#autistic acceptance

[domwho11]

Recently I have accepted my autism. There are some things I can do and some things I can't do and that's great. And my brain is great because it doesn't understand others and struggles with certain sensory stimuli 🥰 ♾️

[cloriavey]

I want to talk about how different Neurotypical vs autistic people experience problems and i wonder if most autistic people experience this way too🤔

Idk if it's just me or if it's a autistic thing in general, but here's something i noticed :

Neurotypicals tend to have more interpersonal/external problems. When they talk about their life issues, it's often about other people, conflicts, misunderstandings, relationship drama, pressure from family, friends, or society... they're mostly external things.

Meanwhile autistic/AuDHD people (at least from what I've seen, including myself) tend to deal with intrapersonal/internal problems. I do have external problems too, but they're rare... My main struggles are like emotional dysregulations, self-hatred, feeling isolated, masking, sensory issues, burnout, etc. It's quite hard to talk about these with neurotypicals when they don't experience them. But i always understand their side...

Like whenever i hear neurotypicals talk about their problems, i always think "wow their problems are real. I can't imagine being in their situation" because they deal with external issues, like real people issues. And somehow that makes my internal struggles feel less valid, like it's just nothing compare them.

And because I rarely experience interpersonal problems, I’m actually more vulnerable when external problems do happen. People who don't understand would assume it's dramatic.

In the end, this observation makes me realize how isolating this situation is, for a lot of autistic people😔

[massiveharmonytiger]

"I'm autistic and I know better than to act like that" in response to someone being shamed for clearly autistic behaviors is ableism. All I'm hearing is "this threatens my internalized ableism" and "mask better." All I'm hearing is "I have unflinching support for neurotypical entitlement" and "I have no problem defending bullies."

You need to apologize for that.

Autistic advocacy includes all autistics, not just the ones who magically "know better" (mask) than to act like that (be autistic) in neurotypical spaces.

You know better? Good for you. That does not change the fact that invented neurotypical social rules are NOT more important than your own community. And your community is not going to change and magically be accepted by those abusive neurotypicals you desperately want to please by helping them shame a member of your own community into being less publically autistic.

And please work on loving and accepting yourself so that the next time an autistic person shares a public shaming, they actually get the love and support they need.

[dreamersbraindump]

Autism acceptance month.

Reminder that me wearing my noise cancelling headphones around and behind my ears in case there is a loud noise is not a privilege!

Don't be the coworker who bullied your autistic coworker because you think they're getting away with something. They're likely just like me and know how to cope with their surroundings that aren't made to accommodate people like them.

I work in an escape room and when people get out they can be really loud. Loud noises overwhelm me. Easier to just slide my headphones over my ears and continue doing my job than to break out into hysteria because the sound made it so I can feel my body being set on fire and suddenly the fabric of my shirt is made of needles.

Accept that your autistic coworker isn't getting away with anything.

[catastrfy]

i wrote this in April 2019 and want to share it here

Autism Acceptance Month 2019 Day 10

Book Characters Who I've Identified With and/or Who Ping Me As Autistic

I've been wanting to do this as a counter to the Bewareness idea of OMGEPIDEMIC for a while, because good grief, people who seem to be autistic (at least to me) have been in books for well over a hundred years!

Beth in Little Women: too shy for school or socialising, preferred to be home with her family, including her kittens. (I have always always loathed Marmee for forever for intentionally letting Beth's Pip die. alsolutely despise her.) Beth's slow decline after her scarlet fever was very easy to identify with; my undxed back then eds/pots/mcas meant I was always a sickly, weak child.

Autistic (to me) characters are ALL OVER in the Agatha Christie books (and her autobiography makes me wonder if she was herself).

Mr Goby always addresses inanimate objects instead of the person he's talking to.

Miss Lemon loves organising, wishes to create the world's first perfect filing system, and isn't social.

Poirot has his passion for symmetry and tidiness, no hesitation about ignoring social conventions.

Ariadne Oliver uses scripting to deal with fans, ignores social conventions, feels awkward a lot, and ... I'm not even sure what else, but she is my favourite of all the characters and pings me *really* hard.

Megan Hunter in Christie's "The Moving Finger" is described as much younger than her age, clumsy, doesn't understand why people care what she wears or why it's important (I identified hard with her when i was in my teens/early 20s)

In at least one of the Christie books, a character remarks to another character that every family has someone odd in it, whether it's that they're slow or brilliant. Every. Family.

In LM Mongomery's Jane of Lantern Hill, Millicent Mary Snowbeam is 6, doesn't talk, and is considered by others to be "not all there". In Magic for Marigold, the elderly Derusha siblings Abel and Tabby: Abel is called "cracked" for not being conventional, and Tabby is called "not all there".

Zenna Henderson's People stories: Bethie in Gilead is an untrained Sensitive who is overwhelmed by the sensory stuff from other people and can't handle school. "She tried school at first, but skinned knees and rough rassling and aching teeth and bumped heads and the janitor's Monday hangover sent her home exhausted and shaking the first day, with hysteria hanging on the flick of an eyelash." -- that hysteria hanging on the flick of an eyelash was ME so much in school!

In "Wilderness" there's Lucine, "my 12 year old first grader". She's filled with rage over the bullying and abuse she gets for being slow and different. She erupts when it gets to be too much and is treated like a dangerous animal after she injures one of the bullies.

(I also like the reference to synesthesia in one of the bridging bits in "Pilgrimage" that ties the stories together: the fruit koomatkas are described as tasting like music sounds.

These are all stories that predate "autism" as a diagnosis.

But we were there. From those of us with low support needs to those of us with complex support needs.

If you're Autistic, what book characters have pinged you or have you identified with?

~Autisticat

(ps: yes, mine are mostly older books cause I am mostly older *grin* *skitters off, stage left!*)

[neurodivergentrebel]

What is NeuroDiversity & Why it Matters in Autistic Acceptance Month and All Year Long

NeuroDiversity is important in Autistic Acceptance Month because it recognizes and values the diversity of human brains and minds, including those of Autistic People. NeuroDiversity also acknowledges that Autism is not something that needs to be “cured” or “fixed” but is instead a natural variation of the human experience. When we embrace NeuroDiversity, we: Promote acceptance and…

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[m0nsterartgarage]

autistic trio !!! i love them and i wanted to have them enjoy some of my spins because i love how passionate i am abt them and how much i love them , it’s smth i love abt being autistic <3

the ghouls and boo are ready for nekrocon !!! ghoulia is wearing contacts because did not forget to draw her glasses !!! ghoulia’s fave superhero deadfast , DATA my beloved autistic android and my fave time lord !!!

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[72sinkingships]

VENT

Autism IS a disability! tf do you mean don't treat it like one?! Ppl ssem to think disability/disabled are disparaging words. And in the name of their "allyship" end-up ONCE AGAIN telling autistic ppl how to refer to ourselves!!