#autistic regression

[puppys-tiny-space]

🧁Games to play with your plushies/sibbies/cg's🧁

This list is mainly focused on games I like to play and aren't focused on proper pretend play but more things that follow a script of sorts as I'm autistic and don't enjoy playing differently

🩹doctor office, I love playing doctors office, I even make little patient sheets for everyone, set up a proper office, and waiting room, this games is great because there is a clear structure to play with and focus on🩹

🍨ice cream shop, ice cream shop is such a fun game, I have a Play-Doh set to make ice cream with that's really fun to play with, I like to set up my plushies in a line and give them fake money and then arrange them in groups to eat that candy together🍨

🦴puppy pound, playing things like animal shelter can be lots of fun with your plushies, you can make little introduction cards for each of them and makeup backstories, then you can lead another plushie or imaginary person through your shelter and introduce the animals🦴

🍼tea party, now this one is a classic, having real or pretend tea and cakes or other snacks with your plushies, discussing funny gossip or plushie land political issues, maybe even giving good life advice to your furry friends all this and more can be super great for playing tea party🍼

🪽funeral, this might seem morbid for some but for me it's very fun as I want to become a mortician, you can craft a pretty casket for the plushie, make a flower bouquet with paper, write a eulogy and set everything up nice and pretty, don't forget to make sure it worn make you sad though🪽

🧴beauty salon, I adore this game, giving a silly makeover to your plushies or human friends is so much fun, you can put bows in their hair, pretend to wash it, put makeup on them, paint their nails, give them silly outfits and talk about their life's🧴

🍥grocery store, playing grocery store isn't for everyone and I have to admit it's not something I like too much but for some people it can still be lots of fun, I especially like the organizing part🍥

📖library, this is a game I adore, you can make little library cards for your plushies and friends, set up books in piles, read story times to the visitors, help everyone find thr books they would like and give your recommendations📖

🌸flower store, for this game you can draw and craft lots of pretty flowers to sell to your plushies, advice them on the perfect way to put together their bouquet, add beautiful ribbons and lave to the flowers ans write nice cards for them, I think especially flowers out of pipe cleaners are amazing for this🌸

🩰ballet, now this could either mean you out on a show for or with your plushies or even going to a ballet with them, either way you can dress up beautifully and either dance together or watch a ballet on YouTube and pretend you are in a theater, I really like the Russian ballet's 🩰

Fun fact of the day: a cloud weighs around a million tonnes

[antlerkitty]

What people online think autism regression is: I unmasked and now appear more autistic!

What autism regression actually is:

Fear

Losing skills you may have just gained

Losing control of yourself

Depression

Losing hopes and dreams for the future

Loss of communication 

Loss of usable coping mechanisms

Feeling like your brain has changed completely and struggling to adjust

Self-blame

Confusion from those around you

More meltdowns

Feeling guilty for needing more support and care

Isolation

Feeling unprepared for the future you never planned for

Having to deal with decisions you made when you thought you were never going to get worse, that you can’t deal with anymore (pets, home, job, school)

Increased abuse and neglect

[bunnelbaby]

🐾 Autistic Pet Regressor flags (please reblog if you save)! 🐾

(Based on this flag: x)

[turtley-ausome]

Had sever autistic catatonia epasode yeserday. Super scary. Ben over year sinse my last sever epsode. Autistic catatonia cause what made me lose me rest of speech few yers ago. Eveythig fells all messed up.

[chrome-barkz-aac]

Here is a list of things that have been changed for me because of autistic regression.

Selective mutism getting worse. I have not be able to talk since last monday. I have speech loss more and more. I was already use my aac every day before this long speech loss episode but now is all day every day.

Chores. Could do my laundry by my self all through high school and some of college but can not put away any more. Have trouble change blankets on bed and clean bathroom. Only clean that like one time every month if lucky. Still good at litter box though.

School. I was getting close to finishing college but i am flunking out of it now. I was going to get my phd and be a professor but now i can not focus or talk about the bacteria i am studying. I know that i have privilege to be at college a little but i have to let go my dream that have had since 16 . That hurt a lot.

Work. Self work in lab as student research but will not be able to do this because again. Can not talk and need finish degree to be scientist. Want be scientist so bad. I love bacteria so much.

Washing and grooming. I do not even want to talk about this one. routine since 12 or 13 is shower or bath before i go to sleep. If no energy to do that. Overwhelmed and overstimulated from smell of outside on me and usually cry about it. Mouth stuff even worse. Is good day if brush teeth one time.

Still can cook. Still can drive. Really love do both of these things. Very very terrified of lose these skills.

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

can u tell me ur regression stories

[arquaticdreamer]

Many struggles of being level 3 HSN is that you can’t just have any kind of laundry detergent, or any kind of type of clothing, any type of fabric, or any type of shampoo and conditioner, not being able to eat just any type of food, sleep in just any kind of bed with any kind of mattress,or having just any kind of pillow, or any type of sheets, or having to use any type of keyboard to type on, or using just any type of fork, spoon, or knife, it all matters and NT and other autists dont understand why we need things to be just right. And can invoke a huge meltdown, or even aggressive stimming, SH stimming, and Cloud really wishes this was more talked about, and acknowledged by other Autistics in the Autism community.

[autisticdreamdrop]

autism things 180

losing the ability to mask from autism regression

[codys-theme]

late regression is genuinely so terrifying and i feel like its not talked about enough. im fully verbal but my stutter has been getting worse and im experiencing verbal shutdown more often. my fine motor skills are getting worse, i got out of occupational therapy in middle school but im starting to regress back to a point similar to where i was at before occupational therapy. its getting harder to mask and im scared.

[puppys-tiny-space]

🖍️ways to incorporate disability into regression🖍️

🧸you could craft cool communication cards with stickers, pens and papers. This is a fun activity on your own or with friends/a cg🧸

🧃make a plan of cool accomodations ie. a drawing of your dream wheelchair🧃

👑Preplan an activity with sour cg/tiny so you don't get overwhelmed outside, this works great for accomodations, making sure the place is accessible etc.👑

🧸get or make a plushie with the same disability as you to help you feel less alone🧸

🧃pick out affirmations centered around your disability and body positivity. You can write them down and decorate the list with stickers and then do them with your plushies or cg/tiny🧃

👑if you take medication or have other medicine related routines make sure your cg/tiny knows them so they can help you remember👑

🧸Research fun games you can do with your disability on parent forums, don't be afraid to modify things to accomidate yourself🧸

Dad joke of the day: How does a tree exclaim happiness about spring? What a re-leafe!

[zebulontheplanet]

Hello. You mentioned that burnout and late regression can look quite similar sometimes, and I guess I am sort of wondering what the difference is between them?

I am curious because I am a young adult and in the past couple of years I have lost some skills (like emotional regulation, masking/socializing, handling changes in routine, and executive functioning) and I don't know if it is burnout or regression or even what the difference is.

Thank you! (I am sorry if I am bothering you, please don't feel pressured to respond if you don't want to.)

Hey anon! So this is seriously just from my own personal research. There is currently one study out to my knowledge about it and a few articles. So do your own research as well! Please don’t use this post to self diagnose and contact a professional if you feel you are experiencing late regression with catatonia.

So late regression itself is said to come hand in hand with catatonia. It’s late regression with catatonia, if you google it then there’s a few articles about it and a study about it.

The main difference between late regression and skill regression caused by burnout is that burnout gets better with accommodations, unmasking, and time. While late regression seems to only get better with therapies, practice with skills that were lost, time, medication, and ECT in extreme cases. The also big difference is that burnout is usually caused by masking too much so you get “burnt out”. While late regression doesnt require masking to happen. And most people from what I’ve seen, were not masking to begin with and get it.

Late regression is more typically more severe then burnout as well, this is typically because of the catatonia symptoms. Burnout is pretty sudden. Late regression happens over time and just continues to get worse. Late regression you also typically begin to degenerate in ADLs and being able to take care of yourself, so typically your support needs change all together.

Burnout can cause you to lose the ability to do ADLs, but usually not to the extent of Late regression.

Not to mention speech. Typically with late regression, people lose their speech, either all together or experience “semi mutism” or semiverbalism/minimally verbal as some people know it.

There are also some things I’m not going into detail about, like loss in independence, increased slowness, needing prompting for basically everything, etc etc that comes along with late regression.

The two are very different. I hope this helps and i hope you understand this! If you have anymore questions then feel free to ask. Have a lovely day anon.

[pawp-tart]

Gonna see th 3rd sonic movie 2day!!!

[your3am6od]

5/22/25

Life is exhausting and painful, mentally, emotionally and physically. Had my first visit with my new GI, he was nice enough just very LOUD. His voice felt like daggers to my legs at times, it's overwhelming how sensitive I am to noises. Idk how I've managed to repress shit for so long, I guess it explains all the meltdowns and shutdowns I've had due to being overstimulated constantly in life and not even knowing what I was experiencing or why.

This late in life diagnosis might possibly save me, or at least give me a better understanding of myself and thus finally give me a sliver of a desire for a better liveable future...it still feels out of reach. Seems unattainable and there's still a part of me that feeds off my ptsd and ocd that says, "you're just pathetic, useless and a mistake and you're better off dead!"

Therapy is helping shed light on these patterns, and trying to equip me with tools to cope with everything. However the noise pollution of day to day, in overcrowded cities are so exhausting. It also makes me feel like such a grouch, but I can't help the innate adverse reactions I have to noises and smells. I didn't ask to be born. I especially didn't ask for these debilitating issues I have; today feels so heavy, yesterday was a lot.

I feel alone most of the time, but this new isolation I've been dealing with, because of this regression...really does feel so different. I used to think I was just unpleasant and antisocial and broken due to my childhood. Yes the ptsd plays a huge role in everything, but realizing and slowly trying to accept and reframe every past life experience, through the empathy and compassion of life: as a "neurodiverse" person...it makes my chest heavy, my eyes water and my limbs shake rhythmically. It both soothes and aches, simultaneously.

Not being able to work and daily life eating away at what little savings I had managed to save up here and there, is such an anxious overbearing burden. Fuck man, life is hard. It's a deep shitty feeling to me, to have all my limbs and still constantly be in stress, pain and on the verge of a meltdown or shutdown for something as simple as an unwarranted loud noise, pungent smell or unexpected texture. It makes me mad at myself and feel like I SHOULD BE FINE, I SHOULD TOLERATE IT. I am unable to. I understand why now. I need to just stop shoulding on myself...

I would never tell anyone else THEY SHOULD JUST BARE THE PAINS AND STRESSES, so why do I think I deserve such things? Life is hard. At least I have a better understanding of why.

[volchock1]

i start to lose my skills in language. i do grammar mistakes. i have autistic regression? i will be this way forever now?

[arquaticdreamer]

Been needing more time sitting in wheelchair lately, cloud had more drop seizures and tons of absence seizures (yes these are also Nonepileptic seuziures) mobility suffered a lot more. And now can’t seem to walk anywhere anymore without some mobility aid. Lost much more coordination in legs and hands. Now have to have caregiver put on make up when girl alters front. Need more help with priompting. And typing so much less slower than usual. Cloud needing more help with mobility, and process information so much worse. Harder for cloud to understand verbal commands. Just so angry, want to a scream. Hate hate hate having continued regression. F*ckin sucks!

[himegyaruo]

finally read articles on autistic regression and yeah, def experiencing it.

cant talk as well. cant put sentences together as well. cant speak as well. stutter is so so much worse, cant cope in public. cant go anywhere without carer (mum). overwhelmed so easy now.