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autismcultureis · 2 days
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undiagnosed autism culture is getting 'very high symptoms of autism' on every online autism test ever
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nevereclipse · 6 months
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i want casual, everyday autism in shows. i want autistic characters who need sensory symmetry, who casually mimic anyone's touch on one side of their bodies on the other (or who have friends who do it for them). i want a friend with flashcards or signals for when their friend loses speech. i want people on video calls and body doubling when they do jobs. i want people having conversations without eye contact. i want excited stimming. i want to see someone getting really excited about the tiniest thing thats related to a safefood or a special interest. i want casual, everyday autism.
(edit: october 22, 11:04am - "nonverbal" -> "nonspeaking") (edit: october 24, 9:44pm - "nonspeaking" -> "loses speech")
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my-autism-adhd-blog · 4 months
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cryptcatz · 2 years
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i hate that i have no volume control. i try so, so hard to reel it in but when im happy, excited, relaxed, comfortable, etc. i talk and laugh loud. it’s as involuntary as laughter. i don’t realize until i get shushed, then i feel like my heart got stomped on. it’s so frustrating because i KNOW it is annoying but can’t seem to help it. getting called on it always takes me from happy to feeling awful in a millisecond
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sophieinwonderland · 9 days
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An Autism culture blog is spreading misinformation about endogenic systems...
The misinformation:
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Naturally, all of this is wrong.
The only true statement here is "you could probably learn a lot more about these things in your own research." Because yeah... Doing your own research is likely to bring you to actually valid sources of information instead of whatever this is.
Real Information:
Endogenic systems are not a "fake form of dissociative disorder."
Endogenic systems ARE plural systems who experience multiple agents, or "headmates," sharing the same body in some way without trauma. Usually, endogenic systems don't even report having any sort of dissociative disorder at all.
And this is a real experience that's been repeatedly acknowledged by the psychiatric community.
So much so that the World Health Organization's diagnostic handbook, the ICD-11, specifically states that you can experience the presence of multiple "distinct identity states" without a mental disorder.
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"Distinct identity states" is the same wording the ICD-11 uses to describe alters that characterized DID:
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It's also acknowledged in the book Transgender Mental Health by Eric Yarbrough, which was reviewed and published by the American Psychiatric Association, that you can be plural without trauma or a disorder:
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Additionally, the phrasing that endogenic plurality "mocks and invalidates people who are actually plural" is especially harmful as it erases and rewrites a huge part of plural history. That is, the fact that "plural" is an inclusive term coined and popularized to by non-disordered and endogenic systems.
Back in the 90s, the popular term that was used was "multiple," originating with "multiple personality disorder," the old name for DID.
The shift towards using "plural" was an effort by non-disordered systems to distance themselves from medical and pathologizing language. As you can see from this article from the 90s:
We don't claim that every multiple system/household is a happy loving cooperative one. What we do question is the *identification* of "real multiples" with the characteristics or symptoms of a psychological disorder. We go further: we question by what right or authority doctors and therapists are given sole jurisdiction over the definition of "an individual".
This is one reason our clan encourages use of the word "plural" rather than "multiple". "Multiple", even standing by itself, brings to mind MPD/DID, "multiple personality disorder", "dissociative identity disorder", which are specific diagnoses created by the medical/therapeutic community. "Plural" is a much more neutral word, more commonly heard in the context of grammar than psychiatry. (The other reason, of course, is that plural can be construed to have a broader meaning, applying to anyone(s) anywhere on the continuum who experience themselves as plural in some way. )
The Bottom Line:
An autism culture blog should be lifting up all neurodivergents. Not spreading misinformation about them and encouraging hate!
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autistic culture is needing explicit directions for even the simplest of tasks and without the directions having zero idea how to get it done because What If I Do It Wrong(tm)
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bugboi-connor · 5 months
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Reblog if ur neurodivergent and want to bite things. Bite bite. Nom.
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Julia from Sesame Street. A sweet girl with a strong memory who loves drawing & engaging in parallel play. Makes little to no eye contact & flaps her arms as a form of stimming. Engages in echolalia. Uses noise-cancelling headphones due to sound sensitivity. Needs questions to be repeated or rephrased so she understands. Struggles with doing multiple things at once. Introduced with the line "She does things just a little differently, in a Julia sort of way." A wonderful mascot for autism education, awareness, & acceptance.
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lonely-paracosmos · 2 years
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Neurodivergent child: *displays symptoms*
Y'all for whatever reason: omg... serial killer in the making
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Rbs are okay, neurotypicals dont say fucking shit
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explorationsoftheid · 2 years
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Isn’t it fun when someone throws you a sentence fragment and assumes you have a clue what they mean? Tonight for example my SO came over, held out a half full bottle of water, and said, “My water. ”
I froze for a couple of seconds while I pondered this. The statement could have meant;
“Is this water in this bottle or something else?” As we have no history of putting anything else in water bottles in the refrigerator this seemed like the least likely meaning.
“This is my water. Keep your hands off”. This seemed unlikely, though not as improbable as the first one. We share everything and there were a bunch of bottles in the fridge so there really wasn’t anything special about this one. No reason to get possessive.
“Is this my water or yours?“. We both knew that I hadn’t opened one and we had been together all day, and there was no one else around to open one. Because of this, there was no reason for them to ask.
“Would you like some of my water?” This seemed to be the most likely possibility so I want with it.
After a long pause to sort through the various meanings and the probabilities of each, and once I selected the most likely one to formulate an appropriate response, I replied, “No thanks, I’m good.”
People wonder why I don’t respond quickly. “It’s a simple question, just answer,” is what i hear a lot. Well, it would have been if you had asked a question. But you didn’t. You dropped two random words while holding a bottle. I had to decode what you meant. You and other neurotypical people may pick up on these subtle meanings*, but I don’t. Just say what you mean.
Neurotypical people are so weird sometimes.
*(the bottle was tilted slightly toward me to indicate it was an offer, how could I miss that? /end sarcasm)
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autismcultureis · 13 days
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Autism culture is I've been ordering the same thing at Subway since I was 3 yrs old
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lllostgirlll · 8 months
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man if i could roll my r’s my vocal stims would go CRAZY
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my-autism-adhd-blog · 4 months
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the1ofall · 3 months
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“why are you so weird” thanks i used to mask my autism/“weirdness” to the max but it caused everyone to ignore the fact i ever showed symptoms so after i figured out i got a neuron in my brain out of place i had to forcibly rip off that million year old mask so my parents would realize i was freaky like that and get me help
(directly inspired by “you don’t seem autistic” posts)
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auntbibby · 9 months
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positive affirmations: feel gross, feel uncomfortable, difficult
saying “IM A FAIRY BABY!! IM A FAIRY BABY!! IM PROTECTED BY THE FAIRIES!!!” over & over again: gives u strength, distracts u from negativity & pain, makes u feel connected to a purpose??????
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