#diagnosed autistic

[autopsyfreak]

if you’re one of those people who posts content shitting on people with low emotional capacity/ranges, then you’re ableist towards people with disorders that make them more monotonous or less emotionally responsive than the average person.

hope this helps.

[aithusiel]

A yes, the three kinds of Autism:

(RE: was found on video referencing Autism)

[ganjamonster11]

ANDRE + CAL + MIKE

CERTIFIED HE/HYM-ER AND MALE COCKHAVER AUTISTIC SYSTEM

CURRENTLY LISTENING 2 MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE RADIOHEAD SLIPKNOT KORN NIRVANA THE LEFT RIGHTS NIN THE SMITHS DETHKLOK METALLICA ARTIC MONKEYS, INTERESTS R HOUSE MD ZERO DAY DINOSAURS GLAZING MY FRIENDS AND GUNS

LOVE MY FRANDS: CONNOR MORGAN KNUX BLOOM AGUSTIN KEVIN CAL TOKI MARC SNEAKIE ELIZA JEWEL AIM GIA ROBIN POLE … DA LIST GOES ON

TERFS THINSPO ENDOSYSTEMS PROSHIP & TCC FUK OFF LET ME LIVE IN SWEET SUICIDAL BLISS WITHOUT YOU FREAKS UP MY ASS

[tbhcareguide]

How to take care of a TBH creature!

[hollybinnisonx]

i know my autism and adhd is "normal" and "nothing to be ashamed of" because theres literally nothing i can do about it but recently ive been feeling so ashamed of myself.

i get frustrated so easily with noise / talking and i have to quickly leave the room. it makes me wonder what people who dont know me think.

i cant focus on homework i never do it. ever. and you would expect me to get expelled but no they just give me a sympathetic look and a pat on the head like im a dog. why do i get Bs when i do NOTHING?.

and what about my hyper fixations? do people think its annoying when i wanna talk about the same episodes of a show that came out in 2016?.

do peoole wonder why i cant look them in the eye? or why im always on my phone?.

these are questions that are literally haunting me. i cant be stuck in this brain for the rest of my life. its torture.

im trying so hard to be normal but i think the stress is making it worse. i lock myself in my bathroom so i can jump up and down and talk to the mirror because thats how my embarrassing self stims

[proteincreature]

When you were doing great and then...

[yellowfoot-06]

Feeling like I can’t say how autism disables me because people are like ‘Uh you’re actually infantilizing autistics/yourself by saying that. You can actually do that you’re just not trying hard enough.’ like brooooo

[madsthebat]

being late diagnosed autistic is such an interesting experience.

because, like, i used to hate myself so deeply for things beyond my control. i used to stay up sobbing, wondering what was wrong with me, wondering why i was so broken and different from other people.

and now having been diagnosed at 21, things have finally started to click.

i don’t hate myself anymore.

i understand now.

[aunt-kats-chats]

I'm so tired of the idea that autism isn't a disability. I'm aware that some people aren't too affected by their autism but I am disabled by mine. I've been in and out of different therapies since I was nine years old and that was even before I was diagnosed at age twelve. I have frequent meltdowns and shutdowns over the littlest of things and combined with my ADHD and GAD it's quite frankly a miracle I get anything done. I've been exhausted since school has ended since I have to prep for University and I keep having mini meltdowns over all the uncertainty ahead. I barely know how to keep the friends I still have and everyone I'm close with is going to different schools so I have no friends as a safety net come Fall Semester.

It's tiring being Autistic because everything is so much more difficult. I can barely write legibly unless I think about it and even making friends is a game I barely know how to play. Yet when i tell people that I'm autistic they are shocked as if it wasn't obvious by my difficulties with peers.

I just hope that University is better but fuck I don't even know anymore.

But to my main point. Autism is a disability. Deal with it

[cillianmurphysdimples]

I am the parent of two autistic children. Neither has an EHCP at this time and they both attened a local mainstream school, the same school they have been attended since pre-school nursery.

With my eldest child, the school has been a phenomenal place of support. As his mother, and from the outside looking in as a stranger, with my oldest you will see supportive practices, honouring of his difficulties and differences, and adaptations such as communication cards to ask for things due to selective mutism. They provided an emotional support course, involving a dog, which worked on building up his ability to confidently use his voice around others and authoritatively. They have been supportive and communicated well with me during a recent 10 day absence and couldn't have been more willing to do whatever he needed to return to school.

For my youngest, though, who's behaviours are sometimes a little more difficult to manage than his brothers, this school fails at some many hurdles. From his first day at nursery, where he was shouted at by a staff member and was observed cowering and crying, to the time our SENCo caused so much home upset with a lie she told that he refused to attend school for an entire week because he was led to believe that 'everybody says I'm bad'. I requested, before the summer, that either I, or the SEN budget allocations, provided a Dizzy Fish spinner for him for school as a regulation tool. We use this at home and he spends a lot of time getting the vestibular input he needs from this tool. The SENCo was all for this, and when I said I would pay she made references herself to looking at it along the SEN budget. I received no futher communication from her at all regarding this and since school has started, she has spoken to an advocate (still not me) where she has apparently told them that the school cannot provide a "SEN provision for just one child".

Why not? There's a *£6,000 SEN budget per child with identified SEN needs each year to each school in England. I'm asking for £100 of that for a fucking spinning chair. I even said I'd pay for it myself and provide it. So why can't that be done? What's £100 in a budget of *£6,000 per child (they have AT LEAST 30 children identified with SEN requirements and so they that budget at least 30 times)?!

Outside looking in? He's a handful and he's just "naughty" and they don't see a point. As his mum? They've taken a dislike to me and it's a punishment being handed down on my more "difficult" child just to piss me off.

Can someone explain this to me, like I'm a five year old, because I fail to see what the fucking problem is?!

(*£6,000 according to my last awareness of the budget allocations)

[autopsyfreak]

the way people view specific disorders so differently is the strangest thing.

autism often gets infantilised.

BPD often gets romanticised.

NPD + ASPD are the ‘evil’, ‘abusive’ disorders.

the funniest part is that these disorders often co-exist so your approaches are, not only completely disgusting, but also entirely hypocritical.

we are all just people with disorders affecting the way we think, behave and respond to things. these disorders don’t make us something to be glorified or demonised and it also doesn’t make us stupid or deserving of being treated like children.

treat all mental illnesses and disorders with respect otherwise you are just fucking ableist. idc.

[deepermadness]

I still think back to earlier this year when I was at work and one of the third party contractors who does the warehouse accuracy checks stopped me to ask me a personal question.

He'd noticed that I was pretty particular about how I picked trays and boxes. Very neat, always with the label facing outwards so it could be scanned. He said I seemed quite book smart as well. I was always full of facts on highly specialised interests. He said he'd worked out what I was.

I could already feel the dread coming.

"Yeah, I reckon you're one of *those* guys. Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with it. You can't help being born an aquarius."

A starsign. I got diagnosed as aquarius.

[ashas-autistic-alcove]

i haven’t cried

once since moving out.

but

every night, i sit on my bed eating the

food i can hardly afford,

teetering on the verge

of tears

but never making it over the

edge.

[luckygrlsyndrome]

hi guys, i've never coined anything so lmk if i do anything wrong !

i wanted to coin a new term related to nonscribal and verbalflux because i haven't seen a term that describes some of my own and my friend's experiences

SCRIBALFLUX: a term for when your ability to produce written or typed language fluctuates between different states, such as having no, some, or full ability to produce written language

[elliott-the-creature]

god I want an aac so badly. I just need a way to consistently speak in public when I have a verbal shutdown, or if my situational mutism starts acting up. I hate when someone talks to me or asks a question and I just sit there in silence or have to walk away nervously instead of talking like a normal person.

as an example, I had to take the bus today to go to someone’s house for a job. I accidentally went on the wrong bus, and once I realized I got on the wrong bus, I couldn’t get off. so once it announced the next stop, I immediately hit the button for the bus to stop at that stop. a man exclaimed “wow, that’s the shortest bus trip I’ve ever seen,” and I wanted so badly to just tell him “hey, I went on the wrong bus (because why the hell are there two bus 1 that go in opposite directions??), so I gotta get off,”, but I just couldn’t. I just had to sit there and awkwardly get off the bus while I felt everyone staring at me (also don’t worry, I ended up getting on the right bus and made it to my job on time).

I’m also super worried about when I have to be an adult and have to do adult things. like, what if nobody else is there for me to relay my order to a waiter? what’s gonna happen when I’m going to a doctors appointment alone and I lose my voice? I have recently been able to tell my order to a waiter or ask for food at a fast food place, but even then, I get really stuttery and nervous, and my voice is so inconsistent and I speak too fast or mumble too much; I get worried about this kind of stuff all the time.

I just need some way to have a voice when my own vocal cords betray me. I need a voice for when I have no voice.

[mybrainsrottingwithmcd]

Minecraft Diaries is mentioned 4 separate times on my autism assessment report :)