#stardust-wolfy

[autistickitten]

I dunno but I personally hate velvet. I don't have anything against people that like it. I just don't like the small prickles or when is only sits nicely one way and the other gets rough and stiff. Just not my thing! But thats okay. I'm just curious about learning how others feel about sensory stuff and stims!

I hate smooth velvet but I love corduroy ! :p

- Sister Cat

[autistickitten]

I finally got a job, but it turns out I just can't work well in the environment. Physically I am aching and exhausted and today was only my second day. I do the job pretty good, everyone says I'm great. But I don't think I can handle the kind of work. (It's a dishwasher) I just wonder if others have things they are good at, but just don't like it.

Oh, that was definitely me when I was stuck in a hellish retail shelf-stocking job many years ago. The higher-ups said I was good at what I did (I thought so for a while too) and thought very highly of me, but I was never properly recognised for it by my co-workers (in fact, many of them often made a complete mockery and mess of the work I did). I was also regularly verbally abused my customers, and I suffered a nasty back injury on the job that still has me seeing a chiropractor nearly ten years later. All of this culminated into severe mental breakdowns that eventually forced me to quit before it killed me both literally and figuratively. And I was in two other jobs after that where I loved the work and the environment because I wasn’t interacting with the public and it was more suited to my interests, but the employers treated me poorly because they basically forgot about my needs and got rid of me. (I have another similar job starting soon, but don’t know when that’ll be or what that might end up being like.)

Sometimes you can be really good at something, but it is the absolute wrong job and environment for you. That’s just how life is, whether or not you’re on the spectrum. No job is ever going to be 100% perfect. It’s a matter of finding what works for you and what you can best adapt to. Good luck out there!

- Auntie Cat

[autistickitten]

One thing I find kinda ironic (if I'm using that correctly) is that others talk about the stereotype of autistics liking trains. And I agree that stereotyping isn't very nice. But I find this one personally a bit funny because I do in fact like trains. I'm not all that smart about then in the technically way, but I basically grew up on a local historic railroad and love all things trains. So I guess I don't help very much when it comes to that stereotype ^~^'

Hey, all stereotypes come from somewhere. Some autistic people like trains ! Some autistic people are nonverbal and hit themselves ! Some autistic people are white boys diagnosed when they were 3 !

Stereotypical autistic people are not to blame for fitting the stereotypes, society is to blame for making these traits into sterotypes in the first place :)

- Sister Cat

[autistickitten]

I am just kinda curious. When I chew on stuff (like in the passed with gum) like now with my chewy neckless. I find that sometimes I'll end up hungry in the hurty belly kinda way, and then I have to stop and actually go find something to eat to help. I dunno if that's just me or is maybe some others experience that too? •~•'

It could be that you were hungry without realizing it before starting to chew on your neckless ! :) A lot of autistic people have trouble with knowing what’s going on internally.

- Sister Cat

[autistickitten]

I have autism and I've been working up the courage to ask this cause I find it a bit embarrassing, but on Halloween I finally watched Coraline with my friends. Usually I know what I usually triggers any of my sensory stuff But the scene with the dancing mice threw me off. I cannot find an explanation for it really. Something about the mice bouncing kinda put me in a (the easiest word I can explain the feeling for:) "trance" and I was wondering if anyone knew why exactly. Because I do not know...

Okay so I looked it up on Youtube (’cause despite reading the book like 10 years ago I never saw the movie) and I’ll bet the reason it threw you off is because, from what I could tell, compared to the rest of the characters and the camera movement, the mice had really choppy animation. It seemed to be a deliberate design choice, it was possibly even meant to set the audience on edge, and it might have effected you more harshly due to sensory sensitivities. It definitely made me pretty uncomfortable.

-Brother Cat

[randomosityposts]

Strawberry

strawberry: favourite dessert

ughhhh I have to choose? uhh i’m gonna say tiraimisu

[randomosityposts]

N1? (Lol dunno how that one works lol

N1: what would they never do?

Cosmos has a big heart and would never EVER intentionally hurt someone else or make selfish decisions that would hurt someone else in the process. Cosmos also never lies to someone to spare their feelings. 

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“A H thank youuu! I swear i’m gonna do somethin’ for y’all too when i get the chance.”