Pro respecting elders in the ‘listen to people with more experience than you’ and 'don’t discount people as automatically regressive or out of touch because of their age’ sense. Very much anti respecting elders in the 'authority figures are automatically right’ and 'children aren’t allowed to disagree with their parents’ way.
Please, the Zweihänder is a specialist weapon for breaking pike formations. Are your coworkers in a pike formation? Are they blocking your advance with a wall of thorny death? No? Then what the hell is a Zweihänder gonna do?
Really wanna fuck up your coworkers? Halberd from the elevator. Polearms have the range you need. Doors open, skewer Steve from accounting, doors close. Ride it back down, doors open, skewer Laura at the front desk. Back up, open doors, stab Jason, repeat. They call security? You’ve got feet of range on that motherfucker. Dinky little baton ain’t shit next to a Halberd. I’ve pulled the old elevator Halberd at five, six of my jobs over the years and they never see it coming. Until it’s too late, that is. Just a little tip for ya. Keep the change.
Please do note that halberds, because of their asymmetric weight distribution, will be most effective in workplaces with open office plans where there’s room to wind up again after a chop. If your workplace is dominated by narrow hallways, you may find the glaive more effective due to its superior maneuverability.
Recently a couple of the autistic kids I work with have inspired me with openly, unapologetically owning it.
Like one kid saying “if I don’t make eye contact it’s because I find that hard and it’s easier to concentrate on what you’re saying if I’m not looking at you.”
And another one asking for clarification of an ambiguous statement to check understanding instead of just hoping for the best.
And one saying “I’m going to stim now, this conversation is hard”
I have so much respect for them for being able to voice those things! It’s inspired me to try harder to do that instead of masking until I meltdown because I’m so scared of how people will react.
This is what I wanted to be in the 80s and 90s and people would pull me aside to tell me it was inappropriate.
It was revealed that 90% of autistics have trauma from repressed stims, not to mention those who were put through ABA.
If we can start to raise more and more autistic kids who are openly, unapologetically autistic, think about how powerful that would be for our future.
