That Autism Feel

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That autism feel when you are texting someone but it really hard because you are aggressivly happy stimming because of how happy talking to that person makes you and that makes it hard to type. 

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tafw you forget to put social pleasentries in your email and then when you remember you feel guilty about it

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TAFW your samefood is sold the fuck out bc it happens to be ramen rn :(

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tafw you find out you're pregnant and decide to keep it, and one of your doctors starts undercutting your confidence by talking about how Autistic Trans People are Too Sensitive to go through something as Hard as Pregnancy.

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TAFW fuck. Rubber. Gloves.

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TAFW people slam doors every time they walk through them and it feels like a train slamming into your entire body ears-first each and every time (bonus points if you also get the urge to hide under a piece of furniture every time because Trauma!), and you ask or even beg people to just close the door even just a little more before letting go of it, but they look at you funny and go "it's just a door, they make noise when they close." No, FamilyMember, doors don't "just do that" and the house DOESN'T need to shake every time you bring in an armful of groceries and every time you go back out for more! Shockingly, some of us can actually use a door-- the very same door, even-- without carelessly letting it swing the entire way shut behind us so hard it cracks the frame, in fact some people can go through them so quietly that nobody even knows they're awake (traumaaaaaa!). A person can only deal with the excruciating pain of a door slamming so many literal dozens of times in a day before your brain melts out your ears and you just want to scream but if you do that YOU'LL be the one in trouble!!!

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tafw you start watching daredevil and you lowkey feel like you’re hijacking a character bc you’re not blind but MATT MURDOCK HAS SENSORY ISSUES! HE HAS SENSORY ISSUES AND YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN THAT PORTRAYED ANYWHERE BEFORE AND THEY’RE SO MUCH LIKE YOURS AND YOU CAN’T DESCRIBE HOW MUCH YOU LOVE THIS

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Are anon submissions in asks alright? Dealing with social anxiety, and your faq link leads to the askbox.

Yes, that’s fine!!! I prefer submissions because it’s less work on my end, but the ask box is open for this very reason!

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TAFW you keep getting the ultra soft touches and you feel like you're gonna have a meltdown

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TAFW the person on the other side of your bedroom wall f***ing SNORES and it's actually worse that your sleep schedule is reversed because you can't/don't get to sleep before it starts so you can sleep through it, and you couldn't possibly start sleeping while it's happening, especially since with your hearing so sensitive to quiet/distant obnoxious noises, in order to drown it out to the point that you actually can't hear it anymore, you'd have to play music not only too loud to sleep, but you'd definitely get in trouble. So ultimately you have to sit there for hours listening to it like fingernails on your eardrum even if you are gonna stay awake. I'm going to break into your room and chuck you through the closed window my dude 

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Tafw you go to the cinema, can greatly appreciate how a movie looks but can't remember a single line of dialogue because why can't all cinema screenings have subtitles damnit!?

(Birds of Prey was great but I think I actually processed like 2 lines in to entire thing because I don't remember anything else that was said at any point)

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that autism feel when you've only recently realized you're autistic and for 25 years didn't notice that you do the Classic Stim, Rocking, because you mostly do it while listening to music (currently rocking to Pine Point by PUP :) )

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That autism feel when you can hear stuff that’s incredibly quiet/far away but also can’t hear speech at all. Gotta have subtitles on but I can hear electrical buzzing constantly!

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TAFW your special interest is slowly becoming more accepted in the world and you're just constantly excitedly vibing because LOOK people like what I like!! and there's also a new album out and the music is great and the new content you're getting is great and life is AWESOME

(it's BTS lmao)

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When u meet someone and u want to ask them if they like ur special interest instead of normal questions like "What did u do last weekend"

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TAFW you find some new piece of clothing/accessory/whatever that you can wear that not only doesn't trigger sensory uncomfortableness but is actively a Sensory Good™️

(Leather bracelets and cuff bracelets. The pressure is 👌👌 and the texture is really nice on my wrists 🙂. Plus they look really cool)

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TAFW you're resistant to being disgusted, because when you do think of unhygienic things as actually gross, then even water or soap or sanitizer doesn't help, and everything is disgusting and there's nothing that will help... so you're desensitized to grossness, and people think you're gross for not being grossed out by certain things, but if you were grossed out by those things then you'd have to also be grossed out by breathing, so, oh well