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"This is something Autistics commonly do" and "this is something everyone does at points" can and do exist together.

"That isn't an autistic thing. Everyone does that." Yes, but the post is to autistics, by an autistic, about autism.

Coming into autism spaces, where we are asking for help or looking for others who suffer as we suffer, and trying to invalidate that experience as "something everyone does" is not as big of a flex as you think.

Yes, everyone struggles with the things autistics struggle with.

No, it isn't the same experience.

#actuallyautistic #actually autistic #cw ableist language #undiagnosed autism #undiagnosed autistic #self diagnosed autism #self diagnosed autistic #autism #autistic

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Sharing this here too

I do not usually make posts like this but recently I have seen a lot of content on Instagram, Twitter and I think tiktok too misunderstanding the meaning of intrusive thoughts, which may cause people experiencing them to be upset.

I have tried to shortly explain the difference of impulsive and intrusive and hope it will help people to understand and use the words correctly.

Reblogs are very much appreciated!

#intrusive thoughts #impulsive thoughts #mental health #mental illness #comic

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there’s a misconception that grief only happens when we lose people. this is not true. we can grieve circumstances, relationships, missed opportunities. in fact, sometimes when you find yourself plagued with waves of emotion from sadness to melancholy you may be grieving yourself. the version of yourself that you might have been if things had been different, or if only you had said something, or if someone had stood up for you.

#grief #dealing with grief #coping with grief #different types of grief

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おでかけ

Outing

#nekomimi #cat girl

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the upside of ADHD is that it makes you a fucking genius

the downside is that you don't get to decide when and for how long you're a genius.

#adhd post #adhd #attention deficit hyperactivity disorder #actually adhd #adhd problems #adult adhd #adhd brain #living with adhd #adhd life #adhd memes

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Here’s a weird autism thing that I realized this morning—

-If a choir director tells my section to sing louder, I will do so, even if I am already at fortissimo.

-If a teacher criticizes my class for failing to take their work seriously, I will feel guilty, even if I’ve been turning every single assignment in on time.

-If a post calls people in general out for not doing a particular thing and says it’s their fault if a tragedy happens, I will feel stressed, even if I was already relentlessly doing the thing.

I need to be told separately about my personal progress, otherwise I will overcompensate and eventually end up burning myself out. As someone who puts conscious effort in trying to understand social cues, this really messes me up for some reason.

#black and white thinking #literal thinking #relatable #undiagnosed autism #undiagnosed autistic #self diagnosed autism #self diagnosed autistic #actually autistic #autism #autistic

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“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”

— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)

Yes.

#nature vs nurture #male vs female #masked autism #masking #undiagnosed autism #undiagnosed autistic #self diagnosed autism #self diagnosed autistic #actually autistic #autism #autistic

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Ways Your Are Masking Your Autistic Traits Without Realizing

Neurodivergent_lou

#undiagnosed autism #undiagnosed autistic #self diagnosed autism #self diagnosed autistic #actually autistic #autism #autistic #autistic masking #masking

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Autism and Literal Thinking

The Autistic Teacher

#autism #actually autistic #literal thinking #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #actually neurodivergent #undiagnosed autism #undiagnosed autistic #self diagnosed autism #self diagnosed autistic

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#space #milky way #welcome to our dystopian future #1994 earthquake #california

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sometimes people dont really understand that having schizophrenia doesn’t permalock me as an angsty 13 year old evanescence fan

#murder mention #schizophrenia #I don’t have it I just think this should be shared #psychology is fascinating #comic

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#actually autistic #autistic problems #autistic #asd #autism #undiagnosed autism #undiagnosed autistic #self diagnosed autism #self diagnosed autistic #autistic adults

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Undiagnosed Autism

Autism Parenting + Wellbeing

#autism #actually autistic #undiagnosed autism #undiagnosed autistic #self diagnosed autism #self diagnosed autistic #neurodiversity #actually neurodivergent

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#undiagnosed autism #undiagnosed autistic #self diagnosed autism #self diagnosed autistic #actually autistic #autism #autistic #autistic meltdowns #autistic meltdown #youtube video

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Alexitthymia

The Autistic Teacher

#autism #actually autistic #alexithymia #alexithymia explained #emotional expression #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #actually neurodivergent #undiagnosed autistic #undiagnosed autism #self diagnosed autistic #self diagnosed autism

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Last night I had a manic episode and stayed up until 2 am researching shit about space and did you know that every 11 years the sun switches the orientation of its magnetic poles?

North goes to the bottom, south goes to the top, and 11 years later it flips again.

The last time this occurred was in 2013 which means another flip is to occur THIS YEAR. NASA estimates the file will occur sometime between July and September.

How cool is that?

#astronomy #the sun #magnetic fields #science side of tumblr #cool

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Stop equipping every character with therapy speak and instead consider placing them somewhere on this chart

#big hero 6 #big hero 6 the series #meme #trauma #ptsd #complex ptsd #coping