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Autistic culture is randomly switching your conversation style mid sentence. Specifically going from the most eloquent person you’ve ever met to talking like the child of a hill billy and a british pop star.

how other people read "atp" online: at this point

people in biology: adenosine triphosphate

The Godfather Part II is just Michael being emotionally unstable and then it cuts to Vito doing like. a cool skateboard trick

Being trans is so weird. Like genuinely how do I tell cis people that I want his gender

YES I KNOW HIS FACE IS MADE OF STRING AND GOOGLY EYES BUT HE JUST EMITS SUCH GENDER OK

I was just strolling through Tumblr when my brain decided to give me the metaphor of being disabled is like screaming underwater when you're drowning

Like you're trying to get help you're trying to make noise and you're just making it worse for yourself, in some cases people see you and help, and in others people think you're being dramatic and ignore you and let you drown, and in some no one even notices

You don't make noise but you do, you're trying to call out for help and sometimes people can't even see it

And maybe I'm just being depressed, maybe I'm just being depressing again but I think it's a reasonable metaphor: being disabled is like screaming underwater while drowning, you're crying out for help and no one can hear you

do y'all ever try to type up a post with an actually hilarious joke or reblog with the funniest tags ever but then you delete it all because you're plagued by the crippling anxiety that nobody will ever look at it, or worse, it's stupid/creepy/lame and everyone will hate me if i post that????

alec lightwood has eldest daughter syndrome

Out of all of the songs in Sofia the First, Helping Hand from season 2 episode 17 ‘Baileywhoops’ is honestly the best in the entire show in my opinion. I don’t know why but it has engraved itself into my brain that I know every word by heart.

I DONT LIKE MODERN AUS

don't take my stupid little dragon viking buddies and turn em into some guy and his cat its NOT FUN

i can Accept modern aus WITH dragons because imagine the comedy one could achieve with Modern Things in the hands of such silly silly little guys.

im not saying it wouldnt be enjoyable to see The Gang bullying spam callers for an hour but DRAGONS ARE LIKE THE WHOLE POINT PLEASE 😭😭😭

I don’t know what it is about the French language (never learning it. Fuck French) but it just has a nostalgic vibe to it

can you do a fight poll with Madeline vs. Madelyn

I scream out for help, that I’m drowning, and my hand waves frantically as a signal and my limbs flail to keep me afloat while waves crash over me. I can hear their voices, sometimes I can see them on the shore standing and looking at me- why are they looking at me! What aren’t they helping me? I scream louder and they tell me I’m fine, to stop being dramatic, all while water fills my lungs and my will to keep fighting begins to die.

You’re gonna be fine, they say. But I’m convinced they only say it so they can convince themselves that they didn’t need to take my cries seriously.

realizing im aromantic is so freeing because now i can find everyone attractive always and not have to do anything about that. people are hot 👍

its weird to think of a firework as like 3 dimensional. like that thing did not explode into a flat 2d plane, its a sphere

this amalgam of flares takes up 3 dimensional space. its not a flat. that is spherical. actually, unless its a ring

that ring actually is on a 2d plane. within a margin of error

There's merit in self diagnosis (especially for people without access to good Healthcare/mental Healthcare and because of stigma that can come with formal diagnosis), but TikTok has literally everyone convinced that they're neurodivergent because of behaviors that are typical. There's a reason why diagnosis has thresholds. Like, a lot of people are bothered by certain sounds or smells or whatever, but what makes it a sensory issue is when it's chronically disruptive or you need special ways to cope with how the sensation effects you. People will hear "sensory issue" and be like "omg when I was 5 I couldn't stand the way the glue felt on my fingers in class!" Yeah, that could be a sign of autism, or you... just didn't like the way the glue felt.

Neurotypical doesn't mean "automaton with no variance from the other automatons". People have different things that they like, that bother them, that they don't understand and do understand, that they are averse to. And yes, that can make diagnosis difficult, but that's why there are diagnostic thresholds.

Just like being afraid isn't the same as having an anxiety disorder.

Just like being sad isn't the same as having clinical depression.

Maybe you just didn't like peas. Maybe you just bounce your leg when you're bored. It doesn't necessarily mean you're autistic or ADHD or both. It can help you recognize that you might be neurodivergent in some way, but these are not diagnostic. They're just quirks, and anyone can have them.

Neurotypical doesn't mean you are a cookie cutter person with the exact same temperament as all the other neurotypical people. I see far too many TikToks like "Omg I liked to color code my crayons when I was a kid! I was so (insert diagnosis)". A lot of kids color code. You spend a lot of time in elementary school and daycare/preschool learning about colors and sorting. Those are developmentally typical things to do. That's why schools aren't just calling every kid who hums and daydreams ADHD. It's developmentally normal for children. It's why schools don't call every kid who is afraid of loud noises autistic. It's developmentally typical for young kids to be afraid of loud noises.

Further, not everything about a neurodivergent person is because they're neurodivergent. Their neurdivergence might affect the way they communicate or how they react or something, but they are still people. Just like there's a difference between a true concern (I am worried that my son has diarrhea today) and an irrational anxiety (I am worried that my itchy arm is really skin cancer, though there's no evidence and low risk.) Neurodivergent people can just like things or not like things or do things. Just because an ND person does something, doesn't mean everyone who also does that thing is ND.

I say this as a person with a lot of diagnoses. Self diagnosis can be very helpful. I knew I was OCD before anyone told me professionally. I knew I had PTSD before my therapist confirmed it. But you also have to recognize when symptoms overlap and they don't apply to you. OCD makes me feel paranoid, and schizophrenia also makes people paranoid sometimes, but my symptoms don't align with schizophrenia because my worries aren't based in delusion and I don't experience psychosis. (Although I'm aware that some anxiety disorders and depressive disorders can coincide with psychosis and mania, but these aren't things I experience.)

Also be mindful that social media makes neurodivergence and mental illness seem trendy and cute. I remember when it was popular on this sight to claim everything was an anxiety disorder. Self diagnosis can be helpful, but be mindful that it's not always accurate.