#i need to get tested for autism

[gorelesbian]

me: no i can't be autistic because i don't take things literally! i know an expression like "steal someone's thunder" isn't actually about thunder!

my dentist: hey as a general guideline; it's best for your teeth to only have 7 "eat moments" per day, 3 meals and 4 snacks.

me: oh ok. but what if i eat half a sandwich and then i eat the other half 10 mins later. does that count as two eat moments or one. and what if i wait half an hour. how much time has to pass for it to count as two eat moments. what if i wake up late and i only have 2 meals, can i have 5 snack moments then. does a sweet drink count as an eat moment. if i have 6 eat moments today can i have 8 eat moments tomorrow. oh my god this is such a complicated rule

[princessmo]

*gets injured in real life* omg this is just like when mr. van driessen from beavis and butthead got injured

[marzipanandminutiae]

she's a 10 but is she cool with allistic people being obsessively passionate about things, too? or people who haven't publicly given a category into which she can neatly slot their neurological state?

does she think people owe her a medical label to explain their "weird" aspects, whether it's helpful for them or not?

(applying labels to people who haven't self-identified with those labels is bad even if you phrase it as "omg bestie have you considered that you're definitely 100% autistic? #neurospicy :D")

[sunsetsandsunshine]

Guess who has a new hyperfixation?

Again.

[organictoonup]

[nexus-nebulae]

me as a kid: i have all these problems

every adult around me: you're not old enough to know what's wrong with you, you're fine

me as an adult: i still have all these problems

my doctors after i finally got the opportunity to choose them myself: oh my fucking god why have you never gotten help for all these problems. you should have seen me 10 years ago

[themanirealityshifter]

once again, not shifting related, but see, i have a lot of things that come along with autism and ADHD, and the like, but i’m still prettyyy damn sure i don’t have em, but also maaaybe, buuut alsooo i don’t knoooow. i have hyperfixations, special interests, the verbal shutdowns, shutdowns in general, meltdowns, also executive dysfunction, neurodivergent stimming (plus some that can pass as neurotypical stimming), and lots more that i can’t remember at the moment, cuz i haven’t eaten enough, OH YEAH AND SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, annnd auditory processing disorder, also internalized echolalia and just echolalia, possibly alexithymia, and have trouble with social cues and eye contact. plus food allergies which is also common/comorbid with autism. plus also i was what ya call the gifted kid and now i’m burnt out and even though my grades are always good when i actually hand something in, i constantly procrastinate and have basically given up on school altogether, cuz there’s no possible way for my mental health to be okay, for me to have relationships, for me to do things i like, and do well and be consistent in school all at the same time.

soooo, what am i? i relate to autistics and ADHDers A TON. buuuut i don’t think i am one of y’all. buuut what else can i possibly be? i have no idea. i am a mystery and i pretty sure i always will be.

[theaterkidlament]

my rtc brainrot has gotten so bad that when i see a cat i immediately think of ricky potts

[sophiasrant]

Adderall, the first two days I take it for some reason: I can make you #LockIn :) unfortunately for you I have decided that we are locking in on how you can feel Every Cell In Your Throat And The Rest Of Your Body Constantly haha

[lupins-hehim-pussy]

I think I accidentally made Wriothesley AuDHD. fuck

[homosexual-having-tea]

Shout out to the poor girl I matched with on Hinge because I just sent like four consecutive messages about my favorite parts of speech (prepositions and adjectives). Thanks for not blocking my ass yet queen 🫡

[puppyboymikeyway]

teehee its so funny i can never tell if people hate me or not bcs i can't tell what someone's tone is online

like do you hate me or are you joking

side-eyes @mikeyswayy

[july-19th-club]

me age seven being sat down in front of the school’s district child psych lady and being given strange, simple spatial puzzles to solve and then long, complicated worksheets and hammering my way through them at the speed of light while having zero comprehension what their purpose was or why i was here: this is urgent! i have to get a good grade in Weird Puzzles, Or Else, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve,

[eruditegeek]

I don't think I've ever lived up to a single expectation. The bar was always just too high.

[orcelito]

Remembering that a 4 hour psychological test means 4 hours under the examiner's microscope. I hope they let me listen to music during a written test, but idk if that would defeat the purpose or not. I... really don't know what to expect tomorrow, and it's kind of making me a bit nervous. Lol.

[fandoms-of-erlik]

I was talking with my friend today and the topic came to tiktok trends and how some people are misled to believe they have certain illnesses/disorders and I jokingly said "haha yeah everyone I meet keeps asking me if I'm autistic" and she went on a rant about how nowadays autism is treated like something "quirky" and how she hates it and midway through me nodding along she said "not in your case tho I think you're autistic too"