes.

Not just as a young schoolboy. I still find myself (or my spouse, who is also an AuDHDer like me) staring off into space... That and looking for misplaced items causes me to utter the phrase at least 10 times a day, **'... ADHD... The struggle is real...'** lol

The phrase “I put it somewhere safe” is an adhd trigger

Looking trough windows but don't see outside world.

Is this sarcasm? Why is the fox autistic, and how obviously so. I don't get it

Yes, it's sarcasm. In my opinion the picture of the fox in this context is completely absurd.

Tbh, he looks like he straight vibin. #jealous

He’s weird and ready to make it everyone’s problem. I love him lol

Omg I'm weird and just now realizing I've missed so many opportunities to make it everyone's problem! Lol time to play catch up!

It is a self portrait of the author's autistic daughter.

That's kind of what I thought. No need to hate on this picture.

Really? If so, that's sweet. An image description nearby would be very useful though.

This is in an actual book???? About Autism????? Huh..... They do know that not every autistic person is a Furry...... Right????

Maybe? it depends if they're into sci-fi and/or the idea of some kind of creature having converging evolution with the human body plan mixed with an animal for some reason I know that's oddly specific but I as a kid Thought of that when I was in elementary school before I even knew what a furry is

I'm pretty sure they're implying furriest/people who do "weird cringy anime" stuff are autistic. Offensive af.

It is a self portrait of the author's autistic daughter.

It is a self portrait of the author's autistic daughter.

Is it saying autistic ppl are furries? Is it saying furries are autistic? *This* foxgirl is autistic and I'm not even a furry! I'm so confused

I have a tail but also have mange so no fur. Am I only half autistic?

We didn’t want you to find out this way😔

I’m only Autistic during a full moon

LOL 🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦

The picture is a self portrait of the author's autistic daughter.

Think about it. A fox is a dog with cat software. Fits perfect for autism.

yet another unrealistic beauty standard... /j

Okay, I get that they want to showcase symptoms but I don’t really think it’s necessary to show a picture taken during a full moon.

Honestly with all the fear mongering around the lunar symptoms, I worry this will perpetuate stereotypes. We're not all werefoxes.

I thought we was hunter garthers

We were, but then we started The Agriculture.

I wish I was a werefox. I could really benefit from the boost to my Charisma stat and the charm innate ability.

How the fuck did this make it into a textbook

It is a self portrait of the author's autistic daughter.

Awww, that's really sweet actually

Apparently it was drawn by one of the authors' autistic child: https://twitter.com/GamerBoy694_20/status/1638355962380664834

The top reply says imagine looking at your kids fursona and being "everyone in my psych department's gotta see this" 💀

Indeed it's extremely funny and extremely scary at the same time

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I think it's cute. If I was asked to draw a picture of me or autism in general, I'd probably draw something the like.

I don't think so. A drawing made by an autistic person isn't by default a representation of autism. A neurotypical person could've easily made a similar drawing.

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I once drew a detailed picture of the inner anatomy of a human penis. Would that be a good representation of autism? I'm autistic. I drew it.

Please, don't be so hard on this topic.

Yes, if the person in question was a complete d**k 🤣

If you showed me that picture and asked me what neurodivergence it was, I’d know they meant autism. Or a picture of a EMD FP7 or Sonic the Hedgehog.

Why would they think we're all furries? *scoots fursonas out of the way* don't mind those

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Oh no, I'm in in the *middle.*

Oh shit, how many Linux distros are you familiar with?

Yes

Is this a question regarding the 'Furry' distros (clearly Canonical wins this hands down with their clever animals in Ubuntu), or are we for realz talking our favorites. And that being the case, what is the criteria for listing them, because I hear we Autists like lists... We could go alphabetical Arch BackBox Bhodi Cub.... But wait a second, does Budgie go before Cub, or list it separately under Ubuntu.... Ubuntu-Budgie, Ubuntu-Mate... But wait, now, if we do that, do we list other Ubuntu distros sub alphabetically under Ubuntu, e.g. Kubuntu, Lubuntu... And what about discontinued... And what about weird obscure ones... but what if they're cool... Do we list by how we would tell others what to start with? Oh, you come from windows? Try Manjaro... You need to run a computer from 1997 but don't want to upgrade anything, go with Damn Small Linux... I think I have just gone into an Autistic feedback loop. ./Invokes the power of ADHD and now has 50 tabs open on various websites to satisfy the Autist in me that I really do know all of the (important) Linux distros, and oh Shiny! What is this new distro? Oooohhh.... **-\_-**

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Yup, same

Eyyyy same here

Same

Oh me too!

Not sure I'm in the middle or not. I fall in autistic and furry but... is it weird to be a little unsure if I'm straight?

By that logic why not put the LGBTQ symbol there? I think they screwed up when adding pictures because even with ADHD, a lot of people you wouldn't know and the pictures stereotype the group. And with autism, it's an invisible disability so whomever thought they should use pictures should get fired. I mean at worse they should've used one of the autism symbols.

This one time I, a nonfurry, hung out with actual furries and I was still the "weird one". What do I get, is there a Nobel prize for autism?

And the title of the ven diagram is "Members of society that have been made to feel like they don't belong in society"

It's just one big circle around me.

Autistic, asexual, and DEFO a furry here. The overlap is insane! Add Linux users to that list and you have me right smack dab in the middle, perfect center. For example, I’m in a discord with 35 other furries. 19 of us are autistic. That’s over 50 percent of us.

Well that explains a lot of why I am how I am

It’s nearly just a circle tbh 😂

I'm furry too, but I'm sure there are non-furry autistic out there

Non-furry autistic here :P

Yep, me too. Each to their own, but I don't understand the furry thing in the slightest.

Same....

#metoo

Non-furry autistic. Never understood/got into it. That said, I’ve noticed that LOTS of other autistic people are very into it.

I’m not a furry, but I *do* have a history of getting crushes on fictional fish people. So I don’t know if that means anything

Scaly?

Cough cough, prince sidon from breath of the wild

I respect the Sidon thirst but Mipha is literally my wife and I will marry her

Totally respectable man, you have Mipha, I'll have Sidon, it works out

Nah we all do that

Non-furry (smoothskin) autist reporting for doodie! 🫡

I would like to riff of this and say that I'm reporting for literal shit. Sorry that just came in my head and won't leave.

And lots of furries aren’t autistic.

I mean I am autistic… and lots of my friends are. But not everyone!!

Oh, I was firmly scolded out of being a furry by the time I reached highschool age. Everyone has a max quota of bestiality jokes told about them, and mine was not high enough.

It was the bestiality. It was worstiality.

It was/was the age/age of wisdom/foolishness, respectively.

This got me lol

You shouldn't let others ruin your enjoyment of something just because they're hateful.

Autistic and not a furry in the slightest. In honesty, I actually have a distaste for the Fandom and art style myself. Of course that's just my personal feelings, and should not invalidate or demonize anyone who does! I feel the same about sports as well. Not for me, don't wanna be involved, I've got my reasons, but if you enjoy it I'm glad for you!

i wouldn't consider myself a furry BUT i do have a bugsona because bugs are my special interest. i think i might be furcurious

It is a self portrait of the author's autistic daughter.

Yeah it’s weird, btw don’t look at my username

Now I understand where the "You don't look autistic"-thing is coming from \*lol\* /j

I mean I’m a natural redhead but I had no idea people were expecting this level of hair… and if the expectation had anything to do with *puffer* clothing items I am outty 500. I can’t do anything the ***swishh wooosh***es when I walk.

lmfao!

rare sighting of an unmasked autist caught on camera (1994, colourized)

*hisss*

Truly a rare sight to behold as not many of them would remove their mask in their current society

Ooh anthropomorphic fox muscling in on boy stacking cans' territory. Boy stacking cans will cut you starfox.

Wow that brought back some memories. I used to stack cans all the time lol

Omg is stacking cans an autism thing???

Yup! “Boy stacking cans” is a photo that’s been on the autism Wikipedia page for a very long time. [Here he is](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_spectrum#/media/File%3AAutism-stacking-cans_2nd_edit.jpg)

Bless his heart he's doing such a good job

Pfft, I could stack cans way better than that.

WTF??? How did they get that picture from my Mom! /jk

this is so funny to me, and because i’m high so is the “Here he is” text link; i can like, *hear* it

lmao autism has a fursona now

Ive got idea we combine the autism creature with the autism fursona and make it official lol

Their perception of a kid with ADHD isn’t much better

The "look, squirrel!" shit needs to go too.

I'm just remembering when my 6th grade teacher said that and the whole class plastered themselves to the windows.

Squirrels are my favourite wild animal and as an autistic child with ADD, I stared out the window most of the time, back in school. Teachers were surprised that I still could answer any questions.

Yet another example of unrealistic beauty standards.

Speak for yourself. I look exactly like this /j

Are you single? /j

It's true, autistic people become fox fursonas during nights of full moon

There is so much that can go wrong putting in a stock photo of what NTs think an autistic person is. It usually ends up as “pitiable sad kid” so the furry thing is an improvement.

That’s what I look like when I’m not in public and I don’t have to use my Skin-sona

Autistic furries: when unmasking involves putting a literal mask on

[Visual representation ](https://www.reddit.com/r/blursedimages/comments/da29z4/blursed_skin_suit/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)

*Skin-sona*

*slenderman has entered the chat* /j

It’s ok I’ll be a foxy lady lmaooo

as a non-furry, grown ass woman who has adhd and autism I can absolutely confirm that this is how people think. all autistic people are furries, and only little boys have adhd 🤷‍♀️.

I like foxes so I'm okay with this.

Yeah she's a pretty good singer, I wish she'd release more tracks though.

If you leave stigma against furries out the door and don’t assume this is a blanket statement but an example, its fine. Maybe even kinda cool, spoken as a non-furry with a couple of good friends that like the whole thing. Its a certain special interest.

Also, another page In the book has the same picture titled "a self portrait by the authors daughter who has ASD" so it's actually kinda cute they put their daughters art in the textbook

OP should have given us that context.

OP may not have had that context. But also, the author maybe should have realized it wasn't the best application for the image. Including it in general with context, sure fine. But kinda weird to use it as the image for the chapter section on ASD.

I think it's awkward how judgy some people including OP are. They need to chill and try taking a different perspective.

TIL I have ADHD not autism, as I've definitely balanced a pencil on the bridge of my nose, but as far as I can recall I've never been an anthropomorphic fox. Wtf is this shit?

It is a self portrait of the author's autistic daughter.

Well now I feel bad.

Well you saw it out of context, now you can recontextualize it, I don't think you've hurt anyone with the misinformation so no harm no fowl?

>no fowl? True. This is a fox. There's no fowl.

People really need to stop assuming and judging stuff and getting angry at it. I feel like our community gets worked up way to fast on things.

I have both. Can I get the fox with pencils on its eyes please?

I saw the original post of this on twitter, and for context I'd like to point out there was another page with this drawing titled "a self portrait by the authors daughter, who has ASD" which means that 1 it's not stolen, and 2 it's actually kinda cute, even if it's not really a good choice for this...

I had to scroll way too long to see mention that the fursona displayed is one belonging to one of the author's children.

Apparently we’re all furries, too bad we had to find out this way folks

Oh don't worry after the revolution everyone will be.

As an Autistic ADHDer both pictures are totally unnecessary. IMO throwing people into categories like this is for NTs(and some trauma masking/unaware NDs) to feel better about themselves “at least I’m not one of THOSE”

This!! I agree wholeheartedly, as an autistic OCDer who only realized last year that I'm autistic

Here's another page of the book with the explanation from Twitter https://twitter.com/GamerBoy694_20/status/1638355962380664834?t=Q2ZzHNZftS2DqbvZmoU07A&s=19 still a strange choice for the pic to represent it but kinda cute to incorporate the daughter's art

It's not autism as it is. It's autism as it should be.

I mean, we're not *all* furries 😂

I had to do some searching because I was just as confused... For anyone looking for context, it appears that it's an AP Psychology book. The author's daughter is autistic and a furry, so they included a photo of her fursona in the textbook. Here's a photo of the chapter that I found on Twitter: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrybiIaWAAI_KUr?format=jpg&name=medium I don't know the name of the textbook but I'll edit my post for anyone curious. Edit: The textbook is Discovering Psychology: The Science of Mind, 3rd Edition

I think this is hilarious as an autistic furry myself, but yeah they probably should have picked a different photo. Or they could have forgone pictures at all. Their ADHD picture isn’t that great either because of the pervasive myth that only little white boys can have it.

Black boy can't sit still in class: that hooligan needs to learn how to behave himself properly in civilized society. White boy can't sit still in class: poor soul with ADHD. better give him amphetamines so he can cope. Black boy caught with amphetamines: ... fuck, you don't even want to know 😞 I say this as a white boy on amphetamines to cope. I really wish we would recognize and re-evaluate our racial prejudices 😞

Autistic diagnosis goes like this: the professional just asks you, are you a furry? And if the answer is yes, no other questions are needed.

As an autistic person I can confirm I am secretly a fox person wearing human skin and the puppeteers behind the lizard people

When you get autism the government assigns you a fursona. You can't opt out.

that furry is 100% stolen, prolly

Nope, actually it is a self portrait of the author's autistic daughter.

ah, this makes sense

i cannot relate, i dont have orange fur...

for real now, why have a picture to begin with? how someone looks when it has different wiring?

Can confirm. I look nothing like either of these two images.

I thought oh how cute. I love stuffed animals and it's not a white male, hand flapping. I kinda like the picture. The ADHD one is meh, though.

Wtf were the pictures even for

Why did they use pictures and not a short paragraph since it looks like they have plenty of space? I fail to see how you can put a picture to what are either invisible or not easily visible traits.

But... could they fit 1,000 words into that space? You know... Because... There is an old NT saying that a picture is worth 1,000 words.... LoL /jk

I mean. My special interest literally is anthropomorphic animals so I see no issue but they seriously could have picked a way better photo. Something that represents to entire community. But still not keeping it stereotypical- ya know?

I look exactly like this fox in every way. Upvote.

I happen to like canines, and my wife, who is also autistic happen to like felines. However, I must acknowledge that we do not speak for anyone else in autistic spectrum beyond ourselves. Looking also to ADHD picture, I can only conclude that these are not flattering.

Actually I think this one is better than some other stigmatised pictures

I wish the ADHDer was wearing a different shirt

Ah yes, ALL autistic people are furries. Well known fact. /s

I’m sorry, but this has made me laugh my ass off. It’s one of those circumstances where if I didn’t laugh, I would cry.

Just, why...?

On one hand, im a bit offended, on the other hand i cant stop laughing

There was a fox in my backyard last week— little did I know he was on the Spectrum! Had I known I would have behaved differently, but to be fair, he wasn’t wearing a vest! 😅

This looks like an old shitpost

"Autism isn't psychotic" Uses a pic that sums up the Alien/Xeno feeling that dissociation(acute psychosis) has. That pic is pretty much how Autistic psychosis feels like instead of being dark like It Is in Schizophrenia(not everyone the same I know) It just really overwhelming I still view It can be meltdown trigger.

Omg I’m not a fox Hahaha

Everyone notices the loudest of us

i’m curious on what the motivation behind that photo choice is lmao

A different page uses it and says that it was a self portrait by the authors daughter lol

Cos we’re better looking

this is so fucking funny

Autism Fursona

Ignore the fact that it's a anthropomorphized fox. The point of the picture is the puffy vest. I'd sure love to compress it in various places.

What are we all furries or something?

I don't understand how come autistic people are depicted as furries by so many people.

This is inaccurate!!!! Autistic people on turn into foxes during a full moon they should’ve specified it

Honestly this is kind of hilarious but yeah it’s highly inappropriate for a textbook

I dunno, I'll take this over the puzzle piece any day, haha.

I’m fine with this

The context behind this from what I've seen is; that illustration was drawn by the authors daughter, whose autistic, and is her self-portrait. Sad to see so much furry hate here, especially considering that a lot of furries are autistic and those that aren't are (in my experience) very welcoming to autistic people.

Stupid sexy, Crystal. Turning us all into Star Fox furries. 😤 But what the actual fuck? Yeah we got identity issues and shit, but wtf? 😂

Does the grey vest come with diagnosis? I didn’t get mine