#what is autistic shutdown?

[helenwhiteart-blog]

When stress and excitement are much the same thing: mechanism of a shutdown

Stress and excitement…in my body they have pretty much the same effect, being agitation (and excitement, by the way, incorporates stimulation). To agitate is to mix-up, like stirring the pot of liquid causes friction and turbulence. Agitation is not my happy place as an autistic person since it scrambles the orderly continuum of my processing and, over time, can take its toll. When I (rarely)…

[caffeinatedopossum]

For all my fellow ADHD and soft voice-havers when we get interrupted/can't say anything constantly

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Meltdowns and Shutdowns

The Autistic Teacher

[astronomical-bagel]

every day I wake up and face autism truths about myself

[awetistic-things]

i had a verbal shutdown the other day and i told my mom about it and she just looked me dead in the eye and said “mercury’s in retrograde”

[brittlebutch]

jokes about spock giving mccoy autism in the search for spock top tier but lots of interesting potential in mccoy already being autistic and spock just giving him Additional, wildly conflicting autism

[titan-god-helios]

y’all. i fucking cannot. what is wrong with the world. can we just please. stop.

[random-autistic-loser]

Okay, but like- When you have a shutdown from all of the noise and you can't ask to leave the room since it's too noisy, so you just wait until everyone else leaves. Then all of the sudden it's time for a break so you go outside and hangout with your friends but you're too tired to talk still, just recovering from everything and then when you get to go home your senses are really high and everything is overwhelming even without noise. So you go home and have a nap but then when you have to go to sleep for bed or whatever you can't since your mind is only focused on what happened earlier that day and now you're just wondering what to do.

[unreality-monster]

You know, it started as suspicion and hypochondria but now i'm like convinced i'm actually autistic and constantly masking and experiencing burnout and severe social anxiety as a result of it and now i kind of want to see a psychologist

[wienervulture]

autism is informally medically recognized but im gonna get a screening next weekend

[thelambthatkilledthewolf]

I think that Tim, like an idiot, deluded himself into believing that being mechanized would somehow make his brain perfect and cure his autism. So he didn't tell the crew that he's autistic

I also think that this led to some Issues™

[sweetpondduckling]

experiencing verbal shutdown for the first time right now. I've wanted to let myself have one for some time now (it isn't exactly voluntary, but earlier I have forced myself to speak through these periods, as a part of my masking, despite my breakdowns and my brains reluctance to do so) and it feels so calming and right that i can hardly imagine speaking again.

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Autistic Shutdowns: a guide

I CAN Network Ltd

[alexzehooman]

The indescribable urge to buy a cane and stickerfy the shit out of it

[relicsongmel]

The thing about me is I'll say shit like "yeah I'm autistic but it doesn't affect my daily life THAT much" then proceed to have my first verbal shutdown in over 7 years

[transbot-brian]

honestly i think me not washing my hair properlu and it drying into a rough texture MIGHT be the thing that pushes me to kill tomorrow. on top of everything else that happened