Autism culture is when you have to mentally prepare for (or are uncomfy with the thought of) a day you know isn't going to follow your usual routine coming soon.

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autism culture is taking longer then normal to choose a pasta type because they don't all have the same amount of sensory fun

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autism culture is having imposter syndrome about being autistic and convincing yourself you’re neurotypical but then having a meltdown because your daily schedule changed and you’re having sensory overload and you’re like …. ohhh yeah no there’s the tism there it is

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autism culture is “you don’t seem autistic” but then whenever you explain something you experience that has to do with autism (like meltdowns/shutdowns/sensory overload) it’s “wow that’s so weird that’s never happened to me” like !!!! ???!?!?!

like oh i wonder why...

Autism culture is to get cookies you wouldn't normally get but you get them now just because they are shaped like your special interest animal.

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Autism (+ ptsd) culture is your guardians/family/community neglecting to percieve the complications of potentially being autistic so you have no choice but to go through your entire developmental years bullshitting your ability to do everything "normally", and then by the time you're an adult you're stunted in multiple fundamental ways, lack a fully formed identity, and struggle to even know what's real or what to trust anymore. Everything is confusing and scary

im sorry, anon

autism culture is choosing starvation over eating a food that you don't like

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Autism culture is having the same damn verbal responses to everything because you don't know what else to say in most situations and can't tell if/when you need to respond.

Put me out of my "slay" "swag" "so true" "so real" "FKSJTJQLGBANGNNQBGNAK" misery it has been too fucking long someone give me something else to say

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undiagnosed autism culture is..

telling someone you think your autistic snd they laugh and say

“no youre not autistic, i can tell”

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Autism culture is feeling like a fake fan bc I don't know everything about this specific piece of media and people know more than me. I guess my hyperfixation isn't real then

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autistic culture is fantasizing about infodumping

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Autism culture is letting self use text-to-speech on phone for accessibility and wondering why you didn't just do this earlier

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autism culture is getting the weirdest vocal stims. i got "fucking KILL him" as a vocal stim

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i don't feel like a real autistic person because i find myself more at home with allistics and don't like my autism all that much

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autism culture is wishing you had the sort of autism that makes you really smart or sweet and likeable but you're just a cunt and that's definitely not even the autism's fault (off anon because i'm hoping someone will take pity on me and pretend to want to be my friend only for it to fall apart immediately)

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autism culture is taking everything at face value and being extremely afraid of sharing your own opinions because you're always misunderstanding something

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autism culture is saying something random to hear what it would sound like outside of your brain

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