Personal Autism Blog

Adult, he/him, and adhd/autistic.

[foreignmoons]

dreaming of trains and planes to new terrains

[autisticghostss]

many autistic people need people use simpler words when talking to them

many autistic people need tasks broken into tiny steps to understand how do something

many autistic people need positive feedback in way that other think condescending

many autistic people childish and have childish interests

many autistic people have to always be supervised never alone because of risk of hurt self or get in dangerous situations

many autistic people have violent messy big meltdown, even in public

many autistic people struggle with speech always will maybe rest of life (non verbal, semi verbal, demi verbal etc.)

AND most of these autistic people higher support needs + level 2 & 3 autism, don’t forget or ignore us. can’t say “that not true just stereotypes” when it just symptom and sign of higher support needs higher level autism.

you want to raise awareness for lower support needs level 1 autism and yes good ok!!!! but not this way where throw HrSN level 2+3 autistic under bus.

- winnie

[prokopetz]

A thing about neurodivergence and masking is that eventually you get to the point of realising that a. masking doesn't necessarily mean masking as "normal"; and b. being able to dictate exactly what kind of weirdo people think you are is often much more valuable. It's like, ha ha, fuckers, now I control the narrative.

[its-funnytwittertweets]

[wordfather]

huh. something small but unexpected happened and it threw me off my rhythm. the whole day is ruined now. its gonna take me 3-5 business days to recover

[wordfather]

this post has people calling me kuzco and autistic. at least one of those things are true

[ak-nm]

[noonlight-stims]

source

[arcusxx]

the beauty of autumn

[penbrydd]

Your periodic reminder that in people who have been subject to threats and punishment for having emotional responses or ‘inappropriate’ facial expressions, panic attacks look different.

They may look like the person has become calmer and less involved, dismissive, even. Some people become intensely subservient and silent. Some become catatonic.

Panic doesn’t always involve screaming, crying, and obvious signs of distress. It involves an extreme form of the person’s fear response – which can be altered by circumstance, ability, and what they’ve learnt to fear.

Which is to say, it’s not your place to decide someone isn’t having a panic attack, when they’ve told you that’s what’s happening.

[curlyspoonie]

Oh, so that time I just couldn’t move or talk or anything and was basically catatonic was a really thing? Why am I constantly finding out that experiences I’ve had are not just me???

[hollowedskin]

See also: being totally fine until reaching somewhere safe like your car, your house or your room. That also includes seeming totally fine to YOURSELF. The amount of times i’ve been like, oh wow that went better than expected then closed the door and lost my fucking shit while going “but i was fine????”…

it’s a safety thing. you weren’t safe in public to be seen with emotions you could be punished for, and now you are.

[houseanatomy]

[maviyenot]

[autiebiographical]

Day 22 of Auctober!

While I'm proud of being autistic I also understand that it is a disability. If an autistic person wants to call autism their superpower I'm not going to stop them. Who says their disability can't be their superpower? However, I find when people outside the autistic community call autism a superpower it's done to downplay our struggles and deny us support.

I'm autistic which means I'm disabled. And there's nothing wrong with that.

[charl0ttan]

the autism thing of having to learn to preface every question you ask with Holy Shit I'm Just Curious Please Dont Yell At Me because it turns out a lot of questions seem to Mean Something and people will get mad if you ask them

[charl0ttan]

and usually its just asking Why

[mousidy]

[hipster-and-thoughts]

[viralfrog]

[pangeasoftware]

[nintooner]

This is the highest compliment I could receive on my art

[itsaspectrumcomic]

Behold, my new favourite item

[lil-blurry-stars]

guess what arrived today….

i assume the layout and contents will constantly be changing but here’s initial setup :3

op, i love you <3

[itsaspectrumcomic]

Yesss this is so cute! I've been loving seeing everyone else's party carts ❤️

[vaspider]

... oh. Hmmm. I should find a version of this that's good for going up and down stairs...