In possibly my most impressive Twitter scuffle yet, I (someone who speaks welsh & is of welsh decent) was accused of being racist because when I had a stroke, I experienced bilingual aphasia & could temporarily only speak Welsh & this means that I am āorientalizingā the Celts, like āmagical nativesā
The evidence for this was that when someone commented āWelsh sounds like fairy talk to meā (which to be fair, is because of Tolkien basing all his stuff on it), I did not immediately recoil and instead joked āah, that must be why I reverted to it, being half fae myselfā
This was then screenshotted and everyone decided that
1) I was brain damaged for thinking I was a fairy
2) I was speaking gibberish and just assumed it was Welsh
And this is somehowā¦ fetishizing the Welsh? And also anti-indigenous? Somehow?
Nevermind the half fae thing is partly a joke about autism and partly a joke about the family legend (ON MY WELSH SIDE) about how our ancestor fucked a tree nymph and thatās why we are the way we are
Anyway, turns out they were all anti-theists who find ALL MAGIC EXTREMELY OFFENSIVE AND SOMETHING ONLY BRAIN DAMAGED RACIST PEOOLE DO
basically just recreating white supremacy and using anti-colonizing language to do it
Anyway if I am going to be cancelled for being racist it might as well be for being racist against white people with whom I actually share genes why not
(ALTHOUGH I DO FEEL THE NEED TO CLARIFY THAT MOST OF THE PEOPLE YELLING AT ME WERE ENGLISH BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY WERE)
And to clarify more because the Internet has made me paranoid, I do not consider myself half autistic, I am fully autistic!
BUT
I thought I was undiagnosed, so I told my mom & she was like oh no, you were diagnosed at 5 but we decided never to tell you
So, like, half diagnosed?
Very fae lol
I absolutely posted passive aggressive welsh poetry in response. On my own wall, though. I wasnāt going to dignify them with a comment. Also itās not like any of THEM actually spoke welsh lol.
omg did the people arguing with you even know you? like just seeing your posts in passing a few times, i knew about your witchery and fae vibes. and I'm just some rando. š
too viral, then! š° but it is excellent. i kind of like "reverting to fae" as an explanation for when the neurological stuff doesn't work right. it's more fun than brain damage. Alas, I do not have fae ancestry myself.
one of my favorite niche internet microdramas from many years ago was when the scandinavia and the world webcomic had a comic where the punchline was basically "lol dumb americans think irish is a language"
a bunch of irish folks were quite... unhappy
