#transautistic

[honeydew-wecantwo]

wishing all radqueer people a very happy Move To a New Place Where Nobody Knows You and Rebuild Your Identity in Your Own Way

[evilfcknwizard]

I saw someone claim that transautistics steal resources, which is a common argument against transabled people in general. And, you know what, that really pisses me off. What resources, pray tell, are transautistics stealing from me? Disability payments that the government is not even giving to cisautistics like myself? School accommodations that I never really received? A financially inaccessible AAC device? Fucking stim toys? Why are we blaming transautistics for 'stealing resources' when these things are held over our heads by SOCIETY ITSELF?

I think that's part of what's so irritating about antis: they act like someone saying they're transautistic is on the same level as the psychiatric abuse, neglect by teachers, and lack of peer connection that I faced as an autistic entity growing up. And, make no mistake, it isn't.

[radically-gangle]

Unconventional transautistic tips!!

From a cisautistic!

Hopefully these will all be tips you haven't heard before that help you subtly pass/feel more autistic, rather than the generic stuff I see ☆(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*

Part 1 - Special interests

✮ everyone says pick a special interest, it can be anything you currently like a lot- you just have to like it enough to base a lot of your personality off it!

Most of these tips only work if your chosen special interest is a media, since that's all I know as a cisautistic, but I'm sure some can apply to other special interests too!

✮ you DON'T need to know that much about it to start. If its a media, just watch it/play it/read it/whatever passively. REMEMBER KEY DETAILS!!! Now, keep those details on mind. Whenever someone mentions the name of a character, or anything that can be twisted into a reference, point it out!!!

Ill use TADC as an example here: if someone says they have an OC named Jax, obviously mention Jax from TADC. But, if someone says the word "remember", you can point out that remember in Russian is pomni, therefore making it a reference- that makes you look a lot more obsessed than you may already be!

✮ obviously, despite this, you should still try to learn as much as you can about your chosen special interest. One thing I cant recommend enough is WATCH ICEBERG VIDEOS!!!! You get a lot of information it takes ages to gather for a usual person with those, looking like you've researched loads with minimal effort

✮ HAVE MERCH!!! You don't need to buy anything, in fact, it shows way more dedication to the interest if you make your merch! Make pins out of paper and safety pins, draw on your phonecase or laptop or headphones, make plushies out of felt, paint on shirts- just make sure that anyone can see your love for the media and it's characters

✮ simple one, make your pfp related to your special interest! Not all autistics do this, but it's an easy way to show dedication to the interest, and combined with other things really makes it look like your whole life is dedicated to this.

✮ be annoying about it!!! Make posts dedicated to characters, or how much you love the interest. Once a day at least, if you can manage it. Bring them up in every quiet moment in a conversation. If you think youre being too much, youre not!! There is no too much

✮ BE OVERLY EXCITED!! If someone brings up your special interest, the autistic reaction isn't "oh, I like [thing] too!" It's an overwhelming excitement. Speak louder than usual or type in all caps. Ask them questions about it (like favourite characters). Someone bringing up a special interest genuinely feels the same as someone offering you $1000 or smth like that.

Thats all I can think of for now I got tired hope these help!!! Ill be making more parts based on different parts of autism! Please feel free to request (◍•ᴗ•◍)

[trans-star]

super confused about antis who say that transdisordered people are taking away resources for cisdisordered people. cisdisordered people don't get the resources??? if you're not white, wealthy, and a man, chances are extremely low anyone will even consider giving you help.

we live off helplines that are too busy to pick up the phone, school therapists who give us backhanded comments, and parents who say it's the phones problem. in fact, i'd say if you're not getting the "care" that cisdisordered people get, you're actually getting affirmed more. you're lumped in the same boat as us. you're trying to get help? so are we. we're one in the same. we should be trying to make resources available for EVERYONE. yes, everyone.

i promise you that is you're transautistic, chances are we're in the same boat when it comes to resources. if you're transadhd? we're in the same boat.

we shouldn't be dividing everyone into boxes, we should be working to make sure healthcare and resources are available to everyone if they want/need it. THAT'S the ultimate goal.

[cisstupid]

AAC user tips!

puppy will cover diy symbol based card and board aac as well as high tech aac! is free for anyone to take inspo or advice from! if have more questions pls ask! if anyone want reformat in easier to read way, please do! but pls credit or just add in rbs

under cut bcuz long!

There's no wrong way to use AAC! anyone can! as semispeaking part time AAC user, AAC is for everyone!!! now onto the tips....

If want symbol based aac but have no way to get it, consider talking in emojis over text! or if irl, just using expressions! if want text-based, write everything or type and then show other person. btw, discord has /TTS command so you can type and it read what you typed out loud!!

DIY AAC cards: strat 1

Need:

paper

scissors

writing instrument (pen pencil crayon etc)

clear tape

write or draw what u want card to be, cut it out, and cover back and front in clear tape fully. trim edges off and you have card! not fully water safe tho be careful! and make sure pen ink is dry before stickying it! if have hole puncher and key ring, can put them on ring! other option is in envelope or pencil case

AAC card strat 2

Need:

paper

printer w/ ink

OPTIONAL device w/ art program or Internet

lamination machine (cold or hot) w/ sheets

scissors

This how puppy makes cards! design card with art program , or internet site like canva, or get card design online - print out on paper and put into laminator, then cut out! can do same thing with holepunch as other cards!

if made cards with strat 1 can use laminator on them, be careful with hot ones might melt crayon? or if made with strat 2 can put tape on to secure if not have laminator! remember cards can be double sided to not waste paper!

Board AAC strat 1

need:

thing to write/draw/put stuff on

thing to write/draw with OR premaade words/pictures

glue OR sticky velcro dots (tape not work very well)

I think u get it ... take board made of anything, make basically aac cards and stick them on OR draw directly into board! here how puppy does it:

take thing like cardboard from box or smt, draw grid on it, make AAC cards, take sticky velcro dots and line up with squares on board. can add/remove words or pictures at will, just have big bag of words!

if colorcode can make categories of words for easier to find! OR have multiple boards full of different words, and a blank board to make sentence on (or no blank board and just point to words on dif boards!)

Board AAC strat 2

Need:

magnet board w magnets

aac cards

think u understand this too :P just have dif cards that stick to board, if dry erase board can draw the pictures/write on it or circle cards. tbh not best strat but IS one of them!

Text-based AAC

lots of free text AAC! puppy know of apps like speech assistant, things like TTS(text to speech) (like on discord :p) - can also do low-tech and just write what want say on thing like paper or dry erase board or chalkboard, texting on notes app or discord and then showing someone irl OR just texting them normal even if they in the room/in front of you. if you has high tech aac device / proper aac app, plenty offer keyboards you type on!

Symbol-Based hi tech AAC

This where it get tricky. find much better solutions on other posts, but puppy try paws best.

Not many (good) free symbol AAC apps. most are subscription/pay to access. best for beginner is probly proloquo, $12 a month (ish?), has keyboard, word search function, lots of settings and voices, is what puppy uses rn! but many others Not subscription (or at least not fully...) , heard Weavechat is good!

Many aac not run very good on phone, and more not made for devices like computer/laptop/pc. best option for aac is ipad or tablet because many apps on iOS or android. proloquo for example only on iOS. can get good refurbished ipad for less than $300 on sites like amazon or ebay and are guaranteed to work good! best to get ipad still getting updates btw - absolutely do not need newest model, puppys ipad is from like 2020 and still get updates, got for LESS than 200! can even draw on it! - which also good for aac!

puppy hope this post helped!! if any questions or anything to add pls inbox/dms/add on!!

[cryptids-level290]

could i have some trans lvl 3 autism tips please? im cis lvl 1-2

hallo !!! Of course I can!!

I accidentally rambled a little bit here, so I highlighted the key points in green =^w^=

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1: this is something that I will be recommending for most of my trans[mentally]abled tips, which is don't be outward all at once. Meaning take your transition slow enough to be believable. If you start showing symptoms all at once at full severity, then people will probably clock you as non cisID, and it'll be harder to socially transition.

2: All levels of autism have sensory challenges, and level 2 and 3 sensory challenges are usually obvious, level three especially. Since you're level 1-2 already, my advice is to focus on your current ones, and try to exaggerate them and/or to stop masking. Let yourself be uncomfortable, and let others know that you're uncomfortable. Wear headphones, firmly decline anything with bad textures, let yourself engage in your comfort interests to regulate, things like that.

3: Beings who have level 3 autism are quite often Semi-Verbal or Non-Verbal, and have a really hard time communicating their thoughts, wants, and needs. Lean into that. Decrease your usage of mouth words, and/or your ability to keep a "normal" conversation over time, and show yourself getting frustrated whenever you can't get something across.

4: Focus on your special interest(s). And by focus, I mean let yourself prioritize them over most things. Bring them up whenever you can. Let yourself infodump. Go back to engaging with them as soon as you can.

5: Transitions suck. They suck a lot. Let people know that they suck for you. Focus on behaviors especially with this one. Display a hard time pulling yourself away from your current task. Let people know how much you need there to be an actual heads-up when changes in your plans are going to be made. Preferably a couple of months for big things, a couple weeks for medium sized things, at least a couple days for , and at bare bones absolutely minimum 1 day (*cough cough hack cough*1 day is bullshit though especially when your guardians decide to spring it on you that your going to be at the other ones house that weekend instead of being where you were supposed to be*wheeze cough cough* OMG WHAT WHO SAID THAT)

6: Just like Autism itself, the levels are all spectrums. Good clinicians use them, but don't necessarily super like them, due to the inability to capture the specifics. Think about where you want to be on the level 3 spectrum. You could be a "low" level three, where you might just be displaying a bit more support needs than you would as a level two, or a "high" level three, where people usually go to when they think about level 3.

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[windows-foureight]

I have a lot of cis diagnosed disorders, right? You can see all of them in my pinned intro. Should I make transition tips for any of them? If so, which ones would you dudes be most interested in?

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Autism (lvl 1-2)

Tourette's Syndrome

Dyslexia

Dyscalculia

FND - PNES

BPD

PTSD

DID

AiWS

POTS

hEDS

Voting ended onApr 18

[vampydollrockstar]

TRANSAUTISM TIPS

Do Your Research

Read first-hand accounts (blogs, vlogs, books by autistic people)

Watch interviews

Common Expierences

take language literally, may prefer clarity over small talk, may use fewer gestures or maintain less/more eye contact than typical

Lights, sounds, textures, or crowds might feel overwhelming. Some people self-soothe with repetitive actions (stimming)

Deep passion for specific subjects (“special interests”), and joy in talking about them

Have your own routine that you never break, and struggle when plans suddenly change