#life with autism

[sanguine-sirena]

hey when an autistic person is telling you they need clarification and/or ask if you’re being serious when you answer them, they want an honest answer.

i am tired of people telling me things as a joke, and saying “yes im serious” and watching me take that as truth. when i explicitly tell you to give me a straight answer, i have this amount of trust that you will give me a straight answer, not continue to fuck with me.

it shouldn’t be this difficult.

#/neg #life with autism #actually autistic #neurodiverse #neurodivergent #actually neurodivergent #autistic spectrum #autistic adult #autistic life #being autistic #autistic things #autistic community #salem says

[a-moment-captured]

His autism isn’t contagious but his smile is. Happy World Autism Acceptance/Awareness Day!

❤️Also, thank you to each of you who check in on Coit! You each mean so much to me!

@heavyhitterheaux @harlowsbby @harlowcomehome @nattinatalia @babiefries @megs1998xx @harlowaddict @iguessweallcrazyithinktho @exoticr0ses @neon-lights-and-glitter @hoodharlow @velvetstreets @labella420 @moody4world

#life with Coit #autism #autism acceptance #autism adventures #autism and adhd #autism warrior #autism parenting #living with adhd #adhd parenting #adhd #adhd acceptance #love #life with autism #autistic kid #mom life #mother and son #mixed race #mixed kids

[shmorkyjr]

"Im cool cat and i love all kids!"

Even the ones with a shmorky obsession so bad she went insane and had to be sent to an emergency psych ward and then proceed to create the shmorky jar? :3

#cool cat #cool cat saves the kids #derek savage #cool cat kids superhero #mama cat #daddy derek #butch the bully #maria #dirty dog #shmorky #autism #life with autism

[tofinishwhatistart]

Something I can’t tell anybody:

I have two brothers… or rather had. One passed away 2 years ago. But now I feel like an only child and a parent of an adult child I never had or asked for.

My oldest brother has autism and a 5 year old daughter who is the LIGHT OF MY LIFE. But when he doesn’t get his way, he uses her as ammunition against me.

He called me on the phone to ask me to do some thing and I told him no. I’ve set a hard limit of what I was and was not willing to do for him, and his response was to tell me that he didn’t wanna hear from me for the next two or three years. But in the same paragraph he asked me if I would take one of the girls he lives with on it to a doctors appointment on Saturday and I said no. And that upset him. He cannot comprehend or understand that if something were to go wrong with his favor he asked me it would ruin my whole life I wouldn’t be able to do my career anymore I would get fired from my job and to him where he has nothing to lose it’s fine he said he would do it for me. He looks at my boundary and tried to mow past it and was very upset when I wouldn’t bow down. I feel like I’m gonna spend the rest of my life mothering someone and it makes me so sad because my other brother always promised that he would be here to help me when this happened. And now he’s not.

It’s something that maybe one other person in my life understands and I just don’t feel ready to deal with all of this. 

#personal #july 2022 #july #life with autism #autism

[dailydivergent]

There’s no such thing as work-life balance for neurodivergent & chronically ill people.

This is because everything in my life requires work:

maintaining friendships

keeping up with my hygiene

managing bills

making money

remembering my basic needs

sleeping regularly

outputting creatively

All requires some aspect of work for me.

And when everything in your life requires work, your balance goes out the window.

If you're neurodivergent and overwhelmed — I see you.

If you're chronically ill and overwhelmed — I see you.

You're not dysfunctional.

You're not incapable.

You're doing your best.

#neurodivergencies #actually adhd #neurodivergence #actually audhd #actually autistic #audhd #autism #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #work-life balance #work life balance #neurodivergent at work #working neurodivergent #chronically ill #chronic illness

[crazycatsiren]

No no you don't understand! I want to watch this show/movie, read this book, listen to this podcast, etc.! But I must be in the right mindset and the exact head space to begin, or I just can't!

#actually autistic #autistic adult #late diagnosed #autism #asd #autism problems #autistic life

[neurodivergenttales]

The ‘you’re mature for your age’ to sleeping with a bed full of plushies in your mid twenties pipeline is real

#mental health #neurodivergent #neurodiverse stuff #mental illness #journaling #actually autistic #late diagnosed autistic #asd #autistic life #autistic adult #actually autism #autism #unmasking autism

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Life in an Autism World

#autism #actually autistic #sensory processing #sensory overload #sensory issues #auditory processing #it isn’t always about loudness #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #actually neurodivergent #feel free to share/reblog #Life in an Autism World (Facebook) #autism acceptence month #autism awareness month

[fallenstarcat]

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.

#autism #autistic #actually autistic #actually autism #autism acceptance #autism acceptence month #autistic things #autistic experiences #autistic community #autistic spectrum #autism spectrum disorder #autism spectrum #disabled #disability #disability pride #disabled pride #disabilties #autistic life #autism life #autism advocacy #neurodivergent #actually neurodiverse #neurodiversity #neurodevelopmental #developmental disabilities #developmental disability

[rochellek1994]

It's honestly one of the worst things wanting to be in control due to the fact that each and every day I'm thinking the worst and that anything will go wrong. So when I tell people "not to do this or that" etc, please just know that I am never doing it to be mean or controlling, it's genuinely an anxious trait of my autism and I wish some people would understand and not abuse it as such.

However, do NOT be surprised if I ever do blow up in a meltdown frenzy/rage after I have told someone numerous times not to do something and it goes wrong when they don't listen to me etc. It's another reason why I find it so difficult to trust others a lot of the time.

#autism #actually autistic #life with autism #autistic things

[sanguine-sirena]

i genuinely got so excited at the thought of mikey way that i started fucking laughing and jumping in the middle of work. hashtag autism

#this isn’t even a joke #life with autism #actually autistic #special interests #mikey way #sure I’ll tag him ! #my chemical romance

[thecraneisdead]

I don't know if its the edibles or the fact that I'm now realizing NOTHING WILL BE THE SAME AGAIN.

Not as I know it.

My life has changed.

And its affecting me.

It's all catching up to me and I am so fucking laser focused on it and its all I can see and all I can feel and its smothering and festering and I keep clawing at it like a splinter in my palm and the panic sets in "oh god, oh god, its in, its in and its never gonna fucking come back out oh god, there's a stranger in my bloodstream and it seeks to kill me from the inside and it burrows and burrows and its in my heart, Stuck in an artery and you dig and dig and dig your fingers into your chest trying, praying, screaming for god to just get it out and the reality is SIZZLING into your brain that this is it, you're dying, you have no choice, there is no escape. Your appointment to oblivion is stamped and approved and signed in the book of the dead."

... And then you die.

And then you're reborn.

And then all is peaceful again.

Calm

as

fucking

hindu

cows.

#personal #creative writing #life with autism

[tofinishwhatistart]

Dopamining before I can get to the task I NEED to finish!

#help #adult adhd #adhd #audhd #life with autism #ugggghhhhh #what to do

[emmalwrites]

Am I Ready to Continue Writing My Novel?

Learning about my disability and neurodivergence might help me learn how to keep writing.

Roughly a year ago, I wrote a couple of posts about why I decided to stop writing the novel I’d been working on for over a decade: Leaving the Novel in Progress (Part 1) and Leaving the Novel in Progress (Part 2). I needed to focus on my mental and physical health, neither of which were great at the time. I also needed to re-evaluate my reasons for writing the NIP, and for wanting to be a writer…

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#1800 Seconds on Autism #ableism #Annie Elainey #Annie Segarra #being autistic #chronic pain #disabled living #how to write #Jessica Kellgren-Fozard #life with autism #living with disability #mental health #novel in progress #physical disability #work in progress #writing life

[the-nefarious-vampire]

"you only say you're autistic because you want to feel special and different" actually finding out i was autistic made me feel significantly less special and different. before i was autistic i was Strange and Unpredictable in some sort of Unknowable way which Surely meant i was Predestined for Greatness (like storybook character). now im just some fuckin autistic guy like any other. i significantly prefer it this way btw

#this isnt about being a gifted kid btw this is about being different from everyone else #seeing that all the famous people you look up to were Also described as being different from everyone else #and going “ahah! i must be a main character of some sort! i cannot wait for my fascinating tale to unfold!” #“perhaps i will be the first contact which alien life makes with earth! perhaps i am secretly a shapeshifting cat!” #only to grow up & find out what autism is & go “oh im actually just like millions of other people who are not famous at all. yay!” #autism #autistic #actually autistic

[crazycatsiren]

#it's funny because it's true #actually autistic #autism memes #autism problems #autistic life