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@aspiengolin
Congratulations If...
You got out of bed today.
You did your dishes or dirty laundry.
You finished some homework you’ve been putting off.
You cleaned up around your home/apartment/dorm etc.
You resisted temptation in any form.
You found a reason to smile.
Little victories are worth celebrating!!
This reminds me that I need to do my laundry.
hey its almost april and im gonna just say: don’t just not light it up blue. abstaining from that just tells them that they need to try harder to spread it to more people.
participate in RedInstead, which is the most common autistic created, acceptance-based counter to LIUB.
people who make fun of autistic people are no longer allowed to use slime, weighted blankets, stress balls, or anything similar that originated and/or was popularized by the autistic community.
i very much agree, however, may i also propose:
Pokemon.
Hey, human rights activists, looking for something to rage about?
Because Betsy devos is trying to kill the Special Olympics!
She’s also proposing taking:
- 51 million dollars from programs to help autistic people
- 7.5 million from the institute of the blind
- 5 million from resources to get books for blind children
Betsy devos is a cartoonishly awful monster of a person and it’s clear that she is out to get the disabled community. Don’t leave us out of your activism. Don’t leave us to fight this on our own.
And for the love of god vote Democrat in 2020
As April approaches and the community starts kicking around pin ideas for Autism Acceptance, please remember that blue and puzzle pieces are symbols to be avoided here!!!
do any other autistics have trouble with dental hygiene specifically? it’s been a huge problem for me my entire life, because toothbrushes are a Sensory Nightmare for me and toothpaste always tastes WAY too strong. and now it’s become such a routine for me to NOT brush my teeth, it’s hard to get myself to do it. kinda gross, i know, but i want to know if anyone else shares this problem in some way?
There’s specific toothpastes that I’ve had problems with, more-so as a kid, because I had a lot of issues with childrens’ toothpastes
I use Hello Sensitive Teeth toothpaste.
It isnt as minty and strong as others.
Does anyone else wish they knew what NT people heard when they hear sound that are harsh to us?
I do! I constantly wonder how they can handle certain sounds
Also what they feel and taste!
Like for me, I hate the texture of beans. Idk how people eat them?? They are so mushy and just yuck that I cant even?
And how do people feel felt and Not get offended? Felt is so hard and scratchy and Not Nice. I dont understand...
Someone: *Gives a long explanation on something that could easily be answered with yes/no* Did I answer your question?
Me: Yep!
My brain meanwhile:
*5 minutes later*
Me: So...was that a yes or a no?
So today I found out my mom doesn’t call herself an autism mom in online spaces.
She refers to herself as the mother of an autistic daughter.
#AutismAcceptance
I call myself an Autistic Parent because I and my daughter have autism. So it describes me and my parental role.
↖This blog will be screamer free on April Fool’s Day.
God please don’t use screamers or flashers. That’s how you hurt people. People with seizure disorders, PTSD, severe anxiety or phobias can be really hurt from these.
It’s childish, anyways.
Screamer/seizure trigger-free this year, as usual. My high strung ass doesn’t need that shit in my life, and I’m sure we can come up with more clever ways to be funny than to just make people cry. Get creative, guys.
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“Imagine if ASD was described like types of cupcake. You have some with icing, some with sprinkles, some chocolate and some vanilla but they’re all cupcakes.
“But how cupcake is it?”
“What?”
“Like is it a little bit cupcake or severely cupcake?”
“It… doesn’t work like that?”
the punk side of my brain: WE SHOULD GO TO A CONCERT!! THE LOUDER AND CRAZIER THE BETTER!!!!!
Also my brain, having autism: I don’t know. There’ll be Noises
It depends on the concert for me.
Like I went to some festivals, and most the band's I stood to the side, away from everyone and the noise.
But then there were bands I wanted to be part of. Like The Offspring. I was in the middle of this mass of sweaty dirty people, all squished together. You couldnt stand still, the crowd was moving too much. You just tumbled along with them. It was loud as all f***out. I even got up the nerve to crowdsurf, several times - something that the mere idea of made me apprehensive. And it was one of the best experiences in my life.
And then there's bands that I'd rather be on the other side of the field from, with a good 20ft radius around me that no one else is in.
Kinda just depends on the music.
Over the past few days I’ve seen well meaning comments from allistic people that are like “I don’t understand ableism, why are people mad at people who are a little different”
But I don’t think the differences themselves are at the heart of ableism. I’m going to focus on autism here but I’m certain this applies to all disabilities:
People are ableist because they like having power over other people. They like victimizing us so they can play hero by “curing” us and “teaching us”. They like the feeling of accomplishment at our expense and that is why they all love to talk over us.
When we start to tell them that we LIKE being autistic, that the only “help” we need is human decency and respect, that they don’t get praise for treating us like a human being, that’s when they get furious.
I believe that feeling of accomplishment that comes from forcing others into being dependant on you is what many ableists are so desperately chasing after.
So if you feel the need to “save” autistic people, if you want to go out of your way to befriend us just because we’re autistic (think of those “I took an autistic boy to prom and it was the most humbling and selfless experience uwu” stories) and if you feel like you have the capacity to talk about autism at autistic people because you have a friend or family member whose autistic then that absolutely falls under ableism too.
Ableism, like other forms of bigotry, has to be unlearned and it has to be unlearned for each group of disabled people. You have to take your sense of accomplishment out of the equation, this isn’t about you this is about the people you should want to accomdate and stop being oppressive to.
(Allistic people should reblog but please don’t comment)
Have I told y’all about my husband’s Fork Theory? If I did already, pretend I didn’t, I’m an old.
So the Spoon Theory is a fundamental metaphor used often in the chronic pain/chronic illness communities to explain to non-spoonies why life is harder for them. It’s super useful and we use that all the time. But it has a corollary. You know the phrase, “Stick a fork in me, I’m done,” right? Well, Fork Theory is that one has a Fork Limit, that is, you can probably cope okay with one fork stuck in you, maybe two or three, but at some point you will lose your shit if one more fork happens. A fork could range from being hungry or having to pee to getting a new bill or a new diagnosis of illness. There are lots of different sizes of forks, and volume vs. quantity means that the fork limit is not absolute. I might be able to deal with 20 tiny little escargot fork annoyances, such as a hangnail or slightly suboptimal pants, but not even one “you poked my trigger on purpose because you think it’s fun to see me melt down” pitchfork.
This is super relevant for neurodivergent folk. Like, you might be able to deal with your feet being cold or a tag, but not both. Hubby describes the situation as “It may seem weird that I just get up and leave the conversation to go to the bathroom, but you just dumped a new financial burden on me and I already had to pee, and going to the bathroom is the fork I can get rid of the fastest.”
I like this and also I like the low key point that you may be able to cope with bigger forks by finding little ones you can remove quickly. A combination of time, focus, and reduction to small stressors that can allow you to focus on the larger stressor in a constructive way.
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Is having a lack of self preservation a possible trait of being autistic? For example when I'm scared in a situation where fight or flight would normally kick in, I will without fail drop to the ground and curl into a ball (I call it playing possum).
It would most likely be due to autism, yes. It sounds like you could be having a shutdown
Sounds like a shutdown to me.
I do this when people are angry with me and yelling a lot. Well, not so much fall to the ground, but I sit very still and don't say anything or look at anyone. Like I turn to stone.
i dont know why people associate being autistic with being like... dumb. its really mean and?? i just?? its so rude it makes me super upset because my mom told me that i cant have autism because im ‘super intelligente’ and i’ve got high grades but??? that doesn’t mean i cant have it??
It’s because people are very unaware of what it is and how it affects us, and they view it as this negative thing even if they don’t understand it
I find most people who make this assumption are actually really dumb, and they are afraid of being "dumber than a r*t**d". (They usually use the r-word a lot too.)
Idk about your mom. Misconception probably. Autistic people are like anyone else, we just tend to be more Extreme. Like gifted autistic people can be like..Insanely good at their particular thing(s). We tend to focus more on specifics rather than the broad. (Obviously not everyone, as we are all different cause we are people.)
And I think what may play a part is that while we may be very familiar and good at one thing or a few things that interest us, we may be completely lacking in some other area. For example I cant math in my head. Lile even 'simple' math. I'm not bad at math. If I sit down to do it, I can do it well. But I dont Like math so I've never made a point to learn it mentally. So when someone asks me to multiply something and I sont have paper ir a calculator, I'm standing there for like 10 minutes trying to figure it out. So then they might think I'm stupid.
But then if someone asked me something about psychology, I wont stop talking for an hour and will go into every mundane detail that I feel is required to get a full understanding of what I'm talking about. Which seems smart, doesn't it?
But usually it wont be the same person asking me to multiply and asking me about psychology. So one will think I'm dumb and the other will think I'm clever.
And I think that might have to do with the "autistics are dumb" crap.
Also the fact that we have trouble with things that NTs think are 'simple'. Like socialization. I'm bad at that. People think I'm dumb cause I can't socialize properly. But that has nothing to do with intelligence.
Does alcohol effect autistic people differently than nt people, too?
From what I’ve noticed, it does. I’ve personally felt very little effect from it apart from dizziness
I mean I'm not NT so I dunno how if affects them...
But personally no.
I think autistic people can be more prone to addiction problems though. Probably from having to deal with an ableist society in a world made for NTs.
