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monstriiss
𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 || 𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒
how2forgive
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nikos-xfs
Big Mouth Strikes Again
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I tend to use emojis like tone indicators or something…
Why I Prefer To Text Instead Of Talking
I don't have to think about body language
It allows for information processing time
If I'm confused by language, I can fact check
If I'm feeling overwhelmed, I don't have to reply
I feel less judged for how I communicate
I can organise my thoughts more easily
I feel more in control of what I am trying to say
Littlepuddins.ie
#reblog#autism#actually autistic#autism awareness month#autism acceptence month#neurodiversity#neurodivergence
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Omg yess
My friend explained the spoon theory to our DM and he was like “ohhh so it’s like when you’re out of spell slots and you need to take a long rest to regain them all” and now I keep thinking of myself as being out of spell slots instead of out of spoons
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As an autistic, this is heart breaking. Someone had paid hard earned money to advertise Autism Speaks (a for profit "charity organization" that demonize autism) propaganda in my town!!
@my-autism-adhd-blog @autisticadvocacy @autisicanarchist @autisticallyadhd
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Hi, my name is Link (they/them) and I’m an autistic researcher working towards completing my Capstone distinction and I’m asking you for help in finding autistic volunteers. I’m studying the effect that neurotypical prejudices against autistics have on an autistic person and their high school experience because, as I’m sure you know, so often research on autism comes from a neurotypical perspective. I need 20 autistic individuals from the ages of 15-19 willing to be recorded introducing themselves and complete a survey about their high school experience. Clinically or Self-diagnosed, it would be great if you could direct them to message me here on Tumblr, email [email protected] or DM me on Instagram and Facebook @LinkCapstoneProject for more details. (Neurotypical volunteers are also welcome and needed.)
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#actually adhd#actually audhd#actually autistic#audhd#autisticallyadhd#ask#linkcapstoneproject#help them out!
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Just ADHD things
(No reposting! Reblogging is always appreciated though!)
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Autism and the Christmas Season
The Autistic Teacher
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No but listen "there is something wrong with my brain!" hey hey just listen "there is something wrong with my brain!" dude you're not hearing it "there is something wrong with my brain!" no you dont get it "THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY BRAIN!"
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Let’s play a fun game called am I masquerading as an autistic person and acting how I think someone with autism would act or am I simply learning to unmask
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Four years ago I sat in a psychiatrist's office. I was explaining why a certain Cognitive Behavioral Therapy technique felt impossible.
"If I don't think I know how a social interaction is going to work out, if I don't know the pattern, I can't do it."
The Dr nodded, and we moved on.
A few sessions later, she said she didn't think she could work with me anymore.
Great, I thought to myself. I'm being dumped by my therapist.
"I don't think I can work with you, because I think you're autistic."
I literally felt my world shift underneath me.
She explained more, about social interactions, about hyper sensitivity, about pattern recognition and anxiety and early-life academic achievement. I did end up stopping treatment with her, I don't really remember why. But I held that suggestion in my head.
The end of 2019 was rocky- working retail around the holidays is its own special hell, and my grandmother died in December of that year.
Then 2020 happened. COVID and isolation and protests and my workplace unionizing. Through all of that I was reading, and watching videos, and researching. About how autism and neurodivergency presents differently in girls and AFAB people. How the research is incredibly outdated and mostly focused on white, middle class boys. How getting a diagnosis as an adult, let alone an AFAB adult, is a fight.
I kept trucking along, learning new ways to cope. Figuring out that sometimes what I had thought were anxiety attacks was actually sensory overload. That my penchant for spreadsheets and what I called my "encyclopedic nerd brain" were probably hyper fixations.
It took 4 years.
4 years, 8 more mental health professionals, a mental breakdown, a month in residential mental health care, and 5 more months in acute daily mental health care, but today, at 12:55PM, I was officially diagnosed with Autism.
I'm sitting here at my desk weeping because I'm both so happy and so angry. Happy that there's a reason I feel the way I feel, that there's a reason why the world seems so harsh, that there's a reason why I sometimes physically can't talk and a reason why certain foods and sounds and textures make me want to crawl out of my skin. But I'm also so angry that it took 26 years for anyone to see. That it took another 4 years for me to get any answers. That there are countless other little girls and adult AFABS like me out there who feel like they're doing everything they're supposed to but not getting what the world tells them they should be getting.
My life has changed. Or maybe it hasn't changed. Maybe a door has opened that had never been seen before.
I'm not sure how to wrap this up.
I just know that learning more about myself is rarely a bad thing. And now that I know this big piece of who I am, I'll be able to go forward and learn more ways to exist in this world as an autistic person.
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I have this power where every time plans change I feel overwhelmed (and feel like crying)😍😍
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Shout-out to all the teachers that allow neurodivergent kids to use their tools during class; whether it be during a class lecture, taking notes, work, etc.
Y'all are amazing
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Omg omg omg. It all makes so much more sense when you realise it's not social anxiety but a fear of being perceived.
Why do you feel more comfortable with a long coat and a mask as opposed to summer clothes?
Why do you DESPISE taking pictures? Especially if it's someone else and not you taking them.
Why do you feel like you have to stop doing whatever it was you were doing when someone passes by?
Why don't you want to tell anyone how leisurely you go about your day, taking a nap, going for a snack, sitting on your phone playing games etc. because you know they will comment on it and even though it's not negative or mockery it's still feels like you've been perceived?
Why can't you make eye contact? Why can you do it only if the other person is looking away but the second when they look at you you stop listening and when you're the one speaking you can't bear to look at them because you know their eyes are on you and they are perceiving you?
Why don't you want to dress excessively or wear nicer clothes? Because you will stand out
People mistake you for shy because you don't speak often, but it's really the fear of drawing attention to yourself more than it is the things you actually say, isn't it?
Why do you hate overpopulated areas even when no one is speaking? BUT you still feel more comfortable when more than one person is in the room (but not too many!) so that the burden of being perceived is directed on someone else and you can safely lay back just observing the scene.
It's all a defence mechanism
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What Does Being Autistic Feel Like?
Neurodivergent_lou
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