#and my autistic brain was struggling

[adhdgirl-d96]

Having a neurotypical family is having people continously discrediting our neurodivergent's feelings, thoughs, issues, the things we find usually hard to do on a daily basis.

Usually they tend to tell us we need to stop thinking about issues and just get help to stop being or feeling some way. I can't just stop being neurodivergent...

Get educated and stop making your neurodivergent relative feel stupid, that they are making everything up or that they are being overly dramatic about what it is to be neurodivergent.

You don't get to tell us how to feel or how we should be.

[saidtostaine]

my lack of object permanence in funerals :

"well....technicallyyy....they're not really dead. i know they're gone now but i dont really FEEL that they're gone??? eh"

*after funeral*

"oh where'd the body go? well, its gone. anywayy *forgets person's existence completely until they're brang up in a convo*

[dirty-bear-rick-sanchez]

Once again, I’m working on multiple fics at once rather than just focusing on one and actually finishing it. Some of the stuff I’m writing at the minute includes:

• More trans Morty (some backstory on Morty A-70 figuring out he’s trans/coming out)

• Flesh Curtains era Birdrick (the original idea was to have a series of little drabble-y type things exploring times Rick and Birdperson realised just how alien the other actually was to them but now it’s sort of changing into a longer fic of them getting to know each other and also exploring Rick’s issues so we’ll see where that goes)

• J.R./Rand smut

There’s also some other WIPs that I haven’t looked at in a while (Morty finding out he’s autistic and so is Rick, some smuttier Birdrick content, and a Birdrick request that I’m very sorry it’s taking me so long!) but hopefully will continue although I have a feeling a lot of stuff might get thrown off once new episodes drop.

[kraviolis]

i wanna write an essay about how all the vampires + guillermo + the guide are autistic but just have different flavors of autism

[glassphinix]

[ID: the “touching grass is not enough” meme of text over a flowery field that has been edited to read “touching grass is not enough, i need an update about the edge of sleep tv series.” end ID]

[theprideful]

jfc the people jumping down your throat for that VERY clearly a harmless joke post need to calm TF down like. man clearly the thing you are criticizing is "autism mom" culture and pathologising autism, not at all saying anything about different care needs, or putting down those with high care needs... which also many people prefer to use terms like low or high support rather than trying to rank it as "severe" and have said ranking be based on how neurotyoical we can act rather than like. what we actually need help w. they are putting so many words in your mouth you didn't even a little say and came out ready to start drama and not actually bother to consider any possibility other than what they assumed, or to do anything to prevent conflict.

anyway point is I'm w you on the "dude wtf" and hope people get a grip.

thank you, so many of them are arguing a point i didn’t even make with arguments i literally agree with and i’m actually getting harassed for a misunderstanding. like i agree that there are autistics who need more support and that autism is a vast spectrum. i have never contested those things. “functioning labels are harmful” and “all autistic people are different and will need different supports and function differently” are not mutually exclusive and they can, do and should coincide. anyway i appreciate it

[rennieisblue]

being autistic sucks. it sucks. i love myself, and i love how my brain works. but, i hate the way i interact with other people. i upset people without being aware of it, or i weird people out without being aware of it.

i have said 3 things i’m not socially allow to say in the space of 20 minutes whilst being out with my family. i know they’re just joking but they called me rude, and keep getting upset with me. it’s my worst aspect of myself, and i hate it. i take back what i said, i really hate the way my brain works. i’m scared to say anything, i have anxiety to even speak because i’m frightened i will mess up. i’ve never been one to have social anxiety but now it’s at an all time high. only a few sentences are safe for me now.

how do i become more aware of social cues and situations? how do i stop myself from just speaking without thinking?

[natjennie]

if i could go nonverbal for the rest of my life except when I wanna talk about a hyperfixation or make creature sounds I immediately would.

[cyancees]

You said you're so autistic, shouldn't you be in the care of an adult who can actually take care of you then instead of bunkering down with someone just as bad?

me and my mum fought so much that when i was 17 she told me to go live with my dad, so i did.

when i was 20 my dad kicked me out. thanks to the help of my mum and very generous people on here i was able to get an apartment and have been living on my own for nearly 3 years. thanks to my roommate moving out WITHOUT telling me, i wasnt able to find another roommate in time and had to move into a share house.

as much as i try to move back in with my mum she won't let me. ive begged her and cried and said i wasnt ready. but she cant take me back. even if i did live with one of my parents neither me nor my sibling would be able to transition so this is all weve got.

luckily we mostly struggle in different areas so we can help each other out. this is the best option for both of us because being able to be comfortable in my own place is honestly a really big factor in how i function

[paradoxesofgalaxies]

I finished the MID and immediately had to lay down

One of the last questions was "More than one part of you has been reacting to these questions" and I felt very called out 🤣

[deliciousdietdrpepper]

Omg so Adam Groff is definitely autistic like

[roses-and-lightnings]

ADHD is hard, not due to the symptoms themselves, but everything you are forced to believe about yourself. Being disabled in a society that doesn't seem to care for your struggles is rough. You work twice as hard as everyone to accomplish the bare minimun, and everytime you fail, a name is written on you, for you're not normal. Every day being more difficult than the other, often there's no strength left to fight back, to face yourself in the mirror and tell the person looking back at you they can do it. That they can't believe what people say, when it's so damn clear they'll never be enough. That they're not less because they're missing part of their brain functions. The more you try, the more painful it is to realize it's no use at all.

More often than not, I think I'm going lose this war, and forever hate myself for everything I am. For being born broken. And never be able to live it down. Being subjected to the same mistakes over and over again without the capability to learn from them. Suffer so much the horrible consequences of something I didn't have a choice on.

[mrfoox]

Once I learn the difference between me having a crush and me being (hyper)fixated on a person, it's all over

[shoezuki]

It is currently 3:51am and i cant seem to fall back asleep but i just had a fucking phenomenal idea for a ritshou fic entirely based on something i experienced as a kid.

So in like 3rd and 4th grade i would be put into 'special' classes with one teacher, maybe 3 other students, with no explanation to little old me. And we'd all sit close together carefully pronouncing vowels and consonents and words

And i went on like that for weeks maybe months not telling my mom until one day the truth is revealed. Where the teacher has a meeting with my mom. And i finally get glasses.

And it turns out that, because i would struggle to read what was on the chalkboard cuz i always sat in the back of the class, it was assumed i had issued with pronounciations (which was actually true to a small degree i had a lisp then) and so id be pulled into these smaller pronounciation lessons but somehow in them id pronounce things PERFECTLY. and it took so long for people to realize that was because i would be close enough to the board in those classes that i could see properly. But id thought blurry vision was normal and no one had bothered to ask me bout it

Anyways im gonna write ritsu goin thru that

[handcat]

girl help! my mental health has reached a low point! 🤪

[xeiqua]

been watching kier and dev