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dimentiorulesblog · 1 day

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“Anyone can be an artist, you just need practice!” Not if you have poor fine motor skill control like I do. This whole “you can do anything you put your mind to” thing, while encouraging on paper, is just a touch ableist.

#actually autistic #autism #autistic community #autistic experiences #autistic spectrum #autistic things #being autistic #autism spectrum #autistic feels #autistic #actually audhd #actually autism #audhd

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aspiring-apparition · 7 months

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(I bring a sort of “Everyone has inherent worth regardless of their productivity” Vibe to every conversation that ableists don’t really seem to like)

#autism #actually autistic #neurodivergent #ablism #disabled #actually adhd #on the spectrum #neurodivergencies #neuropunk #autistic spectrum #autistic memes

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teleportzz · 6 months

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"bluntly honest" autism but in the sense that i absolutely cannot refrain from complimenting strangers if i like their earrings or their shirt or i think they have a friendly-sounding laugh or i think their art is beautiful or i think the fic they wrote portrays the characters so well. "bluntly honest" doesn't have to mean "mean". i love to tell people things that are kind and also true.

#i literally can't stop myself #if i have a compliment about something i have to say it #the other person has to know #i'll happily take the risk of coming off as weird or too friendly #audrey talks sometimes #actually autistic #autism #autistic things #autistic experiences #autistic spectrum

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yellowyarn · 7 months

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i always see sensory avoidant autistic people talking about how their favourite foods are all plain carbs but where are the sensory seeking autistics who live on garlic and spicy foods? the ones who will eat a straight lemon and hate buttered noodles.

#garlic my beloved #autism #disability #nuero punk #mental disabilities #autipunk #auti punk #nueropunk #asd #level 2 autism #autistic #level 3 autism #level 1 autism #sensory issues #autistic spectrum #the tism #tism posting #auti #sensory seeking

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beenovel · 7 months

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Anyway last week my professor told the class "coworkers will put up with poor technical skills but they won't put up with weird" and after class I just went and sat in my car and cried bc how am I supposed to survive if I still don't seem "normal" even though I've been doing behavioral therapy since first grade but masking hurts so goddamn bad that I'm only doing two classes a week rn but I'm still falling apart and barely functioning every day and barely getting my work turned in bc i come home from class and collapse for days at a time and its just not fair, its not fair, why do other people get to be the normal, why do jobs get to be easy for other people, why are 66% of autistics unemployed/underemployed its not FAIR

#actually autistic #actually disabled #autism #autistic spectrum #autistic #autistic adult #neurodivergent #audhd #asd #actually asd #neurodiversity #neurospicy #actually neurodivergent

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flamboyantinsomniac · 9 months

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Weighted blankets aren't enough I need to be crushed in a hydraulic press

#actually autistic #adhd #audhd #autistic community #autistic spectrum #neurodiverse stuff #neurospicy #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #sensory issues #autistic feels #autistic experiences #autism #autistic things

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fallenstarcat · 7 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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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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jodjuya · 10 months

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Image originally created by @brieflycleverspoons

#actually adhd #invisible disability #adult adhd #neurodivergent #neurodiverse stuff #neurospicy #neurodivergencies #its the neurodivergency #ableism #internalised ableism #disabilties #autistic spectrum #blogging

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fandomcat2930 · 7 months

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being autistic is like using google translate for emotions. like, yeah, its right sometimes, but a lot of the time its a little bit off and sometimes its completely fucking wrong

#actually autistic #audhd #autism #autism spectrum disorder #autistic problems #autistic experiences #being autistic #late diagnosed autistic #autistic things #autistic spectrum #autistic life #autistic #autistic feels #neurodiverse stuff #its the neurodivergency #neurodivergency #neurodivergent #neurodiverse #neurodiversity

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xxbl00dsh3dbunnyxx · 1 year

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Yippeee

#autistic community #tbh creature #autism creature #autism #autistic pride #autistic spectrum #autistickids

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galacticscrotum · 8 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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asharestupid · 10 months

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Hey btw if you have an autistic person in your life pls know that they do care about you. They're bonding with you by sitting near you, by sending you memes, by liking your posts, by info dumping to you. We have weird ways of showing we care but trust me we do.

#autism #actually autistic #autistic community #autistic culture #autistic burnout #late diagnosed autistic #autistic spectrum #autistic women #autistic positivity #autistic characters #autistic people #autistic love

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teleportzz · 7 months

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#i didn't have to use a rise screenshot for this but yk #milo talks sometimes #actually autistic #actually neurodivergent #autism #autistic things #autistic experiences #autistic spectrum #arospec #aroace #aromantic #mlm #wlw #lgbtq+#lgbt+#lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtq community

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samijami · 10 months

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YO BITCHES AUTISTIC PEOPLE CAN BE TRANS TOO

DON'T MATTER IF THEY GOT NO DAMN IQ, OR IF THEY SMART AS ALBERT FUCKING EINSTEIN

WE ALL DESERVE THE RIGHTS TO TRANSITION IF WE FUCKING WANNA

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beenovel · 6 months

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Pro tip for people looking for meds or diagnosis. DO NOT MASK in front of a psychiatrist. I went in for an evaluation with a new psychiatrist this week with the goal of getting meds and I was just fully myself during the interview like bouncing my knees, only looking at him occasionally, breaking off mid-sentence to ask about the room decor (“were you in the Air Force? That’s a really cool chess set. Is that a Star Wars tie????”). And he did not even hesitate when I told him I was there to get adderall or another med he was just like “yup makes sense, let’s talk about your options”.

In the past I’ve always really struggled (and still do!) with masking around other people especially if they’re new, and this has sometimes made it difficult to get meds because I mask so well that sometimes professionals haven’t believed me when I said I was struggling because I looked fine.

Edit: I’ve seen a lot of people saying “it’s so hard to unmask though!” and yeah, it is. For me it was physically painful and nearly impossible. So I faked it. I bounced my leg, I wouldn’t look the provider in the face, I interrupted myself, I rubbed my palms on my legs and none of it was natural. I faked it all. And I did that over and over and over until it was real. Until I was comfortable enough with being odd to actually unmask

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