#autistic help

[sillycourtjester]

This is an autism masterlist of resources!! Credit to the google document owner.

[tumbling-down-hills-and-stuff]

So my mom told me about a trick she read online to help switch focus from one thing to another, and it specifically works for me, someone with ADHD and Autism so I want to share.

Think of the thing you want (need) to do, and count down from 5 (or 3, or wherever, just count down) and after reaching 1, you do whatever it is you need to.

I know it sounds stupid or doubtful, but it literally works. Not all of the time, but enough that I’m grateful to it. I think it works for a multitude of reasons, but one of the main ones is because it sets a goal for a very specific time in the future. One of my worst habits is not doing something because I know I can do it later, but if I don’t set a very specific time to do it, it won’t get done. Sometimes it doesn’t get done even if I set a time, but that has more to do with not feeling a sense of urgency. However, we’ve grown up associating “counting down” with “going” or “doing” for races, in class activities, playing games etc… so we naturally feel a sense of anticipation when we hear or see a countdown. This also works when we think of a countdown as well.

It is something that has really helped with my executive dysfunction issues, so I want others to know of it too.

[undiagnosed-autistic]

Personally, I'm struggling a lot. If you have any tips or ideas on how to survive hot temperatures as an autistic/neurodivergent person let me know! Any help is appreciated!

[performing-personhood]

Help an audhder with a hyperfixation on a question she can't answer. I saw this in the "Trap" movie trailer, nobody else on the entirety of the googleable internet cares enough to ask, so now my ass fuckin has'ta.

Please tumblr, what the absolute actual FUCK are these bottles.

It's a clear glass bottle with a girthy straight-sided unfluted shape and a narrow neck and mouth

metallic silver screw-on cap

a yellow label with a red upper-right corner that might say something we cannot read (as an example, one would expect to read "now 33% more!" or "new and improved!" in this area of the label)

red lowercase letters printed across the center of the label

the only letters visible of the product name are "___anso". There might be an R also for a "_ranso" but it is hard to tell

The liquid inside the bottle is dark brown almost black, and not viscous like oil but watery like coffee or cola

There is a small green splotch on the label below the last letters of the product name, of a color and in a location that (to me, an american) indicate that it could be a blurb about calories per serving size, or featured vitamins and minerals, or renewable packaging or something like that.

Reverse image search gets me nothing.

I'm hyperfixating because I don't know why there are bottles in the fryer, but maybe I could deduce a potential reason if I knew what the bottles had inside them.

Is it beer? Is it soda? Is it a cleaning product? Medicine? I DON'T KNOW, NOBODY BUT ME IS ASKING AND GOOGLE IS TOO FUCKING SHIT TO HELP ME.

please don't make me buy a movie ticket to see a whole-ass movie just to answer one completely irrelevant question I am literally begging

[dreamdropsystem]

oh btw our new noise canceling headphones broke for no reason we had multiple meltdowns we cried so much we have our regular non tech ones now we are gonna returned them and getting our money returned so we can buy one of a new brand if you have any affordable (highest we'd go probs is $100) headphones

[abrakuxas]

Emergency Commissions

Guys, please consider helping me out with some money. I'm a brazilian nobinary/bisexual artist and I am also responsible for taking care of my autistic partner who is not able to work and cannot be left alone, so I can only work from home and art is the way I can do it right now.

We need around 800$ total to pay our bills and eat but I haven't been able to gather commissions recently and the situation has been dire.

FLAT ART

Half Body - $55-80 $50 fix

Full Body - $85-100 $80 fix (50% every third character

FULL COLORED Half Body - $85-100 $80 fix Full Body - $110-130 $100 fix (50% every third character)

CHIBI - $55-60 $40 fix (50% every third character)

ADOPTABLES - $40 EACH 50% every third you buy

My Ko-Fi

My Redbubble

My Paypal keixus4@gmail.com

[jules-hoard-of-stuff]

... I think I'm tired of people saying "wow, I never would have guessed you were autistic!"

That sucks actually.

I'm tired of teachers asking why I signed up for the modified class when "my grades were perfectly fine" when I was slaving away over homework and crying trying to re-teach myself the subject

I'm tired of people saying "but you don't LOOK autistic" and wondering what the hell they mean by that

I'm tired of people telling me they could never tell and hating that they sound like that's 'such a good thing'

I'm tired of people trying to take away my accommodations because I'm verbose, and because I talk good when in reality, my anxiety and autistic sensory issues are so bad that I barely leave the house.

I'm tired of being told it's a good think i don't 'appear autistic'.

It's not.

I'm tired all the time. I mask unless I'm completely alone, even around people I trust. I literally cannot stop masking even if I try, unless I'm 100%, totally alone. It's like someone has hot glued that mask to my face. I want it off.

I'm tired of being the mask.

I want to be visibly autistic so that there's no doubt. And I can't because I lost that ability I have no idea how to take that mask off in public.

How the hell do I de-mask? Someone please help me, please.

I don't want to mask anymore. I'm tired of being self aware. I just wanna be happy.

[keezree]

Being an artist/creative person with autism and adhd i would always start projects and then abandon them

I'd get overwhelmed or start too many at once. I'd dive in because I'd be afraid I'd forget or I'd never do it.

Then by the time i finished the project, or abandoned it for a few years to come back later, I'd hate the thing or feel like it was a waste of time. (It's not! None of them are! It's my hobbies and i love them!)

Now that i understand myself more and am medicated, i have a better control over myself (sometimes!)

So to keep track of projects, i have a list that i rewrite every day.

Before i start on anything i write out in an old school binder on some loose leaf the things i want to do.

If i complete it, I scratch off my accomplishments and then, the next day i take that old list and rewrite it, this time only writing down the things left on the list/adding new stuff if necessary.

I get overwhelmed seeing all the scratched off stuff so i start clean every day.

It's also in an inexpensive binder with simple loose leaf sheets so i don't feel I'm wasting paper in a colourful, pretty planner.

[dexmads]

hello. i am autistic and i have a lot of trouble asking for help and wanted to ask you guys how do you do it and how do you feel while doing it. i still have some internalized ableism, though, and asking for help when i need something makes me feel vulnerable and fragile and i don't want people to see me that way, specially people i don't truly know but, most the time, i have meltdowns and anxiety attacks while at college and, very recently, at work, which means that, most of the time, i am with people i don't know. so it would help me a lot if someone could give me advice or tips or things i could do to have a better environment. how can i say it, how can i improve it quietly. my work and college know that i am austistic, but i am not really sure what i have the right to ask for. more breaks? alone time? i would be very thankful for any kind of help. thank you.

[etherealspacejelly]

sometimes you just have to let yourself be a bit neurodivergent.

i hate going out, it gives me a lot of anxiety and sensory input that i dont like, and i am often forced to talk to people.

so i do this thing on more difficult days, or sometimes just for fun, where i "bring a fictional character with me". i walk and imagine Fictional Character walking next to me. they talk to me, reassure me, hype me up, whatever i need them to do.

today dean winchester came christmas shopping with me. he went over the list with me of stuff i needed to get, told me i was doing a good job every time i finished in a certain shop, reminded me to take a deep breath when i got a little overwhelmed.

and yea. its kinda silly. and i know its just me talking to myself in a different voice, but it Works! especially since all of my special interests/hyperfixations tend to be tv/movie related.

so do what you gotta do to Get Shit Done. stop holding yourself to neurotypical standards. if you need Fictional Character to tell you you're doing a good job, do it! if you need Favourite Singer to walk you to school, do it! yea it might feel silly but you're literally fighting against your own brain to get stuff done every single day. you can have a little self indulgent daydream, as a treat.

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

yay water

time to drink water woo hoo yay

[elyfonart]

When your homie goes non-verbal at the function so you gotta whip out the 'i would understand you in any universe'

[melxhunter]

I feel like there are a lot of people out there who needs to hear this:

If you dropped out of school because of diagnosed (or undiagnosed) ADHD, Autism, ADD, OCD, Dyslexia, Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar disorder, psychotic disorders, schizophrenia etc… You did not fail. The education system failed you.

[undiagnosed-autistic]

Fellow autistic/ND people, do you have any tips on commuting on trains and buses for autistic/ND people?

I might have to take trains and buses every day in the near future and I'm quite scared. I've a lot of difficulty dealing with unexpected events (ex. bus is not on time or cancelled, route changes, bus/train strikes) and I struggle a lot with noises (trains are so loud! Passengers too!) and temperature (buses are either too hot or cold and I don't know if I have to take off my jacket until it's too late and I'm feeling horrible and on the verge of fainting). I'm also quite scared of people, sometimes buses are really packed and I feel so bad in that situation.

[whirligiga]

Microdosing on executive function by completing tasks in video games

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

I have a short fuse when it comes to things like this. They’ll be too loud or something and I’d snap and tell them to stop…

Neurodivergent Girl