#autistic experience

[salinelakedweller]

late discovered autistics are all "yeah i'm good but if i truly relax for a moment i think the world or i might collapse also i don't think i know what it means to truly relax"

[justsomevibes]

one of the craziest asexual (and high-key autistic) experiences is finding out that calling and/or thinking that someone is "hot" or "sexy" or smth means you Actively want to fuck them,,, like have the sex with that person??

NO??!?!??!

I just thought their outfit was cool or the way they think about things is really interesting and these words felt like enough hyperbole to express my deep wonder and interest in a person or thing.

You're telling me I'd inadvertently told people I wanna fuck them because of some super miscellaneous thing? I wanna cause havoc to the local morning glory population.

are you kidding me???

but then it can also be non-sexual depending on the context? What context? Where? Says who?

I feel insane and totally normal /hj

[anonymous-solar-system]

people are so overwhelming, and gender dysphoria is evil. i hate it here.

[cb-writes-stuff]

A rarely talked about* autistic experience is being friendly and fun and talkative as a kid, and having interests and sharing them with people and having friends that have those interests too, but you still feel separate and lonely and Other somehow. You have friends around you but something feels different. You drift away because it doesn’t feel right. You have friends but you’re still lonely.

*in my limited, subjective observation. YMMV

[paperclips37]

Also as an autistic woman Mels character even just one episode in just speaks to me.

She's hecking smart but not the Autisic Genius TM.

She's awkward but so enthusiastic about what she finds interesting.

She's gets overwhelmed but deals as best she can.

...

Like so very much like me.

Representation fucking matters.

[talesofanautisticwoman]

Whats the deal with neurotypicals comparing autistic teens/adults to some of their relatives 5 yr old autistic kid? Almost every time i tell someone i'm autistic, i always get compared to an autistic kid and tell me "how i'm not like them". - I personally feel like they are indirectly calling me "childish" in one way or another. However i don't expect them to know much about autism and autistic people in general.

[ykidwithautism]

I never know it until after.. and when trying to set my boundaries it often get multiple times overstepped by NT people..

[witchy-fennec]

So, I don’t really fit the term semiverbal, but I definitely don’t fit as a fully verbal autistic either. Because of this, I’ve been thinking of what a good term would be for sorta verbal (aka can reliably talk a decent amount of the time, but also has plenty of verbal shutdowns, and a little trouble speaking in a way that’s usually not all that hindering when able to speak) autistic. I decided on demi-verbal and think this sums up my experiences pretty well. I’ve never seen demi-verbal anywhere and searching for it brought up nothing.

Demi-verbal:

Can reliably speak most of the day for most days of the week

Verbal shutdowns happen anywhere from a few times a week to a few times a month, possibly for no apparent reason

May experience some level of difficulty with mouth words, anywhere between slight difficulty only a little of the time to half the time

Please respect nonverbal/non-speaking and semiverbal/semi-speaking autistics and listen when they tell you not to use (and thus misuse) a word/words that was coined specifically for nonverbal/non-speaking and/or semiverbal/semi-speaking autistics. Those words/terms were coined for a reason.