#tism issues

[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.

[surrah698]

My poor, sensitive nervous system... 😭

Gotta make sure to get plenty of rest!

[buglover77]

oh, so when SPIDER-MAN can sense a bug moving on the wall across the room, doesn’t have the fine motor control to get the right amount of toothpaste, and can feel each individual drop of sweat down his neck, it’s a “super power,” but for me it’s a “sensory processing disorder” yeah okay sounds fake doc I think you just don’t want me to stop you from committing crimes, how about THAT

[clownrecess]

(Tw for discussions and descriptions of meltdowns, panic attacks, and self injury)

"Well why is it okay when you listen to music full volume with headphones, but it bothers you when my radio is loud?"

Because they are two different things. My music is the same music I've been listening to for years non stop (fully serious. I listen to music at all times. At school? Music. Drawing? Music. Sleeping? Music. Peeing? Music.). They are sounds I am used to. Sounds that my brain and body are VERY familiar with, along with that, they are sounds that make my body and brain feel good. Listening to them at a loud volume makes me feel good and stimmy. It makes my body feel calm and happy.

Even music that I LIKE hurts my body at a loud volume if I'm unfamiliar with it. I need to listen to it quietly for a long time first.

Once I know it super well, I can BLAST it, and it makes me feel good!

But if it's a song or audio I don't like, it hurts me no matter what. It causes my body physical pain if it plays long enough. Once I become familiar with it, it still hurts, only a little less. But if its loud? No, it's still horrendous pain that has made me have meltdowns and panic attacks.

Whilst yes, I don't like listening to music tastes that aren't my own because I just don't find it enjoyable, it is more than that for me. I am not being bratty or overreacting. Unfamiliar or unpleasant songs at a loud volume (and even a quieter volume if I'm already feeling unwell) cause me PHYSICAL PAIN.

I can't explain it any other way.

A lot of allistics I've spoken to about this don't understand how I can easily blast my music on FULL VOLUME in HEADPHONES for hours on end, but begin to hyperventilate and hit or bite myself if a cars volume is just barely too loud with a genre I don't like or am unfamiliar with.

It isn't that I'm just displaying my usual pain reaction when it plays so I can get you to stop. Its just that some music makes my body feel good inside, and some makes my body feel like it's being actually attacked.

[finally-got-a-diagnosis]

MAKE LIFE EASIER FOR YOURSELF

JUST COOK IT BADLY AND COOK IT AT YOUR OWN PACE

TAKE BREAKS

BRING A CHAIR INTO THE KITCHEN

BUY TOOLS TO MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER

Are all my cut vegetables the same thickness???? IT DOESN'T MATTER IT JUST NEEDS TO BE CUT AND COOKED

"The recipe called for (insert food that you don't like) so I have to add it." YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT FOREVER FRIEND DITCH THE INGREDIENTS

THERE'S NO POINT IF IT'S NOT SOMETHING YOU WON'T EAT WHY TORTURE YOURSELF

SMACK THE GORDAN RAMSEY IN YOUR HEAD MAKE WHAT YOU WANT YOU ARE THE HEAD CHEF HERE

[wewerebornsextuplets]

"larry its too early for halloween art" I DONT CARE. YURI BLAST 💥💥💥💥

[fintan-pyren]

fintan holding vespera

hostage?

[greenlikethesea]

every job, grant, residency, and fellowship i have applied for should get back to me right now. yes even the ones where the deadline has not passed. so i can plan my year

[petrichor-moss-and-lightning]

I’m full of rage I’m battery acid I’m gnashing my teeth spitting venom at the gates of hell (i have to wash my emotional support bra)

[just-before-dawn]

okay guys genuine question but if you're watching cats the musical with friends and are spouting some fun trivia facts, know all of the dances, know all of the songs by heart, get super duper excited because your friends are witnessing your favorite character/ship

does that mean u have some sort of like... undiagnosed something

because i could not pull myself back from literally doing all of that trying to watch cats 1998 with my friends i think i have an issue 😭

[reallapiscake12]

I occasionally see the idea of a "normal jeff au" where Jeff never became a killer and was just a regular dude

and usually these aus just have it where the incident with Randy never happened and Jeff just continued to live out his life normally. Now that idea is cool and interesting but i had a thought, what if Jeff's a normal dude AFTER the incident. Like instead of his mom going immediately to the idea of a late abortion she gets help for her son and he goes back to being a (slightly) normal kid, so you just got this 15 yr old in highschool looking like a half dead corpse doing algebra and running track or whatever kids do edrfgfdfvgb what would life be like for Jeff i wonder, would kids continue to treat him harshly or would everyone be afraid of Jeff? Or would they just pity what he gone through or just treat him normally. How would his family life be affected by the events of Randy.

[best-of-theworst]

"She'll grow out of it!"

Yea sure! I just had a panic attack because someone put Monster high dolls in barbie clothes. The grass is too sharp under my feet and wind is blowing too hard on my face. Can you guys shut up? You know, there's this thing called "playing quietly", it's cool you should try it! Oh no no no we can't go on a spontaneous walk! I wasn't prepared for that!

[surrah698]

[coriander-candlesticks]

I'm sick so I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense, but I've been thinking about the nature of myths recently as I've been exploring hellenic polytheism.

For context: I'm ex-Mormon. I was raised in the church and, because of that, was taught biblical literalism but in, like, a more subtle way than most? I was raised believing that Adam & Eve and Noah's Ark, etc., were literally true, but that the story of Job specifically was not; I also always knew evolution and the Big Bang to be correct, despite there being a verse in the Doctrine & Covenants (a Mormon-specific religious book) where God apparently told Joseph Smith that the world is 6,000 years old- a passage I didn't know existed until my senior year of high school. I didn't realize I had believed in biblical literalism until I'd left the church, actually.

Now that I'm aware of it, it's a mindset I'm actively trying to combat while I explore Hellenic polytheism. It's definitely been a task to separate the nature of the Gods from their myths, as brutal as they often are. And it's something I've noticed within the community, too, which I think is interesting. It makes sense: Christianity, at least, has had a chokehold on much of the world for a long time, and so many of us have experienced literalism as our first interaction with any sort of holy text (though, of course, Greek myths as a whole aren't that) alongside our first experience with divinity as a wrathful God whose flaws are waved away, or ignored, or twisted into positive attributes. This also means that I'm trying to re-approach several deities with an open mind (Zeus, Hera, and Ares in particular, but many of them to some extent) while also trying to un-condition myself. I was already in the process of doing this, of course, but trying to figure out how to interact with a completely different pantheon has made that especially clear.

It extends to things like prayer and offerings, too. Prayers were very formulaic growing up, even though most of the time there wasn't a strict script to follow. There was always something you ask as part of the prayer, even if it's just 'please help me do better tomorrow' (alongside giving thanks, of course), so trying to craft a prayer without adding *everything* I'm used to including in makes it feel incomplete and, therefore, disrespectful. And daily prayer is something I'm resistant to because of prior experiences with it. I don't want to offend any of the gods by asking for something or asking for too much, especially so early on, and there's always a promised offering the few times I *have* asked. Add worries about exact obedience on top of that and it's proving to be a difficult thing to untangle. And I know that the gods are difficult to offend, figuring out how to do this takes trial & error and that's okay, it'll get better the more I do it, etc., etc.; this is more an issue with my own overthinking than anything else (hooray for ✨ mental health issues ✨). I'm not really asking for advice here, necessarily, just thinking out loud because I'm not comfortable talking to people in meat space about it yet.

[thatsafuckeduptale]

Finally making refs for the swap and swapfell skeletons. unfortunately, i am a fool and will fall to hubris.

[viscanpikamine]

Am now completely dead set on making a Delta Squad ita bag (I’ve never owned an ita bag before in my life)

The only merch I have are my figurines but I can draw so I’m making pins and keychains while waiting for my bag to get here

Am so excited

Here’s the art and the sketches I’ve made so far (under the cut)

These are gonna be badges on all 4 corners of the bag!! I also am gonna make stickers out of them and put them in my room and on my iPad teehee

Started with Scorch, he’s the first to get keychain-ified and chibified

I think he is very cute and will look adorable when he is done, am very excited to be done with the whole gang

Anyone have any suggestions on what kind of pin I could draw?? I want to put many many many :3