[autistic-fox-blog]

i will be taking a break from the internet for a while as a detox to help to get my mental health much better. the internet is a negative place for me right now and it would benefit me to stay away from it.

[pro-autistic]

Autistic people with anxiety disorders deserve love and support

(Anti-kink, radfems, queerphobes, aphobes don’t interact.)

[autistic-fox-blog]

i got new medication recently. i have been taking slow steps to get better and start doing the little things that i did before. i am waiting for some better communication cards to arrive, which will be helpful for me.

[butterflyinthewell]

There are times where stimming isn’t fun and cute.

Sometimes stimming can have a frustrating negative side.

My brain gets caught in a “loop” where I want to do something else, but I have to stop stimming to do that something else and my brain won’t disengage from the stimming so I can do the other activity. 

I can force it, sometimes, but it can be painful if I’m stimming to shut out an unpleasant stimulus. Think of a knight dropping their fireproof shield while the dragon is still blowing fire.

Sometimes I can’t stop until my body decides it’s tired enough or something else suitably distracting comes up.

And it took me almost 10 minutes to type this instead of 2 to 3 minutes because I had to keep stopping to rock and smack my hands together. I keep having to do that because I have a nasty tension headache. I’m going to go back to doing it as soon as I post this and will probably keep it up until the Tylenol kicks in.

[everythingfox]

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[autistic-fox-blog]

i got a new stim yesterday! this is a block that you can move around. it mimics a tangle and that is what i like about it

[autistic-fox-blog]

here is a small post to raise awareness for autistic people who also have learning disabilities

we are doing the best that we can

[butterflyinthewell]

If you come on here saying you want to cure your child’s autism, you will be an enemy of the autistic community.

If you come on here saying autistic people are brain damaged by vaccines, you will be an enemy of the autistic community.

If you come on here supporting Autism Speaks, you will be an enemy of the autistic community.

Autistic people have spoken on these issues many times, and people don’t listen to us.

We’re tired of getting blank looks and “oh, how cute” reactions to what we say.

SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO AUTISTIC VOICES.

[dogslover300-deactivated2018042]

Things to know before April comes

#1: Autism is not a dangerous disease that needs to be cured!

#2: Autism speaks is a bad organisation that doesn’t listen to autistic people and portrays autism as a horrible disease.

#3: Most autistic people don’t want a cure.

#4: Vaccines don’t cause autism!

[hogwartsfemme-deactivated-deact]

me, piling blankets on top of me: oh this feels so Good,

[autismsuggestion]

Autistic people should never feel ashamed of themselves because of their autism.

True!!

[neurodeervergent]

I want people without sensory issues to know that when a person with sensory processing issues says “I cannot do x right not because of my sensory issues”, we are usually not using our disorder for a cheap excuse.

Sometimes I need to procrastinate doing dishes because the noise of plates or cutlery clinking against each other hurts my ears so bad I wanna cry.  Even loading the dishwasher or putting away clean dishes is too loud. 

Sometimes I need to put my foot down and say, “I can’t go out today. Because I know that when I go outside, I will get so overwhelmed by stimuli that it will render me useless for the rest of the day because I will probably have a really bad meltdown.”

IDK what point i was going to make but like… don’t assume someone is lazy because they use their sensory issues to explain why they can’t do something as soon as you ask them to, or because they cancel something because they know a specific input will hurt them. It’s not their fault. It’s the fault of their faulty sensory processing.

[birdsonqs]

by Giedrius Stakauskas

[autistic-fox-blog]

awful overload right now and anxiety. i was able to bodily stim/tic where no one could see me, but i can’t wait to be able to do it when i get home.

[carrionkid]

someone’s ability/inability to do things that are expected they should be able to do by their age is not an excuse to treat them like a child

someone’s ability to communicate verbally or nonverbally is not an excuse to treat them like a child

someone’s hobbies being things seen as childish is not an excuse to treat them like a child

someone stimming in ways that are usually associated with children is not an excuse to treat them like a child

someone having meltdowns or sensory overload is not an excuse to treat them like a child

constantly calling an autistic person adorable or cute or acting like they must be protected from the world is dehumanizing and also infantilization

talking to an autistic person as if they were a child is dehumanizing and also infantilization

acting as if you must censor what you talk about around an autistic person because you assume they are not “mature” enough to hear it is dehumanizing and infantilization

talking about how an autistic person’s autistic traits are adorable is dehumanizing and also infantilization

this is not the same thing as an autistic person saying that they don’t feel like they can do the skills expected of someone their age because it is their choice to word it like that.

no matter what a person does or is able to do, they have the right to be treated as an adult. being treated as an adult is not a privilege one can lose because of their actions.

[archivogiyoreli-blog]

just some autistic slogans for u all that i did with my few copics and some gellyrolls

if i had a button maker, i’d definitely turn these into some nice pins, but sadly, that is not the case

((sorry the infinity signs got a little smudged, gellyrolls don’t dry quickly!))

🐶🌟

[autistic-fox-blog]

i completed the speech as best as i could. my teacher is a lot more understanding now and i feel better in knowing that. i am now home and i have been able to bodily stim/tic now freely. i also want to try to relax from how overloaded i am.