#level 3 autistic

[kazandautism]

It okay if you want to get rid of your autism.

Lot of people on internet say that autism great and that they like it. That okay too, everyone allowed own opinion on self.

But not make you bad person if you don’t like it.

It hard having meltdowns and sensory overload. Hard to need others to care for self.

You allowed to dislike your autism.

[cripp-tid]

tbh i find autism so debilitating because it feels like no one takes the time to listen to us. the general population around in-person spaces forget that LSN/Level 1 autistic people exist, and the online spaces forget that HSN/Level 2-3 autistic people exist.

like i either get hit with the "but you don't look autistic" irl or the "ugh why cant that kid just learn to type right" online. and theyre ableist as hell in both directions!!!!!!!! they both uphold The Norm™

everyone either expects a fully nonverbal diagnosis-caught-early type of autist, or someone who has 0 neurodivergency based issues at all. make up your fucking mind????

as someone who isn't really sure where it falls on the support needs spectrum, both sides of this shit suck for different reasons.

just. don't be a dick to people who have different support needs. that's it, that's the post. someone needs more? less? exactly the same as you? does not fucking matter regardless and you better not make it into a Thing. I'm stealing your kneecaps. im foaming at the mouth. im going to throw a brick at you.

[threelogsinatrenchcoat]

I just saw someone say that physically disabled people and mentally disabled people are different because “people look at me and know I’m disabled.”, which is such an ignorant statement.

level 3, high support needs autistic people don’t get the privilege of being able to hide their autism. People with intellectual disabilities don’t get the benefit of being discreet.

people know, they always know. They can tell when you slur your speech, and flap your arms, and make noises they don’t understand. They can tell when you talk and when you don’t. When I have a meltdown in a busy area, everyone fucking knows. Most of us don’t get the privilege of masking.

This is not a physically disabled exclusive experience, ever. And to act like we’re some how less likely to face danger because of it causes actual harm.

I’m not saying we are exactly the same, we aren’t. I’ll never fully understand the physically disabled experience. But this experience is real for other people that aren’t you.

[borderlinedolly]

Things I Rarely See Talked About

Level 2/Medium Support Need Autistics

Level 3/High Support Need Autistics

Deaf and/or Blind Autistics

BIPOC Autistics

Nonverbal Autistics

Semiverbal Autistics

The Downsides of Getting a Diagnosis

Older People (30+) With Disorders Like DID, ASPD, BPD, Autism, Etc

[kittentism]

uhm ,, potentially controversial post kitty not really know how tag exactly so hope get right audience but ,,,

i love you hostile autistic people . i love you violent autistic people . i love you autistic people unable control reaction emotions all it . love you autistic people who lash out yell kick scream bite all it . love you autistic people who feel guilty after and autistic people who dont .

i love you autistic people who dont even realize being hostile or mean . i love you autistic people who struggle to care . i love you autistic people who are "bad" and rejected by the community and told to "be better" even though you can't help it . i love you autistic people who struggle to have friends or close people because of it and i love you autistic people who have people who understand you and stick around . we all very cool and dont deserve be treated as if we mean for fun by people who not struggle way we do .

(come from autistic person who unable process and regulate emotion and do lash out frequently even at people very much care about)

[ghxst-system]

destigmatise people who visibly autistkc

"its invisible"

actually

low mask and high/mid support needs usually "visible" to extent

i make noises walk around and look "odd" "different"

other people said before on here

not all autistic people visibly autistic and autism doesnt have "a look" but some people LOOK autistic

people so obsessed with show how "normal" high masking LSN people look and behave that we get swept under rug

[sheepieautism]

kind of wish i knew people who experience rigidity and binary thinking in regards to their own identity because of autism. like i say i am trans man and only like wearing masculine looking clothes but that’s not really true. i don’t think i am wholly a masculine gay trans man, but i get confused because my brain doesn’t like not being certain of things, or not fitting neatly into boxes. i understand everyone else’s identities and accept them but can’t do it for myself. not sure if anyone gets this.

[ichverdurstehier]

Nonverbal autistics of Tumblr, why do you guys use third person language so often? It seems to be a very common thing

[tobydandelion]

Severely Autistic Adult explains the actual problems with self dx:

When your don't have a good neurologist, or actual psychologist specializing in Autism, diagnose you and explain your diagnosis to you properly, the only place you're learning about autism is just among those of similar support needs, based on how social media functions. So when you spread misinformation in a video, we often don't even get to hear it, because usually, You're Boring Your Eyeballs Into The Camera so we can't even read the captions we usually need to even process what you're saying. So, most severely autistic folks cannot watch these types of videos to even dispute the misinformation within. That's just one example how we're shut out of our "own community" via lack of social supports and education. It's a self-reinforcing exclusion. Your understanding of the severity levels of sensory and cognitive impairment that can be "Just Autism" are then limited even more, causing folks to spread misinformation about other people's disabilities, and what more severe autistic accessibility needs look like in general.

And that's not even my main problem with self diagnosis- there's also the huge crossover of symptoms in the DSM to consider- and I'm absolutely sure autism self diagnosis is preventing a lot of people from understanding their fixable problems that come from complex trauma and require intensive inner child work and DBT, rather than just autism accommodations.

So it's not always invalid, but it requires a lot more work than the average 22 year old barista on tt has the time, energy, and media literacy skills to figure out, so being skeptical that someone isn't actually just ADD, or some other cousin neurotype, with unaddressed CPTSD due to that, and not autistic, should be valid as well. And I really wish "labels" didn't matter, but they unfortunately do, when these are the people prescribing language and obfuscating the actual types of accommodations society needs more of for MY DISABILITY that they demonstrably do not understand.

For instance, why do self diagnosers hate the word 'Severe' so much? Is acknowledging someone actually has a life quantifiably harder than you really so ego-shattering? Oh, oops, it actually is, because none of you will go get proper therapy for your trauma because you're all too busy in cycles of codependency and accusing each other of being secret evil narcissists, when really you're all just traumatized weird kids who are desperate for community and don't know how to heal. I get that now. But just, try to find that without prescribing language for people's disabilities, if you could please. And if you have time to self diagnose, you have time to take a full DBT course online or do some DBT workbooks. No matter what your neurotype, they are useful skills, especially if you were not raised kindly. And for every low support needs person on social media you follow, seach and try to find just as many higher support needs folks to follow too. And other severely disabled folks of all disabilities, too.

(Leaving this here to read feedback, refine the points, and turn it into shortform when I'm up to it, probably next year. Sorry if you've ever dm'd me, I do not consume any Tumblr currently, I only post. Super burned out, only social spoons for my baby and our team.❤)

[arquaticdreamer]

I love this so much.

A comic I made recently about my feelings on being chronically ill/disabled :)

tumblr quality always does me dirty 😭

[2003-playground]

Can we stop using "still lives with their parents" or "unemployed" or "doesn't have a drivers license" or "didn't graduate high school" as an insult or evidence that someone is a bad person? Struggling with independence or meeting milestones is not a moral failing.

[ghxst-system]

being told "sharing is caring" to force me as an autistic child to share was weird as hell

it ISNT caring

it isnt caring to me, to cause myself immense stress and meltdowns because people are touching and using MY things

like fuck off

if i care about u i dont share my shit, i just tell u.

[sheepieautism]

my mind has been a jumble so i went quiet after posting my introduction but i have some words i can say now.

i don’t think this is anything new, but i like to talk. some things might be borrowed observations because i am struggling to keep things straight in my mind.

i think a lot of lsn autistics want so badly to be accepted by allistics that they have pushed demedicalisation of autism harder than necessary. i don’t think the blame lies squarely on anyone’s shoulders, but i can understand where the urge comes from. i think this is partially due to autistic autism researchers like damian milton, who despite his work advocating for the autistic community is still fundamentally privileged as someone who, despite his disability, is able to do research and have his voice heard.

i will never be able to do that, and many others cannot conduct the research we so badly need to be done to stop pushing us HrSN folks out of the conversation.

not sure what can be done if the overwhelming majority of lsn people don’t even seem aware that we exist. it’s exhausting.

for example the popular assumption amongst neurodivergent people (speaking broadly) that autistics struggling with communication must be experiencing the double empathy problem. this one really frustrates me because i am not experiencing this, but the presumption that i am alienates me when i can’t communicate with other neurodivergent people or even other autistics. but if i say i experience theory of mind problems someone says it’s ’problematic’ and ‘outdated’. but it works for me, so why can’t i use it?

it is upsetting.

[ichverdurstehier]

Is it possible for someone's autism levels to change due to trauma? Like could a 1.5 go to a 2.5 after being kidnapped and tortured? I'm writing a story

[yellowyarn]

i always see sensory avoidant autistic people talking about how their favourite foods are all plain carbs but where are the sensory seeking autistics who live on garlic and spicy foods? the ones who will eat a straight lemon and hate buttered noodles.