Amry of One: Many of the poly people I know in my community (including self and 3/4ths of my partners) are Autistic. Part of the overlap is not seeing the logic behind telling ourselves not to love whomever, or in telling people WE love not to love others. It's the same vibe as not understanding why people ask questions they would like us to lie about the answers to (if you ask how I'm doing, I'll tell you. Many NTs hate this.) or other social things. I predict that while the outsiders may assume nobody would be able to date in the Lacuna, in fact, there's loads of partnerships of all flavors, just... very rarely looking like the outside.
The school one of the kids in my family attends cut the sex ed for the Special Ed classes, because they assumed it wouldn't be needed. The initialization is SERIOUSLY dangerous, since not only do Autistic and other special needs kids also go through puberty, being non-verbal puts him at greater risk since if he's assaulted he's limited in how he can report. Not knowing the concepts just makes it worse. ABA related trauma also fucks with learning those base concepts as well. (Consent? Where was that when people hurt you 'for your own good'? Sounds fake.) I imagine the Lacuna has a number of people who also missed these bottom rungs and need to kludge a solution.
Polychrome: Coral Reef! I loved their start story, especially the magnificent polyhouses. I would love to see more about them, especially about the architect figuring out that not dating them doesn't mean he's not family ("one of us, one of us," chants the polycule. We're agglutinative like that.) Or their kids interacting, since they're being relatively co-raised. Our polywogs aren't old enough to really notice, for the most part, but there have been moments. (Child, to me and my boyfriend: Are you dating? Me: Yes. Child, with glee like I got caught doing something embarrassing: Are you IN LOVE? Me:...yes? Child: cackles like a tiny madman so hard he doesn't notice his dad put more veggies on his plate.)
Schrodinger's Heroes: Pat's polyfamily supporting the Tef crew in some way. Not with science but with common sense or communication skills or something more mundane. Maybe someone comes through the Tef and needs a cultural translator and because the poly community does communication like a boss, they sort the issue out together.
Shiv meeting Molly's polycule? Have we done that? I know we have things after he knows them all, but do we have the meeting when he figures out the relationships? I imagine that caused a storm inside his head a bit, with his bad tape (akin to people who flip because they assume the options are Single, Faithful, and Cheating, with no option for Ethical Non Monogamy), that would need to be worked through before he can be functional about it.
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Date: 2021-11-02 10:20 pm (UTC)Amry of One:
Many of the poly people I know in my community (including self and 3/4ths of my partners) are Autistic. Part of the overlap is not seeing the logic behind telling ourselves not to love whomever, or in telling people WE love not to love others. It's the same vibe as not understanding why people ask questions they would like us to lie about the answers to (if you ask how I'm doing, I'll tell you. Many NTs hate this.) or other social things. I predict that while the outsiders may assume nobody would be able to date in the Lacuna, in fact, there's loads of partnerships of all flavors, just... very rarely looking like the outside.
The school one of the kids in my family attends cut the sex ed for the Special Ed classes, because they assumed it wouldn't be needed. The initialization is SERIOUSLY dangerous, since not only do Autistic and other special needs kids also go through puberty, being non-verbal puts him at greater risk since if he's assaulted he's limited in how he can report. Not knowing the concepts just makes it worse. ABA related trauma also fucks with learning those base concepts as well. (Consent? Where was that when people hurt you 'for your own good'? Sounds fake.) I imagine the Lacuna has a number of people who also missed these bottom rungs and need to kludge a solution.
Polychrome:
Coral Reef! I loved their start story, especially the magnificent polyhouses. I would love to see more about them, especially about the architect figuring out that not dating them doesn't mean he's not family ("one of us, one of us," chants the polycule. We're agglutinative like that.) Or their kids interacting, since they're being relatively co-raised. Our polywogs aren't old enough to really notice, for the most part, but there have been moments. (Child, to me and my boyfriend: Are you dating? Me: Yes. Child, with glee like I got caught doing something embarrassing: Are you IN LOVE? Me:...yes? Child: cackles like a tiny madman so hard he doesn't notice his dad put more veggies on his plate.)
Schrodinger's Heroes:
Pat's polyfamily supporting the Tef crew in some way. Not with science but with common sense or communication skills or something more mundane. Maybe someone comes through the Tef and needs a cultural translator and because the poly community does communication like a boss, they sort the issue out together.
Shiv meeting Molly's polycule? Have we done that? I know we have things after he knows them all, but do we have the meeting when he figures out the relationships? I imagine that caused a storm inside his head a bit, with his bad tape (akin to people who flip because they assume the options are Single, Faithful, and Cheating, with no option for Ethical Non Monogamy), that would need to be worked through before he can be functional about it.