#they are autistic

[thaltro]

Which sanses in this fandom you think are the most autism GO!

Error and ink probably

Ink: doesn’t understand social cues , definitely has Alexithymia, wears loose baggy clothes and can’t wear shoes cause of sensory issues, struggles with expressing emotions to the correct scenarios, probably struggles with lower empathy, he hyperfixates and probably stims, headcannon he can fall into negative stimming like self biting and picking when he’s overwhelmed, and like any good autistic rep is demonized/infantilized to hell and back by the fandom (side note he definitely has adhd)

Error: his sensory issues are wild especially with his fear of touch, if he could have headphones he would wear them 24/7, I head cannon him struggling with AFRID with his safe foods being chocolate, he probably goes non vocal when overstimulated, he litrally blue screens which I interpret as sometimes a autistic shut down, he definitely struggles with socialization and instead of getting into social situations safely re-enacts them with his puppets, he has hyperfixations like on undernovela, has a overwhelming feeling of things not being *right* and needing it to be *right*, also wears loose baggy clothes he can stim with. Also like any good autistic rep is demonized/infantilized to hell and back by the fandom.

[batwynn]

The moment my therapist finally, and fully understood that I’m autistic was halfway into me explaining myself experimenting on my own brain chemistry after reading a report that people with ADHD get dopamine hits from sweet things that can combat some of the ADHD bs, buying a large container of Nutella, and eating a spoonful every afternoon to see if I could overcome the executive dysfunction for several months, then going without to see if there was a difference.

[randomrobotcircuits]

Autism vs autism

[staggersz]

taps the mic

Griffin Stagg, Vance Hopper, Billy Showalter, and Finney Blake are all autistic.

walks off the stage

[resident-sean-expert]

You have no idea how much I want an interaction between Nadja and Sean in canon, how hilarious it would be

Imagine Sean inviting Laszlo and Nadja over for a movie night, except at one point Charmaine goes to the kitchen and Laszlo for some reason leaves the room.

Nadja and Sean... the only two left in the room, looking at each other terribly uncomfortable :

Sean is trying somehow to break the ice and suggests Nadja some appetizers, she takes one in her hand, makes a face because the smell disgusts her, distracts Sean by pointing at the back of the room and throws the food on the floor.

Except Sean saw the food being thrown, so he looks at Nadja, deadpan.

"You know... you just had to tell me if you didn't like it."

"Oh yeah Shee-awn.. sorry."

"No big deal..."

[your-favourite-goat]

It'd has been less then a day!!!!

You

Are

AUTISTIC!!!!!!

Love you @local-soda-can <3

[autistictojisuzuharafan11]

Me every time i favorite a character

Bc I said so

[suffering-and-misery]

adhd paralysis sucks bcuz im just sitting there and my brain is like

YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME

no work done no rest gained. literally no point of this at all

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[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.

[sleeplessv0id]

what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy

[gabrielora]

When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.

[reasonsforhope]

By the way, you can improve your executive function. You can literally build it like a muscle.

Yes, even if you're neurodivergent. I don't have ADHD, but it is allegedly a thing with ADHD as well. And I am autistic, and after a bunch of nerve damage (severe enough that I was basically housebound for 6 months), I had to completely rebuild my ability to get my brain to Do Things from what felt like nearly scratch.

This is specifically from ADDitude magazine, so written specifically for ADHD (and while focused in large part on kids, also definitely includes adults and adult activities):

Here's a link on this for autism (though as an editor wow did that title need an editor lol):

Resources on this aren't great because they're mainly aimed at neurotypical therapists or parents of neurdivergent children. There's worksheets you can do that help a lot too or thought work you can do to sort of build the neuro-infrastructure for tasks.

But a lot of the stuff is just like. fun. Pulling from both the first article and my own experience:

Play games or video games where you have to make a lot of decisions. Literally go make a ton of picrews or do online dress-up dolls if you like. It helped me.

Art, especially forms of art that require patience, planning ahead, or in contrast improvisation

Listening to longform storytelling without visuals, e.g. just listening regularly to audiobooks or narrative podcasts, etc.

Meditation

Martial arts

Sports in general

Board games like chess or Catan (I actually found a big list of what board games are good for building what executive functioning skills here)

Woodworking

Cooking

If you're bad at time management play games or video games with a bunch of timers

Things can be easier. You might always have a disability around this (I certainly always will), but it can be easier. You do not have to be this stuck forever.

[anexperimentallife]

[callmemanatee]

The way most autism literature describes "literal interpretation" is often not at all similar to how I experience it. Teenage me even thought I couldn't be autistic because I've always been able to learn metaphors easily.

In fact, I love wordplay of all kinds. Teenage me was fascinated to learn all the types of figurative language there are in poetry and literature.

But paperwork and questionnaires are hard, because there's so much they don't state clearly. Or they don't leave room for enough nuance.

"List all the jobs you've had, with start and end dates." What if I don't remember the exact day or month? Is the year enough?

"Have you been suffering from blurred vision?" Well, if I take off my glasses the whole world is blurred, but I'm fairly sure that's not what the intake form at the optometrist is asking.

Or the infamous (and infuriatingly stereotypical) "Would you rather go to a library or a party?" What sort of party? Where? Who's there? I work at a library. Am I currently at the library for work or pleasure? Does it have a good collection?

It's not common figures of speech that confound me. It's ambiguity, in situations that aren't supposed to be ambiguous.

[bipolarmango]

My doctor and therapist: now with this autism + ADHD diagnosis you need to learn to unmask because masking all the time will make you burn out again and feel like shit

Other people: well it's just interesting how after getting the diagnosis you suddenly start behaving like that I mean I'm not saying you're faking it's just funny how you suddenly cannot be normal like you were before