AspieMemes

I'm 24 and I'm another Autistic person who wants to share memes about her condition because there is still a lot of people to educate about the autism spectrum and fun is a good way to learn.

[aspiememes]

When someone ends the friendship with you and you don't know what you did wrong.

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-You are not really autistic!

-Oh I'm sorry, wait:

[aspiememes]

Accurate. Or sometimes you think you got the game, you play with confidence, and then lose and realize you're just 'off the track' .

[autasticanna]

Another post about why I support self-dx folks

Let’s say we have 2 people, Bobby and Betty.

Bobby does not have autism. Bobby is 13 and Bobby thinks he has autism. Bobby identifies with a lot of the posts in the actuallyautistic tag and it makes him feel good to be part of it. He took a few tests online and some of them said he’s autistic, although not all. Bobby will hang out until he grows up and realizes he wasn’t autistic after all, and it was all just circumstance, but at least he found a community that made him feel better when he was unsure.

Betty does have autism. She’s 22 now, still noticing symptoms in her everyday life. But she was never officially diagnosed and struggled enormously with the lack of accommodations and lack of knowledge of how to deal with her symptoms. She has read the DSM-5 and a whole heap of information available to her online and after weeks of research and note-taking on her behavioral patterns, she has come to the conclusion that she is autistic.

I’d support both these people, because you never know which one is a Bobby and which one is a Betty.

Maybe they’re faking it for attention, but who cares? If some kid is faking it for attention, I guarantee they’ll grow out of it. But if you act like a jerk to every self-dx person you come across, you’re being a jerk to a whole lot of people who actually are autistic. 

Personally, I’ll always give self-dx people the benefit of the doubt, because they could be autistic, and that’s enough for me.

[aspiememes]

What about, at certain points of my life, I've been both? Still I'm an officially diagnosed autistic person, but probably I was identifying with that before to know I actually am. I was never sure until I was sure... 😂

[a-lacris-deactivated20210701]

yall ever just stand or sit like this?

[aspiememes]

Yes I do.

[brobeckology]

i am a simple autism. you mention my special interest and my body begins to vibrate

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Teenager me. I was wondering why I was sweating and shaking when someone mentioned my special interest.

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The absolute story of my life as an Aspie woman who was diagnosed after 18.

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Still trying to figure out what is sarcasm.

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My too-much-verbal Asperger ass

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Me as a teenager when I tried to make friends.

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Uni : We can accommodate you for your sensory problems in class.

Me: Can I wear my noise canceling headphones?

Uni: No.

[thatautismfeel]

That Autism feel when you haven’t had a new interest in months and everything starts turning plain

[aspiememes]

I can relate now.

[aspergersissues]

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Looks like people who tell there was no gay people at their time. Oh well...