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#comics#artists on tumblr#autism awareness month#actuallyautistic#self diagnosed autism#epilepsy#seizures#aspergers mention
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#actually autistic#autism#autism spectrum disorder#autistic#aspergers#autistic problems#autistic spectrum#autistic things#autistic adult#neurodivergent
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I don’t think this is true 100% of the time but it does seem like a good portion the time.
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#autism#actually autistic#audhd#autism spectrum#autistic#aspergers#aspergirl#aspie#neurodivergence#neurodivergent#neurodiversity
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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.
#late diagnosed autistic#neurodivergent masking#actually neurodivergent#neurospicy#neurodivergent#neurodiversity#adult autism#autistic#autism#autistic girl#autistic adult#aspie#aspiegirl#aspergers#aspergirl#emotional invalidation#invalidation#ableism
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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.
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I feel like a burden in the world I feel so wrong and pathetic
#sad thoughts#tw depressing thoughts#depressing shit#sad poetry#sorry for being depressing#tw depressing stuff#sad quotes#bdp#poetry#feeling alone#alone with my thoughts#leave me alone#you are not alone#sad qutoes#sad boy#someone save me#someone help#someone sedate me#send help#please help#pls help#help#tw depressive#tw depression#depressiv#autistic things#autistic adult#actually autistic#autism#aspergers
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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
#advocate#actuallyautistic#actuallyneurodivergent#blogger#asd#aspergers#aspiefemale#autism#autism acceptance#actuallydisabled#disability#disabled
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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
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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):
#actually autistic#aspergers#aspergers syndrome#autism#autism spectrum disorder#autistic#autistic adult#autistic community#autistic spectrum#being autistic#unmasking autism#high masking autism#high functioning autism#sensory processing disorder#sensory processing issues#sensory processing sensitivity#sensory problems#sensory#sensory overload#sensory issues
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#actually autistic#autism spectrum disorder#autistic#aspergers#autism#autistic problems#autistic spectrum#autistic things#autistic adult#neurodivergent
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woos from being high functioning.
#actuallymentallyill#actually aspergers#high functioning autism#aspergers#actually mentally ill#actuallyautistic#neurodivergent#aspergirl#adult with aspergers#aspergers syndrome
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do you guys remember when house was going crazy over the new carpet and wilson was like "here are all the reasons house is autistic using examples from his personal and professional life and the diagnostic criteria. don't be mad at him, he has trouble with change because of it" and then at the end of the episode he was like "I'm kidding, he's not autistic"
I just need to be sure I'm not the only one who remembers that cause
#that was crazy. why did they do that#and YEAH i know it was aspergers but in the year of our lord 2024 we are both aware that it is just autism thank you#house md#hate crimes md#<- heavy on the hate crimes today#james wilson
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My disability has once again disabled me and I for one and shocked.
#chronic pain#disability#autism#aspie#neurodivergent#autistic adult#actually autistic#cripple punk#scoliosis#aspergers#aspergirl#sensory processing disorder#sensory processing issues#sensory overwhelm#sensory sensitivity
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