autismedic

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I live alone and I think I accidentally became an ingredients household. Just ate a slice of bread with ranch for dinner i'm gonna cry

[autismedic]

Dear fellow healthcare workers

This is your unfriendly reminder to stop assuming everyone's using recreational drugs. We need to do better. This is how people die. The amount of times I'm the only one to even look at a patient who fits how society views addicts is a disgrace. I am not patting myself on the back. This is the bare minimum. We have standards of care. You are there for a reason so do your damn job. At most you will save their life. At the very least you may provide a tiny bit of human comfort to someone who is deeply struggling.

Conditions that can mimic intoxication include: shock, brain injury, seizure, post-ictal state, mental health emergency, endocrine and electrolyte imbalances, uremia, hypoxia and hypoxemia, physical disabilities, neurodevelopmental disabilities, cognitive decline related to age or dementia, CVA, severe pain, environmental emergencies and illnesses, poisoning such as heavy metal or CO

The way my colleagues talk about these patients breaks my heart and makes me sick. You truly never know who you're talking about without knowing it with addiction. They say my addiction was different, but it isn't. Lacking coping mechanisms, I turned to substance use which quickly got out of hand. And I'm not stronger than anyone in active addiction. I just got lucky with a great support system that many addicts do not have.

So healthcare providers, be a decent person. Assess your patients. Rule out other conditions that mimic, or are masked by, intoxication. If the patient does test positive for illicit substances they are still a person in pain needing and deserving quality care.

[autismedic]

We hooked up once and now i’m listening to taylor swift for the first time since middle school; it’s time to ghost them, right?

#taylor swift #relationship #hookup #dating #taylor swift fearless

[autismedic]

Question for the Autism Council?

Why is it that I can go to work and spend all day running headfirst into the unknown, flawlessly adapting to ever-changing situations, not a shred of the ‘tism, barely even stimming; then i get home, go to put on my favourite pjs and have a full-on meltdown because it was a different t-shirt than i was expecting?

Is it an unmasking thing? A “straw that broke the camel’s back” type thing? I don’t like it. Anyone else?

#actually autistic #autism #autistic spectrum #being autistic #autistic problems #meltdown #neurodivergent #neurodivergencies #neurodiverse #neurodivergency #masking #unmasking #autism community #autism council

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It’s great being disabled/chronically ill in healthcare

‘cause like every other day something on this meat sack will malfunction and instead of making a million appointments with my doctors, I can just go to a coworker and be like hey this hurts can you check it out and make sure I’m not dying? When I was a student, it was really fun because no one had seen shit yet so every time they were like YES YOU ARE DYING GET A TEACHER SEE A DOCTOR CALL 911 and I’d be like BUDDY WE ARE 911

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[autismedic]

reblog this if your blog is a safe space on april fools and won’t have any jumpers, screamers, or anything scary or anxiety inducing

[autismedic]

Lukewarm take

I’m sure this has been said before but you know how (especially for neurodivergent folk) the best way to spend time with loved ones is to just coexist doing separate activities, like reading in the same room or whatever? That’s just the adult version of parallel play. Discuss.

#autism #actually autistic #parallel play #neurodivergent #neurodivergencies #autistic spectrum #asd

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You know, sometimes the hardest part of my job is trying to compensate for my disability...

sometimes it’s the physical demands,

the mental and emotional demands,

or the prejudice,

but for me, 90% of the time, the hardest part is ignoring my raging uniform kink.

(This is mostly a joke)

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When people say “work smarter not harder” then call disabled people lazy for exactly that :/

Look I work in an extremely demanding career with little to no room for accommodations. Objectively, I am very capable of doing most things “normally”, “despite” my disabilities.

But you bet your ass that when I’m at home I sit down to do chores, wear gloves to wash dishes, use the railings on stairs, and take hella naps on the floor.

But why? Don’t you want to feel normal?

I will never feel normal, but these things help me to be sustainably functional, and isn’t that what we’re looking for?

#disability #disabilties #neurodivergent #neurodivergencies #autism #actually autistic #ableist bullshit #fuck ableists #disabled rights #physically disabled #disabled

[autismedic]

Always trying to make my blog and my bus a safe place

Please Reblog is Your Blog is Safe for Non-Binary People.

If my mutuals can’t rb this then we can’t be mutuals

[autismedic]

Me at work:

Oh am I covered in blood/vomit/feces? Better change I guess.

Crawling into the wreckage of a bombing? Alright, I’ll hand you the bags then follow.

Surprise search and rescue in -40c? I’ll grab my hat and mitts, let’s go.

Fire will be an hour with the extrication equipment? I’ll lay under the car in the mud and keep the patient stable.

Me at home:

This new brand of dish sponges is a slightly different size and texture? Please excuse me while I sob on the floor.

#actually autistic #autism #autistic spectrum #ems #paramedic #firefighter #first responders #sensory #neurodivergent

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I have been verbal for about ten years. It takes effort. Some days, more than others. I’ve accepted that while I can’t use AAC on the job, I can use it in other situations. Today I have to run some errands and I’m going to try using the AAC Bestie app. I’m nervous but this could make a huge difference. Any advice?

#actually autistic #autism #autistic spectrum #asd #aac #communication #disability #disabilties #speech #aid #neurodivergencies #verbal #nonverbal

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Did you know??? you can just??? stim??? in the pasta aisle??? in your local grocery store???? No one can stop you. It’s not like, illegal or against the rules. The other day I went (in uniform) and I was feeling overstimulated and my popper just wasn’t cutting it so I just did my little bounce and hand shake stim and like?????? Nobody even cared????? Maybe the world isn’t so bad.

#actually autistic #autism #autistic spectrum #neurodivergencies #neurodivergent #stimming #stim #groceries #adhd #mental heath support

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How f*cked is it that some people will call me r3t@rded without a second thought but refuse to call me autistic because “you have to use person-first language, otherwise it dehumanizes them.”

I prefer autistic person to person with autism because I have a lot of diagnoses that get in my way, but this way autistic is just an adjective. It can (accurately) describe me, but it can’t control me.

F*ck anyone who uses the R word tho

#actually autistic #autism #autistic spectrum #neurodivergencies #ableist bullshit #fuck ableists #ableist nonsense #dumb brain things

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!TW!

Shoutout to the coworker who at like 2am asked a depressed patient, “you feeling suicidal?” with the exact energy of the “you like jazz?” meme. 10/10 for building rapport. Unfortunate that the answer was yes but one can’t do everything perfectly.

#mental heath support #ems #paramedic #tw depressing stuff #patients #lmao oops #still better than nothing #they were safe #savinglives #psychiatry #suicide

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Subtle ways I make EMS sensory-friendly!!

Popper/small fidgets on my keychain

T-shirt under my uniform ALWAYS

Stash of safe foods in my jump bag

Small, discreet earplugs (not around patients tho)

Breaks between calls? More like stim time, catch me in the back of the truck rocking/ spinning/ flapping

Nitrile gloves are a godsend, they make every texture 1000x more tolerable and everyone has to wear them anyways

Stimming with literally everything. Bandages? Stim. Zipper? Stim. Radio? Stim Stim Stim.

At the end of the day it’s about knowing what you need. Sometimes I’m a sensory seeker and sometimes I get really easily overstimulated. I have to be prepared for either situation and react accordingly. That’s what EMS is all about: be prepared for anything.

#ems #paramedic #firefighter #actually autistic #sensory #stimming #stim toys #autism #adhd #autistic spectrum