#autismtag

[oldcoyote]

working on unmasking feels enormous and scary but I'm going to try and i am so hopeful that it will only help my friendships and not end them. honestly, i'm so scared. but i think i need to do something before i disappear completely?

[jazthepiratequeen]

Welcome to the auditory processing lottery!!

You either:

A) Hear all the sounds of what they’re saying but not the actual words and just accept your fate

B) Guess what they’re saying and hope you get it right

C) Ask them to repeat themselves multiple times throughout the conversation and hope they don’t get annoyed

D) Hear a completely different sound entirely such as a dog barking two streets away

Take your pick at a chance to win a million neurotypical points!!

[oldcoyote]

i mentioned this on twitter but nobody responded, so i'm just gonna pose it here to see if anybody has an answer:

does anybody else ever have that horrible crawling feeling when you realize you're probably the most annoying person in the room and nobody has the heart to tell you, so you gotta chop off different parts of your personality until you figure out which one is the problem?

like i would legit love for all of my friends to sit down with me and tell me the most annoying and unbearable things about me so i can fix them all properly, and i don't know if that's my mental illness or a perfectly normal thing to want?? can someone please tell me?

[oldcoyote]

it's funny that i've had meltdowns before that felt like they came out of nowhere, and i never knew why they happened until yesterday when i was all at once overwhelmed by my intense chronic pain, the sound of impossibly loud construction outside shaking my house, my dogs barking ceaselessly (at the construction), my fan rattling, the overhead light being too bright, my clothes feeling too tight, etc - and just went into full blown catastrophic meltdown

i ended up huddled in a blanket on my bed with noise cancelling headphones in a lamp-lit room, just trying to breathe and make it all stop. i realised at that moment that this and all the other times weren't just me being weird and incapable of handling simple stressors - this was an autistic overstimulation meltdown

and the funniest part is, i never thought that having an official autism diagnosis would help me - i figured it'd only hinder my chances at things in the future. but god, since i got it so much has started making a lot more sense

[jazthepiratequeen]

Oh look, I sat down for two seconds and now it’s three hours later

[jazthepiratequeen]

Where’s my autistic I can’t drink water squad at?

I cannot drink water unless it’s through a straw because otherwise it feels too light and makes me cry

[jazthepiratequeen]

Survey time 😎

I’m having a uni lecture on learning disabilities and/or autism and the lecture just said autistic people can only either by hypersensitive or hyposensitive and you can’t be both. (Well he actually said people with autism but).

So what are your guys experience?

Mine fluctuates at times so I experience both.

[jazthepiratequeen]

Starting a task feels like a race between me and my executive dysfunction