#ASDmemory

A place to share your favourite autistic childhood moments with everyone! We support autistic love, pride and self-acceptance and are #actuallyautistic. Self-dx welcome!

[ketlingr]

Iron Bunny is no longer alone! Spider-Bunny is here to keep him company 😊

(Commissions for bunnies are open, for other things as well if there’s anything you need or want 😁)

[asdmemory]

😱 there's more 😱

[ketlingr]

Iron Bunny to the rescue!

#imadethisrabbit #dotpebbles #clairegarland #ironman #ironbunny #bunny #stuffedanimals #stuffedbunny #knitting #knittersofinstagram #knitstagram #knittedtoys https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx-BU-xoj5i/?igshid=1dgjpux5wdus0

(commissions are open)

[tonystark5ever]

I NEED THIS HOW MUCH I WILL PAY IT

[ketlingr]

Depending on the material and the complexity of the coat pattern, between 50€ and 70€ plus shipping :)

[asdmemory]

I know I don't usually post things like these, but I love Iron Man and bunnies and knitting and yarn and it's so soft and cute and... how could I not share this?

Also, I'm behind on asks again, I know, I'll get back to those soon, I promise!

[asdmemory]

For the anon that always lined things up: me and my brother did that too!! For my brother, it was hot wheels. When I got old enough (we had a 5 year age difference), I did this with my little pony figurines. We would both line everything up in a big, long trail, end to end. My mom always joked that my brother was recreating New York traffic.

My little sister does this, too! She's four now and otherwise doesn't seem to have a lot of autistic traits, but it's so cute seeing her do it.

[asdmemory]

from 4th to 6th grade my special interest was Green Day and when Billie Joe Armstrong freaked out at the I heart Radio concert people at school kept telling me about it with a strange attitude?? it wasn’t in a nice a way though

I don't know what the freak out was about, but it's not nice of people to make you uncomfortable for the things you enjoy.

[asdmemory]

When I was little I used to chew on my shirts and blankets so hard that they all had small holes. And my younger brothers learned to do that (apparently babies copy their older siblings' behavior?) so my mom was always complaining about our clothes looking old.

[asdmemory]

Submission

Since I was a kid (will do as a teenager) I’ve had to line things up, if I ate crackers with cheese I had to line it up from least amount of cheese on a cracker to most amount of cheese on a cracker. I also have to do things in pairs of four. If I jump once I have to jump three more times. If I replay a part of a video I have to do it three more times. I also have to be “unspinned”, if I spin I have to spin back the opposite direction to be “unwinded”, as well as if I walk past a desk in a room I have to exit the room on the same side of the desk I walked by first. Kind of weird stuff.

[asdmemory]

Submission

I used to watch movies in the front room of my house with my brother on the mattress from the guest room for comfort, except I found it much more comfortable laying under the mattress with all the pressure from the weight of it on me. Much better then just laying on top

[asdmemory]

Submission

Ohh boy. Reading this gives me so many Memorys. i didnt even realise i stimm. I was always told that i was a weird kid. I had (still have, to be specific) this HUGE old lexica about animals. 2 to be ecen more specific. And one belongs to my mum and i would always sit in the living room and just look through the book. And the second one i got from our old neighbours and it was the same with that one. I also chewed everything. I am chewing gum right now. I got "trained" out of chewing on random stones and plastic pieces i found. So whem i was around 15 i started chewing gum every day after stopping the plastic and going over to my nails. My mum made me stop that too and so i came to the gum. I didnt even know watching movies / reading books/ listening to songs over and over and over again was a form of stimming! I read the whole harry potter series in sixth grade on one day once. And all in all around 7 times a month according to my parents. When i was a teenager i startet getting invested into x-men and just watched x-men evolution over and over and when recently apocalypse came out i watched it every night. I am also listening to 10h versions of songs since i am 12 or so. I have so much more but it just makes me happy to realise that even back then i was happyly stimming soooo much! I think i kind of did not only one specific thing but from everything a bit. Repeating words, sitting in small places chewing texture , sound, spinning and more chewing. Just so much. Stimming stimming stimming. :)

[asdmemory]

Submission - A Couple of ASD Memories

When I was 4, just after I was diagnosed, I went to a kindergarten for kids with autism instead of a mainstream kindergarten, and there was a ball pit and I loved it. When I started school, in my first year of prep/reception (I did 2 years) we had an indoor sand table and I played there a lot, especially with the dinosaurs that were in there as well. I seemed to like sand in general, as I also spent a lot of time in the sandpit outside.

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Submission

as a kid, I would cry whenever my parents killed flies or ants or anything and despite our family cat hating me I absolutely adored him and would chase him around the house wanting to pet him and hold him. On top of this, when I was 1 I dragged my mom into the kitchen to show her something with "mommy, come see. mommy, pretty!". There were two mice on the floor, one was a baby and that's what I was trying to show my mom. I now have 7 very spoiled pets and animals are definitely a special interest to me.

[asdmemory]

Submission

When my sister and I were little, our special interest was dinosaurs. We had a leap pad book about dinosaurs and we each had a toy of our favorite dinosaur. My mom always tells us she would find dinosaur names we copied onto little pieces of paper under the couch.

[asdmemory]

Submission

When I was little I always used to want to lay in the bottom of the cart while grocery shopping for my mom to pile the items on top of me. Obvious pressure stimming now, but it often became a hassle to do.

[asdmemory]

Submission

When I was little I used to pressure stim/avoid loud sounds and bright lights by shoving my face into the corner crack of the couch

[asdmemory]

what are spoons?

I'm assuming you're not referring to the oval tool people use to eat soup or cereal with (or stir their tea, or, if they are blasphemous people who don't own cake forks, eat cake with). If you are referring to spoon theory, as far as I understand it, spoons are an inofficial measurement unit for a person's energy. Basically, if you take all of your energy that you have at your disposal, and then you go take a walk, that may cost you one spoon of energy. Another person, who maybe has chronic pain, may need a lot more spoons to take the same walk, because their pain makes it more exhausting. Sometimes people say they "don't have enough spoons" to do something - that means they feel like something is too exhausting for them to do, either in general or at the moment. People also say they are "out of spoons" - that means they are tired and don't have energy left to do anything at all. The use of the term spoon in this way is common among people with disabilities and/or chronic physical or mental illnesses. People who use this term are often called "spoonies" and also refer to themselves that way.

[asdmemory]

the mobile youtube format changing and my tiny autistic ass freaking-the-fuck-out and crying because Change? No

By now we'd probably have to freak out if it stopped changing, because weird changes are the new normal... 🤔

[asdmemory]

Back in kindergarten or so, I used to take the clean, folded laundry out of the basket, climb inside, and put the clothes back on top of me. My mom says I did the same with my toy bin.

[asdmemory]

Submission

After my parents divorced, I found my moms old roller skates in my dads basement, and for almost a year when I was ten I wore them at ALL times I was in the house. Rolling across the kitchen floor, pushing myself across carpeted rooms, and I even walked up and down the stairs on the brake pads in the front. During that time, I felt extremely uncomfortable if i wasn't wearing them. I'd take them off at my bed at night and put them back on first thing in the morning. They made me feel safe and at home. Can't tell if this was a stim or an SI.