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slug 🐌 he/him🐌adult

autism (low-mod support), arfid, dyspraxia, motor tics

Special interests: dogs, medicine, autism

Other interests: urbanism, transit, drumming, post hardcore, journaling, doodling, walks, soft blankets, volunteering, video essays

more autism info under the cut :)

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So boredddddddd ahhhh

Cannot wait to be home

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had a few days of crazy ticcing but now im back to barely ticcing yay

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top ten posts made before disaster

translation: more tics. there’s always more. my tic disorder is in fact chronic and I keep having periods where I feel like I’m cured lmao

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certified autism moment: I can’t take a shower tonight because it needs repair, so naturally I need to become completely stuck and frozen on how I can do my nightly routine without showering when everything else is the same and I can literally just use a washcloth or something

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Sources below cut

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a childhood-onset disorder in which tics are often preceded by premonitory sensory urges. More severe urges correl

European clinical guidelines recommend the use of Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics

Introduction: Stimulus-bound tics (SBTs) belong to stimulus-induced behaviors and are defined as tics that occur in response to internal or

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i wanna start making educational content on neurodeveelopmental stuff..

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had a few days of crazy ticcing but now im back to barely ticcing yay

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soo why do my tics increase when im in a classroom-like environment

the overhead lights?? stress? sitting still for long periods of time? new people?? just too much energy being used elsewhere for my brain to supress them???

we may never know

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face tics got me looking like a little bunny scrunching its nose like yassss

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i bring that sort of cannot stop stimming and moving to the public space that people hate

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gooooood afternoon time to hyperfixate on the sims 4

[kaputtsolvi]

What I feel people frequently forget about autistic special interests is that they aren't always information based. They may simply be visual or mental

Someone may have a special interest in a show, but instead of that meaning that they will talk about that show often, it may mean they watch that show extremely frequently.

Special interests are ways of regulating, not simply encyclopedias we have in our heads. Sometimes it's watching something frequently. Maybe only listening to one genre of music, maybe it's a collection, maybe it's an action. I'm tired of it only being seen as autistic people's personal encyclopedias

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so tired of people thinking of lsn autism as needing no support

[postmanic]

important !

low supports needs autism :

- not always high masking

- not always able to mask at all

- not always fully verbal or verbal at all

- can be very visibly autistic

- can be diagnosed early in life

- can be in disability support services

- very common to not be employed or to not live alone or to not know how to drive, etc.

- does not mean "no support needed"

- does not mean "basically a allistic person"

low supports means low compared to other autistic people! still need a lot of support compared to a neurotypical able bodied person.

am not low supports needs autistic myself but have friends who are ! low supports needs autism still a disability still important to not make assumptions

[asexual-amanita]

Reminder for this April that the puzzle piece is not inherently bad. It wasn't created by Autism Speaks, rather by National Autistic Society in 1963, made to symbolize that autism was a "puzzling" condition. Many autistic people especially higher support needs folks rely on the puzzle piece's visibility and awareness for safety. Don't judge people solely by what symbol they use or prefer, there's far more important things to focus on this month.

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Yes this .

Please !!! To not attack those what be . Most vulnerable autism people .

We belong here too .

[bebsi-cola]

i'll be honest. If you can't deal with someone wording things badly then you aren't going to be an ally to autistic people or indeed anyone with a developmental disability, intellectual disability, or disability that impacts language.

also you are never going to be safe for people for whom english is their second language. if someone clarifies their meaning and apologises and you can't accept that over the original wording then don't bother pretending to be autism friendly.

and like part of my autism is that i become convinced that the way i interpret words is the way that they're meant. my autism is disabling to my communication abilities. i have poor emotional regulation, i jump to conclusions. a lot of my reactions are informed by prior negative experiences. i can and probably have been overly defensive in the past.

and i've been misinterpreted so much and had my words picked over and mocked for saying the wrong things and mocked for being unable to say anything at all and it always feels devastating. it's ironic that the same disability that has me treated poorly would have me react poorly to a similar situation, but that's just how it is.

so i'm not saying you can perfectly manage all your reactions just by trying hard enough. especially considering how much disability affects these things. but i do think if you are completely unwilling to give autistic and other DD/ID people leeway for how they word things or understand that they have a disability that impacts their communication and give us grace then you aren't a disability advocate.