everyones ok with autistic people having weird facial expressions until its smiling when youre sad or uncomfortable and not just flat affect…

really this is what my previous 2-panel vent comics boil down to. that and emotional manipulation trauma

if there was a dedicated social networking site/app for autistic people there should be a “looking for conversation” page where you can post that you’re looking to talk about [topic] with people who are as excited about it as you are and there’s a search bar to look for specific topics to see if a request was already posted

Who wants me??

I think the hardest thing abt adhd medication so far is when it wears off and I go right back to normal 😭

I don't get art block usually I just get this burst of energy to create everything I can think of but my brain is too fast for me and I can only sporadically do some of them halfway through or get overwhelmed and sit there doing nothing

I actually have a brain for sale… it’s very fast! Won’t shut up! Usually good under pressure until it overheats and then you can’t use it for a while, but until then it‘s good!

no i have a method its just an extremely chaotic one that i am following meticulously

Another hot take, i think it's fine to let others rely on you to remind them of things. Like, if my schedule for work got updated and i'm an hour late, sure that's mostly my fault. But as social creatures, it's totally normal for you, a human, to just remind me of something if you think i've forgotten.

We live in a world where memory and attention span is in short supply, not to mention we all have a million other things we're occupied with. Cut me some slack if i don't catch every little thing.

It's just so important to have understanding people in the environments you go. Accomodations doesn't have to be a big deal, you're not trying to bring attention to you or make it about you, you're taking care of yourself and being cared for.

I went to a party and I knew all could be very overwhelming for me, so I was offered - if needed - an empty room to go to if I needed sometime alone. I could've not even needed it, but the option was there, which already made me way less stressed out.

I ended up needing the room, I spent an hour there, I cried for a good 30 minutes non stop because everything was so loud, I missed the cake. People checked on me, got me my headphones and a piece of cake, a friend called me and I had time to calm down and go back to the party.

I've never felt so cared for. It wasn't a big deal, people were not going out of their way for me, but I was provided accommodations in order to be able to participate in that event. That's how people shown me I was wanted, that they respect my difficulties without seeing it as a drag or glamourazing it.

I had such a great time (even with the fact that I got overwhelmed) and I can't imagine how it would've been if I didn't have this. The simple fact that you have the opportunity to use an accomodation - even if you don't end up using - already lightens up A LOT of the stress involved because you have a plan on what to do.

It's huge to be able to enjoy something even when it doesn't go perfect. People deserve this kind of feeling and to be looked out for (with complicity and not as a child).

MY FAMILY HAS BEEN CALLING ME A WEIRD HOARDER FOR YEARS I FEEL SO FUCKING VINDICATED

I have noticed this problem hanging out with a couple of different friends with ADHD. They talk so much and so fast, I have trouble processing it, I don't feel like they leave space for me in the conversation and I end up feeling quite overwhelmed, and also a bit neglected because I feel like they did like 80% of the talking and they didn't ask about me or bring me in. (and then sometimes when I DO talk they get excited about what I'm saying and interrupt me.)

I love these ppl and I care about what they have to say, but it makes one on one time hard and then I hit a wall and have to end the hang out. I KNOW the answer is to just express my needs and say "hey you're talking a bit too much/too fast and I'm struggling to keep up/don't feel heard/don't feel like you're making space for me" but I also know that oft times ppl w adhd have been made to feel bad about this exact phenomena and I don't want to add to that feeling.

How best to balance this? How best to broach it with a minimum of hurt feelings? How to convince myself that my need for them to slow down and throw me a conversational bone is just as important as their need to be comfortable expressing themselves naturally? All advice/thoughts/experiences welcome, esp if you yourself have been the excited over talker in this scenario.

can overstimulation sometimes worsen auditory processing issues (particularly with understanding someone speaking to you)

having to put all your plushies away while you’re changing your sheets really makes you understand how many plushies you have. (not enough)

they filled up only half of the closet(don’t worry! they had air! the closet was open!!)

next goal in life: filling up the whole closet!!

Anybody just look up how to do a certain thing just to have a new stim?

I can twirl my pen now as a stim cause I was bored one day

Ika Musume from Shinryaku! Ika Musume has autism and adhd !!

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