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my-autism-adhd-blog · 3 days

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What The Autism Spectrum Might Really Look Like

#autism #actually autistic #autism spectrum #what the spectrum can look like #it is not linear #autism spectrum disorder #autism traits #I love this analogy #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #actually neurodivergent #feel free to share/reblog #Neurodivergent_lou (Facebook)

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performing-personhood · 2 days

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I am truly stunned and surprised about how much I enjoy actively watching D20. I expected to use it as background for chores and crafts, but every night after I get home from my labor-intensive 2nd shift job when I'm decompressing and trying to get sleepy, I find myself watching intently. And I think I figured out why, I think it's the perfect sensory-gentle TV show.

The camera cutting between players, and the cool tablesetting with the neat miniatures (I'm halfway into Mentopolis and I'm obsessed with the table rig), and dynamic lighting and background set design are enough visual stimulation to keep my attention, without being too bright and flashy and jump-cutty and overstimulating.

The sound design is noticeable but not dominating, enough to set the atmosphere and follow the action without sounding like Typical American Television (see also: American Ramsay's kitchen nightmares, as opposed to the British one) which can be very jarring. The sharp, screeching-violin/theramin "BWEEEEHHHH" royalty-free-sound effect that we apparently love to use to artificially induce tension can fuck off forever and be lost to history please and thank you.

They're telling me an interesting, detailed story with fully realized characters and intrigue and action, but something about the story stopping and taking a not-story interlude to roll dice seems to be enough of a break in the momentum to keep me from getting too anxious about the events unfolding inside the story. (Yes, a good story will make me feel anxious for the people involved in the events. I don't always have the cycles available to process such things.)

In short it is the perfect television for my individual flavor of autism. This was such a wonderful and unexpected discovery. I signed up for Dropout excited for new improv content, which I got, and as a bonus thank you gift for signing up I also received the watchable equivalent of a gravity blanket. Thanks, @dropoutdottv. ❤️

#d20 #dropout #dropout tv #brennan lee mulligan #is it possible to NOT have a crush on brennan bc i don't think it's possible #just neurodivergent things #actually audhd #actually autistic #actually neurodivergent #autistic things #autistic adult #autism spectrum

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xecutivecucumber · 2 days

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I know the finale has left us feeling things (and I one day might share my thoughts on them, but honestly staying off of most social media platforms around this time has been really good for my mental), so let's go back to an episode many of us loved: The Crossing. Here's an excellent analysis of the episode looking at it through the 'Tech is autistic' lens.

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imnotfeelinlucky · 1 day

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medical neglect when it comes to autism is so crazy

like what do you mean i didnt even speak until i was 4-6 years old, late physical developmental delays , had obsessive interests on SPOONS, really bad sensory issues , repetitive behaviors [hair pulling, chewing things , flappy hands] , poor social cues , being the social outcast , meltdowns / shutdowns , symptoms visible for a whole fucking autism diagnosis

'your child will grow out of it' yeah sure buddy

turns out a late diagnosis of autism is very traumatic

#autism #actually autistic #autistic #neurodivergent #autism spectrum

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sillylilneurodivergent · 3 days

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APRIL WAS AUTISM AWARENESS MONTH & NO ONE TOLD ME!?!?!?😔

#autism spectrum disorder #autism spectrum #actually autistic #autism #autism awareness #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #april 2024 #no one told me #how dare they

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snakeautistic · 6 months

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People underestimate how much it fucks you up to be subtly excluded as a kid. I would try to talk to my classmates and be met with disinterest or annoyance. The one friend I had, who I clung to and nodded along to his every word, had other friends he liked just as much or more. And his other friends didn’t care for me at all.

I look back at pictures from the time and see how separated I was from them. I remember knowing I was different. I remember posing questions about the world to the girls playing next to me and realizing that they had never asked the same ones to themselves. That the ways we thought couldn’t be more different.

I kept myself amused with my own fanatical stories and musings in my head. I would wander the playground on a circular path, imagining a friend and being sorely disappointed when it didn’t feel as real as I’d hoped.

There was a bubble separating me from everyone else, thin, and nearly invisible, but with a pearly sheen you could catch under the right conditions. I knew it was there, they knew it was there, and it changed me

#autism #actually autistic #autistic thoughts #autistic experiences #neurodivergent #autism spectrum #asd #autistic #neurodivergence #thoughts

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fallenstarcat · 30 days

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sometimes i feel like people forget autism is a disability. and that’s not a bad thing! i’m all for disability acceptance, im proud of my disabilities. but i feel like we forget autism can hurt.

it hurts that i have to put more time and energy into socializing than others.

it hurts when i need to move so bad, usually cause im overwhelmed by either my surroundings or emotions, that i thrash and hurt myself.

it hurts that i cant be in places that are too loud or too bright, which on bad days can be as simple as a small, quiet noise or dim lights.

it hurts that i struggle to tell when im hungry, thirsty, tired, etc. so i can’t properly take care of myself. it doesn’t help my insomnia and i get very nauseas and get UTIs.

i 100% believe in autism acceptance. i don’t want a cure. but i also want us the acknowledge that it can hurt. it doesn’t mean my entire life will hurt, but some parts will. and i want a community where we can see both sides, see the hurt, and celebrate it anyway.

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theorahsart · 1 year

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Way way back I drew a comic explaining what we really mean by ‘The Autism Spectrum’ and posted it here back when Tumblr was Huge. Then the comic really blew up!! Last year I did a remake of the comic, with some updated language, and using Mia, a character from a graphic novel I made. Figured I’d share for Autism Acceptance Month!

#Autism Acceptance #autismacceptance2023 #autismacceptancemonth #actuallyautistic #actually autistic #autism comic #autism art #autism #autism spectrum

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glitchedcosmos · 3 months

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One thing about me and my mutuals is we will be on a spectrum autistic?, aromantic?, asexual?, gender?, you name it were on it you’ll find me on every goddam spectrum

#catch me in all of the above #aromantic #asexual #agender #aroace #ace #acespec #arospec #autism #actually autistic #autism spectrum #aromantic spectrum #asexual spectrum #nonbinary #trans #lgbt

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neuroticboyfriend · 3 months

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once again thinking about how fucked up it is that special ed used me and other disabled children as unpaid, coerced labor. i worked enough to be making $100 a week. i was "paid" in fake money redeemable only at the school cafeteria, which i worked at, and was forced to do things that distressed me. they gave us $1 a week, if they remembered to give it to us at all.

this was while i would sometimes go the entire day without eating because i didn't have the money to buy food and the free food was not sensory safe. we also worked outside the community - grocery stores, warehouses, shoe stores security tagging items. all under the guise of job skill development, we did $100 of labor a week without ever getting paid. and we were demeaned while we did it. and we were just teens.

so no, i don't want to hear about how special education is good. not with the way me and my peers were treated and taken advantage of. death to institutionalization, in all forms.

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thatadhdmood · 1 year

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an eloquent take down of the "people are self diagnosing autism to be trendy and for attention" take that morons have been echoing on tiktok

[video description is the reblogs, its very long]

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my-autism-adhd-blog · 14 hours

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What The Autism Spectrum Might Really Look Like

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#autism #actually autistic #autism spectrum #what autism might look like #autism spectrum disorder #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #actually neurodivergent #feel free to share/reblog #neurodivergent_lou (Facebook)

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merlintintintin · 10 months

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A short story about disability and friendship.

#disability #autism spectrum #my art #birds #merlin draws #digital painting

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willtheweirdrat · 8 months

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Being audhd is so wild cause I'm like "yeah, i'll move to another country, change my name, convert to another religion, and leave all this behind" and then have a meltdown over a small change in my routine

#wills mumbles #audhd #adhd #autism #autism spectrum #asd #autism spectrum disorder #actually autistic #actually adhd #actually audhd #autistic

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galacticscrotum · 9 months

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Neurotypicals all need to be reminded that if you made fun of someone in school for being “weird,” you were making fun of autistic people and that’s ableist and wrong. If you don’t educate yourself and change, you’re a bad person.

Things I saw kids get made fun of for:

Walking on their toes

Communicating directly

Not making eye contact

Making too much eye contact

Having special interests

Not having the right interests

Having few friends

Trying to make friends

Being “too” happy

Feeling overwhelmed

Being shy

Not talking much

Talking too much

Having fun being silly

Being serious

Doing well in class (nerd)

Doing poorly in class (stupid)

Any noticeable stims

The way we eat

A lot of other shit

Yeah, those kids were neurodivergent and you were an asshole to them. Do you see all the contradictions in that list? You never actually had a problem with anything we did or didn’t do. You had a problem with our existence. The way we talked, walked, breathed, you bullied us for it.

What’s even more disgusting and insane:

Lots of these kids chose to spend their elective periods with the special ed kids class. Lots of them grew up to be teachers, SpEd teachers, psychologists, etc. not because they want to help autistic people, but because they want to feel superior.

A big fuck you to all of the bullies and jerks that treated us like shit simply for being different from you.

I hope you’ve changed, but I know you probably haven’t. You’re doing the same shit, all that’s changed is you’re getting paid for it now. Go to hell. (A very particular section of hell where you’re marginalized for your neurotype and forced into ABA therapy and treated exactly how you treated us).

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snakeautistic · 6 months

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Please, for the love of god, leave me CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS!!! If you think it’s implied, I promise you that to me it is not. If you give me poorly worded or vague directions I’m gonna spend half an hour stressing over the potential different ways to interpret them and either become paralyzed with indecision or inevitably interpret them the least correct way possible

#actually autistic #autistic rant #autistic thoughts #autistic experiences #autism #autistic #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurodivergent experience #asd #autistic things #autism spectrum #neurodivergence

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