autistic culture

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꒰ ◞ ◟ ꒱ㅤㅤㅤ autistic culture is

hello ! welcome to "autistic culture is." this blog was created for a similar purpose to most other "[_____] culture is" blogs: to share experiences && talk about autistic culture ♾️🌈

asks are generally always on. submissions should typically be stated with "autistic culture is" or something similar. more specific submissions are alright, as well (such as "medium support needs autistic culture is"), alongside those with multiple conditions or circumstances ("autistic queer culture is," "bpdtism culture is," etc..) no bigoted asks will be responded to, nor will asks using outdated terminology (such as the term "aspergers.")

byi ㅤ ✶ ㅤ this blog has no dni list. i do typically use somewhat of a typing quirk, though i do try not to use that on this blog, as i feel if may lead to confusion. this blog is currently not screenreader friendly, as i do not have the spoons to learn how they work, let along create them on every post, i apologize. my posts are made when i have the energy to make them, not on any sort of queue.

some similar blogs to this one (mainly for the sake of boosting, but for those who would like to check them out as well): @pd-culture, @fictive-culture, @cluster-a-culture, @aro-culture-is, @intersexcultureis, @antisocial-pd-culture-is, @narcissisticpdcultureis, @median-culture-is, @contradictory-label-culture-is

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about me ㅤ ✶ ㅤ hello. my name is rex, courier, or cassidy. i mainly use it/its, hy/hymn, and they/them pronouns. i'm bodily under 18 years old. i'm (obviously) autistic, though i do have other disorders as well. i am plural, but i would generally prefer to be treated as one individual. non-human. my main blog is @deityk1n, if you desire to know much else :)

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autistic culture is making my favorite grilled cheese on my favorite plate buttering my favorite bread with my favorite butter knife and cooking it on my favorite pan and flipping it with my favorite spatula then eating it listening to my favorite song from my favorite game and if anything changes i will lose my mind

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cw ableism

Autistic culture is I'm not making excuses or playing dumb, I genuinely don't know what I did wrong.

Context: Situation where someone says "you're in trouble! What you did was bad!" I ask them "what did I do?" They reply, "you know what you did!" Me, actually not knowing what I did, says, "but I actually don't know!" And they just say "don't play dumb with me!"

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Autistic culture is

Having all my problems get blamed on my autism to the point that it prevents me from getting diagnoses for other possible disorders I have

Oh I'm so paranoid I couldn't go outside for months, was convinced my parents were aliens, attempted to tape my curtains to my wall so nobody might be able to watch me from the gap it leaves open, left a shopping cart in the middle of the street and ran back home sobbing bc I thought the people who saw me were gonna try to kill me?

That's just my autism! Silly me for thinking it might be rooted in something else

Oh I'm in constant pain and fatigue to the point it prevents me from running, standing for too long, walking long distances, making myself food, writing, doing school work etc?

That's also just my autism! But what do I do to overcome it? I need to stop being sensitive and just do what I need to do? But how do I do that? Hello? Ms doctor? Mum? Dad? Can you hear me? How am I supposed to do that? Can anyone tell me? Hello?

Oh my motor functions suck, I drop everything I hold, I'm extremely clumsy and suck at everything that needs lots of muscle movement and coordination and I needed extra lessons to learn how to properly hold a pencil and still hold it incorrectly sometimes?

That's also my autism obviously. But why won't you help me manage my symptoms? My life could be so much easier if you, a professional, just helped me. Why do you put me through this.

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Autistic culture is having such crippling empathy for everything around you that you're considered weird for caring too much. It's weird for me apparently to move worms out of the way on the pavement, or patrol the garden before I step on it to make sure I don't crush a snail, or lift bugs that have fallen in water out of it, or when my dad insists he has to use the horrible flypaper that doesn't kill the flies straight away, or NOT wanting to stamp on every wasp or bee I see, because for some reason my "friends" cant tell the difference. But apparently that's me being weird.

Plus having horrible object personification about almost everything. My dad making me watch sausage party made me not eat for a good 6 hours afterwards.

(Also sorry if I said anything wrong)

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autistic culture is I think I was supposed to be in a sitcom instead of real life

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autistic culture is watching a video and going to the comments and people are saying stuff like

“Wow you can really see the fear in her eyes! You can really hear how much he loves her when he talks. Wow! You can in the way she moves how scared she is.”

like HUH??? what are you guys talking about they look the same to me what is happening

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autistic culture is meeting someone else who also has autism but who is so different from you and is kind of an asshole to the point where you have to change seats in the classroom or you’ll *both* have a meltdown. (i really hate this one classmate. he’s not like a bad person or anything but when i say “rude” I don’t mean “not following social conventions” I mean he screams at the one teacher who is so patient with kids like him and I and I KNOW it’s not his fault but I can’t STAND it especially when i sat right behind him and i was already overstimulated).

anyway that rant is out of my system thanks 👍

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autistic culture is being “low support needs” and therefore not being given any support at ALL. like. what the fuck??? if i, the former overachiever, with trauma from fucking math class of all things, tell you i cannot handle this specific math class, i. can’t. handle. it.

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autistic culture is struggling to talk about anything but your special interests some days, while the people around you say “you’re not autistic :)” like. bitch i WILL infodump and this is a threat. i will tell you the entire plot of the Magnus Archives AND exactly how I would manipulate you and how easy it would be to indoctrinate you into a cult.

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autistic culture is being told “that’s not a special interest :)” repeatedly. i am going to get a sociology degree. i’ve been fascinated by cults since before i knew the word. i’ve been fascinated by fandom culture and how it’s formed since I knew the word “fandom.” but please, keep telling me my interest in sociology is a completely normal, not-lifelong, neurotypical interest that doesn’t control nearly every aspect of my life :)

(sorry for spamming the askbox, a lot of Events have happened recently and i am frustrated)

spamming is not a bother for me, dw

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Autistic culture is being told 'stop doing that or people will think you're autistic' while stimming

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autistic culture is joking along with your friends and then hearing them say "oh I was joking" ???? I WAS JOKING WITH YOY WHA

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Autistic culture is learning that masking is needed even with other proclaimed neurodivergents because your autism is not quirky or tragic

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also autistic culture is legit not knowing whether you'd be considered low or medium support needs. It depends on the day for me lmao (sometimes i am STRUGGLING...)

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Autistic culture is legit not wanting to talk about anything but your stupid special interest sometimes......

very cool blog btw :3

thank you ! ♡

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autism creature is having a hard time with nuance because of yer black and white thinking and constantly having to remind yourself "there is nuance to this subject matter."