#random autismposting

[toonfinatic]

Sometimes i remember all those fun animation concept art archive sites and then i just go there and can stare at them for hours on end

[mzhydes-funtimes]

I know im reblogging a buncha bpd memes and saying i relate to them too much but guys, trust me, i dont have it even tho my mother has it. I know i dont bc autism adhd and i was diag-... nevermind my mother said that i wasnt, in fact diagnosed with depression and anxiety last time i went to the doctors even tho she told me like over 3 years before that.

So its honestly probably just adhd and autism for being able to just not be able to do anything and having a shit ton of negative thoughts constantly (mostly about myself and relations with other people) and i also probably dont have trauma even tho i have reconized a lot of things to likely be some sort of a trauma response

So yeah haha im pretty much just normal i just overreact when i feel like i cant take anything anymore and just shut down whenever someone other than mother yells at me and everything feeling overwhelming when too much change happens at once

[turntechyaoihead]

WAN WAN WAN WANDERFOOOOOOO

[victoria-coren-mitchell-stan]

If I was a shark you wouldnt be able to stop me from saying meow meow meow

[headspace-hotel]

Spicy autism opinion: we should reclaim the idea that “everyone’s a little autistic” for our own purposes because there’s value in the reality that autism is just part of a larger spectrum of human diversity and that autistic experiences are human experiences

and like, I vibe pretty heavy with the “otherworldly/alien/inherently Other” side of autistic experience, and for me being autistic is very fundamentally lonely, but from a practical point of view, I feel like it’s a better understanding than whatever the current one is that leads to people asking things like “is it appropriation if I stim?” stimming is important as a part of autistic experience and emotions and self regulation but i think it leads to better understanding in the long run if it’s well known that stimming is something basically everyone does in one way or another

Also, extra spicy opinion but ive really never seen neurotypicality and neurodivergence as two distinct and non overlapping categories. It is important to understand that neurodivergence leads to people being marginalized and/or disadvantaged and being “neurotypical” is a privilege to some degree. But. being “neurotypical” isn’t like...a single uniform Type Of Brain, nor is it necessarily a “type” of brain at all, but rather a catch all category for people who aren’t “different” enough that society is hostile and inhospitable toward them and therefore labels them with a diagnosis.

And that’s where it gets weird. Because having a diagnosis doesn’t CAUSE you to be autistic, but neither does anything else in particular outside of diagnostic criteria. Psychiatric diagnoses are (rightfully) notorious for being culturally relative. There might be some distinct objective characteristics of a condition, but a diagnosis itself is as much created by the characteristics of the society it is in as characteristics of the person. So...ADHD as a lived experience is a Real thing, but ADHD as a concept is culturally constructed.

Like there’s a lot of focus on such diagnoses being results of measurable differences in brain chemistry, and I don’t know much about it, but brains are really complex and diverse and there are probably differences in brain chemistry that account for being a workout junkie or liking beets. People are diverse. Some of it is “wrong” enough to get diagnosed.

If autism or ADHD reflect biological, chemical realities, our diagnostic criteria is inevitably flawed because we don’t detect autism and ADHD using biology and chemistry, but rather outward effects and characteristics. Likewise, there are likely an unknown number of people with those internal characteristics that don’t match the criteria we have, and maybe as many people who match the criteria but don’t match whatever chemical or biological difference that causes the group of people we call “people with adhd/autism” to be Like That.

If there isn’t a single distinct “cause” of these conditions, we’ve basically drawn an imaginary line when creating these diagnoses—again, not because they don’t reflect lived realities of people, but because somewhere a distinction was made between Normal people and people that need to be diagnosed.

I think this is awkward to consider for many neurodiversity advocates, but the autistic spectrum does, in fact, shade imperceptibly into “neurotypicality” without a stutter. The psychiatric literature calls this the “broader autism phenotype”—people who are, I guess, Kind Of Weird Nerds but don’t really fit the diagnostic criteria fully.

Literally my entire family has “pieces” of the Autistic Experience. A handful of related diagnoses were distributed among us, and both my mom and dad have to some extent a similar experience with social relationships that I do. In some particular ways many of my family members could be read as More Autistic than I am. Both of my brothers have some kind of dyspraxia (?) and both stim in some way or other. I’m the only member of the family with an autism diagnosis, because I happened to get the right combination of traits, I suppose.

That’s why the simple concept that “either you’re autistic or you’re allistic” feels incomplete to me, not only because many “comorbid” conditions exist that autistics Vibe with, but also that autistic traits happen in people that aren’t diagnosable because they’re just...parts of human diversity.

I don’t know what to do with this overall but I think “autism is a real thing and a real lived experience for people, who are in some way marginalized or underprivileged because of it” and “autism is essentially a socially curated category that is just a part of a bigger spectrum of all human neurodiversity” are realities that can coexist

[irlwakko]

another one of my favorite genres of safety sign is when there is no official, fancy sign made with carefully chosen wording and sturdy sign materials, just average humans using whatever they can find to try to keep each other safe

like yes these would be very scary to encounter in the actual place itself, but just looking at them I think they’re beautiful. some stranger I’ll never know has explored the same places as me and they are trying to keep me safe. I love that