my friend just showed me a tiktok about someone doing something weird and labeling it something autistic people do and then looking at me and being like who knows maybe im autistic
like girl i love you but that’s not how it works oh my god
i hope she wasn’t being fr because it was about someone sleeping with their chin in their hand like oh my god that’s not THE SIGN.
that tiktok wasn’t saying “ALL AUTISTIC PEOPLE DO THIS AND THIS IS THE BE ALL END ALL OF NEURODIVERGECY” that is just,,, something someone with autism could do bc they were autistic.
this is one of the things i have a problem about with mental disorders on social media,, disorders are boiled down into symptoms and sometimes even misinformation and then instead of it being a joke that can be shared with people who are neurodivergent, it is taken as a definite diagnosis.
like she fr saw two tiktoks about someone’s sleeping position and thought she has autism now. i can’t—
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"Lines Written Hastily on Someone Else's Desk" - a poem written 3/27/2024
I have to sneak into your desk—
I've calculated every risk—
I have to test out all your pens
and blot out with them my chagrins.
I have an urge for every ink—
for every mark I make I rank
the color and the thickness.—In
my rainbow correspondent brain
this is the peak of knowledge—yes,
the summit of my study's bliss.
I snoop and steal to these fair ends—
my paper keeps exotic winds.
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my dad: *telling me i do have socialization deficits, that i need to step out more and interact with people and look like i am part of the environment and that i am "there" and present*
me, knowing damn well i have socialization deficits and feeling overwhelmed in social situations, especially when I don't feel like i fit and when I don't know the other people: ... okay
my dad: did you get upset with me telling you this?
me, dissociating so I don't start crying in front of him: ... no
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