#actually austistic

[surrah698]

[fuckedupfemmebot]

Where are all the "slow" kids, the challenged kids, the burnouts from birth, the burden to have in class? Where are the autists who can't mask, who self harm, who are loud and can't stop stimming? The NDs with processing disorders, brain damage, brain fog? The ones with down syndrome, FAS, and other conditions that people treat like curses or defects. I hardly ever see them past 18 and I know they don't just dissolve once they become adults.

[inbarfink]

There’s just something about the fact that Zim reads as So Autistic. Like, both in the sense that it’s easy to map his experiences as an alien secretly living on earth to Autistic experiences:

A lack of understanding of social cues and conventions

The Anxieties of feeling like you have to fit in some arbitrary social standards or Something Bad will happen

Unusual sensory sensitivities

Pickiness about food

General alienation

Even the whole ‘fully grown alien disguised as a human child but he’s so immature he basically acts like a child’ shtick can really resonate with a sort of Growing Up Autistic Feeling of… being both far too mature and childish for your age at the same time.

And also in the sense that even in the context of comparing him to other Irkens...

He has problems with volume control

And possibly audio processing

And definitely with emotional regulation

And is extremely impulsive 

And uses very unusual wordings and turn-of-phrases 

And experiences sensory overloads.

And these aren't even Alien Things. That's just Zim being Zim. So he can be read as a metaphor for being Autistic and also as just having the Irken Equivalent of Autism

AND ALSO

His human arch-enemy Dib also has SO MUCH AUTISM VIBES

Like being single-mindedly obsessed with a special interest from a young age

(The part where his interests alienate him from his peers at school and he only finds companionship with an assortment of fellow weirdos of various ages he met online is something I find especially relatable for my own experiences)

Also having problems with reading social cues 

And a tendency to rant and info-dump

AND ALSO ALSO 

There’s also Gaz

Who is ALSO single-mindedly obsessed with a singular subject

And it’s something that always gives her something to do with her hands

And avoid eye-contact 

Which she generally prefers to avoid

And also seems to dislike any sort of physical touch

And either expresses her emotions in a way that is terribly understated or overstated

And it could also apply to their dad too, who’s been obsessed with science stuff from a young age

And also doesn’t seem to do so well with social interactions

Outside of just, like, me looking back at my Autistic-but-unaware-of-it middle-school ass imprinting on this show and being like “oh yeah, That Makes Sense” - it’s also kinda darkly hilarious how this show is basically about two autistic boys who just fucking hate each other to death (plus one of the boys' extremely autistic and extremely dysfunctional family). I mean, in the real world Autistic Solidarity is so incredibly important, obviously. But Invader Zim, a show that was everything to me as a lil autistic teenager is all about that sweet sweet Autistic Hostility.

[rustyscreech]

Been thinking a lot about reading and getting information from text recently as someone with ADHD so I'm curious

I hate to say reblog to increase sample size but my following is pretty small and I'd like to get actual input on this, so if you wanna toss a reblog after you answer that'd be much appreciated <3

[rainbowchihuahuabunny]

*going feral*

*bouncing off the walls*

*frothing at the mouth*

I LOVE WHEN OLD SPECIAL INTERESTS REAWAKEN

[nothing-if-not-unusual]

Shakespeare’s comedies end with marriage, I don’t want my comedy to end so I’ve decided not to get married

[asingleflyingfuck]

Me: Spencer Reid is heavily implied to be autistic.

My mom: Yeah he’s definitely on the same part of the spectrum as you

Fuck okay mom went for the throat

[ensign-spider]

being autistic like

[treestomeetyou]

getting my flu shot and covid booster at the same time on halloween so i can power up my autism before seeing the FNAF movie

[your-pal-nebula]

I just wanna say that I love being me

I love being my multigender transmasc pansexual aroaceflux neoprounoun user autistic alterhuman self

It's like wow I'm a complex queer identity weird kid, isn't that so fun, I love being myself, I could make an exclusionist have a heart attack just by showing them my intro post

[surrah698]

My sassy PDA be like...

[elliott-the-creature]

omggg, this owl might get some communication cards soon!!! yippeeee!

we went to an occupational therapist yesterday, and we were talking about how to navigate around/through verbal shutdowns, bouts of situational mutism, and general shutdowns/meltdowns. the ot mentioned that communication cards would be good because they’re portable and easy to use and understand, and we started on a plan to make some cards online and print them out and laminate them (they would be those small ones on a keychain). it would include how I’m feeling, saying something along the lines of “I can’t speak right now”, and stuff that I can do to calm down (I was also thinking of having a blank card so that I can write a custom message with a whiteboard pen) (for context, this would be used the most in school or public places in general).

finally, a way to navigate my disability!!! everyone in headspace is super happy about this too (especially princess and ty; they’re excited to help make the cards). any autistics or folks in general with communication cards, please leave suggestions below with stuff I can add to my list of cards, or just general tips of how we can effectively use them or any other things that we should know! /nf

[redwolfstabs]

ALPHAWOLFSTABS - BILLY

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[carbonatedcaveart]

hot take, but i really don’t think there’s anything wrong with acknowledging that someone is more disabled than you. where the nuance comes in, at least for me, is in how exactly you’re saying it.

for example, i’m not a huge fan of saying someone is more or less autistic than someone else- that’s not really how autism works. it can also be a harmful way to think about autism, as people considered to be less autistic will have their experiences invalidated while people considered to be more autistic will be intentionally overlooked or seen as some sort of lost cause (i’m not sure i’m phrasing it well, but it ties in a lot to how i feel about high/low functioning labels).

however, what is completely reasonable (and arguably, necessary) is to say is that another autistic person may be more disabled by their autism than i am by mine. that does not negate the fact that both of us are autistic, and it doesn’t invalidate the disability that i experience as a result of my autism, but it does leave room for the nuance of experience within autism.

with disability and disabled identity as a whole, this is not a bad way to think about things. recognizing that someone is more disabled than you doesn’t negate the fact that i am also disabled, but insisting that everyone is either disabled or not disabled completely ignores any marginalization beyond the marginalization i experience- which is really not a helpful way to conceptualize disability.

[vivianseda]

Thank you Em from NeuroWild

“I talk a lot about fluctuating capacity in neurodivergent people.

It leads to conversations about expectations, and whether it’s ok to push our kids to do hard things.

We don’t want to push our kids when they’re close to the edge. That just pushes them off.

When they’re emotional, dysregulated, unwell, exhausted, overwhelmed- this is not a time to push them. This is a time to reduce expectations and add support.

When our kids are well-regulated, emotionally ok, not mentally exhausted, in a good frame of mind- that is the time to provide opportunities for them to exceed expectations and ‘push’ themselves.

Yes?

Em 🌈🌻✌️

AuDHD SLP”

[ishkabibblethings]

flare up - rest and recover - catch up on chores and errands - smaller flare up from overdoing it again - rest and recover - attempt to be social because it's been a month - meltdown from messed up routines and social burnout - meltdown causes fla--