#autisic traits

[ambientbroth]

First poll :) repost are welcomed!

[superpussyking]

I'm just saying Elias Bouchard is autisic but it gets overlooked because a lot of his autisic traits overlap with his evil ones. Also he actively enjoys masking

I made a comprehensive list for every reason I think Elias is autisic and I think that alone should get me an autism diagnosis but that's asides the point. I'm gonna post it later after I clean it up a bit

Edit: check the reblogs that's where my autistic Elias master list is

[thisnerdjason]

I'm so sick of people that are the same age as me or younger, infantilising me just because I'm a virgin and they aren't, or that I'm new to smoking weed, or that I don't really drink, or just because I don't really understand social cues. It's fucking insulting

[anothermonikan]

I have. A headcanon about Avalon. And I have no idea if saying it would get me ripped apart by the fanbase or if everyone would be like. Oh yeah obviously

[tabithatwo]

Do you think Jackie is autistic? She has alot of autistic traits and some are even accepted by the fandom. There's a tag for her on Ao3

this is a really interesting question for me. i'm sort of going to give my opinion in a round about way because its very bound up in who i am, so bare with me. i wouldn't feel equipped to answer this question if i didn't relate very heavily to jackie. part of my yj love started just from how seen i felt by jackie's character.

i was captain of a girls sports team, i was so stupidly lesbian, i had the on a boys sports team boyfriend who i didn't like at all, my home life wasn't like hers in many ways but my mother was also an addict and generally not nice lady lol, i tried my best to be as nice as i could to everyone, and surface level i was liked in a homecoming princess type way, but i had very few super close friends. i often got the "wow you're actually nice" or "i assumed you were a bitch" comments from people i'd never spoken to before and i had no idea why or how to prove that i was genuine. jackie gets accused of being "fake nice" to "manipulate people" a lot, but we really don't see her doing any manipulating or get any evidence that she doesn't mean the nice things she says and does.

i heavily relate to that and as i've gotten older i've realized that people often mistake the sense that something is off with fake kindness. i think there are a few reasons that jackie is treated the way she is, both by the other girls at the end of her life and by viewers, but it would take like...an extensive essay to get into the nuance of them lol, so i'll just stick with this:

i think being neurodivergent gets you the treatment that jackie gets a lot of the time. i'm EXTREMELY adhd, like really blow the assessment scores all the way up adhd lmao it impacts my life heavily, and i wasn't diagnosed until my twenties. i also score high on the autism screener and fit the criteria, but i have never/will never seek any formal diagnosis there just out of personal preference. all that to say, i relate heavily to jackie taylor, i think the girl is some kinda neurodivergent, and i think headcanoning characters as autistic makes total sense when the evidence tallies up lol.

the thing is, so many characters are lesbian-coded or adhd-coded or autisim-coded, because so many people don't know that they are those things. i knew i liked women from an early age, but i had the comphet of thinking i liked men also. so i didn't know i was a lesbian until i was 24. i didn't know i had adhd until i was 25. i didn't know i was (probably) autistic until 26. we don't have to know the words for the things we feel and do to embody them or to see them in others or to write them into characters. does that make sense?

anyway, if you think jackie taylor is autisic i love that and i can't say i disagree. that's my long-winded answer!

[brightlotusmoon]

"I’ve written about innate traits of autism and adhd in separate posts, so I wanted to write about similarities and differences between these closely related neurotypes.

Innate traits of Autism are neural hyper-connection, monotropism, and bottom up processing. Innate traits of ADHD are neural hyperconnection, monotropism and holotropism, and flexible processing styles (both bottom up and top down).

Distress symptoms of each of these neurotypes are listed in the DSM as diagnostic criteria, which leads to great confusion about these neurotypes.

Some Autistic and/or ADHD people go their entire lives without any recognition of their neurodivergence - this is true for many people in our parents and grandparents generation.

Many Autistic and ADHD people are never formally diagnosed but seek out ways to affirm and support their neurotype without diagnosis.

In a fully supportive environment, an Autistic or ADHD person may not display enough distress symptoms to fit the diagnostic criteria. It’s been a joy to personally witness Autistic and ADHD children being raised by parents who understand their kids neurological needs. These parents struggle to get accommodations for their children because they aren’t displaying enough distress behaviors.

Autistic and ADHD people who mask or fawn a lot are frequently not diagnosed because masking internalizes their distress symptoms. High-masking neurodivergent people often experience a burnout episode which leads them to display a lot of distress responses which leads them to a recognition of their Autism or ADHD.

Autism and ADHD are genetically closely related. There are about 200 total genes which code for Autism & ADHD and people only need a handful of these genes to express Autistic/ADHD phenotypes. Autistic parents typically have Autistic kids and ADHD parents typically have ADHD kids but Autistic parents can also have ADHD kids and ADHD parents can have Autistic kids.

I think someday people might consider Autism, AuDHD, and ADHD to be different profiles of the same neurotype. I’m AuDHD myself so I have a difficult time making a clear distinction between what Autism is and what ADHD is.

I see validity in seeing them as parts of the same thing and also in seeing them as distinct from each other. I’m not invested in looking at it one way or the other.

To clarify what I mean by parts of the same thing I am NOT suggesting that adhd = autism or autism = adhd. I am also not suggesting that autisic and adhd people have the same support needs.

The idea that they are parts of the same thing is like saying a foot and an ear are both part of an elephant. Obviously a foot is not an ear and an ear is not a foot and the foot and ear have different needs, but both are part of the elephant.

IF Autism and ADHD are distinct parts of the same genetic neurotype, that neurotype has not yet been named.

PDA and several other types of neurodivergence could also be distinct profiles of the same overarching genetic type."

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[cryptidjeepers]

I dont know if anyone else has mentioned it but laios reaction after shuro tells him how annoying he finds him and pretty much always has really hit me. Not only that, but shuro's annoyance with laios is so obviously connected to laios' autisic traits and general awkward personality. It's hard enough as an autistic/anxious/awkward individual to make friends and keep them, but finding out one of your first friends has thought you were annoying throughout your entire friendship is such a deep, uncomfortable rejection that is so much worse than someone just not being your friend for those exact reasons.

As someone that has always been extremely self conscious about my own awkward social anxiety (and maybe undiagnosed autism) i was always afraid of that exact scenario. You know, befriending someone and then finding out they were just nice to you or never really liked you or just tolerated your existence. In high school, it was really hard to tell who were actually my friends and who were just acquaintances, and who straigh up did not like me because i couldn't pick up on social cues. I literally did not make any deep relationships until 3 years into highschool. I think my heart actually dropped at hearing shuro berate him for not picking up on hints and reading the room. Goddamn

[sanityshorror]

Julius is autisic? what are his traits?

Speaking as an autistic person, I don't feel comfortable labeling anything as "autistic traits," because my autism is simply part of who I am - and I have traits as a person. I'm not mad, I just don't personally like the terminology.

However, Julius experiences over stimulation very easily, he is highly sensitive to both sound and light as well. He can't handle excessive loud noises and very bright places but he also cannot handle silence or pitch darkness. It goes without saying that Julius intensely hyper-fixates - 'perfection' being the primary thing. He does have other hyper-fixations as well, including sewing, porcelain dolls, dissection and the process of decay (in a better timeline, he would have been a great scientist TBH). Additionally, Julius is non verbal rather often. Texture and taste sensitivity are also something that affects him a lot, he can really only eat bland food of a very specific consistency, which just contributes further to his anorexia given that what he's even able to eat is highly limited. Of course, he struggles with social cues and interactions quite a bit, despite him being able to read people as individuals incredibly well. Lastly, he does have some 'childish' behaviors and interests, such as being very obsessed with stuffed animals and he really loves Disney princess movies.

[cowboypossume]

Hailey Banks is autistic

not just because i am too and i relate to her

1. The first episode we LITERALLY get the whole "I'm adverse to new experiences so I just write them down instead!". To the nth degree too /pos. That's what causes the whole series to begin

a big Thing of autism is need for a routine -or at least an idea of what to expect- to the point changes to the plan can result in meltdowns or flat out avoidance (as we see with Hailey).

with the world ending, she starts to embrace the changes, but still doesn't necessarily Like all the new things.

i could be reading to much into it, but in the theme song we get things like "make a candle with my own ear wax???" and "eat an onion :/" where we see this aversion to not only trying but actually DOING new things, too. this is continued at several points in the show, too. she flat out says "i don't want to do that right now; let's find a different list item" NUMEROUS times. several of those scenes do come from her feelings for scott, sure, but i think that proves my point?

friendship for neurodivergent people is ,, complicated (we'll get there) so right now hailey has this steady, predicable pattern with her best friend. she doesn't want to ruin that, and thus we fall back into the "i don't want things to change" part of autism

2. Hailey and birds

special interests are a bit complicated, and this isn't the place to explain it, but in short its basically a Really Strong interest in something. it occurs to everyone, but people with autism are more likely to experience either stronger or more frequent :)

birds are DEFINITELY a special interest for hailey!

- half of her list items INVOLVE birds and thus almost every episode has some sort of a something with birds (frank, the red owl, petey, etc) - she has a party and the way she wants to have fun is build birdhouses with her peers - she adopts a flamingo. like. - her little birdhouse collection <33333

there's more but it's just silly and i love frank and petey so much and-

3. she has a really hard time understanding how to relate to her peers socially

ok, again there are so many better researched things than this so this is a BRIEF summary, but: autistic people just process the world differently. a lot of social cues go over their head because the world is processed Different.

so having hailey be a bit dense social-wise is so nice to see. especially because none of the characters penalize her or mock her for not getting it. instead they just, talk to her? like people?

examples off the top of my head about the miscommunication are - kristine wanting to have a date with scott and hailey tags along - becker flirts with hailey and hailey is like ":D wow ! what a silly billy !" (the 'i'm more of a ice cream girl if you catch my drift' / 'i still need to use this coupon????') - the rubic's cube episode where hailey doesn't understand scott's needs vrs her own and like ,, how those mesh together - that plotline where hailey admits that she doesn't have that many [female] friends (or any besides scott) because it's always been weird for her - part of what draws her to frank is that she's ALSO been labeled as weird and different, and she doesn't think that's a reason for isolation - at her birthday party she doesnt understand why people aren't having fun. because, for her, this is fun!! - that same said party was immeditaly followed with her admitting "this isn't fun for me; i would like to stop" when it comes to the truth or dare game.

there are a bunch more examples. again, this just for a general idea to show where this idea is coming from

4. [according to the wiki] "Hailey is quite determined for a kid her age"

afab austistic people go underdiagnosed for reasons like this!!!

things that can SO be autisic are marked off as "mature" because a lot of austsim is masking OR traits that appear one way in amab appear differently in afab.

this idea of "determination" can tie into the special interest thing as mentioned before, or why austsic people are often shown as "selfish": because they want something, and don't understand the social repercussion of saying no.

5. as i mentioned, the list thing.

as generally mentioned, autistic people want a semblance of what to expect from something. when they don't get that, those feelings can cope in other ways.

in this show, hailey makes a list.

instead of trying something new, she just thinks 'oh i'll do that later!' and then DOESNT! :3

these are small things and obviously a headcannon, but it means a a lot to mean

[avocadofics]

Oikawa x autistic reader

FYI I want to do all types of autistic people so here are the autisic traits this reader shows.

Noise sensitivity

Not liking touch

Difficulty speaking

Content warning

Anxiety

Some mentions of overstimulation

If you are not autistic then this fic isn’t for you. There is barly any rep for us and I have always loved x readers. So while no two austistic people are the same. So I do my best to write so many of us can get comfort from it . If you interested in working on differnt fics but this is for my fellow neurodivergent friends.

Most of the time traveling could be handled. You knew an almost 1 day flight from your home in agentina to Japan would be a lot. So you would prep and make sure the flight was never to overwhelming. You made sure to have music and videos downloaded for the flight. As well as many snacks and stim toys. You knew no matter what you do you would be tired. One thing you had forgotten in all you prep was Oikawa first match was tonight not tomorrow.

You felt like a shitty partner because you walked into the gym stood there for a few minutes until Oikawa walked over to check in you.

“ sweat heart?” You looked down at you feet not wanting to disappoint him.

“Is it To much?” You gave him a small nodd.

“I’m sorry” you quietly apologize.

“My darling remember you getting overwhelmed and needing a space to recharge is nothing to apologize for.” He reached into you bag and pulled out your ear protection. He handed them to you so you could put them on exactly how you needed.

“How about you go back to the hotel room and rest. I promise I’ll win this one so you can come watch the next one tomorrow when you feeling slightly better.” You nodded again. He gave you a gentle smile

“is there anything you want me to bring back to the room when I’m done?”

You took a small step forward to let him know you needed to say something. He leaned down so you could speak at the volume you needed.

“Can you pick up my safe food?” You said in almost a whisper.

“Yeah. I can I grab what I can and I’ll see you back at the hotel in a couple of hours. He lifted his finger and kinda pointed at you. He knew you really did not like physical touch wich could be tough seeing as he did love it. So you made compromises. When you couldn’t handle it small touches like taking you pointer finger and booping his finger. Was a way you showed you cared without really stressing you out. It was almost you version of a hug for when you were to over stimulated. He made sure you got a into the oober.

You walked into the hotel room and changed into a comfy pair of pjs

You loved watching his games. Being there to celebrate when he wins. Sitting there next to him when he looses tik support him. You really did love going and he knew. But here you were sitting in a dark room. Wrapped in you favorite blanket trying to relax.

You heard a gentle knock on the hotel door and the sound of it being open. You hid under the blanket as the bright light filled the room.

“Oh shoot sorry a baby.” Oikawa voice filled the room. You heard his footsteps.

“We won the match and I brought you back your safe food. I’m gonna go take a shower. If you feeling better after maybe we can put something on the tv.”

You watched your boyfriend get ready for a shower as you slowly ate you food. It most defiantly helped. As You felt better.

Oikawa came out of the shower wearing matching pjs to you making you happy.

“I like those pj.” You said softly.

“I know it why I put them in. It helps that they are really comfortable.” He sat down in the bed and made sure you had you space.

“Okay here the remotes what we watching?” Todays like today are why you know Oikawa will alway love you. Even when he’s had a king day he still takes care of you and never has said a word when you can’t deal with something.

[ambientbroth]

Autism/ Neurodivergent Tips! Autism Journal Entry

On an everyday basis I have 1 backpack and 2 fanny packs I wear on my body.

I wear fanny packs for trinkets, money, writing notes, eye drops, pocket magnifying glass, forging pocket knife, tweezers, lighters, chapstick, a mask, hand sanitizer spray, extra marker, bobby pins, and peppermint oil.

In my backpack I carry books, headphones/earplugs, stationary pencil bag, stim puzzles/toys, extra makeup, THC gummies, cards, matches, AirPods, cigarettes, binoculars, sticky notes, and a portable pee funnel, Advil, Tums, and Dramamine

But I also carry a single backpack in the car for emergencies; stuck in traffic, shit my pants, need to change clothes. The contents of my bag are baby wipes, a pair of socks, a pair of underwear, a bandana, pants, a shirt, a hand fan, Clorox wipes, and a make up bag with; athletic tape, bandaids, vapor rub, tiger balm, and CBD oil. Also I carry my charger sometimes.

I also have applesauce and small pringles cans for homeless people and for myself.

I NEVER go without these 2 bags and 2 fanny packs EVER

Recently, I was stuck in the car due to a flat tire. I hadn’t showered all day, I had been to literally 6 different spots and I spent a total of 7 hours in the car, alone, driving. I had too many interactions with people over the past few days and that day with no spoons left in me. I had a meltdown when we pulled to the apartment because the apartment keys were left at the last spot we were (which was 15 minutes back) I was livid and scream cried. I sat in the back of the car and tried to calm myself down, we were almost back to the apartment, then we got a flat tire. It popped and it scared the fucking life out of my already high-stress-alerted body and I had another full blown meltdown. I was screaming and inconsolable and frankly losing my fucking mind. I was thrashing my body and screaming with hot tears running down my face, pulling my hair all while on the shoulder of the highway with cars and semis speeding past at 70 mph shaking the car.

If it wasn’t for the bags I always keep on me I wouldn’t have made it out the way I did. After I had calmed down just enough I sat with my headache. I took an advil down with some applesauce, I peed using my portable pee funnel into my reusable pint water bottle, I wiped myself everywhere using baby wipes, I changed out of my sweaty underwear and socks, and changed out of my clothes completely. I put my headphones on and turned on some brown noise. I stuffed my clothes in a plastic bag from the car. I opened a book and looked at some pictures. I put eye drops in and put on my coat. After about an hour I was fine enough to go outside and help my partner with the flat tire.

If you are neurodivergent or are Autistic please please please take my tips and carry a change of clothes, baby wipes, and things you might ever need with you. Accommodate for yourself. You never know when you will actually need it. This isn’t to scare you, you can’t prevent life from happening but you can help yourself.

[treeshman]

autism coded

I dont see this discussed much but when i have its been a really negative discussion but anya imo is i think unintentionally coded as autistic. like that does make sense but lemme explain. Like characters like data from star trek, werent made with the inherent idea that this character would not only have a large amount of autistic traits but be very much like amongst autistic folks bc of that, but thats very much what ended up happening anya i love love love! she is my favourite character. The body, possibly the most critically acclaimed episode of buffy, defining moment for me was anyas speech. That speech for me really hits hard for me as an autisic person. it never fails to make me cry. that episode is so well made

[chmyri]

seeing how many animation meme community members that were constantly hounded on and getting put into drama by others turned out to be autistic speaks a lot i think, the internet just hates autisic people, whether or not they knew the person was autisic is irrelevant (or i guess the internet hates autistic traits? stereotypical people can be victim to this too)

if somebody can word this better please do this sentence is a mess but hopefully you get what i mean

[princess-of-the-corner]

Main reason while I'm... not a fan of but like believe Villian Izuku fics is because I've seen kindness beat out of a kid. Kid was nice but weird and probably autisic and I heard he was homeschooled before he went to our school but that was apart of like some really fucked up definetly not true shit so I don't know if to believe it. Over the like 3 years I went to school with him he went from like a nice kid to a kid who might try to hit you if you approach him on the wrong day.

It's a weird thing because like.

On one hand, I get that. I've seen that sort of thing. The sweet kid who's had so much hell thrown at them that they break. Very realistic. A lot of villain backstories are like that too.

On the other hand, I take into account the character himself. One of Izuku's biggest traits is wanting to save people, even the ones who have been awful to him or tried to kill him or anything else. So while I could see him going the vigilante angle where he is breaking the law to save people and attacking corrupt systems and even the more villain-adjacent 'realizing some people are beyond saving and being down to murder for the greater good'. I can't see him go full villain where he's just doing evil shit and taking revenge on society for how he was treated when there's any chance of someone salvageable, much less someone innocent, getting caught in the crossfire.

[autistpride]

There is no female or male version of autism.

Autistic females have the same symptoms as Autistic males, however the instruments used to diagnose autism is based on and geared towards those AMAB.

Research has shown that many females also begin masking as early as six months making their autisic traits more difficult to see in comparison.

Research has also shown that more often females often have less physical signs (external behaviours) like hand flapping. Females are shown to have more rigid and repetitive symptoms in behaviours or in play instead (excessive talking or organizing, extremely strict on following or making others follow rules, wanting to play the same thing in the same way, or playing with a character toy who only says lines the character says).

This could simply be due to learning to mask by often copying the other females in their lives or that they see in the media, or having strong interests in "gender appropriate" topics that are then overlooked because they aren't "unusual" interests.

The questions used in the diagnosis tests are geared towards stereotypical male interests. Ex: the evaluation asks if they are interested in small parts of an object such as wheels of a car. The question isn't asking parents does your child focus on wheels on the car. But a female could be only interested in the shoes for Barbie instead and focus on playing and organizing only the shoes for barbies.

So while the question is only asking about repetitive behaviour, many parents and diagnostic individuals get caught up in the examples and will misdiagnose.

[vermilionite]

i struggle most with making sense of it, though i’m also trying to let go of the need to. why does this keep happening to me? why do the same people who have no time, energy, ability, care for me have it for other people, people they even met after me, have less history with? why does it feel like different rules apply to me? why do other people, no matter how they behave, still get to have social circles and go out but it seems like i’m punished for the smallest transgressions, even for the transgressions of others who remain unpunished? and i think a reason for this i often am unwilling to admit is that my standards are higher. when something hurts me i bring it up, and that makes people uncomfortable, and they often pull away, even if they’ve told me they want me to bring things up. and idk i also don’t want to slip into the cope of being like yeah im just so enlightened and wise and other people just can’t understand me bc thats just another way of being separated from others, and only feels marginally better than framing it like all of this is happening to me because there is something fundamentally wrong with me. i guess i don’t want to see it as unchangeable no matter what, bc i do want it to change. buttttt there is like the undeniable feeling that there is something different about me bc even when i meet other weird gay/transgender people with social anxiety and autisic traits (i don’t really know how to be framing this part but it’s an element of things so ?) none of them have experienced the degree of loneliness i have. all of the other weird queers at my high school were friends with each other….was it the christianity and being raised so deeply in a community where i couldn’t be myself? but even then people who were very popular in my church also ended up coming out later so it’s just like. what the fuck is going on