#[is autistic]

[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

[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

[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

[amazingmagda]

leon s. kennedy, my autistic boi

[jellyfish4mythicquest]

brad bakshi is so autistic and no one can convince me otherwise. Man stims.

[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

[nintooner]

This is the highest compliment I could receive on my art

[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.

[callmemanatee]

The way most autism literature describes "literal interpretation" is often not at all similar to how I experience it. Teenage me even thought I couldn't be autistic because I've always been able to learn metaphors easily.

In fact, I love wordplay of all kinds. Teenage me was fascinated to learn all the types of figurative language there are in poetry and literature.

But paperwork and questionnaires are hard, because there's so much they don't state clearly. Or they don't leave room for enough nuance.

"List all the jobs you've had, with start and end dates." What if I don't remember the exact day or month? Is the year enough?

"Have you been suffering from blurred vision?" Well, if I take off my glasses the whole world is blurred, but I'm fairly sure that's not what the intake form at the optometrist is asking.

Or the infamous (and infuriatingly stereotypical) "Would you rather go to a library or a party?" What sort of party? Where? Who's there? I work at a library. Am I currently at the library for work or pleasure? Does it have a good collection?

It's not common figures of speech that confound me. It's ambiguity, in situations that aren't supposed to be ambiguous.

[bipolarmango]

My doctor and therapist: now with this autism + ADHD diagnosis you need to learn to unmask because masking all the time will make you burn out again and feel like shit

Other people: well it's just interesting how after getting the diagnosis you suddenly start behaving like that I mean I'm not saying you're faking it's just funny how you suddenly cannot be normal like you were before