#self identified autistic

[gandalf-the-bean]

i must sort EVERYTHING but i also must DANCE

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[pienhime]

autistic people are expected to just... stop having symptoms For The Greater Good™️ all the time and get treated like bigots and warmongers if they dont magically stop being disabled to further a cause. some autistic people can do some things, some people cant do those so they do other things to help instead. but its considered "good" and "morally correct" in leftist circles online to harass MENTALLY DISABLED PEOPLE for not simply no longer dealing with what comes along w their disability when it damages others. sorry, not sorry but ill do everything that i can to support causes i care about, and the operative part of that statement is "THAT I CAN". other autistic ppl can do without their safe foods? great, i cant. other autistic people are good at taking social queues and understanding how to discuss sensitive topics? cool, most of us cant. weve become so "uwu are u also neurodivergent uwu?? heres my hyperfixationstimmingspecialinterestoverstimulationcore pronoun set!! self diagnosis from tiktok is valid" that weve forgotten autism is a serious mental disability that prevents most of us from working and lots of us from ever living on our own. get ur head out of ur ass and eat a bag of razor blades if you think disabled people owe you death and suffering. we are doing what we can.

#this is about multiple situations going on rn #people will hear a mentally disabled persone xpress that they cant contribute in one way #and ask how they can help in others #and be called selfish and told to kill themselves #'its easy to boycott XYZ' #'its easy to be more sensitive about xyz' #to YOU. #i have a real and serious mental disability that prevents me from basic functioning #when autistic people ask for understanding we dont mean #'self identify as neurospicy uwu because u have anxiety' #or 'use tone tags in ur memes and scream at people with puzzle piece liscense plates' #we mean understand that we are disabled #and that we cannot do what you can. #my inability to support causes i care about in the same ways as you doesnt negate that im human #a disabled person not being able to protest as hard as you isnt an invitation to preach borderline eugenics

[gynecologistmsfrizzle]

“what to tell a doctor to get an autism diagnosis” “here’s what i learned from realizing i was autistic at 40″ “i would never want a professional diagnosis” “person first language is so regressive” “autism symptoms are only a problem because of ableism” “we dont need treatment” “no autistic person wants a cure” “four doctors told me i couldn’t be autistic so i found a fifth” “autism is an invisible disability” “dont disclose your neurodivergency to employers” “i/dd and autism have nothing to do with each other” “nt parents/advocates have no place in autism communities” “of course im autistic have you heard me talk about horror movies” babe i have nothing in common with any of you

#completely insane that i will go on autism twitter and somehow i am ''low functioning'' compared to the rest of the people on there. #what are you TALKING about. dont disclose your ''neurodivergency'' to your doctors?? autism is an invisible disability? #we live on different planets. like i think we live on different planets. #sorry but i am twenty two years old and my mother has a fippa exemption to access all my medical info bc if she did not #i would not be able to access healthcare. #the only reason i can live away from home is because i have a cell phone and internet and can keep in touch w family. #my legal government address is my father's house where i have not lived for seven years #because if an important document gets sent to my apartment i will lose it or forget about it and i know this because it's happened. #like ... yeah ! autism IS a spectrum ! and you are not doing such a good job recognizing and supporting people who are #in very different places on that spectrum than you ! #it is. i mean it's kind of a form of hermeneutical injustice to argue that there is no meaningful difference between various groups #of autistic people #like yeah functioning labels suck ASS. also you DO need to be able to identify that there ARE people who need more support #because if you can't name that then you are going to forget that they exist #and i see that all the time. it's aspie supremacy by another name #by erasing people who did not have the privilege of self-diagnosing #who do not have the privilege not to disclose #who do not have the privilege of independent self-advocacy #you are going to end up achieving the same thing that actively dismissing those people achieves #like. i dunno. like i said it's completely bonkers in yonkers that EYE and the UNIVERSITY DEGREE EYE WILL BE GETTING IN TWO MONTHS #and my LEASE and my RESPECTABLE RESUME and my INCOMING SOCIAL WORK LICENSE #feel alienated by the default presumptions the ''autistic community'' seems to operate from about how autistic people function #like jfc if i feel erased and unwelcome then how are you EVER going to make your community accessible and helpful #to people who need miles more support than i do?? #rhi talks #autie tag

[tyranasaurusbec]

ngl social media has been doing to autism what it did to ocd

#like people on websites will call literally anything autism #like “oh you have a nerdy hobby and are even a little bit awkward? autism” #tbh even “just a little bit socially awkward” gets slapped with an autism label #im all for people self identifying but like the allistic general pop has gotten their hands on it #also there's a trend of people saying “acoustic” in comments on tiktok videos as a way to call someone autistic as an insult? #so its like its not even the cute and quirkification like with ocd and organization #its still being used to belittle and insult people from two different sides

[kingdomoftyto]

I never used to give much thought one way or another to the whole "diagnosing characters with your own label/disability/illness/etc" but ever since I figured out my autism, like.... I get it. Damn, these characters ARE all autistic af. Good for them.

#ignore me #inspired by me seeing multiple posts in one day directly and casually referring to Miles Edgeworth as autistic bc fuck yeah he sure is!! :) #so glad we're all in agreement about this lmao #but no yeah seriously as soon as I self-diagnosed it's like a switch was flipped #and the second I gave myself permission to claim any knowledge of The Autistic Experience then suddenly #there really IS at least one character in every piece of media who I identify with on a new and different level than before #which is insane because outwardly nothing has actually changed. it's just a shift in perspective #but it makes a big difference somehow. idk how to explain it. #MY blorbos now. the neurotypicals can pry them from my cold dead hands

[aeolids-zenith]

i hate posts that are supposed to be positivity for people who lack friends or that say that social connections are like unexpectedly inevitable/straightforward to make or something, but then like. don't elaborate on how that is possible. it always just makes me feel more hopeless

#space chirrup #idk. i suppose even if there was actually anything theoretically actionable in those posts i still might not feel like it'd work for me #i mean i've tried googling for actual advice but for some reason ''how to make friends as a chronically online socially stunted #possibly autistic barely-transitioned transgender young adult introvert with esoteric interests'' doesn't turn up anything useful #(idk if ''possibly autistic'' is accurate all the self-assessments i've done plus the psychologist i went to said i probably wasn't) #i suspect that i might be unnecessarily limiting myself with all of that #but i have absolutely no idea what is a reasonable amount to step outside of my comfort zone/interests #i don't even have anything that i want out of basic social interactions the thing that compels me is intimacy. #but i don't want that with someone i don't know already. #but how do i get to know people when there's nothing i want to do with them and i have trouble feeling like i want things in general #does that mean i'm depressed. i've had conflicting feedback on whether i am. what is the productive course of action if i am #bc i keep thinking that like medication wouldn't be worth it if i didn't have a plan to actually improve my life but that if i had a #plan i could just do it without medication #but idk maybe medication would allow me to identify an actually viable plan. ggggggg #ALSO does it make a difference that i only feel strongly about this when it's late at night #people always say not to trust how you feel at night but it's not like i feel GOOD about my life in the daytime it's just kinda neutral #like there's enough for me to survive without significant effort and i'm not completely joyless but idk what it's all for #and night is the only time i feel motivated to do anything about it. #though usually that thing is just writing a vent post on tumblr or something equivalently unproductive lolllll

[is-this-really--life]

The whole "self diagnosing as autistic when you're addicted to the internet feels like a trend" potentially has some truth to it, but I also think that autistic people are more likely to get addicted to the internet in the first place.

Think about it. We hyperfocus on things that hold our interest way more than non-autistic people do. Of course we're going to be so much more vulnerable to a) algorithms, and b) online communities centered around a particular interest.

We also have a different way of socializing that is easier to navigate online than in person.

It makes sense.

#everything just clicked into place for me #I was an autistic child. those were autism meltdowns. ok. wow. #coming back to this later and it's complicated but I don't like to self-identify as autistic despite strong symptoms through childhood #I don't think it's fair of me to do so when the lowest functioning autistic people are being so overshadowed in the conversation

[demadogs]

i fear that the word autism is becoming synonymous with quirky the way some people use ocd as synonymous with organized and clean and disassociation with just not paying attention

#ive seen such an increase in memes about autism lately and i think a lot of them are made by autistic people but #i think it might also be people on tiktok that identified with one autistic trait they saw someone mention and then self diagnosed

[gandalf-the-bean]

my life is COVERED in stickers

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[toastsnaffler]

still feeling bad.. ik isolating myself in this is worsening things by making me feel lonelier + rely on not so great coping mechanisms but im so socially insecure when im this kind of depressed.. its rly not worth the damage I could cause to other ppl like at least its self contained innit.

#I don't think I have any friendships strong enough to sustain a little depressive destruction its just not worth the risk #no one knows me well enough to identify/distinguish 'genuine' conflict w me from my desperate attention seeking self destruction #not that either is better than the other but they require very different conflict resolution approaches for a friendship to survive #idk if that even makes sense. maybe im just an asshole man #but at least everyone else is fooled into thinking im not an asshole for now! and I dont rly wanna change that. #the social dynamics of my current situation are way too complicated for autistic little me to navigate #so ill just feel lonely abt it. and brush my teeth and go to sleep #.vent

[queerscout]

Diagnosed autistic at work by my students

#okay so students have started saying of others that they have 'npc energy' #all these students are confirmed or likely autistic #they have also said this about me on more than one occasion #and sure the idea has been bouncing around for a while #but I finally got around to finding an adult self-screening tool #and oh boy how did no adult in my life ever think to have me evaluated #my mom even mentioned me possibly being autistic once or twice #and now here I am at 28 having thought 'yeah it's possible but i'm not so sure' #for YEARS #and doing a self screener and.... you'll never guess it but there's no doubt anymore #STILL don't understand the whole how I speak and everything #really don't see that #but everything else? #teaching: in which children continue to be the best tools for identifying social differences #personal #adventures in teaching

[larentslovechaos]

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#can i have thoughts and opinions on someone self-identifying with almost every single autistic trait? #i wouldn't say i'm self diagnosing myself as autistic but.. all of the traits are like.. me af #bc i obviously can't diagnose myself bc i'm not someone who is able or qualified to make a diagnosis #like could not be more me #me to a t #are any of my followers autistic(preferably adult diagnosed) and like.. what is the process? like what should i do? is it worth it? #to be properly diagnosed? #it really just... explains so much of my social struggling inappropriateness and uncomfortableness #work has been really really really taking a toll on me socially since i like.. found out? or discovered how much of these things i identify #with #like who do i go to? where do i start? should i see my doctor? #and how do you freaking bring it up without them thinking you're just trying to self diagnose..?

[typicallyexceptional]

tfw working on learning to draw and u end up with the princess and the pauper in ur progress shots lol

#i adore this oc of mine #she's the lady ophelia great niece of the recently deceased queen beatriz #and she would've been next in line for the throne if her magic was stronger #alas the 10E rank magic skipped her she's only like 7C #but she's a gay autistic bitch #she's not very nice and she self identifies as a bitch #and she appears to function very well because she's good at masking #and she hyperfixated on all her etiquette classes growing up #and as long as court protocol stays the same she's comfortable within her rigid world #then perse gets the throne and starts changing protocol and ophelia has a massive fucking meltdown in the throne room in front of everyone #and perse is like shit fam i didn't realize #and they finally find common ground with her then #and nobody judges ophelia for having majorly broken court etiquette by screaming at the queen or for ending up sobbing on the floor #they're all very kind about it #anyway i just love ophelia #and so im trying to draw her while working on my drawing skills.

[helenwhiteart-blog]

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