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caterpillarinacave · 1 year

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one of the weird things about autism is genuinely not knowing if you are capable of doing something or not

#I’m not entirely sure if certain things are within my capabilities #And considering most of the world tries to operate on a black and white scale (high functioning v low functioning) with no gray area #It really adds to the self doubt and hatred #Actually autistic #asd #actually autism #actuallyautistic #actuallyautism #autism problems #neurodivergent #actually neurodivergent #gad #autism spectrum disorder

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autibear · 2 months

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stop calling other autistics ableist for treating their autism like a disorder

I don't care if your autism doesn't make you feel disabled you're a minority and you don't get to call the terminology other autistic people use ableist. Especially terms that are useful for level 3/high support needs autistics

If you don't like the levelling system or support labels and think it's the same as functioning labels don't use them on yourself. Stop calling them useless ableist and harmful

People are pretending this doesn't happen anymore but there are still posts and articles and videos everywhere trying to erase terminology useful to many mid-high support needs

If you think it's bad to talk about our differences you're wrong. We can both be a diverse community and have differences that we label. If you want to pretend we're all the same just because we're autistic you've only spent time with autistic people like you

Some autistic people need levels to understand their own needs or find other autistic people they can relate to

Some people call themselves a person with autism instead because that's what they're comfortable with

Some autistic people don't like that they're autistic and find it hugely disabling and struggle to find positives in it

Some autistic people say they are severely autistic because of how disabling their autism is

Some autistic people look autistic and cant mask

Some autistic people still use functioning labels on themselves because it's familiar and helps them and it's what they're comfortable with

Some autistic people say they have a disorder condition disability or ASD because that's what they're comfortable with

If you want to treat your autism like just a difference we're not stopping you. If you want to treat everyone's autism like just a difference then we have problems

If a label doesn't help you that's fine. Don't speak on how helpful labels that never even applied to you are. If you think all autistics with higher support needs are incapable of knowing what's ableist so you have to talk over them you are wrong.

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adult-female-with-aspergers · 9 months

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"my child is fine"

your child is looking up the birthdate of fictional characters so they can accurately place their own self inserts into the proper timeline.

You child preforms receptive moments like a stressed ape at the zoo for hrs a day

Your child listens to music so loud on their headphones that they no longer see what's in front of them but a whole other universe

me, I am that child

#high functioning autism #actuallymentallyill #actually mentally ill #adult with aspergers #maladaptive daydreaming #actually maladaptive #madd #actually madd #madd things #maldaptive daydreaming disorder

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myrthing · 2 months

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This is the DUMBEST SHIT I have ever seen, so congratulations! You win a prize and the prize is apparently "myling unwisely picking fights".

AS A LEVEL 1 autistic person I say this unto you: Shut up. Sit down. Listen to higher support autistics. If you're so scared to be seen as disabled that you have to deny how autism is the direct cause of people's disability, there's always just the possibility of masking. I don't like saying that, because I think it's perfectly possible to both be autistic and to not be disabled in any way, but I despise these attempts from fellow low support autistic people to distance the disorder from those who are actually disabled. It stinks of ableism.

ASD isn't a mental illness. It is a developmental disorder. Feel free to explain how homosexuality being seen historically as a mental illness maps onto a developmental disorder that is frequently both intellectually and physically disabling.

Sometimes, there's actually a good reason to have a name for a group of symptoms! Such as the fact it makes it easier to get help.

#autism #actually autism #asd #autism spectrum disorder #level 1 autism #level 2 autism #level 3 autism #disability #ableism #high functioning autism #autism spectrum #autism community #THE FUCKING SHIT PEOPLE WILL JUST PUT OUT THERE #GODDAMMIT I'm angry

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foggyroseblood · 1 year

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I don't remember who said it but whoever suggested to use "high masking" and "low masking" instead of low and high functioning i love you so much. Its the only words I feel really work for me. I was diagnosed with "high functioning autism/aspergers" which the 1st one just didnt fit me i felt bc it just isnt true and the 2nd word has nazi history so um no thanks. Lots of people use low and high support needs now but those don't work for me either. Like i would be considered low support needs i guess but I do need lots of support with daily things i definitely do not have low support needs if i take the definition litterally. I am high masking.

High masking suggets that i look like i am high functioning and okay although i am not and that's very validating

#autism #autistic #function labels #neurodivergent #adhd #asd #autism spectrum disorder #high functioning autism #neurodiversity #mental health #autismawareness #masking #mentalheathawareness #low support needs #high support needs #actullyautistic #disabled

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brain-n-body-in-disarray · 6 months

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I'm fed up.

I've seen another of these posts where they say "high functioning" ND and autists have it "good", or whatever.

Being "high functioning" doesn't make it less of a struggle. Just a different kind of struggle.

I'm "supposed" to be better at life if my symptoms are "lesser", if I'm abled to mask so well, right?

Wrong.

I'm just in an eternal loop of burn-out and anxiety.

By being categorised "high functioning", by being unseen, I fell through the cracks. That means I didn't get any help, I was on my own. I'm expected to be a successful, self-reliant adult and I'm clearly not. I'm a mess.

I'm invisible. That's no cool super-power, believe me.

People just asks me "what's wrong with you?" but expects me to be like them. "High functioning" is bullshit. That's not a grocery lists of symptoms you have to check. That's not a badge to earn. You can never speak a word and use AAC full time and not being able to "take the joke" and fake your way in this allistic world, and still being a functioning adult that isn't breaking down every two minutes. Which one is "high functioning", tell me?

It depends of your definition of "functioning", I guess.

There's no high or low, just different experiences.

And just because you can do something doesn't mean you don't need help with it. Because being able to do something doesn't mean you can't suffer from it. It doesn't mean you want to have to battle and cry and bleed to do it.

I'm just so tired of this "high functioning" bullshit.

Find another word, people.

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I'll add, a bit more calmly, that what I think is wrong with this is the criterias people uses to decide if it's low or high functioning.

It's based on the symptoms and traits neuroatypicals finds jarring (and thus make the diagnosis criterias) instead on looking on negative effects the disorder have on us, beside, you know, the things that make us stand out.

I know autists that are "obviously autistic", that get accommodations, and I see them thrive. In the meanwhile, I see autists that are categorised as "high functioning" that are chronically depressed because they got to a point where they can't cope anymore. Masking and living unseen and unhelped in the allistic world is exhausting and traumatic.

I'm not saying "low functioning" ND have it good. Certainly not so. There's horrific things done to so many of them because allistic people want to "cure" them and make them "normal". So, no, they don't have it good.

What I'm trying to say is, different experiences make different results, but you can't say one is worse than the other.

That's what anger me with these posts I've seen. That people erases my struggles because of some misconceptions about my life and how I experience it.

I just want a peaceful community linked by our similarities, where we can learn from our differences, instead of fighting over petty things like stuffs like this. What's the point of a feud?

#actually autism #actually autistic #autism #autism spectrum disorder #neurodivergent #actually neurodivergent #high functioning autism #autism discourse #sensory processing disorder #autistic adult #my rants #Took me awhile to remember how to write 'funcrioning'#(English isn't my first language)#This post is so ugly but I'm too tired to fix it

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sicksadstar · 1 year

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Since we are a mid to high support level system shoutout to the autistics that :

• can't clean themselves correctly (+ too scared to ask for help)

• can't wipe correctly (+ too scared to ask for help)

• have a hard time dressing yourself (+ too scared to ask for help)

• have to be reminded to bathe

• have to be reminded to wash your hair

• have to be reminded to eat

• have to be reminded to brush your teeth

• have accidents

• wet the bed

• don't have great hygiene

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elevator-to-mars · 23 days

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“[primary school] wasn’t that bad,,,”

— they made me put my wheelchair at the back of the class

— i didn’t have a care plan (i’m physically and mentally disabled)

— they insisted i was normal (i have EDS, ADHD, FND, autism, tourettes, POTS (most likely), dyscalculia, etc)

— they made me do PE after i was in the hospital because of what is probably POTS and wouldn’t let me eat the salted crackers i’d brought in (high sodium is MEDICALLY RECOMMENDED for people with POTS)

— made me walk up stairs with crutches and a dislocated knee (THEY HAD A LIFT.)

— the HEAD OF SEN said my tics were disrespectful and offensive (i was nonverbal and having a tic attack) and when i stood up to get a pencil and paper to try and explain she yelled at me (she’s STILL head of SEN)

— they’d refuse to let me stay inside when i was about to have a meltdown

— they’d get angry when i couldn’t do PE

— teachers were horrible to me because of the fact i’m disabled in general

— they thought the fact i had muscles locking up (because of FND) was me faking it to get out of work

— theres so much more but i can’t remember because of brain fog

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projectbatman193 · 1 year

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infjpaladin · 2 years

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For those who don't get it here's a meme:

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adhdxxsdiary · 2 years

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"It's either perfect or unacceptable"

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#adhd #adult adhd #adhd problems #actually adhd #living with adhd #struggles with adhd #adhd stuff #adhd thoughts #adults with adhd #high functioning adhd #neurodivergent #adhd memes #adhd brain #adhd things #attention deficit hyperactivity disorder #inattentiveadhd #adhd culture

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autumnsvoice87 · 2 months

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Last night, I had a bad anxiety attack that made me spiral down a dark habit hole. I am polyamorous but I also have the dark secret of having fear of abandonment issues. I was suddenly so scared that everyone was going to leave me. I decided to give my love of junk journaling a try for some art therapy. This is what I did. I've been getting a great response on Facebook and thought I'd share this as well on here since this piece is an embodiment of my emotional hell.

After taking anxiety meds, I felt a lot better. I also felt more stable after sleeping. I do have cptsd and depression/anxiety disorder. I have a lot of trauma in my past that I'm trying not to let ruin my relationships. It's a battle that's really hard. One thing I kept trying to push in my brain last night was that even a broken mosiac deserves and is worthy of love.

I've been feeling really insecure lately because of my herniated disk that's left me physically disabled. I have a hard time doing the things I used to do, and it's taking its toll on my mental health.

I feel so left out of people's lives, and it's not even anyone's fault. Not even I'm to blame. It's not like I woke up and chose this. I also didn't choose to have a traumatic childhood. Sigh. Anyway....here's to mental health awareness.

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feralboo-the-weirdo · 8 months

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I want a big friend group. A friend group where everyone feels safe to be themselves, to be happy and to be sad and to be a chaotic mix in the middle. I want a friend group where being nerodivergent is not only okay but normal. Where we help each other with our impossible tasks where it's okay to not be on top performance, to be struggling to have accommodations. I want a friend group where we can stay up all night and be laughing as we make breakfast the next morning. I want a friend group that feels like what a family is supposed to be. Where everyone is celebrated as they are. Where we're constantly encouraging each other to improve and be better but it's not malignant. Where softness is a strength, where everyone is so comfortable around each other our walls start to fall. where support is a given. Where it's not enmeshed, we still have boundaries, but it's safe. Where we're close not because we have to be but because we want to be. Where we go on chaotic adventures and things are still safe. A group of friends where you forget how lonely you've been. where you run through fields and travel the world and the world is bright and safe.

I just want a group of friends, or even just one. Not a soulmate, but something close. I'm tired of being so lonely. I just want someone to love and care about and someone to love and care for me, someone who feels safe. I'm just so tired of being alone. Of having to shield myself from my family.

I don't want to be lonely anymore.

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violetjedisylveon · 11 months

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I just got diagnosed with Autism!🎉

I've got ADHD and autism! Fuck yeah!

Just like all my friends! All of them have both!

I only have two but online friends have it too!

#Adhd #attention deficit hyperactivity disorder #autism diagnosis #autism #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #autistic #I have autism #high functioning autism #VJS #Is autistic

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adult-female-with-aspergers · 1 year

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entropy-sea-system · 6 months

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dolls will look like literal skeletons then ppl will wonder why theres an overlap between dolltwt and edtwt

#also twitter is just a hellhole often hope this helps #Im sorry but I think many dolls function as thinspo... theyre so thin.#and I dont mean just barbie also mean monster high etc.#the “curvy” dolls are just normal sized fuck this #I hope at least when they make the g3 catty doll this will change #I think... it increases your risk of an eating disorder if you're constantly looking at dolls w extremely skinny body proportions #so thats why there must be an overlap w doll fans/collectors and ppl w eating disorders

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