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ineedfairypee · 10 months

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Aww she's shy 🙈

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roxsie · 1 year

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The autistic urge to not say goodbye when you leave work, to avoid some awkward socialization.

Only to be called out by your boss..

Fun fact this happened to me today and it's my birthday. Happy anxious birthday to me

#women with autism #actually autistic #autism #birthday #socialization with autism #autistic things #autistic girl #autistic problems #being autistic #social anxiety #autistic anxiety #anxious birthday #autistic life #autistic at work #autistic experiences

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harmonyrosesaga · 1 month

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For all of you lovely women with Autism or ADHD, please read this article thoroughly!

PMDD is something you should be aware of whether it's for yourself or a family member and because this topic isn't discussed enough, I added a link below this post so you can read and learn more!

If this is something you struggle with you're not alone. I know for those of you who know have this symptom, the emotions you feel during this time are overwhelming and uncontrollable!

Despite what anyone else thinks, you're not crazy and these feelings are real! I have PMDD myself and I can say from experience how detrimental this is for us women!

Please take the time to learn more about this! You won't regret it!! the link is down below ( No, this isn't click bait!)

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karenenewman · 1 year

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#autism #autistic women #spectrum women #women with autism #asd #autism spectrum #asperger’s

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unmaskingsideblog · 5 months

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Thank you for anyone who will help!

I'm not going to quit for a few more months, I just need help figuring out my options.

#actually autistic #autism #women with autism #actually autism #autistic adult #poll #autism poll

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faerie-hideaway · 6 days

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I love being autistic.

Until I don't.

And the tricky part is, I don't know when that part will hit but it's usually someone else's fault.

#women with autism #autism #mental health #actually autistic #autistic things #autistic adult #protect autistic kids

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brood-me-daddy · 1 year

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My psychiatrist when I told him why I think I'm autistic: you seem perfectly normal and high functioning to me.

Me:

#I've only had phone and video appointments with him #I've talked to him for maybe a total of two hours in almost two years #late diagnosis #probably autistic #adhd #audhd #i didn't know psychiatrists were still allowed to use the terms normal and high functioning #women with autism #women with adhd #neurodivergent

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manic-pixie-moodboard · 15 days

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Forget about spicy selfies -

my baby’s a girl’s girl 🔥

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thebookishwitch · 10 months

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Follow autstics, what is your unexpected song you listen to while in meltdown/shutdown mode?

I'll go first

Spin Eternally by Camellia

#autistic #actually autistic #audhd #women with autism #i wanna knowwwww #share the songs that help

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big-edies-sun-hat · 9 months

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Okay so my therapist told me I should probably take the Autism Screening Questionnaire (sic?). I was going through it when I encountered an agree/disagree statement that was something like “People close to me say I talk about the same things repeatedly.”

My first reaction was, no, they would not say that. Not for at least the past two decades, and less and less before that, year by year. Because I have made it the study of my god damned life to find out when it is safe to actually fucking talk about my real interests, let alone keep talking about them. And I’ve had to learn what kind of jobs and social situations accommodate what kind of chat. I constantly feel like a spy in deep cover.

So I was gonna answer “strongly disagree”—and then I remembered this tweet. It was because I had a System. And I’ve had Systems all my days.

I answered the rest of the questions with that in mind. And then I got my score.

Which, sure, fine, but that’s just one test online. Like, if I took another, it might—

Okay, but what if these are the wrong questions? What if I took the quiz about how you learned social skills instead?

Is that good

Oh

#autism #asd #autism spectrum disorder #neurodivergent #*mario_death_sound.wav #women with autism

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ineedfairypee · 11 months

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Fake it til you make it

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roxsie · 1 year

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Honest question, did anyone with autism actually feel the butterflies when having a crush?

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lyingforfun · 2 years

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I don’t see enough people talking about this, but Tori Spring is great representation for high masking autistic girls and her thoughts and experiences throughout Solitaire deeply resonated with me.

Women are extremely under-diagnosed when it comes to autism spectrum disorder and this is because they tend to have an easier time masking their traits and adapting to the expectations of others. While this can be a privilege in some ways, it often leads to many growing up without the support and understanding that they need causing them to internalize their problems resulting in other mental health issues as they get older.

Tori is at the age where she understands she is different from those around her but doesn’t know why. She grows frustrated by the fact that her peers can connect with eachother so easily where she feels unable to break that barrier. She turns this frustration into resenting those around her and deciding she hates most people. It’s easy to assume this lack on connection is simply due to her asexuality, but I would argue that while that is a part of her experience it only tells a part of the story. She doesn’t just struggle to connect she struggles to socialize in the performative way people expect a high school teen to be able to.

This inability to connect leads her to close herself off and isolate more and more from those around her. When you are constantly met with social rejection it’s easy to feel like you’re safer just keeping your distance. There are multiple times in the book where she cannot think of the appropriate way to act or right thing to say and it makes her so uncomfortable she gives up on even trying. She finds herself building more barriers making her lonelier than ever.

Lucas, Tori’s childhood best friend, is confused to find that 16 year old Tori is not how he remembers her to be at 11. She was a lot more open and friendly and willing to share her interests with others no matter how nerdy they were. As she got older and became more aware of her differences to her peers she closed herself off and doesn’t share the things about herself that make her special. It’s safer to be quiet and observe, even if it makes you feel like you don’t have a real personality at all.

Lucas has expectations of the kind of person she will be when they meet again and the stress of knowing she can’t live up to those expectations leads her to actively avoid him, despite desperately wanting to make a connection. When you can mask well enough to seem “normal” the idea that you’ll just inevitably surprise and disappoint people when they get to know you better is painful so no matter how much you’d like to make friends you end up isolating yourself more.

This is definitely not everyone’s experience with asd, but it is mine and I’m so glad to have Tori to relate to as i have never seen my experience written so perfectly.

#solitaire #alice oseman #heartstopper #tori spring #victoria spring #autism #asd #women with autism

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karenenewman · 1 month

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#autism #autistic women #spectrum women #women with autism #asd #autism spectrum disorder #neurodiverse

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unmaskingsideblog · 9 months

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Currently being crushed by the loneliness that comes with being a late twenties autistic woman

#actually autistic #women with autism

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cloverandcrossbones · 2 years

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Autober: Autism pride and awareness challenge

Day 1: Stimming

Idk if I've started allowing myself to stim more since discovering my autism or if I'm just identifying them specifically as "stims" now and not habits, personal quirks, or nervous ticks like I probably used to!

Some stims are happy stims where I'm just so full of glee I can't keep still! Others are self soothing stims that calm me down when I'm nervous or upset. And some are stress stims when I am so full of bad feelings that I just have to Get. It. All. Out.

My stims:

Rocking/swaying: I sway side to side when I'm happy or eating good food, I rock back and forth when I'm anxious or overwhelmed

Happy feet tapping: usually I just tap the front of my feet up and down but when I'm really pleased (and lying down) I rock one or both feet back and forth from the ankles like a metronome (or a dog wagging its tail) I also like rubbing my feet against fun textures like soft blankets, sheets, or rugs that I like the feel of.

Leg bouncing: a classic. Helps me focus, prevents my leg muscles from falling asleep and helps with nerves. Fairly acceptable since neurotypicals so it too, but that also means it's frowned upon since they see it as just a bad habit.

Rapidly opening and closing my hands: I often alternate between having my thumb inside or outside of the fist each time. Kinda looks like I am making a poor attempt at sign language hand spelling...

Shake it off: letting my hands go limp at the wrists and then aggressively shaking them like when your hand gets sore from writing for a long time. Kind of like traditional flapping but side to side instead of up and down. I don't flap up and down as often.

Closing my fists and rotating them at the wrist: I've noticed a lot of neurotylical people do this one too when they're excited or looking at something cute! I think my threshold for excitement is lower for this stim than NT ppl though. I think this one is less noticeable than the shaking/flapping ones so I didn't register it as a stim at first.

Wiping hands/rubbing thumb across finger tips: kind of like when u get crumbs on ur fingers and are swiping them off. I do do this for crumbs but also after touching bad textures or trying to get a bad thought out of my head.

Thigh pushing: I do this when I'm very stressed, having or fighting off a meltdown or panic attack. I drive the heels of my palms into my thighs and pushing them along the length of my thighs (kind of like u might give a deep leg massage?). It provides good pressure for grounding myself and I can really dig my frustration into it without really hurting myself. It's better than digging my nails into my arms or pulling my hair like I used to do. This is usually paired with rocking back and forth.

Lip biting/chewing: trying to stop this one! It's bad for the obvious reasons that it's a damaging stim but also because I get cold sores so I have one spot on my lip that if I break it open it releases the virus cells and turns into a cold sore :( that sucks! If anyone has tips for avoiding this stim let me know!

Skin picking: like the lip biting I do this when I'm nervous or if there are textures on my skin bothering me. I've been wearing pimple patches over textured places so I can't feel them or pick at them.

Do you do any of these? Reblog with the stims we share (in post or tags) or make your own post to participate in Auctober!

#Auctober #Auctober 2022 #Autism #Women with autism

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