#actusllyautistic

[mx-dorkboy]

We got officially diagnosed with Autism today. Super validating, and it opens up a bunch of opportunities to get the help we actually need, or to at least help other people at school understand better.

[rjalker]

A freaking ways here's a PSA for people who are not aware. Be warned I'm in a really bad mood right now, but for completely unrelated reasons. Anyways,

The word retard is a slur against autistic people. Retard, retarded, any variation you can think of. Unless you're talking about music or fire retardants or do not use this word. Remove it from your vocabulary. If you mean dumb, say dumb. If you mean stupid, say stupid. If you mean annoying, ridiculous, irritating, obnoxious, use the words that you actually mean. Do not use the word retarded. Do not use the word retard. If someone is being an idiot call then an idiot. Do not call them a retard and do not call them retarded. Don't even fucking call inanimate objects retards or retarded. From this point forward do not fucking use this word at all. If you catch yourself thinking, automatically correct yourself to something else that is not a slur.

If you are able to, educate those around you. Friends, family, whoever it is safe for you to correct, do so. Explain to them that it is incredibly harmful and offensive to autistic people.

Second of all, if someone tells you that they are autistic, do not say that they don't look autistic. Don't say anything even remotely close to but you don't look autistic. Don't ever tell someone that is autistic that they don't look autistic.

It is not a compliment. It is nowhere near a compliment. It is erasing our disabilities and erasing our struggles. Also anybody who says this probably just doesn't know what autism actually looks like all the time but yeah, yeah I fucking do you,ve just never fucking interacted with an autistic person before.

Autism Speaks is evil. ABA, or, applied Behavior Analysis or whatever the fuck is called, is evil. Everybody knows that conversion therapy for gay people is torture. ABA is torture. Autism Speaks is evil. They do not fucking speak for us.

Do not fucking use puzzle pieces a symbols for autistic people. Don't fucking do it. We are not people that are missing a few puzzle pieces. We are not lesser beings that are just missing a few pieces to become human. We are fucking human beings. We are not missing anything. Do not use puzzle pieces to symbolize autistic people.

I was going to say something else but I don't fucking remember what it was.

Your office that's how I feel free to add on to the TSA anything you'd want allistic people to know.

If you're allstc, please reblog, but do not fucking comment unless you are shutting down ablelist people in the notes.

If you are not autistic don't come in. I don't care if your sister your brother your cousin your aunt is autistic. Unless you are literally transcribing for them as they fucking tell you what to fucking type, do not fucking comment if you are elastic. You are not autistic and I am really goddamn sick of people whose brother sister what the fuck ever is autistic intruding on fucking conversations that are not about them thinking that having an autistic family member gives them the right to speak on autistic issues.

I don't care if I sound mean. Do not fucking speak over us

[no-soul-no-problems]

life’s a video game and im constantly picking the wrong dialogue option

[vvarriorjay]

the autism mood of today is not wanting to be treated as a stupid child but still needing someone to spoon feed you broke down concepts bc your last two brain cells have given up

[my-thoughts-online]

I've been up all night because I wanted to sort out my fiances desk for him to do work on and I havent even started. I stayed up all night the night before to tidy the house ready for a house visit in the morning, also didn't start that. But guess what I did do? Dismantled, sanded and painted half of our new shoe cupboard. Yep, only half. So I have a half finished cupboard and that's all I have to show for two nights of wanting to stay up to get shit done. Fml man.

[milkhoney531]

That's it, I can't eat sausage anymore. It's too strong of a taste. I've never had trouble with it before this week, but now I feel ill every time i try to eat it, whether it's on pizza or an egg mcmuffin, I can't seem to handle the flavor anymore. The flavor is too much for me now. I don't really know why this is happening all of the sudden. Maybe it's an autism thing?

[jupistims]

glowy bracelet!! [do not remove source please!!]

[adhd-queer]

do you ever impulsively do stuff out of spite?