#kid with autism

[averageludwig]

painting my hyperfixation like a woman I am in love with + bonus painting i like less

[lettucecookiebrainrot7]

unfinished gijinka tina

doodle time

[julie-hitsuji]

Guess my fav pokemon(impossible edition)

[dreadpirateroe]

why am i into voltron supernatural and teen wolf in the year of our lord 2024

[alexmary01]

[foldingfittedsheets]

I think something a lot of other people can relate to is the way that you get so conditioned to discomfort that you stop registering it.

I remember sitting at the table with my family, eating dinner as a child. I’d try to eat, because of course I was hungry. But sometimes the flavor or texture was so repugnant that it moved into a category of Not Food.

“Two more bites before you can leave the table.”

“I can’t,” I’d say, trying to explain the impossibility.

But because I was a child they heard, “I won’t,” and made me sit at the table. I’d sit in dull agonized silence, bored and hungry for hours until bedtime when they’d give up. I’d hate myself for not eating and my parents for forcing me to sit there. The few forcefeeding moments ended in vomit.

They’d say, “If you don’t eat this you can’t eat a snack later,” and I moved past trying to communicate my discomfort into accepting that I’d just be hungry.

That state of affairs didn’t last, because my parents realized nothing could force me to eat so they catered to my palate, worrying they’d starve me. But the message stuck. If you can’t do anything about a situation, just accept the suffering.

A few years later my mother called me off the playground to ask, “Are you limping?”

I shrugged. My feet had hurt for a long time, but that was just the way things were now. My mom pulled my socks and shoes off and gasped. The soles of my feet were covered in huge painful planters warts.

“Why didn’t you say anything?!” She demanded but I could only shrug at her. I’d learned a long time ago that saying things about my discomfort didn’t matter, so now I had no words. Sometimes things hurt and sometimes they don’t. I simply accepted and did my best.

Now as an adult trying to learn to improve my own conditions can be hard. If I make food that I can’t eat I’ll force myself to sit at the counter still, full of guilt and self loathing, trying to will myself to eat it.

At first I needed my betrothed to gently take it away to present me with something I could eat. Now on my own I can usually admit that it’s not happening before too long and get something else, but I still feel guilty.

Laying in bed at night waiting for my betrothed to finish getting ready I let out a huge sigh of relief when they turned the lights off.

“Why didn’t you turn them off if they bothered you?” they asked the first time it happened.

“I didn’t even know it was bothering me until it was gone.”

Assessing my physical state now to see if I can improve it is something I’m still relearning but I’m relieved to finally have the space and support to do it.

[large-ape-humongous]

Laios Finnish phenotype real

[bli-o]

hey autistic people who get overwhelmed by large groups or noise or conversation or etc etc etc you’re not evil for wanting to leave a family gathering. just so you know.

[m0thmancore]

yknow it really bothers me that 95% of conversations i've seen about gifted kid burnout are neurotypicals talking about "oh these kids are upset they don't get to feel special anymore"

as opposed to "yeah these kids have severe self-esteem issues because the only thing they were ever praised for as children was how smart they are and how quickly they learn and now they can't do things if they don't know how to do it immediately because they're terrified of failure because their love always felt so conditional on their performance even if it wasn't"

[lettucecookiebrainrot7]

Should I continue this comic? I made it while cooking lunch lol

hope you enjoy this thing (its ugly af) I JUST REALIZED THAT THE ORDER IS SWITCH, THE LAST IMAGE IS THE FIRST SORRY POOKIES

[orangepyx]

> Me tonight

> Being on a call with a friend on Messenger

> We dying of laughter for doing stupid things with the Heat model taken out of the game

> Open Facebook

> The first thing that comes out to me is a post from someone asking if you would let yourself be fucked by Heat and then be devoured (Along with an image of Agni)

> Die more from laughter

> Check the comments

> Someone believing that I made the post

> Strangely I feel happy to be recognized for something now

> Decide to comment but only mentioning the fuck part

> I'm not a vore fan

> Most fetishes disgust me

> That post would easily be a shit that I would post in that Shin Megami Tensei Facebook group

[dreamdropsystem]

We always talk about how autistic adults are adults, and that's true. but shoutout to the autistics that :

age regress

pet regress

don't feel human

are age stunted by trauma

who feel like a teen/child for whatever reason

who want to be a child again

age sliders in a system

littles in a system

middles in a system

[gods-favorite-autistic]

I love how instead of the Bad Kids getting into a tangled mess of relationships it’s their parents who are all dating each other

[ao3-shenanigans]

Hi, reminder to not infantilize autistic, asexual, or aromantic people and characters.

Thanks!

[prettybluebro]

two types of autism