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[pinkherrings]

irl footage of me with my friends

[sailing-ever-west]

therapist: your autism can offer important and unique insights and perspectives on the world!

my autism:

[snakesong]

Some days I'm like "do I actually need to apply for academic accommodations for my autism?" but then other days I lose 3 hours of sleep and bam! No concentration or logical reasoning for you! Good luck on that paper due tomorrow <3

[weirdplutoprince]

Autistic? Me?

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[wanderingmind867]

I don't know if I am. People have tried, and I usually get paralyzed like a deer in headlights, unable to talk much in response to others. But I still try sometimes. And i think that's the most i can say about myself.

Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.

[do-u-know-this-autisticcharacter]

Do You Know This (non-canon) Autistic Character?

Propaganda:

America is explicitly stated to have trouble making and keeping friends due to poor social skills (not in those exact words, but that’s what it boils down to), and he has trouble with boundaries. He also has a strong sense of justice and has a very black and white way of thinking and perceiving the world. He’s incredibly blunt, and is shown in canon to have trouble understanding sarcasm and reading the atmosphere.

He’s genuinely compassionate and want to help others, but has low empathy (for the record, this means he can’t understand others’ feelings and emotions and has trouble putting himself in their shoes). He also makes a lot of arm movements, which could be stimming. America also mainly eats hamburgers and junk food, which could be a sensory thing. He has a canon hyperfixation on heroes. America also is loud/has volume control issues.

Anything else

Hetalia IS a problematic series and should be consumed critically. The dub is far more problematic than the sub/manga, but the sub/manga still has problematic elements.

[theatrekidenergy]

The irony of me telling my brother about what it’s like for me to be autistic and he said “yeah well I do all that, but I’m not autistic.” like my brother in Christ. You are describing the criteria for an autism diagnosis.

[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.

[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

[aimlesspoet]

a bottom-tier autistic experience is being told throughout your entire childhood that you are just an overthinker when it comes to social situations and later finding out that your friends did, in fact, hate being around you and tried to communicate that through weird little hints

[magentasnail]

served my duty as an autistic artist and made a bunch of autism creature reaction images

[neurodivergenttales]

The ‘you’re mature for your age’ to sleeping with a bed full of plushies in your mid twenties pipeline is real

[snakeautistic]

People underestimate how much it fucks you up to be subtly excluded as a kid. I would try to talk to my classmates and be met with disinterest or annoyance. The one friend I had, who I clung to and nodded along to his every word, had other friends he liked just as much or more. And his other friends didn’t care for me at all.

I look back at pictures from the time and see how separated I was from them. I remember knowing I was different. I remember posing questions about the world to the girls playing next to me and realizing that they had never asked the same ones to themselves. That the ways we thought couldn’t be more different.

I kept myself amused with my own fanatical stories and musings in my head. I would wander the playground on a circular path, imagining a friend and being sorely disappointed when it didn’t feel as real as I’d hoped.

There was a bubble separating me from everyone else, thin, and nearly invisible, but with a pearly sheen you could catch under the right conditions. I knew it was there, they knew it was there, and it changed me

[pigeon-cave]

Spectrum of overwhelm, now in triangle form due to popular demand

[Image description: A triangle chart titled, ‘Spectrum of Overwhelm.’ The three points are ‘404 Error,’ showing a person with an empty thought bubble; ‘wet beast,’ showing a person sweating and sobbing; and ‘rage beast’ showing a person clenching their fists in an outline of orange fire. The peak is the ‘404 error’ vertex, and the inside of the triangle here is coloured beige and labelled, ‘shutdown.’ The lower half is labelled ‘meltdown’ and is red on the rage beast side and blue on the wet beast side. \End description]