#auties

[knowthatiloveyou]

“With the obligatory mouth-wide-open photo at the end. Apparently it’s flattering...”

[hostile-homo]

HELLO FELLOW ASPIES AND AUTIES

I’m bored so I just wanted to ask some of you about your special interests!!! What is it? Why do you like it? Please tell me all you know about the thing you love love u

Mine are sewing (historical specifically) and romance mangas/manhwas Lol

[clusterfuckautism]

A poem about going home

[i recently moved out and have gone home for the first time in three months. This is the longest I’ve been away for. I’ve landed on my feet in my new place and now my new room is my safe place. Coming home and feeling like it’s not my safe place any more is what this poem is about. Despite that, I still feel the love here and my sisters, who are autistic too, now have their safe place]

/

Nostagia hits me like a ton of bricks

This used to be the fridge where I put my food

This was the spot I put my shoes

This was the bath I’d fill and lie in

This was the room I first wanted to die in

Here, I stashed my badly-rolled cigarettes

There, the razors

The walls stay the same

The love that radiates through them

and the shame

Still lingers

/

I do not long to return

The feeling is bitter

How many happy memories were here

This was my sanctuary

My kingdom, my cage

My only place of refuge

The container for my rage

/

Yet among my private ruins

The darling buds of may

Can only grow between these walls

They must be locked away.

For the world is a beast

It moves too fast, its booming feet

Stamp on their hearts

/

We love too fierce

Our hearts we hide

and live in fear of the world outside

They stare and laugh and jest and hate

I want to be you

This normal state

On your planet, join you

I can’t understand

If I am to be, to cut off my hands

/

I love my castle

Now I have escaped

I jump in the moat and seal my fate

I glimpse my tower

Before I die

I wish the world was like my sky

[anaccessiblelife]

[Image description: Typed in black ink on white paper: “I am nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?” - Emily Dickinson]

Hi fellow auties! I am writing a post on autism and a lack of a sense of self-identity and I’d love to hear about your experiences. My hypothesis is that autistics tend to lack a strong sense of identity partly because we are able to see the details of each personality (including our own) more clearly, and partly because being different in an ableist world has forced us to dissociate. 

What do you think?

[calicojack1718]

Autism Celebration Month: The Great Big Smoking Hole Where Social Perception Should Be

There is a truism in neurological functioning: use it or lose it! Hubel and Wiesel demonstrated this when they sewed the eyes of kittens shut; autistic people when they fail to learn social perceptions.

Out of the Autistic Closet: the Psy Celebrates Autism Awareness Month Autism is a disorder about prediction in general and predicting social outcomes in particular. Without your knowing it, you predict the outcome of every social interaction you have. You have a sense of how the other people interacting with you will react. Those predictions guide your next behavior. Occasionally, you have…

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[calicojack1718]

Autism Month: Inside the Mind of a High Functioning Autistic Person

Autism Month: Inside the Mind of a High Functioning Autistic Person

Autism AWARENESS Month: Easing the Guilty-Conscious of Schools, Administrators, and Teachers Understanding the way autistic people work is difficult even for auties. There are so many variations on the theme that we can be as different from each other as typicals are from each other. However, that most autistic folks have in common, no matter where they are on the functional spectrum, is a rich…

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[torao-chan]

it will always be astonishing to find out you don’t read like everyone else, and it will always be heartbreaking to find out that you can’t read as well as everyone else 

[aura218]

When I say lol i’m really lolling. Is this an aspie thing? Ykno, we’re devastatingly literal and honest. I’m kinda annoyed that people are abusing their lol privilege and tarnishing this once useful phrase.