#autistic mood

[mentally-retired]

allistics when autistic person has autistic traits instead of just being a silly and quirky:

[decorative-plant]

me, upon feeling a slight crunch in my soft food:

[snootlestheangel]

Autism Mood of The Day

Being so frustrated about every little thing and crying because you don't know how to express your emotions.

So then you end up crying in front of your parents and make them uncomfortable/feel frustrated cause they don't know why you're crying "ItS nOt ThAt BiG oF a DeAl" or they don't know how to help

[kvasskingg-sez-booyah]

There is no bond quite like an autistic person and their cat

[zurko48]

so autistic it hurts /j

[aster-is-confused]

did any other autistics have recess activities in elementary school that, looking back, were so obviously autistic behaviors/traits/styles of play? i recently had a conversation with an autistic friend about this, so now i'm curious. for me, i can remember 3 "weird" activities that probably took up most of my recess play time in elementary school.

the first was walking balanced on the tiny fencing around the playground. you know, these things

the thing is, i would spend a whole 30 minute recess just walking around in a loop on the barrier. not talking to anyone, or doing it as part of a game, but just. walking.

next we have: digging up dust in the corner of the playground and spitting in it to make a paste i could mix up with a stick. i don't remember if i actually did anything with this paste, all i remember is making it. also my playground corner had a great view to look at the heat waves making the playground look blurry when it was hot out, which was fun.

finally, my personal favorite: collecting a certain type of acorns and cracking them open to collect the grubs inside. i actually had a friend for this one, i forgot his name but we called ourselves the "grub club." we had a little stump with a hole in the middle, and i'd put sticks and stuff in the hole for the grubs, then we'd collect acorns (probably dozens per day) and carefully crack them with rocks to get the grubs out and put them in the stump hole. if i remember correctly this activity was mostly in second and third grade.

anyways sorry for the long post but i'd love to hear about other autistics' weird recess activities if you want to reply to the post or send an ask :]

[autisticslp]

[lillianforest22]

I have scrolled down the jrwi tag and there not enough what do you mean somone isn’t fully zoned in in the tag as me in this exact moment

[wreckitremy]

"I feel like I'm in a world with its own sense of logic. Its own rules. Like when you're in a dream and you know there are rules you mustn't break, but you don't know what they are or what they mean."

- Shadow, American Gods

[mentally-retired]

overstimulated to the extreme, close to a meltdown, at the point i tell inanimate objects "kys" repeatedly when they make a noise

[decorative-plant]

the autistic fear that when you accept a gift the person will accuse you of being rude and taking from them

[snootlestheangel]

Me: *tells a couple really cool fun facts to my older sister via text*

Her: *affectionately* Your autism is showing lol, also super cool facts

Me: *sitting here with 21 tabs open that are all horse figurines because my collection needs more* Me, autistic? Wha- You're crazy!

[kvasskingg-sez-booyah]

you know how Sento's hair goes up kinda like a cockatoo's crest when he's excited about science stuff??

that's how I feel with my hyperfixations

like i now imagine my hair doing this anytime i info dump

[zurko48]

my lack of understanding the simplest things people can do makes me feel like an alien attempting to speak a language I will never ever be able to truly understand

[r04ch4ch3]

[mickeys-malarkey]

[ID: a drawing of a very simplistic face with an utterly blank expression. The words “having a great time” are written next to it and an arrow is pointing from the words to the blank face, indicating that this is the cartoon person's internal emotional state. /End ID]

I need people to understand that sometimes autism is just this