#autism and hyperbole

[gabrielora]

When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.

[countessravengrey]

I think I'm wearing this t-shirt inside out is an entire neurodivergent mood.

https://www.facebook.com/julietordinarylife/

Time Blindness. Time Agnosia. Dysautochromia. A major trait in ADHD. A slightly less major trait in many autistics. Because autism and ADHD share 80% comorbidities.

I need to have a calendar to tell me when I've had my meds, a shower, a meal, a certain task...

I can recall eating a specific meal but damned if I know what day it was...

I can quote every episode of 'Futurama' and I know about major fanfiction trends that happened in the TMNT fandom back in 2006...

I think I'm wearing this tee shirt inside out.

[lucapizzelles]

I feel like every time i bring up that Luca's and Alberto's sea monster forms make up the colors of the gay man pride flag I'm always like laughed off as if I'm making a joke but like. I'm not. Fucking look at them like HELLO??? IM SO SERIOUS

[pallanophblargh]

As part of my ADHD diagnosis intake process (or whatever you call this), there’s a massive quiz I have to take. I THOUGHT I was prepared. I was not.

Aside from leaving it to almost the last minute (I have a week to complete), I just... these questions... what. WHAT. I mean, some of them are super easy, but a good chunk of them have caused a level of internal anguish I normally assign to tax returns, math, or social interactions with strangers.

I don’t know if this proves anything. I’m only half way through and part of me wants to cry.

I think a good chunk of the anxiety stems from the hard dichotomy of a simple “true or false” answer system. I am in hell.

[olibavee]

spirittea is a cute game btw. i like this dude

[colombinna]

after you turn like 14 you never really get hyperfixated on shit that's actually good anymore huh. it's always some mainstream/overly popular shit that has enough interesting character work/concepts to hook you forever more but is overall mid and with an annoyingly capitalist liberal ideology behind it that makes you genuinely sooo upset to read/watch/play or even think about but your brain will refuse to let it go for at least 3 more years after you turn 18

[yurious-george]

Shoutout to that one anon I got a few years ago who called me racist for having mzungu in my bio. Do you think being the only white child in 500 miles or more from ages 13-17 may have impacted my relationship with race? Why would a girl who grew up in East Africa identify with a word that literally translates to “lost person” and explicitly marks her as the Other for her skin tone. Quickly now

[epaulando]

you know you’ve gone insane when you’ve listened to brick by boring brick fifty times in a row and need to jump up and down and keep threatening murder to everybody around you. fortunately that would never happen to me i’m normal.

[wizardbuckets]

i would rather get shot in my leg and have salt rubbed into the wound and then get left alone in a musty dungeon than be in a room with someone eating salad loudly

[chillykitty]

what if i binged the entirety of sanders sides at 2am because of a mental breakdown what then

[wanderingmind867]

My stomach is still acting up, and that's definitely contributing to me making less posts. As I said in a post yesterday: my overthinking, stomach issues and seeming addiction to the ai character chatbots have caused me to not post as often as I used to. But I've stopped venting about the stomach issues because I don't really know how many more ways I can articulate posts on my stomach issues without just saying that i hate it because pain (even non fatal pain like this) can really hurt.

But I feel like it could be seen as good practice for next semester of school. Because if I'm at school the whole day next year, I may not be making many new posts then too. But even in that case: I still pray this stomach pain clears up. Because it's annoying to not know the definitive cause if the pain yet, and to just have to deal with it. So I hope it clears up before too long.

[cum-villain]

yknow, the funny thing about being This mentally ill is that i have no clue what normal is. what do you mean most people have never heard voices telling them things in their lives. what do you mean most people dont get 1 less text daily from their fiance and think they should cut off all their friends. whats it like for yall.

[rotdotmp3]

stop telling me to get a new phone I KNOWWWWW

[daxhalfawake]

Ohhhhhhh that's how I need to explain this

I can’t stand people that don’t let me speak hyperbolically. If I can’t respond to a minor inconvenience that someone should get shot in the fucking head for it then what’s the point of it all.

[redlipsanddaydreams]

i told my friend today i finally got diagnosed and she said “with what?” bc there were too many things up with me

[snekdood]

i think being raised by smartphones, not facing consequences for bullying, and being shit at school has made a lot of gen z genuinely evil