#nd experiences

[genderimpala]

anyone else stay home for a while and be like "hmmmm been acting fine lately. maybe i'm not autistic." and then you have one (1) social interaction and you're like ah. the Autism strikes again.

[humormehorny]

ADHD culture is staying up late to do an important thing, but just not doing the thing even though you definitely pulled that all nighter

[tricky-pockets]

I was well-spoken as a kid, and the adults in my life very frequently mistook that for emotional maturity. and that was. uh. Not ideal.

I could carry on a thoughtful conversation (mostly by imitating how people talked in books), and my vocabulary was wider than people expected. I sounded a lot like an adult. That didn't mean I was equipped to regulate my emotions the way adults do, and I shouldn't have been expected to do so.

I don't know what I'm getting at here. maybe try to make sure kids aren't emotionally neglected, that's all.

[humormehorny]

Autism is becoming a civil engineer so that your rpg group can have a functional city to play in

[anser-crystallan]

Autistic confessions:

I love tone markers: /s /gen etc. They're cute and friendly and they help a lot.

However, I have real trouble actually using them.

Turns out, I somehow learned what speech patterns and inflections were appropriate in certain situations without ever knowing what, exactly, I was saying or what I meant by it.

Sometimes it's obvious, but mostly I just know There is A Tone to this sentence.

What tone? you tell me.