#being my autistic self
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Ableist Story Time!
Sooo it was my final day of driver ed, stopped at a red light, all going fine, humming n tapping my fingers, just stimming a bit, only some very minor and infrequent facial tics... I wasnt hardly doing anything "odd", merely not masking. And then the driving instructor asks me "Did you take your medicine today?".
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Bitch? What?
1. Thats not something you ask a stranger
2. Her tone was,, idk how to describe but it didnt help make what she said less-ableist-feeling/ less offensive
3. In asking that she was essentially saying "i think youre acting crazy" and/or "you seem unfit to drive because of this behavior" (the behavior was extremely mild and its not her job to decide if my illnesses prevent me from driving or not)
4. I don't take medicine for tourettes or for ASD, so idek what "medicine" she was referring to. She doesn't know me. If I wasn't on any medicine she would essentially be telling a stranger that she thinks they need to be medicated.
In summation, the rest of the drive was not particularly great. As we drove faster and my anxiety worsened my tics too slightly, and knowing that she was judging me for it certainly didn't help me relax. Simply stimming is enough for someone to think someone should be medicated. I spend most of my time with accepting, and usually also ND, people, so this was my first encounter with someone like this in a while. It was a shock to say the least, a shock that people are still so un-understanding.
Feel free to comment or rb your opinions, if I'm overreacting or if you have similar experiences. Personally i think this exchange was ridiculous and embarassing and incasive and abelist.
#tourettes#asd#ASD#actually neurodivergent#actually autistic#actually autism#autism spectrum#stimming#tourette's syndrome#actually tourettic#tourettes experience#fuck ableists#ableism#ableist tw#stop being ableist#ableist bullshit#ableist people#being my autistic self
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even 2 years ago people still said autism with a whisper. it was also how people sometimes whisper lesbian, like they're afraid of uttering a slur. autistic was either an insult or it was something terrible, a horrible burden only select people endure. "select people" were usually 9 year old boys and skinny white men.
they are not hispanic young adults with a dog and a life and friends. i can make (sustained, calculated, painful) eye contact. with certain people, i don't even have to count how many seconds i am holding their vision - i can just look at them. i can wear clothes that bother me, i will just have a worse day than usual. i might cry about any changes to my schedule - but change is scary! this is normal!
when i was 16 it was OCD. i mean that was the thing everyone said. i totally have ocd. they would arrange 6 colors of gel pen in rainbow order (no worry for indigo feeling left out) and they'd be "so ocd" about it.
if you struggle with intrusive thoughts, be careful at this next paragraph, but. at 16 i developed a compulsion that involved self-harm. my ocd was convinced i was simply forgetting that i'd hurt someone terribly - a thought that persisted for no clear or delineated reason.
at some point i will probably write about how the idea of "morally pure thoughts" was hell for me and others with ocd, but this was the odd dichotomy for many of us: they liked our "aesthetic", but were genuinely repulsed by our lived experience. "intrusive thoughts" now means "cutting your hair in the sink" instead of talking yourself down from believing horrible things. "so ocd" is a label without any true understanding.
it's something i've talked about before - in multiplicity - but i firmly believe in the veracity and necessity of self-diagnosis. i think it saves lives and it saves tragedies from occurring. as someone raised in a house that wasn't safe, self-diagnosis was, for many years, the only viable option. 15 and honestly googling: am i depressed or are there demons affecting my behavior.
but it is not genuine self-diagnosis anymore, most of the time. it is a strange, blanched version of that whispered word autism. now certain traits are constantly seen as "autistic" - any passing intense interest. any flubbed social interaction. people say it while laughing - a touch of the 'tism.
and i like the acceptance! i do. i like that people are talking about it. i like that if i self-identify, more people speak up and say me too, bitch. but there is something-else quietly happening, the way it happened to OCD. the quirky, "fun" parts have been washed and sanitized and removed of all suffering. now it is just something that makes you "a little bit silly."
it took me 27 years on this planet before i learned to make friends. something about me just seems incredibly odd, i guess, some kind of radiation monitoring. someone once (in a way that was almost friendly) told me i am doing the right things, but in a way that's off-putting. i have scoured myself raw attempting to be charming.
someone on tiktok does a deep dive into their particular passion. the top comment says "what kind of autism is this lol". like we are a breed of animal. like it has no influence on our experience. like our life is a fresh breeze, an open meadow.
more often for me, life was a drowning.
#warm up#spilled ink#writeblr#it's hard to explain bc i do like the acceptance but it's like the ocd thing#autism is . an entire neurotype. yes we get 'cool autism powers' but we mostly say that#for OUR sake. on the autism website.#the cool autism powers do come with like. quality of life problems.#girl being in a room with LEDs gives me a headache. so you can kind of imagine how that might#in some way#influence my ability to function#will defend self diagnosis to the death as long as it is CLEAR AND LEGITIMATE. not like.#oooo i struggle talking 2 women i must be autistic#girl what. i struggle with the act of TALKING.
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me: *reads over symptoms of autism once again* “see but i don’t get upset over changes in routine, we change the routine all the time and i’m totally okay with it!”
also me since i was a kid: *gets irritated, stressed, angry, aggravated, and depressed for the rest of the day after something is switched to another day* *gets angry, stressed, and depressed, and has a breakdown when i find out we have to cancel plans, even if i didn’t really wanna go to wherever we were planning to go* *gets aggravated and is easily upset and is depressed the whole day after i get to cancel something that i had been planning for but also are relieved that i don’t have to go since i really didn’t want to* *is depressed, angry, irritated, and stressed after we cancel plans that i had zero feelings for up until that point* etc.
#i literally would cry my eyes out#be in a mood all day#& feel entirely off whenever plans changed like that all the damn time & still do that#i really need to take a look at my whole life before i say i don’t experience something cus i literally JUST figured this out this mornin#autisticrhys#actually autistic#autism#autism spectrum disorder#autistic#autistic culture#autistic spectrum#autistic community#autistic experiences#autistic things#being autistic#undiagnosed autistic#self diagnosed autism#self diagnosed autistic#autism symptoms#autistic traits#autism traits
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Everyone’s always like “Me and the Bad Bitch I pulled by being autistic”
Where’s MY bad bitch I pulled by being autistic???? Where are you finding these bad bitches who like your silly whimsy and inability to answer the phone???? Please????
#this has been running through my brain all day and I need answers#prince rambles in this chilies tonight#me and the bad bitch i pulled by being autistic#autistic#autistic adult#self diagnosed autism#autism
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Uhm uh uh...I have no excuse for this 😔 PPG self insert who is secretly an alien! I imagine her intro episode would have her having a little romance with the professor when he comes into a bookstore she works at/owns and the girls being (rightfully, given the prof's dating history) suspicious of her. Wacky capers ensue where they try to prove that she's up to no good, only to find that she genuinely is just chilling and wants to live a normal life on earth!
Well, normal as she can, now that she knows this family! I think she'd fit right in 😉
Taglist♡: @crushes-georg @changeling-selfship @me-myself-and-my-fos @tiny-cloud-of-flowers @sunstar-of-the-north @dearly-beeloved @adoredbyalatus @squips-ship @cherry-bomb-ships @miutonium
#artfarts#self insert#self ship#self shipping community#self insert community#oc x canon#self insert x canon#the powerpuff girls#professor utonium#crush: 🔬#ngl im not exactly sure why i chose alien i just thought itd be cute and aliens were on my mind#and i was remembering a little song that i learned in elementary school called interplanet janet :3#and i was talking to asuka about it and tbhhh#ok listen#being an alien as an allegory for my autism is SUPER fitting#and tbh the professors pretty dang autistic himself 😂😂#i think being able to connect and relate to someone based on the ways they DONT fit in would be rly sweet 👉👈#idk if its bad representation to have the reveal be that shes an alien but idc#this is my self insert and IM HAVING FUN#but them bonding over misreading social cues and the urge to infodump and being able to listen to each other!!#and all the little quirks she'd have would be ones i have too 😂😂#like sometimes mixing up parts of words so they come out reversed#and lots of other stuff waaah#im hungy i gotta make dinner soon#but this is the result of watching nothing but ppg for like 3 days 😂😂😂
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me: finally accepting theres a good chance im autistic and starting to work up the courage to ask my parents to see if i could get a diagnoses but being scared to
my mom: do you ever think you have adhd? if you want to do a screening for add next time your at the doctors you can
me:
#for context im terrified of being the person who sees stuff online and diagnosis themselves and then is wrong#which is why it took me so long to accept im —probably— autistic (bc now i have done research and stuff for it)#and id see adhd things that were relatable but i felt i related more to the autism + self diagnosing both felt weird (for me not in general#but now like. my mom is willing to accept i might have add??#(there was a long talk in between her asking if i ever thought i had it and her saying i could get a screening where we both agreed that#—if i did have it— i didnt have the hyperactive part. hence the add vs adhd thing)#and now that kinda through off my plans because like. what if i do also had adhd. or something#so yeah small crisis woo#i need to actually look i to symptoms and stuff for adhd though#because im not saying anything til i know more about it and if i actually do have a lot of the things#but this also gives me a chance go write about the autism things as well bc i told my mom i would look into the adhd#so now i can hopefully find a way to bring that up#ive mentioned that autism is a spectrum recently which i didnt think she knew before#so progress i guess#wow long rant in the tags whoops#jasper’s posts#moots have some jaz lore i guess
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How did I do today?
Were you proud of me? Did I do okay? How did you think I acted today? Was I talkative enough?did I make you happy? Did I make you uncontrollably laugh, like I usually do?
Or
Was I a failure like usual? Did I upset you? Did I act differently today? Did I go non-verbal like the little fucking dumb@ss I am? Did I make you depressed? Did I make you concerned, like I usually do?
do you hate me?
hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me?
do you want me to shut the fvck up? I'll gladly do that for you. I'll do anything for you. I'm afraid I don't have my own personality anymore, can I borrow some of yours? Make myself seem more interesting and likeable for once in my life? Just so I can fit in and do what others do??
I feel myself falling.
#vent#vent post#i wish i was joking#im sorry#self h@rm#sorry for being depressing#sh cvt#hitting styro#hitting beans#hitting my head against the wall#bpd#baby cvts#beansblr#actually bpd#bpd thoughts#bpd vent#im safe#actually autistic#autism#i wanna cvt#i dont get it#i want to cry#i want to be pretty#i want to be normal#please#addiction#attention deficit disorder (add)#autism spectrum disorder#chronic illness#actually did
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"just be yourself" has always been one of my most hated things to hear from someone. it may sound simple and easy to you, but when you grew up never able formed a single solid personality (because you grew up autistic or for some other reason) and/or have always felt more like 20 different personalities in a trench coat who fight over who is supposed to be in charge, that "simple" advice is so much less simple.....it can even seem impossible.
#autistic#autism things#autism#actually autistic#neurodivergent#adhd#audhd#dissociative disorder#dissociative identity disorder#did#osdd#not sure what all to tag#disclaimer. not formally diagnosed with did/osdd but currently being evaluated for it because therapist says#i have “concerning levels of dissociation” and feels its negatively impacting my life and these little freaks in my head need controlled#well she didnt say that last part but there needs to be some order in here#anyway. WHO AM I. WHO IS LEE. IS LEE A REAL PERSON. WHO IS THIS SELF YOU SPEAK OF AND HOW DO I BE THAT. IDK.#lee rambles#big imposter syndrome when considering a dissociative brain thing. been super exhausting working on it with therapist. is that normal?
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Me: So basically it's a bit like the sort of dream you might have if you fell asleep watching Muppet Treasure Island while Flight of the Conchords were playing in the background, in a living room whose decor was like 75% Pride merch. But it's also a really tender romance and a commentary on toxic masculinity and the boxes society and the people around us try to forcibly cram us into and how we don't have to be stuck in them forever. It's great, you'll love it so much.
My past self, who somehow retroactively invented time travel to come talk to me: That's wonderful, but I was really hoping you'd tell me how we're doing careerwise and stuff.
#I only made this post so I could use that description#which yes was loosely inspired by Neverwhere#my past self would LOVE to know what pop culture stuff we're being autistic about now#ofmd#our flag means death
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forgot to say on here, but hey after putting it off on account of the govt not needing to know my business, it started bothering me enough to finally change my name legal style (and immediately after our traumatic court date... diving right back into it.)
and it fills me with a certain kind of joyous+stubborn resolve. being transsexual and a man et al rules and is righteous and delicious and magnificent in its abundant complexity. nothing wrong with it at all, only good things, and don't let anyone pretend otherwise. gwan and lust for it. personally i've never been one for "i want to look Like someone who Would x without actually Being x—" nope! i crave embodiment. no hypotheticals here. (these sentiments are mostly @ myself but i'll let you know my heart also.) acknowledging that i wasn't Necessarily born as joe is difficult and brave of me but i imagine the experience like a marble statue or a painting— i'm simply letting the form within reveal himself to me 🥰 joefficial.
#that's mr. faggot to you#aka seosamh f. s. dáire#i'm also becoming much more comfortable and emboldened by the notion that i was never a girl at all simply treated/am treated as one but#also not allowed to be— “girlhood” withheld on account of making other people uncomfortable by being a fat insane ambiguously queer autist#and it feels so good to think “i was always a boy” because my child self would be grateful for the acknowledgement i believe#i also just had my birthday and i creep further into Old Transdom... so. many thoughts.
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It’s not my fault mom, maybe if you actually communicated properly I’d know what you meant!
I can’t fucking read minds! I can’t understand tones, you know this! Just fucking explain yourself, tell me what you want me to do!
Stop getting pissed at me for not knowing what you meant and not doing exactly what you want!
JUST TELL ME!
“I hate your attitude!” Well I’m fucking depressed and wanna kms, I’m sorry I don’t have the motivation to pretend to be happy for you anymore.
Maybe if I was just dead your life would be so much better, all you do is treat me like a fucking burden.
I’m sorry I was born, sorry I’m such a fucking failure.
#mentally ill posting#actually borderline#actually bpd#actually mentally ill#bpd#bpd problems#bpd vent#depression posting#mentally drained#actually autistic#mentally tired#mentally fucked#mentally exhausted#mentally unstable#bpd splitting#sui thoughts#tw sui ideation#i hate my mom#depressiv#sorry for being depressing#depressing shit#tw depressing thoughts#suic1de#self h4te#self h@te
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Was Simon cleaning her room to like look for something or is he just the kind of guy who likes to clean? Or is it something else?
(I have a feeling this is going to get the gif as a response)
He was rizzin' with the 'tism
lmaoo
yeah he was just cleaning cause he took one look into her room and went "not in this house".
#he's so autism coded#that's my headcanon#we're seeing it more now because the reader's seeing more of him than she has#it's just him being his autistic self#he likes being tidy#and the reader has been busy lol#answered
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why does having a fullblown meltdown make me hungry after. like its embarrassing to calm down and be like okay i guess im just eating soup now
#tongue#i havent had one in front of anyone in a while but what happens in the smoke corner Stays in the smoke corner#NOT a fan of being autistic in front of people but i cant mask after that shit#also rly need to go back to therapy i fink. my immediate response to bad things is self destruction#paying for it 😀👍 wots thiiis the consequences of my actions now
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Self care while studying
Drinking games - get a question wrong - take a sup of water
Keep snacks in your go too study space, do not miss meals because of a hyper focus, you need nutrients to fuel your wonderfulness. Dried bananas won't expire for ages and the magnesium is good for focus
Go to the bathroom first, especially if you have problems with interception (understanding signals from your body)
Get comfy. Don't sit all proper if you're not feeling it, lie in your bed, bent like a pretzel if it feels good. There are no rules.
#spoonie studyblr#Hypermobility#Heds#My hypermobile ass has studied in positions that would make a contortionist jealous#And it worked better than being uncomfortable at a desk#Hyperfocus#Adhd#Adhd study#adhd study tips#adhd tips#adhd studyblr#ash’s originals#hydration#Studyblr#Self care#disabled studyblr#hydrate or die straight#Unless fasting or on limited water#autistic studyblr
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I didn't have felt different from everyone my whole life undiagnosed autism, I had assumed everyone's autistic and masking is something everyone does undiagnosed autism
#like not with that self aware wording but you know what I mean#I thought masking was just the general form of being polite or something??#and that an autism diagnosis was just a note that you can do whatever#finding out that neurotypicals don't have sensory issues or any desire to stim or hyperfixate was baffling#my posts#autism#actually autistic#neurodivergent#the wordzard
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Genuinely how it feels having ur s/i next to ur f/o sometimes
#jane journals#silly#self shipping#self insert#f/o community#fictional other#lol#my partner and i watched this movie last night and i immediately thought of this 😂😂#which is which? that varies!!#whether it be a rly cool f/o or an old one or if ur f/o is the one whos teeny next to u 😂😂🫶#but yeah i had a LOT of thoughts about it 😭😭 just the movie in general especially stitch#name a better movie about being a kid whos neurodivergent/autistic/adhd ill wait
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