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Sorry to OP for replying to this old post but Rjalker you’re completely in the wrong here. Your image description does not preserve the idea of the original post: that this tumblr cat account is the Time person of the year.

Straycatj is an account for a cat. Nothing is wrong with the original ID; it is, indeed, a picture of straycatj. If the later description were the only thing on the post, the original intent of the post would be unclear.

I can accept that the original description would be clearer with clarification that the image is of a cat or that straycatj is an account for a cat, but the second description actively muddles the meaning of the original post. OP is not using an image description to deceive people who need them. OP is not using an image description as a meme.

OP described an image, maybe not as entirely as would be ideal, but it’s still accurate.

I very often use a screenreader; if I were relying on an ID and didn’t know the straycatj tumblr account, the original ID would make more sense to me than the second one. The original ID tells me that it’s an edit of a Tumblr user as Time person of the the year, and then explains to me how the Time person of the year banner thing is edited on. The second ID tells me that there’s a cat (light colors, with dilated eyes) with a red banner around it that looks like the Time person of the year.

The part that you seem to take issue with is in fact vital context: The image is of straycatj, a tumblr cat account. That can be easily learned by clicking on the @ in the original post. In correcting OP’s image description, you have made the post actually less accessible.

[Image ID: A picture of @straycatj in the style of TIME magazine’s Person of the year issue. The picture is surrounded by a red frame, and at the top of the image the words “Person of the year” in lowercase letters and “TIME” in capital letters. End ID]

#accessibility

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i saw a post today where someone stated that they often can't tell real information from misinformation online. i am not here to make fun of that person. that being said, the ability to figure out if information is real or not is a critical skill for everyone who uses the internet. you need to be able to do that on your own. it's great if you can get help or if people will tell you what's real and what's not, but you also need to be able to do it by yourself. simple, easy tips under the cut.

the most common style of misinformation i see on tumblr is the fake news headline. it's an image or multiple images of a headline and sometimes an attached story. easy tips to discovering whether this is real or not:

is there a link in the post? click it and see where it goes. no link? possibly fake, possibly the poster just didn't include it.

google the full headline, not just key words. even better, google the headline with the full headline in quotes so you get exact matches. can't find a match? probably fake.

is there a clear url/website attached to the headline? if so, go to the website and search for the headline. can't find a match? probably fake.

is there an author? google them. see if they're real. see if the subject of the article matches the stuff they usually write about. see if they have social media where they may have posted the headline. can't find an author, or they seem way off-track? probably fake.

if it's an image of a tweet, look up the person's twitter handle. can't find the tweet? possibly fake. it could also be a real tweet with the text or date edited.

is there a date? a story written in 2002 may have very different ramifications than a story written in 2022. it depends on the subject, but some subjects change rapidly and even a 5-year-old story may be out of date. see if you can find anything recent. if not, it may be fake or out of context.

go to google news and do a quick scan. this is going to work better for headlines that are about world news, but it's still worth a try. google news also allows you to search stories and limit by date. see if you can find a matching headline. if you can't, it may be fake or old news.

general tips:

don't trust social media. just don't. please. people can and will say literally anything they want. anything you read on social media that has real-world implications, you should fact-check.

you may think it's overkill, but google everything. even things you're mostly sure of. reading more headlines and more news can help you get better at discerning between real and fake headlines.

every source of information is biased in some way. try to seek out less biased sources. look up the bias media chart (here's a link) and use it to find sources that do less biased and more original reporting.

think about bias as you're reading. who is the author writing for? why are they writing? what do they want the audience to feel? what facts are they choosing to include or omit? how might the presentation of the facts change if someone with a different perspective was writing?

there are also websites dedicated to fact-checking. this works best for major world news, but try snopes or factcheck. the rand corporation has a huge list of tools for rooting out disinformation as well.

there's nothing wrong with asking for help, but if you genuinely cannot figure out if something is real or not on your own, and you give up trying to figure it out without help, you run the risk of believing and even spreading misinformation. some misinformation is essentially harmless (a celebrity's favorite color, for example). some misinformation is incredibly dangerous. please please PLEASE check your facts. it is quick and easy and worth it.

if you need more help, let me know.

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small shifts in stimuli are surprisingly simple to do and can do wonders for your mental state

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mecha’s image description & visual accessibility reference post:

disclaimer: This is mostly a reference for myself for the image descriptions I write in the future, including common things I see that I want to avoid. Some are with screenreader users in mind, some are with non-screenreader users in mind. I’m not claiming this is where describing images should begin or end, and i’m not the only low vision person out there. if you want to have better reference guides, i find here to be helpful.

Image description in alt text: Not all people who need image descriptions can or do use screenreaders. Alt text is hard to access without a screenreader on most browsers and versions of the app. Just put it in the post. If you don’t, it’s just showing that you don’t actually care about accessibility.

Image description under a read more, in a reblog, in small print, etc: This is a big one, and I’ve seen a ton of posts about it, but it can’t hurt to restate. This is inaccessible, and shows that your “accessibility” is performative. If the image description is under a readmore, if anything happens to your blog, then it will no longer be accessible. If a description is long, that’s ok. Just tag the post as long instead of using a read more. If you post art (or anything) with an image description in the reblog, people will have to go searching through the replies for it. It also makes it easy to separate the ID from the rest of the post. If the description is in small print, or otherwise formatted not in plain text, it’s inaccessible. Not all people who need image descriptions use screenreaders.

Put the most important info first: This is so someone can skip the screenreader to the next paragraph once they get the idea of the post.

“Image ID”: ID stands for “image description.” It is a common misconception that ID in this context means “identification” instead.

Capitalization (id vs ID): Maybe you’re going for aesthetics, or maybe you don’t capitalize letters very often. Keep in mind that screenreaders tend to read “id” (lowercase) as a word, like Freudian psychoanalysis, while “ID” (uppercase) is read as the individual letters. Hopefully you’re aiming for the individual letters, since that’s what Image Description is short for in this context.

Bold, Italicized, and Strikethrough text: I don’t know about others, but the screenreader I use doesn’t tell you which text is bold, italics, or strikethrough. If that is in any way relevant to understanding text in the image you’re describing, please specify what sections are bold. Example of how to do that: The text says: “My favorite color is green.” The word green is bolded.

Colored text: Similar to the above, colored text on Tumblr is not registered as different than plain text with a screenreader. It would be helpful if you made a note of colored text. You can use the same format I specified above.

Colored text, the sequel: Provide plain text when you‘re making posts that use colored text. Some people don’t use screenreaders, and they don’t need to justify that for you to make your posts accessible to them. Colored text on its own is inaccessible because it simply cannot be seen well by some people.

Video descriptions: Don’t separate video and audio descriptions. I don’t understand why this would make sense to anybody to do, but I’ve seen people do it regardless. In most videos, the audio and video are relevant to each other, and separating them makes it really confusing. I know it seems obvious, but think: is the content of the video actually understandable given the description you’ve provided?

Note when the image description is done, in a way that can be understood with or without a screenreader: The commonly used square bracket ] is not sufficient, because screenreaders do not read them aloud. Doing this well is most commonly achieved by putting “End ID” at the end of the description.

Sorry if this is too long, but if you do use this I hope it’s helpful. Have a good day!💗

#if u go to my blog and r like “mecha you never post ids” that’s because this is a sparsely used side blog #image descriptions #image description #image ids #accessibility #visual accessibility #mechaposting

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THIS...we need to make the cardassian kardashians a reality

star trek fans will complain about the cardassians kardashians joke as if it's a microaggression against an oppressed group

#star trek

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star trek fans will complain about the cardassians kardashians joke as if it's a microaggression against an oppressed group

#star trek #cardassians #lol #txt

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the colonization and the racism are definitely part of it

i just ate a crepe so delicious juicy and good im about to forgive french people

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Everyone point and laugh at this piece of shit

Do non-white terfs not realize how inherently racist terf-ism is????

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Ok! Have fun with your strawman!

That's it, anonymous is being turned off. If you little shits have something to say you can stand behind it instead of hiding behind anon like fucking cowards.

I'm fed up to the brim with people treating compassion like a zero sum game, trading victimhood like currency, performing mental gymnastics in the oppression Olympics to convince people why you should get all the pity and validation while everybody else gets left behind.

We're all human beings that deserve to be treated with basic decency on account of the fact that we're human beings that exist and are affected by the world around us. Not because we're bigger victims. You drown in ten feet of water or two feet of water it doesn't matter, the results are the same you still drowned. So so acting like your problems are the only ones that matter.

Being dehumanized for my disabilities hasn't been easier just because I'm white. I've had to struggle to get treatment and had to go without just like millions of other people that have fallen through the cracks and being white doesn't relieve me of any of the pain that puts people through. It's not any less embarrassing or dehumanizing to have everyone stare at you while you're having a nervous breakdown, it's not any easier to have people exploit my disabilities just because I'm white.

Being homeless hasn't been a cake walk just because my skin is lighter. I wasn't any less dehumanized or endangered just because of my lack of melanin. I felt the shit the same way and I dealt with the same damn problems.

So knock it off. We're all equally important, and nobody is talking anything away from you by extending caring and compassion to others. You don't deserve more just because you're a bigger victim and ffs stop treating victimhood like it's a badge of honor, people should not strive for this!

Y'all are only exacerbating the divisiveness and causing even more problems with this shit, while zero problems get solved and more and more people fall through the cracks everyday. I have been in the position to watch that shit happen because I was there, and people have equally lost their dignity, equally suffered, and deserve equal compassion for it.

If you got something to say about it you can stand behind those words with your username attached, I don't debate with cowards.

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strawman arguments are so fucking funny you can say shit like "i think gay people deserve rights" and someone will be like "so gay people should be allowed to COMMIT MURDER and ASSASSINATE PUBLIC FIGURES and DANCE NAKED IN THE STREETS and we all just have to be okay with that???"

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If you read "people of color experience racism and it compounds their oppression" as "white people are never oppressed anytime in any circumstance and it's okay to leave them behind" that's your own damn problem. If you can't understand the nuance in oppression that's your own damn problem. If you think that saying that white people have it worse because of antiracism, then that's just laughable.

In no way is my caring about homelessness or ableism or anything conditional; if you're trying to read between the lines to find that, you're making it up. In no way is someone saying that POC face racism that compounds their struggles equivalent to saying that white people deserve to be left behind. Do better, and stop trying to hide your racism and privilege behind accusations that I (or any POC trying to raise awareness about white privilege or intersectionality) don't care about other issues.

That's it, anonymous is being turned off. If you little shits have something to say you can stand behind it instead of hiding behind anon like fucking cowards.

I'm fed up to the brim with people treating compassion like a zero sum game, trading victimhood like currency, performing mental gymnastics in the oppression Olympics to convince people why you should get all the pity and validation while everybody else gets left behind.

We're all human beings that deserve to be treated with basic decency on account of the fact that we're human beings that exist and are affected by the world around us. Not because we're bigger victims. You drown in ten feet of water or two feet of water it doesn't matter, the results are the same you still drowned. So so acting like your problems are the only ones that matter.

Being dehumanized for my disabilities hasn't been easier just because I'm white. I've had to struggle to get treatment and had to go without just like millions of other people that have fallen through the cracks and being white doesn't relieve me of any of the pain that puts people through. It's not any less embarrassing or dehumanizing to have everyone stare at you while you're having a nervous breakdown, it's not any easier to have people exploit my disabilities just because I'm white.

Being homeless hasn't been a cake walk just because my skin is lighter. I wasn't any less dehumanized or endangered just because of my lack of melanin. I felt the shit the same way and I dealt with the same damn problems.

So knock it off. We're all equally important, and nobody is talking anything away from you by extending caring and compassion to others. You don't deserve more just because you're a bigger victim and ffs stop treating victimhood like it's a badge of honor, people should not strive for this!

Y'all are only exacerbating the divisiveness and causing even more problems with this shit, while zero problems get solved and more and more people fall through the cracks everyday. I have been in the position to watch that shit happen because I was there, and people have equally lost their dignity, equally suffered, and deserve equal compassion for it.

If you got something to say about it you can stand behind those words with your username attached, I don't debate with cowards.

#imagine getting pissed off about someone saying that racism exists

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You think that saying that white people don't experience racism is as bad as actual racism? I was expecting denial, but openly admitting you're racist? Twice? That's a first. And kind of funny.

It's not invalidating your problems to say that there are people who experience racial oppression. I genuinely understand the feeling of hearing that other people are in worse situations and taking it as a personal attack and an invalidation of your own situation. I experience that a lot. But that's an irrational response, and not an excuse for your racism.

That's it, anonymous is being turned off. If you little shits have something to say you can stand behind it instead of hiding behind anon like fucking cowards.

I'm fed up to the brim with people treating compassion like a zero sum game, trading victimhood like currency, performing mental gymnastics in the oppression Olympics to convince people why you should get all the pity and validation while everybody else gets left behind.

We're all human beings that deserve to be treated with basic decency on account of the fact that we're human beings that exist and are affected by the world around us. Not because we're bigger victims. You drown in ten feet of water or two feet of water it doesn't matter, the results are the same you still drowned. So so acting like your problems are the only ones that matter.

Being dehumanized for my disabilities hasn't been easier just because I'm white. I've had to struggle to get treatment and had to go without just like millions of other people that have fallen through the cracks and being white doesn't relieve me of any of the pain that puts people through. It's not any less embarrassing or dehumanizing to have everyone stare at you while you're having a nervous breakdown, it's not any easier to have people exploit my disabilities just because I'm white.

Being homeless hasn't been a cake walk just because my skin is lighter. I wasn't any less dehumanized or endangered just because of my lack of melanin. I felt the shit the same way and I dealt with the same damn problems.

So knock it off. We're all equally important, and nobody is talking anything away from you by extending caring and compassion to others. You don't deserve more just because you're a bigger victim and ffs stop treating victimhood like it's a badge of honor, people should not strive for this!

Y'all are only exacerbating the divisiveness and causing even more problems with this shit, while zero problems get solved and more and more people fall through the cracks everyday. I have been in the position to watch that shit happen because I was there, and people have equally lost their dignity, equally suffered, and deserve equal compassion for it.

If you got something to say about it you can stand behind those words with your username attached, I don't debate with cowards.

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Never said I was the only one that mattered. Never said that only POC mattered either. You're right, I have no idea what's going on in other people's lives, but neither do you.

You do have privilege. If you are white, you have racial privilege, which means that racism is not compounding the other struggles you face. If you don't understand that, that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. It just means that you're not acknowledging it.

That's it, anonymous is being turned off. If you little shits have something to say you can stand behind it instead of hiding behind anon like fucking cowards.

I'm fed up to the brim with people treating compassion like a zero sum game, trading victimhood like currency, performing mental gymnastics in the oppression Olympics to convince people why you should get all the pity and validation while everybody else gets left behind.

We're all human beings that deserve to be treated with basic decency on account of the fact that we're human beings that exist and are affected by the world around us. Not because we're bigger victims. You drown in ten feet of water or two feet of water it doesn't matter, the results are the same you still drowned. So so acting like your problems are the only ones that matter.

Being dehumanized for my disabilities hasn't been easier just because I'm white. I've had to struggle to get treatment and had to go without just like millions of other people that have fallen through the cracks and being white doesn't relieve me of any of the pain that puts people through. It's not any less embarrassing or dehumanizing to have everyone stare at you while you're having a nervous breakdown, it's not any easier to have people exploit my disabilities just because I'm white.

Being homeless hasn't been a cake walk just because my skin is lighter. I wasn't any less dehumanized or endangered just because of my lack of melanin. I felt the shit the same way and I dealt with the same damn problems.

So knock it off. We're all equally important, and nobody is talking anything away from you by extending caring and compassion to others. You don't deserve more just because you're a bigger victim and ffs stop treating victimhood like it's a badge of honor, people should not strive for this!

Y'all are only exacerbating the divisiveness and causing even more problems with this shit, while zero problems get solved and more and more people fall through the cracks everyday. I have been in the position to watch that shit happen because I was there, and people have equally lost their dignity, equally suffered, and deserve equal compassion for it.

If you got something to say about it you can stand behind those words with your username attached, I don't debate with cowards.

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No one said your life was a cakewalk because you’re white. But you have privilege inherent to being white that people of color don’t have.

POC are homeless at disproportionate rates to their population size. It’s not “oppression olympics” to call out whites ignoring intersectionality. If you see a post that says that whites don’t face the racism that POC do, and you take it to mean that your struggling has been invalidated, that’s on you.

No one said that you didn’t deserve compassion. Just check your privilege. You don’t think it’s even harder for POC in that situation? To have racism combined with ableism?

That's it, anonymous is being turned off. If you little shits have something to say you can stand behind it instead of hiding behind anon like fucking cowards.

I'm fed up to the brim with people treating compassion like a zero sum game, trading victimhood like currency, performing mental gymnastics in the oppression Olympics to convince people why you should get all the pity and validation while everybody else gets left behind.

We're all human beings that deserve to be treated with basic decency on account of the fact that we're human beings that exist and are affected by the world around us. Not because we're bigger victims. You drown in ten feet of water or two feet of water it doesn't matter, the results are the same you still drowned. So so acting like your problems are the only ones that matter.

Being dehumanized for my disabilities hasn't been easier just because I'm white. I've had to struggle to get treatment and had to go without just like millions of other people that have fallen through the cracks and being white doesn't relieve me of any of the pain that puts people through. It's not any less embarrassing or dehumanizing to have everyone stare at you while you're having a nervous breakdown, it's not any easier to have people exploit my disabilities just because I'm white.

Being homeless hasn't been a cake walk just because my skin is lighter. I wasn't any less dehumanized or endangered just because of my lack of melanin. I felt the shit the same way and I dealt with the same damn problems.

So knock it off. We're all equally important, and nobody is talking anything away from you by extending caring and compassion to others. You don't deserve more just because you're a bigger victim and ffs stop treating victimhood like it's a badge of honor, people should not strive for this!

Y'all are only exacerbating the divisiveness and causing even more problems with this shit, while zero problems get solved and more and more people fall through the cracks everyday. I have been in the position to watch that shit happen because I was there, and people have equally lost their dignity, equally suffered, and deserve equal compassion for it.

If you got something to say about it you can stand behind those words with your username attached, I don't debate with cowards.

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Source: https://www.instagram.com/finuccinialfredo/

(I wouldn’t usually post pics from others like this but this is a really good infographic. I have also messaged them on instagram and suggested they make an ADHD infographic account, which I’d share. It’s just really good and I hope they make more.)

#abd]]db #adhd #references #reference #ref

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Masterpost: Sensory differences

If you know a bit about autism, or have been following this blog for some time, you must be aware that one of the autistic traits which has the most consequences on our daily lives is our sensory differences. They have an impact on all spheres of our lives: on what we can and cannot do, on where we can and cannot go, on what we can eat, wear, listen to, on our ways to feel good and on what makes us feel bad.

Such a wide subject definitely warrants a masterpost. So, here we go!

First, let’s take a look at the human sensory system, to understand the different areas in which there can be differences. It’s actually more complicated than the traditional five senses! Our sensory system is divided into three parts:

Exteroception : sensing what comes from the environment outside your body.

Interoception : sensing the internal physiological condition of your body

Proprioception : sensing the position your limbs and body are in

These three main areas encompass different senses (note that this is one model and others exist):

Exteroception: sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, but also thermoception (sensation of heat/cold) and nociception (sensation of pain)

Interoception: nociception (internal pain), feelings of hunger, lack of oxygen, thirst, need to pee, as well as monitoring of the respiratory rate and heart rate.

Proprioception: the kinesthetic sense (knowledge of the movement and relative positions of your body parts) and the vestibular sense (knowledge of body movement, direction and acceleration)

For all of these senses, autistic people can have them work typically, be hyposensitive (less sensitive than most people), be hypersensitive (more sensitive than most people) or have sensory processing differences which do not fall under the hypo/hyper system.

The clinical term which encompasses these differences is “Sensory Processing Disorder”. One can have SPD without being autistic, but all or almost all autistic people have SPD.

It should be noted, however, that some autistic people don’t like to think of it as a disorder and prefer simply talking about sensory processing differences.

Something very important to understand is that hypersensitivity and hyposensitivity CAN coexist in any one person’s sensory system. For example, they might be hypersensitive to smell and hyposensitive to touch. They can also be hyper/hypo sensitive to only one aspect of one sense (for instance, pressure or texture or bright lights or sweet tastes). They can also be sometimes hyposensitive to something, and sometimes hypersensitive to it.

Being hypersensitive to a stimulus and being exposed to it can cause what is called “sensory overload”, which usually translates to pain, discomfort, and impaired cognitive functions (in other words, trouble thinking properly). If pushed further (very intense stimuli or very long exposition), it can lead to a shutdown or meltdown.

Being hyposensitive to something and lacking stimulation can translate to restlessness, discomfort, and even pain, as well as an intense craving for the stimuli.

Here are some examples of what hypersensitivity to different senses can translate to, on a behavioral and subjective level:

Sight: The person wears sunglasses, maybe even indoors. They avoid places with fluorescent lightning, blinking lightning or too bright lightning. They dislike looking at brightly colored surfaces. They may have trouble with visually cluttered spaces, such as crowds and supermarkets. They may find any kind of flickering or movement around them painful to see.

Hearing: They may hear sounds no one else can hear (and some have been tested to hear outside the normal human range). They may have to wear headphones/ear defenders in noisy places. They may avoid crowds and events with lots of people/loud music/shouting. They may have difficulty with the noise of the vacuum, of the construction work on the other side of the street, of the clock ticking in the next room. They may develop tinnitus eventually.

Smell: They’ll probably dislike places with strong smells such as perfume shops, farms, or crowded public transportation. They may need to wash themselves, their clothes and their sheet very often to keep body odors to a minimum. They may not tolerate scented soap, shampoo or deodorant (and it’s sometimes difficult to find an unscented one!). They may struggle with the smell of food in general, or with particular smells.

Taste: They may be very picky eaters, only tolerating a couple of very bland-tasting food such as mashed potatoes or pasta. They may have difficulty having diverse enough diets with all the nutrients they need. They may always eat the exact same thing.

Touch: They may have trouble finding clothing with a texture that they can tolerate. They may need to cut all the tags off their clothing. They may absolutely hate anyone touching them. They may be ok with firm touch, but find light brushy touches painful. They may have trouble wearing specific items of clothing, such as socks/shoes, headphones or hats. They may hate people touching their hair, or find brushing their hair very difficult. They may find brushing their teeth nearly impossible because of the scratching sensation. They may have trouble with the texture of many foods, and be a picky eater because of that.

Thermoception: They may be very sensitive to cold, and always wearing loads of clothing and turning the heating up even when other people don’t think it’s that cold. They may be very sensitive to heat, finding summer very hard to cope with, especially if they don’t have access to AC. They may be hyper-aware of tiny changes in temperature, feeling cold when it is dropping and hot when it is rising regardless of the actual temperature.

Nociception: They may be more sensitive to pain than most people, and find very painful what most people would shrug off. (They’re not being a drama queen! They really do feel more pain!)

Vestibular sense: They may get motion sickness very easily.

And here are some examples for hyposensitivity:

Sight: The person may have trouble finding things in visually crowded environments. They may enjoy looking at bright colored lights or at objects in motion (spinning top/twirling fingers…)

Hearing: They may not notice being called or being talked to, especially when focused. They may enjoy listening to very loud music, singing, or making lots of noises.

Smell: They may not notice smells which other people do. They may enjoy strong smells such as perfume, essential oils or body odor. They may enjoy sniffing a favorite blanket, a significant other, a pet, or anything they like.

Taste: They may be able to ingest an impressive amount of spicy food, and may crave strong tasting food (pepper, lemon, salt, sugar…).

Touch: They may love rubbing/touching favorite textures, rubbing their hands together… They may love and crave deep pressure, such as having heavy weights on top of them.

Thermoception: They may be outside in winter with just a T-shirt, or not be bothered by the heat in summer and even wear a sweater. They may enjoy touching very hot things such as radiators or very hot water, or very cold things like ice cubes or snow.

Nociception: They may be less sensitive to pain than most people and not notice it when they’ve been hurt.

Vestibular sense: They may love roller coasters, boat rides when there’s a lot of waves… They may never get motion sickness of any sort. They may spend time rocking or like to chill upside down.

Kinesthetic sense: They may be very clumsy since they have a poor sense of the position of their body in space. They may stumble a lot and be generally bad at sports. They may have trouble with fine motor skills such as handwriting or sewing. They may enjoy doing repetitive motions such as hand flapping.

Interoception: They may have trouble noticing  when they are hungry, thirsty, tired, or when they need to go to the bathroom. They may need to set alarms or to have self-care at set times as part of their routine.

These are of course only examples and hyper or hyposensitivity can express themselves in as many ways are there are people who experience them.

Here are some examples of other sensory differences autistic people can experience:

Synesthesia seems more frequent among autistic people than in the general population. It is defined as a transfer from one sensory modality to another: for example, seeing sounds or hearing tastes. It can also mean associating colors or personalities to numbers/letters. In autistic people specifically, it can be a very positive thing (you can now stim with two senses at the same time!) or something painful (these bright lights are awful, well now they’re harsh noises too).

We often struggle with processing sensory information, especially speech, which can mean we can have a lot of trouble understanding what people say, might take a lot of time to process speech (which results in conversations such as” “Hey, will you get me this thing please?” “What?” “I said, will-” “Oh yeah, sure”), and might need subtitles to be able to understand movies. Processing information from two different senses at a time can also be difficult, which often translates as “I can either look at the images or understand what’s being said”. This is one of the causes of our struggle with eye contact.

That’s all for today. We hope this helped. We are currently preparing a masterpost on stimming which will be quite related to this one. Happy writing!

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“3 Defining Features of ADHD That Everyone Overlooks”

#adhd #ref #reference