[bachinblack85]

cw;;; pet death

i haven’t been on here in forever....but i had to put my service dog down yesterday and i don’t know what to do and so i hope i can get myself to write about my grief in a productive way....

i keep telling myself that if he was here he would be in a lot of pain. that i did the right thing. i keep re-playing the moment that i asked the vet right before she injected him, frantically and in between sobs, if she was sure i was doing the right thing. she looked into my eyes and said “i have no doubt you are doing the right thing” i keep replaying her face in my mind, telling me that. i hope it’s helping, i can’t really tell.

i’m so mad at myself for owning so many things that are the color black that i leave laying around my house. every time i get a glimpse of something black on the floor, i think it’s him for half a second and then i have to remind myself that he’s no here, he’s not following me around the house. just watching me do things. happy to just be near me. he’s gone. and ill never see him again.

i knew he’d be gone someday i just didn’t think it would be so unexpected and so fast. i think i’m still in a bit of shock.

im going to get a tattoo. a small black dog with a sombrero. i think that will help.

[placidblu]

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[monstermonstre]

self care is watching hours of r.i.p. vine compilations on youtube

[autism-asks]

Sometimes when I'm watching tv or reading a story that evokes a really strong emotional response, I'll have to pause and scream or yell at the characters until I can calm down enough to continue. Sometimes it'll be weeks later and I'll randomly remember the story or show and squeal or laugh out loud or bury my face in my hands in embarrassment for the characters. Is this an autism thing or am I just really weird? I feel like I get more invested in characters than I should...?

This sounds like you’re experiencing hyperempathy for the characters, which is an autistic thing.

- Os

[bachinblack85]

this happens to me!

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I just ate like six rose quartz stones and no ones in love with me yet what gives

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[soft-butch-cassidy]

depression tips™

shower. not a bath, a shower. use water as hot or cold as u like. u dont even need to wash. just get in under the water and let it run over you for a while. sit on the floor if you gotta.

moisturize everything. use whatever lotion u like. unscented? dollar store lotion? fancy ass 48 hour lotion that makes u smell like a field of wildflowers? use whatever you want, and use it all over. 

put on clean, comfortable clothes. 

put on ur favorite underwear. cute black lacy panties? those ridiculous boxers u bought last christmas with candy cane hearts on the butt? put em on.

drink cold water. use ice. if u want, add some mint or lemon for an extra boost.

clean something. doesn’t have to be anything big. organize one drawer of ur desk. wash five dirty dishes. do a load of laundry. scrub the bathroom sink. 

blast music. listen to something upbeat and dancey and loud, something that’s got lots of energy. sing to it, dance to it, even if you suck at both.

make food. don’t just grab a granola bar to munch. take the time and make food. even if it’s ramen. add something special to it, like a hard boiled egg or some veggies. prepare food, it tastes way better, and you’ll feel like you accomplished something. 

make something. write a short story or a poem, draw a picture, color a picture, fold origami, crochet or knit, sculpt something out of clay, anything artistic. even if you don’t think you’re good at it.

go outside. take a walk. sit in the grass. look at the clouds. smell flowers. put your hands in the dirt and feel the soil against your skin.

call someone. call a loved one, a friend, a family member, call a chat service if you have no one else to call. talk to a stranger on the street. have a conversation and listen to someone’s voice. if you can’t, text or email or whatever, just have some social interaction with another person. even if you don’t say much, listen to them.

cuddle your pets if you have them/can cuddle them. take pictures of them. talk to them. tell them how u feel, about your favorite movie, a new game coming out.

[astrologynshit]

Reblog as much as you can

[plaintsnshit-blog]

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[spellfoxarchive]

The answer is love

[sexybrenda48603-deactivated2022]

Hyper-empathy in Autistic Individuals

Let’s consider the concept of hyper-empathy and think about what hyper-empathy looks like in the autistic population. What is hyper-empathy? I propose that it is an over-attachment (compared to typically developing folks) to people, places, animals, objects, or things. What does hyper-empathy look like?

Maybe it’s a young autistic girl who has a collection of horses, all of them beautiful and special to her, each with their own name and characteristics. Following the autistic trait of restrictive, intense interests, this young girl’s world revolves around horses. She even adores pictures of them. If you accidentally rip her horse poster, she will scream and cry as if you have forever destroyed one of her very best friends—and haven’t you? It’s possible that the autistic mind is much more “thing-oriented” than “person-oriented”. We (autistics) tend to like our things very, very much and we dislike if our things are moved or altered even in the slightest bit. In these instances, we are exhibiting hyper-empathy, because there is a greater-than-typical empathetic and emotional response to objects or animals perceived as beloved.

In another case, we are looking at an older man who’s autistic and likes bugs very much. He’s always had a fascination for the little creatures and has read all the books on insects at the library. Because of this man’s affinity for bugs, he doesn’t want to hurt them, so he’s very careful when he walks in case there is an ant or worm or some other creature making its way across the pavement. The tiny bugs on the sidewalk who’ve been crushed by passersby disturb him greatly. I argue that this is a case of hyper-empathy, where a increased amount of empathy is applied to a situation that typically warrants less or no empathy. If someone is walking with him, this man will even instruct others to watch out for worms and ants lest they step on them accidentally. It is then that outsiders might see him as odd, as they perceive that his empathy is beyond the “normal” bounds that the non-autistic would expect.

In a third case, a middle-aged non-binary person is trying to move their stuff from one house to another, as people often do several times over the course of their lives. They find that—unrelated to their autistic interests—they have found affection for some of the packaging material used while moving. In an instance of thing-oriented empathy, the autistic person decides to keep some of the bubble wrap from their move. Treating it as good friend or as a comfort object, this person begins to bring the bubble wrap around with them in their bag.

All three of these cases are fictional, but they serve to represent the different forms of hyper-empathy that exist inherently in autistic psychology. Can non-autistic people exhibit hyper-empathy? Certainly, but I argue that it is far more common in autistic populations than non-autistic populations. Again, our definition of hyper-empathy is: “Greater than average empathetic emotional response in situations which typically warrant little to no empathy.” Our definition of thing-oriented empathy is: “Empathetic emotional response oriented toward concrete objects rather than actual persons.”   

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[hobwithluv]

im in philosophy and were talking about how you can doubt everything’s existence except for your own consciousness and the guy that sits in front of me just turns around tears streaming down his face and goes “i am on so many drugs”