Autistic Adult Parenting An Autistic Child

We Celebrate neurodiverse minds of all kinds here 🖤 I’m a mother with self diagnosed autism waiting for my assessment, which could be a year and a half wait sadly. I was diagnosed with adhd at age 13. And very misdiagnosed as bipolar and BPD. pregnancy made my autism symptoms less manageable with no energy to be able to mask as highly as I used to. I am 25 and have been self educating about autism and neurodiversity since I was about 18. I also smoke herb to help ease the struggles of every day life and love to advocate about weed and autism. and I am a parent of a 2 year old diagnosed autistic boy named Thomas Ray. 🖤 cutest little ham in the whole world 💕 trying to make some sort of little change in this world.

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the autistic view of the world has insight and beauty in it, and we’re taught that there’s something wrong with it.

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What’s fascinating is that the parents who didn’t know it was the work of an autistic kid praised it as well.

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Technically, we don't know that it's an autistic kid's work, either. 5e infographic doesn't say Cadence is autistic.

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"appropriate play skills" is such a horrid phrase, goddamn

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Controlled bathroom breaks are dumb, if I gotta go I gotta go! (x)

[knerdy]

This is the thread I got mad in!

…I’m still mad!

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I see people use the excuse “but what if they’re just going so they don’t have to pay attention!” a lot, and it’s a really poor excuse.

Aside from the fact that kids (and adults!) need and are entitled to regular mental breaks, keeping a bored kid in the classroom isn’t going to magically make them pay attention. What it IS going to do is create an environment of distraction for the people around them. You wanna know how I know? I was that kid. I have adhd, and when I wasn’t able to get up and walk around, I talked to everyone. Constantly. When allowed to go outside and refresh my brain when needed, I became a lot less disruptive.

And when it’s older kids? If a high schooler doesn’t want to learn something, they’re not going to, and you can’t make them. That’s their mistake to make. As a teacher, try making the material more accessible and engaging. That’s your job. Whether the student does their job is on them.

“Kids have died in bathroom fights” is definitely an argument I haven’t seen before, but it’s so patently ridiculous that I don’t think it needs to actually be addressed.

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THIS SHIT MAKES ME SO ANGRY. When I was a teacher, I taught in a high school that had a lot of kids that came from poorer families. You know what I did? I always had a drawer FULL of snacks. Some sugary treats, but a lot of stuff that one might consider “food food,” not just a treat. You know what I found out? Kids would ask for a snack at the beginning of class if they wanted one, and it affected my class POSITIVELY. Kids that I knew NEEDED something to eat would be able to grab crackers and tuna or something, and other kids would just be happy to come into my class to see what I had stocked in the drawer. 

The kids learned to be respectful of the food BY THEMSELVES. Y’all should have seen it. Kids were policing each other in how much food they took, so that one student wouldn’t take all the zebra cakes or whatever, but not a single time was a kid scolded for taking a couple packs of crackers or whatever. And they all made sure that no one left trash around. 

Feeding kids is important, and if you can’t teach kids while they eat a snack, you just can’t teach.

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I have a fucking teaching credential. They literally taught us about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and how kids can’t fucking learn if they’re hungry or stressed or scared. It’s in the fucking credential program. They talk about why snacks and free lunch programs are so important for low income kids. For some kids school is the only place they can get a decent meal.

Fuck these teachers pretending like obedience matters more than learning.

[autisticautismmom]

Some one send me more spoons pls

[autisticautismmom]

So bored but no energy to do stuff 😭

Like I crave to have the motivation and just get up and start doing the things I should do but my body feels paralyzed

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That tag sent me

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my parents trying to figure out what to get me for christmas

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Evil Luz vs. Emperor Belos

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it’s monday i’m in the labyrinth

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it’s tuesday i’m in the evil lab

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it’s wednesday i’m in the time loop

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it’s thursday i’m in the medieval torture apparatus

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🌸it’s friday i’m in love🌸

[autisticautismmom]

Bruh I finally got accepted for child tax, and I just can’t wait to go shopping for little man at the end of the month. IVE WAITED TWO AND A HALF YEARS. DOING IT ALL BY MYSELF WOTH THE HELP OF KY MOTHER IN LAW AND GRANDMOTHER, (very little help and I have to pay most of it back which is a lot of money) but they dipped into their savings account to be thomas’ child support for the last two and a half years!!! so I owe it to them. I won’t be getting a car like I had originally thought planed and was super set in sk that kind of thru me and my whole mood off cause I hate sudden change when I was so set on something to happen, at least I will be able to get my son all his bed room stuff and get him a toddler bed, he is so close to just hoping over the side of his crib, it scares me so I think it’s time. PRAY FOR ME cause I know this kid will be in and out of that toddler bed 15-20 times a night before actually settling in it 😂 I just can’t wait for the money to hit my account. So many bills and worries will be lifted of our shoulders. ❤️

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“When for them it was just a mistake, but for you it’s a trauma you have to live for the rest of your life.”

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had my ultrasound yesterday, happy 12 weeks 🥹💙 i finally got to see the baby moving huhu, ang cute cute sinisinok daw sabi ni doktora.

grow moreeeeeee! kick me now!!!

[autisticautismmom]

CONGRATULATIONS MOMMA! also this post is so aesthetically pleasing. and that’s sammich LOOKS AMAZING

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[byteofsoup]

Imagine you're so small and cold and scared but there's smaller ones that are smaller and colder and more scared. I'm going to cry

[ivyvanhelsing]

This may be controversial but I think polyamory should be in tv shows and video games. I think there’s so many unexplored dynamics for romcom relationships and we simply deserve these kinds of stories.

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If you don't love me during my autistic rants, you don't deserve me at my masking normalcy.

[fivestrandbraid]

IS ANYONE ELSE FEELING THE HOPE OF SPRING

[autisticautismmom]

And…… it’s gone 😭 BUT HERE COMES FALL. bitches love fall ❤️

[coolxatu]

government is trying to ban tiktok meanwhile millions of poor and disabled americans are about to completely lose their internet access at the end of april because congress wont renew funding for the affordable connectivity program

hell fucking world