#auspec

[mad-pride]

Schizospec Autism Flag

This flag represents those who are on both spectrums (schizophrenia spectrum and autism spectrum). Although autistic schizophrenia (also known as schizophrenic autism, or Bleuler's autism 4A's symptoms in psychopathology) is its own concept, this is not the exactly same.

Words: schizaut/schizau (schizautism/schizautistic), schizoautism (schizoautistic).

[ineffable-monster-romancer]

My sensory overload brings all the senses to my yard, and they're like:

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[aspecsafespace-blog]

Hi there! I'm ace AND autistic and I have always used auspec for autism spectrum, not aspec.

Hey anon!

That’s really interesting, I’ve never heard of anyone using auspec for autism spectrum. Thanks for weighing in on this, it’s always good to get a few different opinions, especially from the people this actually effects. 

Maybe auspec will even catch on. ^.^ 

[ineffable-monster-romancer]

Ya know, when someone fucks up your stim and you were in that really happy place, you had all the senses going, and for a moment you were in your own little world and someone comes along and just, just comments some needlessly shit comments. And you feel that white, hot, shame and embarrassment and it not only violently throws you out of that headspace, it makes you so fuckin reluctant to go back to it, because no matter how much you rationalise in your brain that it shouldn't matter, it does and now I am crying because I cant get back there, and I've been so stressed and it was right. There.

[nottheredbaroness]

For writer mutuals, wanted to highlight the 2026 AuSPEC competition that begins on 1 December 2025. I hope you will consider participating so that we can amplify accurate representation in the media.

What: The Autism Scene is pleased to invite you to submit to the 2026 AuSPEC SCRIPT COMPETITION. We are looking for submissions of spec scripts for existing kids animation shows. The only expectation is that each script will include a series regular meaningfully interacting with an explicitly autistic character. A great submission will feel like it could be a real episode of the animated show you choose — in tone, characterization and format.

[walker-in-beauty]

Unscheduled activity for the day: being 2 seconds away from a full on meltdown because of a misplaced shirt…

[auspace-blog]

The double empathy problem

The CDC claims that, in order to qualify as being on the autism spectrum, one must have social or communication deficits, among other things (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019). This is a widely accepted manner of understanding autism, especially in medical contexts. Many ordinary, neurotypical or allistic people come to understand autism this way as well. However, in recent years, a new idea gaining credit is the idea of the double empathy problem.

An idea proposed by Dr. Damian Milton, the double empathy problem suggests that any social pitfalls for autistic people are due to a mutual lack of understanding between autistic and allistic people (Milton, 2012). This idea runs in opposition to currently accepted assumptions about autism. It suggests that the previously established social deficits do not arise from being autistic, but instead from interactions between autistic and allistic individuals. It suggests that allistic people are equally as responsible for these deficits as autistic people are. Consequently, the idea has yet to gain widespread acceptance. In spite of the resistance to such a new, different idea, there is now evidence supporting the idea of the double empathy problem.

In 2019, a team of researchers led by Dr. Catherine Crompton of the University of Edinburgh established that the conveyance and clarity of information suffers not when autistic people interact with each other, but when autistic and allistic people interact with each other (Crompton et al., 2019). This directly supports the premise of the double empathy problem by establishing that the issue is not necessarily the problem - that the problem is two groups with different understandings of people and information. Though such a new study has yet to receive the verification of older, replicated studies, it sets a precedent for future research into this subject.

Sources: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/hcp-dsm.html, https://kar.kent.ac.uk/62639/, https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiR4JLQs6XpAhXxct8KHUOLCMYQFjAHegQIBRAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fosf.io%2Fj4knx%2Fdownload&usg=AOvVaw2NfbZ1bjrRFMYHRTv0cyG6