#autismproud

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On this Day, let's Celebrate Neurodiversity & Raise Awareness about the Importance of Pride for Autistic People

[queenofthewolves99]

Today on my neurodivergent brain:

I've got Devil's Haircut by Beck repeating, and I have no idea why

[the-anxious-aspie]

Different not less.

Yours sincerely,

Autistic person.

[dmnsqrl]

#Repost @adaptedjames (@get_repost) ・・・ This is especially important to remember for those saying ‘love the child, hate the autism’. Because autism is an integral part of my being, to say you hate my autism is to hate me. What in fact is the perpetrator of pain is how this world is not designed for neurodivergent people, and that is one of the things that causes us such problems. . ID: white wording with a zoomed in leaf as the background. It reads: autism is not some add on. There is not some hidden child or adult beneath the autism. Autism is neurological, it makes up the core of us. It permeates everything about our lives: how we see, hear, taste, experience the world around us. . Visit the Adapted James official site at Adaptedjames.com . . . #autism #autistic #adapttheworldnotthehuman #actuallyautistic #dyspraxia #sensory #weightedblankets #business #autisticadult #sensoryprocessingdisorder #spd #autisticbusiness #autismproud #redinstead #doilookautisticyet #autismacceptance #tinybusiness #smallbusiness #proud #neurodivergent #disabledisnotabadword #flappyhandsarehappyhands #nothingforuswithoutus #acceptancenotawareness #identityfirst https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp7qA2lgE_UAeqwqlTdxvUbq0n876Z6hD6Rd8M0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1k2od8nmzn4xj

[queenofthewolves99]

I've gotten a few questions from a few friends about why the autistic community hates the puzzle piece and the color blue as representation.

So in this month of Autism Acceptance, I'd like to give my two cents.

1. The puzzle piece doesn't represent us. It historically represents the look for a cure. Or a "missing piece" to our brains. Choose the infinity sign or the periodic table number for gold.

2. The color blue is historically representative of males. And given the fact that women, especially women of color, go under-diagnosed, it is kind of harmful. Try the color red instead. Or even the rainbow to represent the spectrum of not only gender and gender identity for us, but as a representation of the spectrum.

3. Organizations like Autism Speaks, who many like me call "The Bedbug people," are hate groups that constantly fund searches for a cure, as well as ignore adult voices in the Autism Community. They treat us like we are a disease and nothing more.

4. It's not "Awareness" that we are looking for. That implies that we are a disease that needs curing. Try acceptance. Through acceptance we can fight for better representation and against ableism.

Light it up red this April. Show your support with the infinity Symbol. And take the time to listen.

We're here, and we will not be silenced any longer.

[queenofthewolves99]

Oh boy, heh, alright. Since @pufftheminidragon has referred an anon to me for a story about my experience on the Spectrum, I figured I should share my story. Strap in kiddos, this is gonna be a long one.

How to begin... Oh!

How about with the fact that it took 4 specialists to diagnose little old me back when I was just the princess of wolves(heh)?

That's right. It took 4 specialists (two male, two female) and one therapist to diagnose a nine year old me as Asperger's.

Ready for some learning?

Does anyone know why it is more common for male to get diagnosed on the Spectrum than female? Aside from the possible gender inequality (don't @ me on that, it's a legit thing), Autism as was recognized by specialists for decades could only be identified by certain characteristics, ie lack of social aptitude being one of them. And it only really seemed to pop up in males more often than not. Whether it was because they were only doing surface checks, or ignoring females altogether, I don't know. But it was a thing. So for years, many females went on without being diagnosed. Heck, I wouldn't have been diagnosed if not for the fact that my psychiatrist called bull on the first two specialists.

Now, the reason it was so "difficult" to diagnose a female is because of the fact that we tend to show symptoms differently. Going back to my social aptitude example, something females seem to do better than males when concerning the Spectrum is the fact that we can mask better than males. (Again, just one example out of many).

What's masking?

I'm glad you asked.

Masking is something someone adopts to either hide emotion, or to copy those around them to "fit in" better, at least in my experience.

It isn't something only females can do, nor is it something private to those on the Spectrum. To be honest, you might have been masking at some point in your life too without realizing it.

For me, I can describe it as a sort of defense mechanism against bullying. I would mask and mimic behaviour from those around me as to better fit in and avoid being made an outcast. Didn't always work, still socially inept due to a lot of other reasons, but you get my point, right?

Anyway, many females go far in life without diagnosis. Whether it's a good thing or bad usually depends on a case to case basis, but from what I've noticed in my time as actually taking part in the community, most late diagnosed females wished they had gotten help sooner. I mean, I was diagnosed when I was nine, a lot earlier than some of the people I've had the pleasure of talking to, and I still wish I had gotten diagnosed earlier and gotten help earlier.

Anyway, that's it for this story. If anyone wants more stories, just ask me any time, okay?

[queenofthewolves99]

Imma give my two cents on JK Rowling today.

Do I still like Harry Potter? Yes.

Do I like JK Rowling? HELL FUCKING NO.

Has my opinion of such a backwards thinking, bigoted individual who thinks she's "woke" change my opinion OF Harry Potter? No.

Does Harry Potter have flaws? Oh absolutely.

But that does not mean I'm gonna judge a favorite book series of mine by the fact that the author is... Well... THAT.

To think I used to look up to her. But after her comments on the Autistic Spectrum and Transgender and Trans Identity?

Yeah, nah, she can burn in hell.

[dmnsqrl]

#Repost @adaptedjames (@get_repost) ・・・ This International Women's Day I am thinking about all of the non-male undiagnosed autistics out there. For me my diagnosis opened the world up, and I found why I was the way I was and how there were ways to regulate specific to autistics. Current estimates put the prevalence of autism as 1:4 between girls and boys, however suggestions have been made that actually it could be more 1:1 and that gender differences are masking autism in girls. Because early descriptions of the neurotype was based on groups of almost exclusively boys, the diagnostic criteria mainly outlines how autism is expressed in males. It has only been in the past few years that there have been studies specifically on how autism presents in women and how the questions and investigations can be altered to ensure that girls don't fall through the net. I have found in my involvement in the online autistic community that out of the people diagnosed later in life or the self diagnosed, there is a slightly higher proportion of women, perhaps because of the difficulty being seen as an autistic woman. The National Autisitc society has more information on autism and gender here: http://www.autism.org.uk/about/what-is/gender.aspx And more specific information about how autism presents in girls here: https://senmagazine.co.uk/articles/articles/senarticles/is-autism-different-for-girls . . . . . . #internationalwomensday #woman #girl #girls #autisticgirl #aspergirl #diagnosis #autism #autistic #actuallyautistic #dyspraxia #sensory #business #autisticadult #sensoryprocessingdisorder #spd #autisticbusiness #autismproud #redinstead #doilookautisticyet #autismacceptance #tinybusiness #proud #notbroken #neurodivergent #disabledisnotabadword