#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)

[roguegreaser]

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 THE OUTSDERS RUMBLE FISH 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!

[holdy-caulfield]

My mom told me “Well, you didn’t show any signs of autism when you were a kid”.

We found two notebooks from my childhood. One was a diary. The entries looked like this: “We moved a few months ago” (actually a huge thing in my life), and the rest were like 8 pages of comparing different versions of adaptations of The Little Mermaid.

The other notebook contained lists and sections. Just random lists. One of the lists were gems sectioned by colors. Other notable one was a list of Danish male names in alphabetical order.

By the way, the lists were in my diary too. Like every 2 pages just a sectioned list of whatever.

Also I copied in the list book (by hand) a Wikipedia page about tigers.

[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

[thatbasictherian]

anyone else do this?

I have this weird thing where I kind of just always talk about myself like I’m multiple people. I don’t type it or anything online and stuff but in person I instinctively say things like “we, us, ourselves” when I’m just talking about myself. Anyone know why I do this? I constantly find myself wondering about it. I have full blown conversations with myself like I’m multiple people. I talk in different voices and call myself multiple different names. I feel like I have multiple souls even though I’m literally just one person. Is this normal behavior? My therapist thinks it’s a cause for concern as I sometimes forget who I am and like everything about myself because of it buts it’s been happening for almost as long as I can remember. Is this really not normal? I thought everyone felt this way and had these experiences?

[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.

[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)

[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

[apersononearth011]

you know i feel so stupid but i genuinely fit the diagnostic criteria for like 8 mental illnesses

i feel like such a pick me like "i'm more ill than you" bitch, THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M SAYING

i just do, like i'm trying to force a realisation that i'm faking it but it ain't coming bc i'm not so ummm yay 😃