#acuallyautistic

[wlfgrrl]

[adultingautistic]

Have you or any of your followers watched bright minds? I saw an ad yesterday about it and it just felt weird. Like another tv show where the autistic person is just so stereotypical and ~bright~. But that just comes from and ad, I don’t have that tv channel anyways.

I haven’t heard of this one.  Wheeee another stereotype, yay (sarcasm).

If anyone has seen it, please feel free to add your opinion!

[catgirl-kaiju]

Them: *Having conversation about my special interest*

Me:

[cglrestimming]

Ian/Kai stim board. Siren's Lament

[antisocial-autistic]

Painted my nails sparkly, keep flapping every time I look at them :3 they make me so happy! I could stare at them for hours <3 Driving my partner mad cause I wish I could share the joy with everyone but apparently other people don't get it :(.

[catgirlkaiju-art]

Some Ideas for how noise based obstacles would look in They’re Here, a point and click adventure game I’m conceptualizing starring an autistic girl with sound sensitivity.

Design for the protag

[stim-trash]

Wanted to show all the bracelets I wear

From top to bottom 

1: A Smiggle watch ( I can’t use normal analogue watches cause no ) 2: Yellow coil spring bracelet thing  3: a rainbow LGBT bead thing with 7 coloured leather things the beads are on 4: Same material as the LGBT one that says “Not all wounds are visible anxiety awareness 5: Three Zipper bracelets from @stimtastic 6: A rubber bracelet from a camp I went to 7: A “keep calm and stim on” and “Flappy hands are happy hands” form @stimtastic 8: Two “take a stand” anti-bully bands  9: My communication bracelets form @stimtastic I move then one I’m feeling to the other wrist that doesn’t have anything on it

I also have rainbow texter on my arm rn

Please Credit 

[go3dprinting]

Its sad that the only jobs that pay well and they are willing to hire someone with autism is software development. If you don’t fit in that small box. You are screwed and stuck with low wage work for the rest of your life. 

[invader-sox]

Trans flag Squishies!!!

[for-the-outliers]

I didn’t ask for this

they call it being Hyper-empathetic. it’s a symptom of ASD. they explained it like a broken slider. it changes based on the situation, one problem the slider might be to the left or to the right, but usually somewhere in the middle. when you have ASD there is no middle. only one side or the other. either all the empathy you can give or complete detachment. for me it’s stuck to the left, all the empathy. sometimes I think of how much easier it would be if I just didn’t feel that at all. dare I say it. but feeling nothing sounds better that feeling everything. I didn’t ask for this. I didn't ask to feel the weight of the world without being able to help. I am atlas had he been crushed. feeling and seeing everything is not a gift, but a curse. I didn’t ask to be consumed by emotions that aren't mine. to be exhausted with trama I didn’t have. “oh you would be a great therapist, you always have such great advice and are so willing to listen.” they don’t see it. They don’t know. I feel the pain they do. To see and feel an event unfold, as if you were a silent witness. Watching helplessly. having my hands bound by the bonds of time. I didn’t ask for this, none of us did.

[quirkycerebralwiring]

Autism Acceptance Month: Day 20: Communication

Tips for communication, mainly aimed at neurotypicals communicating with autistic people:

Communicating through writing can be great, even if you’re together in person.

Symbols can also be useful.

Be open to ways of communicating that you are not used to.

Sometimes you have to communicate about how to communicate and that’s okay.

Don’t assume you can read the other person based on body language. An autistic person’s body language is generally different from a non-autistic person’s body language and there are huge variations even among people of the same neurotype.

Communicating about serious matters is generally easier for autistic people if we are in a comfortable, familiar and sensory-friendly environment. 

If an autistic person seems closed off, it does not necessarily mean we don’t want to talk/communicate with you. Sometimes  it’s a more a matter of not knowing how/feeling anxious and in that case, we may still appreciate you talking to us without us talking back. In other cases, we may indeed just want to be left alone. 

 If you know an autistic person well, it’s probably a good idea to have a way to communicate (verbally or non-verbally) when the person wants to talk but is having trouble vs. when they want to be left alone.

Some (but not all) autistic people may have trouble “opening up”, even with regards to topics often considered “safe” like music. Many of us have been shamed in the past for our interests so sharing them can be difficult. Respect any boundaries a person puts up.

We understand what you’re saying. Keep that in mind when you talk about us around us.

Erring on the side of being more clear and leaving less implied is usually a safe bet.

And as always, presume competence. Even if we don’t respond in typical ways, we are still listening, still processing, still understanding.

[a-ton-of-falling-lemons]

being autistic has its pros and cons but one of the pros is that (from my experience) the community is very diverse and it is interesting to see how autism shows itself in different people in different ways

[catgirl-kaiju]

Nothing is sexier than a lady that shares my special interests

[satanasparado]

Hay tanto candor en las acuarelas:

[fullofpith]