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Hello, I watched all the Halloween movies (except Rob Zombie’s Halloween II) for the first time this year. I’ve been on a horror movie kick lately, and what I’ve been noticing is, yes black people would not put up with a lot of foolishness, but there’s something to be said for autistics too. This is our genre, y’all! Neurotypical norms are ignored if you want to live! Small talk will not save you! You’ve got to think of off the wall (compared to neurotypicals) shit to survive! This is where we shine! Now this is going to have a mix of autism and regular black people watching a horror movie and not putting up with that shit — I can’t tell you which is which cause surprise! That’s what intersectional identities means: They bleed into one another, and there’s no clear cut delineation where one starts and the other ends, because they inform each other. Let us proceed.
Horror movies are great because odds are they aren’t gonna bombard you with a lot of information. What you see is what you get, and if they *do* offer background information, it’s gonna be in ways they don’t give you in real life. Like, we’re gonna have a sit down, we’re gonna have flashbacks that make sense. Do you know what neurotypicals do? Give you clues like we’re fucking gumshoes out here. Do you know what these movies do? They show you what’s up; they tell you the necessary info so you don’t get chopped and screwed!
Would you like to play a game?
For a different, larger font option, play the version below:
Horror Is So Gay is a series on queer and trans horror edited by Autostraddle Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya running throughout October.
…do i want to knowingly participate in the horror murder “game”? I mean…step one to surviving the horror movie is just say no.
i love the way you think, i believe you would survive
this is so fun!!!!!!!
yayy!!!!!
The quiz is a cool format. 😊 I was also really interested in your description at the beginning about the intersectional experience of being black & autistic & would love to read more of your thoughts on that experience if you ever write them (or have before/elsewhere).
thank you for playing!! i definitely intend to explore that more in future writing and i’m glad i’ll have at least one person checking for it, it means a lot!
A. Tony, I know I’ve said it before, but I really cannot describe just how much I love this.
thank you so much!! :)
Hahaha this brought me much delight
AHHH YES very glad to hear this!!
This is SO GOOD.
THANK YOU!!
This made me laugh so hard, loved it.
ahh im so glad!! thank you for reading!
Is there a possibility to switch to a more readable font for the quiz? i’ve zoomed in significantly but it still scrambles and fries my brain. and i want to enjoy the *intended* horror ;)
(i’m on desktop, windows, firefox)
Thank you for hints!
hi! a.tony super helpfully made a second version of the game with a larger font. it’s now below the original game in the post.
THANK YOU 💞
im glad its okay! thank you for the note about the readable font!
I saved this until i had time to really enjoy it and I LOVED it!!
I’m so glad to hear it!! thank you for playing :)