#tuafw

[cemeteryviolets]

[heckyeah-cryptids]

made this because of how i’ve been feeling lately!

[paw-tism-blog]

Did anyone else experience trauma that seemed to amplify their autistic features? Like I used to only have some selective mutism, experienced trauma in high school, and now I'm almost exclusively nonverbal and I get sensory overload very easily.

[paperclipp-d]

Autism and Me

And if I close my eyes,

I can feel it in my bones.

Like tension, always building,

A noise I can’t ignore.

So I yell and scream right back

To regulate what I feel

But, so it seems, I’m different.

Is this feeling even real?

My friends all say I’m quirky,

My doctor, I’m just fine,

But deep in me I know

It’s with me all the time.

My brother’s always joking

How I don’t get his jokes,

And I find nothing harder

Than meeting strangers’ eyes.

My interests too intense,

I speak too openly,

But when my voice just goes,

You claim unmannerly.

I could hear a pin drop

And have to cry and shout,

But when it comes to music,

It’s blow my eardrums out.

Some days my skin will crawl

Cause of clothes on my back,

While other days I’ll find

Excuses just to tap.

And all I’ve come to know

Since I’ve opened up to this

Is that I’m not alone -

We have each other’s backs

[nitroglycerific]

My piece of shit neighbors filled the recycling with rancid trash. They're intimidating enough that it's genuinely safer to just fix it myself.

Got dumpster juice all over my feet tho

Totally shutdown

Send help 😭

[pallyautie]

I don’t think I’ll ever find love.

I truly don’t believe I’m cut out for it.

I can’t stand the idea of being romantically involved with anyone intellectually inferior to me, and I lack empathy. 

Sadly, the number of people who are intellectually equal to or greater than me is a lot lower than those who are inferior. It’s just cold facts, and my intelligence is the biggest good thing about my autism. 

I’m not saying no one is smarter than me at all. I’ve met some amazingly intelligent people in my time whose brains I deeply admire and look up to. 

I’m just saying they’re few and far between, and so harder to find. And it sucks. I would love to date someone smarter than me, who is interested in me. It just seems impossible. 

I’m going to die alone with my journals and stuffed animals. 

Fuck.

[lillyjetaime-blog]

Real Life Autism Moment #10

Husband: what do you want for dinner?

Me:

Me:

Me:

Me:

Me:

Me:

Me: goat cheese.

Husband:

Husband: okay.

[teandaydreams]

Spinner rings arrived in time to get here before my birthday next week yay! [Photo image of right hand of white person, pointer finger has Blue Oasis spinner ring, ring finger has multiple silver rings.]

I got two, the blue oasis is size 7 and fits both my pointer and index fingers as I’m “in between/half” sizes. I thought Flight in size 8 would work on my pointer/thumb, but unfortunately it’s too big, so will try exchange.

I love it so much so far! Lots of action today. It has a metallic sound when spinning (I like it) which a work mate has already commented on, so I’ll need to be careful not to overdo it.

Thank you @stimtastic