#asperg

[ka3l]

[autistic-misery]

[adult-female-with-aspergers]

I don’t think this is true 100% of the time but it does seem like a good portion the time.

[jakas-cywilizacja]

[eyelovveu]

:3c

[bifflesnitch]

The late diagnosed neurodivergent experience of being told you're wrong your entire fucking life.

You're too sensitive,

it's not too loud,

it's not too bright,

it's not overwhelming,

you're just overreacting,

it doesn't smell weird,

the texture is fine,

just eat it,

just wear it,

plans change get over it,

stop being so dramatic,

why are you so argumentative?

I was obviously joking,

why do you take everything so seriously?

I'm not yelling,

It's not a big deal,

stop nitpicking,

stop jiggling/rocking,

stop fidgeting,

stop humming/whistling/clicking,

stop talking about that,

no one cares,

you're annoying people,

you're so high strung,

just relax,

stop worrying,

stop overthinking,

just be normal

and then people act all surprised that you grow up to be an insecure, indecisive wreck. What else did you expect me to be when you spent my whole life teaching me my own perception was faulty and couldn't be trusted?

Grooming me to seek approval and validation from others for every decision I made because whenever I made them myself, they were always wrong.

[todayontumblr]

Tuesday April 11.

Autism Acceptance Month.

Today is Tuesday, April 11, which means we are eleven days into the 30 blessed days of #autism acceptance month, 2023 (previously known as #autism awareness month). April is the month and April 2nd is the day—World Autism Day, to be precise—and these first weeks of spring are a time for uplifting autistic voices of all identities, advocating for acceptance, progress, and sharing in the community's joy. It began back in 1972, as National Autistic Children’s Week, and was founded by The Autism Society to raise awareness and campaign for change in communities, schools, medical facilities, and businesses. And this same vital, wonderful work continues today, and not just for the month of April, of course—but every day of every year. The lived reality is that every day of every month is Autism Acceptance Month, and it is on all of us to do better.

Progress has been made, but there is still so much to be done in the struggle for equality and justice for all those living under the broad church of autism. And if these words sound hollow, then simply read the moving story of Debra Vines, of The Answer Inc., and of her autistic son Jason. She articulates everyday struggles that families can face, and the many joys they experience, too. Her message is simple, but powerful: don't give up on milestones.  

Want to know more, get involved, or donate? Here is just some of an impressive selection of charities sourced by the fine people at the Applied Behavior Analysis Programs Guide, where you can find the complete list of 20 charities and organizations:

The Asperger/Autism Network

The Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network

Autism Research Institute

The Autistic Self Advocacy Network

The Autism National Committee

Happy Tuesday, folks, and here's to better.

[pinkprincetragedy]

I feel like a burden in the world I feel so wrong and pathetic

[xautisticsunitex]

For adults on the Autistic spectrum

- it’s okay to still have meltdowns/sensory overloads

- it’s okay to still watch cartoons

- it’s okay if you can’t cope with a full time job

- it’s if you have learning difficulties and do things at slower pace

- it’s okay to be in your 30’s and still live with your mom and dad or one parent

- it’s okay to not have many friends or none at all

- it’s okay to live a life Neurotypicals don’t appreciate

[smoov-criminal]

unfriendly reminder that hans asperger was a literal nazi who decided that lsn autistics are the only ones who deserve to live. if you didn't know, now you do. if you did know and still call yourself an "aspie" go fuck yourself

[theautisticdoctor]

Entry #007

Sensory System

In autism the sensory system is a funny part of the body, it can be hypersensitive or hyposensitive. It can be a kind of a superpower and a disability at the same time. When people think about the senses, they often think about the five senses that do the seeing (visual), hearing (auditory), smelling (olfactory), tasting (gustatory), and feeling (tactile), but there are three more systems in the body that take in information for the brain to process and acts on it. It are the balancing and coordination (vestibular), the positioning (proprioception), and the information from inside the body (interoception).

I won't be explaining the visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory and tactile senses separately. I think they are pretty self-explanatory, in contrary to the vestibular, proprioception and interoception senses. Generally there are three categories in how people can perceive the information through their senses, they can be normosensitive, hypersensitive and / or hyposensitive. It is not one fits all, you can be hyposensitive and be stimulating it yourself, but then suddenly get overstimulated after all. It is a journey to find out how you react and how to balance your systems. But know that all the systems work together, for example your visual system works together with your auditory and vestibular system. I have drawn out the links I have found up until now how my systems work together, so that if one system gets overstimulated it could have some effect on another system for me.

Vestibular

The vestibular sense is the sense of stability, balance, movements and position of the head on the body. It works together with the visual system to make sure your eyes look in the right direction while moving your head and to correlate movements registered with what's being seen.

Proprioception

Proprioception is the possibility to perceive the position of your extremities. It gets registered by the mechanoreceptors in the tendons of your muscles and together with the visual and vestibular system it makes sure someone can coordinate movements with correct force. It is partly conscious and partly unconscious regulated, and is responsible for body position, reflexes, movement coordination, correct tone of muscles and stability. People with autism can often have trouble with correctly positioning their body, stability and coordination of movements. This is partly because of the two other senses as well, but also because of a hyposensitivity to the mechanoreceptors in the tendons.

Interoception

Interoception includes the thermoception (possibility to perceive temperature and regulates body temperature) and the nociception (possibility to perceive pain), as well as all the other bodily sensations like hunger, thirst, pain, toilet urge, flatulence, intra-abdominal gas, nausea, etc. Notice that pain is listed twice, as 'nociception' and as 'other bodily sensation'. This is because nociception is a complex thing. Nociception is pain through a stimulus within a tissue by either thermal, chemical or mechanical. But pain can also derive from other sources, for example pain from nerves is called neuropathic pain. It's a separate study on its own, but the distinction could be relevant, because for example, I'm hyposensitive to nociception and hypersensitive to neuropathic pain stimuli. Meaning, I won't feel I'm overstretching my muscles and creating an inflammation around or even doing a little damage to a nerve. Ending up with a neurogenic inflammation pain and sensory loss across an entire nerve branch for weeks, which is excruciating for me. But hey, I was able to bend my arm backwards and get that paper from behind the cupboard without moving it.

Integration

It's useful to make an inventory in what categories one is hypo- or hypersensitive for certain stimuli and what practical problems it creates for you. Beneath this sensory system inventory worksheet I have included mine too, so you have an example as well.

Mine looks something like this:

It's probably not finished yet, but I thought I might already share it. How I think my sensory system works together or influences each other for me, that I found out up until now (the faint and bolder green lines are both interactions):

[autistic-misery]

[adult-female-with-aspergers]

woos from being high functioning.

[ericshoney]

Support System ~ Brothers!Sturniolo Triplets

Summary: You have asperger's syndrome. Not many people understand you, but your brothers do.

Warnings: possible swearing, nicknames, protective!triplets, reader is on autistic spectrum, fluff.

a/n: no hate please, don't come at me saying it's not written correctly or that's not how people with asperger's act.

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Having asperger's syndrome was confusing for many people. This also meant a lot of people looked and treated you differently. The only people who didn't, were your family.

All four of your older brothers were protective over you, even more when you got diagnosed, especially knowing some of the trouble you had when you went to school, which made them beg their parents to have you schooled online, it didn't take much and within your second year of high school, you were doing it online and were much happier.

With doing online school, you were also able to see your brothers more. With Nick, Matt and Chris in LA and Justin often in Vegas, you felt happier knowing you were able to see them and not have it clash with being in school. You took school where you went.

This was all well and good, as long as you stuck to your daily routines. You did specific things on specific days and your brothers helped where they could.

You were in LA, meaning you were under Nick, Matt and Chris' care as your parents didn't go with you this time, knowing you wanted some quality sibling time. They were okay with this, but would call at the end of the week to make sure nothing major happened.

So here you were. Sat in the triplets place, watching some TV. You had done your morning routine as normal and was now relaxing, waiting for your brothers. They had planned to take you to the mall.

"Morning kid!" Nick exclaimed as he came down from his room.

"Morning." You responded simply.

It then didn't take long before Chris came bouncing into the room and Matt calmly walking over to join you on the sofa.

"Bitch move!" Nick exclaimed, as he bumped into Chris.

"Oh yeah cause I was totally in the way." Chris sarcastically responded.

"Was you?" You asked.

"No sweetheart, he was being sarcastic." Matt answered.

You nodded, not fully understanding sarcasm or many other behaviours really. You often asked the question "why" a lot. That wasn't your fault, it was down to your condition.

The four of you soon left, heading to the mall. Chris turned the music up really loudly, making you flinch slightly.

"Down!" You shouted.

"Sorry petal." Chris called, seeing your distress.

He turned the music down, making you smile. You started talking to Nick about your favourite movie. You talked and talked, but the tone of your voice never changed one bit.

When you arrived at the mall, you walked alongside Matt. Nick was on your other side as Chris led the way. You felt a bit fidgety due to all the people around, but knew you were safe alongside your brothers.

Everything was going well, you were drifting in and out of some shops, seeing what they had. You relaxed, holding onto Matt's hand and playing with the rings on his fingers as a fidget.

It wasn't until you got to the food court you started to get a bit agitated. There were a few people around, but a kid screaming. You didn't like the noise for one thing.

"Why is he screaming?" You asked, pointing to the little boy.

Your brothers looked over, trying to see if they could find an answer to your question. Something they would do often, knowing you'd keep asking if not.

"Looks like he wanted something different to eat." Chris answered.

"But why?" You asked.

"Maybe he doesn't like the food he's got." Matt suggested.

"Then why order it?" You asked.

"Honestly sweetheart, that's a good question." Nick replied.

You kept watching the little boy who was still screaming. Your brothers noticed you were getting upset by the noise due to you tapping the table and not eating your food. Matt gently grabbed your hand, making you look at him.

"Wanna get out of here, petal?" He asked.

You nodded as they packed up and left. You all went to the car and headed home.

"Did I ruin the day?" You asked once you were home.

"No, kid, never!" Chris exclaimed, hugging you tightly.

"But I made us come home early." You mentioned.

"That's not your fault, darling. It was the little boy who was upsetting you." Matt replied.

"Yeah, your happiness comes first, okay." Nick said, making you nod.

"We know this wasn't part of the plan, but how about a movie night?" Chris asked softly, knowing it wasn't part of the routine and how that could upset you.

"Um okay. But can it be back to the future?" You asked.

"Of course, kid." Nick answered.

You showed a small smile as all of you settled on the sofa with some blankets. Just as the movie was starting, Matt spoke up.

"We're very proud of you, darling. Remember that, okay." He said.

"Okay." You replied.

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@lgbtq-girl @mattsfavbigtitties @onelesslonelygirlbieber6 @riowritesitall @sturniolo-fann

[transmascpetewentz]

hey so. can we all agree to stop saying "asperger's syndrome".

the arguments have been made already for why the term is offensive to autistic people as a general whole, so i'm not going to repeat them here. what i want to focus on is the less talked about issue with the fact that we as a community still use this word.

there is literally no excuse for any person, but especially jewish & romani people, to have their medical condition named after a fucking nazi who tried to genocide their ancestors. ZERO.

and before i get a ton of people in the replies trying to make excuses, let me pre-emptively answer the most common replies i know i'm going to get.

"ohhhh no but it's sooooo hard for me to switch my language, it's only been ten years since the dsm five came out!!!!!"

boo hoo, it's hard for you to use a different word after over ten years of the dsm five removing asperger's as a diagnosis. it must be soooo much more difficult to give a single shit about jews and roma than the experiences of jews and roma who went through a genocide and are still facing violence to this day /s

"but i'm an aspie and i get to reclaim that word if i want!!!!!"

yeah, the term asperger's syndrome is offensive both to autistic people who fall under the criteria and to autistic people that don't. but do you know who else that term is offensive to? the people who went through a genocide. unless you are jewish or romani i don't want to hear it.

"but i was diagnosed with asperger's syndrome before the dsm five came out!!!!!"

see the above two points about how not continuing to glorify genocide is more important than keeping the same words we've always used for things. it's fine to say you were diagnosed with asperger's, but you do not have "asperger's", you have autism (or are autistic if that's the language you prefer).

"but i didn't know that asperger was a nazi!!!"

well, now you do.

"but naming a medical condition after someone doesn't necessarily glorify them!!!!"

would you apply this logic to literally any other field of science? if we decided to name an element after a nazi, people would rightfully be angry. people have been calling for years to rename a beetle named after a nazi. if you name a medical condition after someone, that generally means one of two things: the person was a very important and good researcher in the field, or the person was a notable person who had the medical condition. this might be a hot take, but i don't think that a nazi scientist working for the nazis should ever be considered the best and most important early researcher in any field to be deserving of having a discovery named after them.

"but you can't speak for all jews!!! look, you aren't even jewish yet, it says that on your profile!!!!"

no, i cannot speak for all jews. but i am speaking for myself when i say that all of your (general) excuses have stopped working, and that y'all need to put others' needs above your feelings sometimes. during the writing of this post, i spoke to other jews who have made posts about this before, but y'all continue to ignore jewish voices and make excuses for yourselves when it really isn't that hard to just stop saying a word.

"you're being ableist by telling me, an autistic person, how i can and cannot identify!!!!!"

i'm writing this post as someone who is autistic and would have been diagnosed with "asperger's syndrome" had i gotten my diagnosis before the dsm five came out. being autistic is no excuse for being racist, antisemitic, or any other bigotry. autistic non-jews have continuously spoken over autistic jews on many issues, including this one, and guys, it is not that hard to care about jews and roma enough to make this tiny change to your vocabulary.

i hope all of this has been enough to ward off some of the responses that i'm going to get to this post. i'm willing to engage in good faith if you're genuinely ignorant or confused, but if you have read this post, you no longer get to say that you "didn't know" that hans asperger was a nazi and that we shouldn't name any medical condition, but especially one that many jews and roma have, after people who committed genocide.

[bifflesnitch]

My disability has once again disabled me and I for one and shocked.