#autistic teen

[evenrealer]

shout out to autistic people who can’t live alone due to their autism. shout out to autistic people who need to live with caregivers. shout out to autistic people who need aac devices. shout out to autistic people who can’t take care of themselves. shout out to “weird” autistic people.

[lifelesscomplains]

As an autistic person I FUCKING HATED P.E:

Getting chosen last for team games, my lack of coordination making our team lose, BEING OBLIGED TO EXPOSE A GAME OR A TRAINING SESSION IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE CLASS WHEN I'M OBVIOUSLY BAD AT IT.

I hated it when I was 4. I hated it when I was 16. Now that I'm 17 and this is the first year I don't have P.E, even though this is supposed to be the most stressful year of my education, I can feel such a weight being taken off of me. I don't cry on Sunday nights anymore and I don't feel ashamed all the time anymore either. AND YET I WAS CALLED SENSITIVE

[sleeplessv0id]

It's so fucking frustrating when I want to endlessly meow but people exist and they say no.

[strawberrylemongrass]

just realized that my "Happy dances" (swaying my hips, spinning, stomping) is literally just shit dogs do?? I'm actually wagging my tail wtf!

[autismcultureis]

autism culture is getting told you’re having a “teenage temper tantrum” when it’s really just a meltdown

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[cesaraugst]

autism canon events:

1. wondering if you're aroace or pansexual

2. not understanding the conception of wanting to be someone else

3. identifying yourself as an agender mostly bc you don't understand how is feels being a man or a woman

4. feeling that in some way you're different from other people

5. having huge problems with understanding your personality and interests

6. kinning any character and then finding out that the majority of the fandom assumes they're autistic

7. being misunderstood by people bc they hate when you avoid eye contact

[historyonthespectrum]

I understand they’re sisters, but I still think they look very very similar in these portraits! 🤸‍♀️

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[absolutelynoname]

i told my mum i use the disabled toilets at school and she went NoName you CANT do that what about the REAL disabled people

i have multiple of the 3 types of disability (physical, mental, learning) diagnosed and am suspected of more

[lilqu33rboi]

communicating with allistics is so exhausting. i have these two "friends" (who are allistic) that i've been trying to work though an issue with for a few weeks now, but they refuse to talk to me about it over text. But that's,, literally the only way I can effectively communicate through conflict?? i tried to talk to them in person at one point and my brain just shut down immediately and i ended up saying "brain.. does not brain." and one of them was like "consider the matter dropped then?" and i just said "yeah" cuz i'm just so fucking tired of trying with them anymore. they're both so stubborn and won't even consider accommodating me, and it sucks that they had to ruin our friendships like this.

[probablypeoplepleasering]

[Autistic rant] I feel like my mum is so disappointed in me and who I am. Its my birthday soon, and she went on a whole rant about how she thinks she has to tell me what my main present because I don't react like everyone else when I get surprises I'm awkward (compared me to my neurotypical sibling). She told me she bought me a new phone for my birthday. It has 128gb of storage which is not enough for me my current phones which I'd perfectly fine just a lil old(Samsung s10) has 512gb. But it's fine, that charge is shit, but it's fine!! And I was upset because I didn't want a new phone or just not that one because all I care about in a phone is the storage space. She made me feel guilty because she paid £600 for it and she can't return it. I feel really bad because we're tight on money, and then I didn't say the right things. She said I need to stop thinking just about my own feelings because that's what you do when you grow up, but it's so hard because how am I supposed to know what other people are feeling if they don't tell me? I feel really really bad and I've spent the whole evening crying and now I'm exhausted. What's wrong with me :(

[allonsygent]

yk what ? *autistify your fav character*

THEY ARE AUTISTIC NOW BYEEE

[iamshannonfromumineko]

iroha plush

literally saw this on google search and thought ‘this is my new personality’

shes so cute

[sleeplessv0id]

You know it's bad when the long charger is suddenly too long and it's overwhelming you.

[bwbawa]

hello, so I'm questioning if I'm autistic so i can reach out for a diagnosis maybe, and i saw another person do this so i wanted to try it out

i wrote a list of some of the things i think that are autistic traits about me and if anyone would like to please read them and tell me if they could be autism or maybe smth else? lol, just as a big favour really. I'll give more context if any is needed, thanks so much!!

also please reblog for reach if you want to, thank you

ts bellow the cut :]

- stimming ( twirling and braiding hair, used to suck on my own hair as a kid, rocking back and forth, doing ??? weird stuff with ny mouth and fingers lol, moving legs a lot)

- echolalia; internal, repeating phrases and songs on my head, but also doing sounds with my mouth

- always feeling like an outsider. This wasn't bad for me as a kid since i was very into creepypastas and media related to being an outcast, i never related it to something bad until adolescence which im still in, and I'm more insecure now about it.

- also, very extroverted as a kid, didn't get social cues and was offensive sometimes

- couldn't and still can't control my strength very well ( sometimes things fall out of my hands or i touch someone harder than i wanted to)

- sensitive skin, to heat cold and pain

- very talkative, as a baby was LITERALLY born babbling

- not good at eye contact, either do way too much or way too little

- terrible at maths (jst not logical to me??? dk how people find them logical )

- kinda restrictive interests but no special interests

- very picky as a child, fav foods were salted noodles with ketchup or by themselves. ( still can't stand some foods and mixing some foods together )

- horrible coordination and balance: didn't learn to tie my shoes correctly, how to ride a bike or how to swim, i bought wheelies and cant use them because my balance is horrible, i run weird (like a baby kind of) and I'm always stumbling on my own feet

- again, didn't learn some stuff until grown: didn't know how to shower correctly or make my bed ( could be due to being very taken care of as a kid, aka my mom didn't let me do stuff by myself )

- terrible spacial awareness: again, stumbling with my own feet, waddling like a penguin when i walk with my friends lol

- bad perception of time

- got upset when things didn't go my way

- ran away when kids were being too loud but didn't mind big performances loud spaces

loud THUDS or sudden noises however startle me, scare me and stress me out: was and still am kind of afraid of balloons, shouting people and loud thuds. As a baby i cried when someone spoke too loudly

- lately I'm much more sensitive to stimuli than i was, could be due to heightened stress in my life: badly done beds make me want to cry, crumbs on the bed feel like hell, heat and sweating are hell, some months ago i cried because my sunglasses and headphones weren't working and there were too many sounds, my head it hurted and everything felt wrong, sent me into a kind of crisis.

- don't think I'm overly empathetic, but i have a strong sense of justice and get very upset and ill about injustices.

related to that, movies and shows that require a lot of stress i don't like, they make me feel ill and i prefer spoilers when it's like that, i get too nervous.

- socially awkward and don't know how to keep conversations going, at least small talk.

- although i used to talk a lot, nowadays i prefer to stay quiet sometimes.

- i get VERY angry and frustrated but it goes away kind of quickly?

-i used to be very loud and I still dont know how to control my tone of voice ( how loud or quiet i am) and i spoke in a very high pitched voice as a child

- i used to read a lot, went to the library in the recess instead of hanging out all the time with kids and used some complicated words that my parents didn't know i knew

- all my life i only had one close friend ( not the same, but always one)

- i think i had a specific routine of morning

- i have a hard time concentrating and being organized

- i make plans for myself in the night and get upset when OTHERS interrupt it but not when i do

- hard time knowing when to pee and when to eat

- again sensory issues, some foods make me want to puke, and wet, sticky or extremely dry hands are disgusting. Also, light touches feel like anger.

- as a kid I repeatedly watched stuff, ended up boring my family because i only wanted to watch that multiple times

- sensory seeker as a kid kind of, slept with my feet up, danced a lot (stimming?)

-i get irritated easily and can hurt people verbally

- don't know if related but i sometimes very anxious, get upset about not saying goodbye correctly to certain people, as a kid i used to cry and didnt want to go to school because of a "bad feeling" that smth bad was gonna happen, could be anxiety.

i absolutely sure there's more, but I don't wanna keep typing

just to finish, most of my circle is neurodivergent. And family wise, my sister is audhd, one cousin and uncle are autistic, my mom has adhd and two of my cousins are suspected autistic.

[autismcultureis]

autistic teen girl culture is your parents just thinking youre "picky" and "moody" all the time

!!!!!

[aubris-fox]

just saw a video about autistic rigidity (or autistic people's "strict rule following behavior"), and the example given was kid being genuinely upset at a classmate because they were coloring squidward pink when he was not pink, and therefore in their mind it was 'wrong' or 'rule breaking'

safe to say, it made me consider that my tendency to get frustrated whenever fanworks about my hyperfixations disregard certain key elements and aspects may be tied to autistic rigidity. randomly coming to realizations about neurodivergeny and how i experience it is so strange