#[is autistic]

[ashleyishere24]

if I’ve learned anything from @darknesspervades Aimsey is going to fall hard down that slippery slope

my 2025 resolution is to read the hunger games books

i only got through the first one but now that im medicated i can FOCUS on BOOKS again and i WANT to READ should i keep you gamers updated as i read?

[sammaggs]

4x06 Odds | Stiff

“Fraser can’t figure out how to take a glass from a bartender” one of my single favourite moments of autistic Benton Fraserdom

[angstitty]

Maybe it’s time I sit my ass down and write a good fkg autistic!Peter and genderfluid!Wade spideypool fic because I’ve exhausted my other resources and I just need

I need

[gillipopmoji-archived]

honestly I'm tired of the person first/identity first debate. the default shouldn't matter very much as long as you listen to what the person in question wants. shout-out to anyone who uses any of the following terms:

person with autism.

autistic person.

autistic (noun)

autistic (verb)

has autism

is autistic

suffers from autism

gifted with being autistic

on the low end of the spectrum

on the high end of the spectrum

very autistic

has a little bit of autism

profoundly autistic

high functioning

low functioning

low support needs

high support needs

gifted

not normal

weird

neurodivergent

disabled

differently abled

ableminded

not disabled

has a touch of the tism

neurosilly

neurospicy

special

special needs

normal

some other word/phrase I've never heard

[sincerely-shin-ae]

Taking Horrorpedia's advice and watching the bloodiest horror movie I can find on Netflix while eating my breakfast (steamed eggs)

[dubiousculturalartifact]

Annabeth getting through to Hephaestus, and Hephaestus acknowledging her in a way that no other god has:

Autistic solidarity

[wrensflight]

I'm a little late to the party but have people talked about how Furina de Fontaine is such a good metaphors for autism and masking? Because!!!!

[violetjedisylveon]

I just got diagnosed with Autism!🎉

I've got ADHD and autism! Fuck yeah!

Just like all my friends! All of them have both!

I only have two but online friends have it too!

[batthewcatthew]

My wife my beautiful wife gillion tidestrider

[suffering-and-misery]

adhd paralysis sucks bcuz im just sitting there and my brain is like

YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME

no work done no rest gained. literally no point of this at all

(to everyone who reblogged, donate and share @olagaza's initiative!)

[2003-playground]

Can we stop using "still lives with their parents" or "unemployed" or "doesn't have a drivers license" or "didn't graduate high school" as an insult or evidence that someone is a bad person? Struggling with independence or meeting milestones is not a moral failing.

[sleeplessv0id]

what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy

[gabrielora]

When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.

[angstitty]

BROO reading a fic and Spider-Man is in such a fkg TENSE situation like I am on the edge of my seat, heart against my lips, locked into the plot. But then Peter starts having a sugar/caffein induced panic attack and I’ve rarely felt so seen and represented

Here’s the fic btw

And the chapter

[reasonsforhope]

By the way, you can improve your executive function. You can literally build it like a muscle.

Yes, even if you're neurodivergent. I don't have ADHD, but it is allegedly a thing with ADHD as well. And I am autistic, and after a bunch of nerve damage (severe enough that I was basically housebound for 6 months), I had to completely rebuild my ability to get my brain to Do Things from what felt like nearly scratch.

This is specifically from ADDitude magazine, so written specifically for ADHD (and while focused in large part on kids, also definitely includes adults and adult activities):

Here's a link on this for autism (though as an editor wow did that title need an editor lol):

Resources on this aren't great because they're mainly aimed at neurotypical therapists or parents of neurdivergent children. There's worksheets you can do that help a lot too or thought work you can do to sort of build the neuro-infrastructure for tasks.

But a lot of the stuff is just like. fun. Pulling from both the first article and my own experience:

Play games or video games where you have to make a lot of decisions. Literally go make a ton of picrews or do online dress-up dolls if you like. It helped me.

Art, especially forms of art that require patience, planning ahead, or in contrast improvisation

Listening to longform storytelling without visuals, e.g. just listening regularly to audiobooks or narrative podcasts, etc.

Meditation

Martial arts

Sports in general

Board games like chess or Catan (I actually found a big list of what board games are good for building what executive functioning skills here)

Woodworking

Cooking

If you're bad at time management play games or video games with a bunch of timers

Things can be easier. You might always have a disability around this (I certainly always will), but it can be easier. You do not have to be this stuck forever.