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comic about the intersection of my transness and my autism, & how i don’t really understand or connect to either gender or neurotypical behaviors.

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“Girls have long hair & boys have short hair.” “But why?” / “It’s rude to not make eye contact when talking to people.” “But why?” / “You were born with this body which makes you this gender” “But why?!” / “You’re the only one bothered by the noise, you’ll have to deal with it.” “But why?!”

Growing up, I felt weird, different, and like an outsider because of my neurodiversity and my gender. But I was just a kid- / I lacked the vocabulary and information to understand or explain myself. All I knew was there was something wrong with me. This lead to a lot of suffering for a lot of years. As I got older, I learned that neurodiversity & gender nonconformity are not bad things. There are lots of people like me, and these things make me who I am. My experience of transness and autism are contingent upon each other.

I navigate social situations and gender in unique, non-conventional ways, and these are inextricable. My lack of understanding/compliance with social norms is also how I am with gender. To me, gender is just social norms…and social norms are confusing & made up. There are some recent studies showing the higher rates of autism and gender-diverse people, which is a correlation that applies to me & others I know. Basically, I’m trans and autistic and proud!

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Hi, if you care about us Autistic folks then please boost this

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This is my most popular tik tok to date

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are you an "I remember a 7-digit number you told me one time 2 years ago" autistic or an "I don't remember what I said 5 seconds ago" autistic

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The inherent gay and autism of being an “eccentric” scientist.. Often transgener too

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happy autism acceptance month, asperger's is still an ableist and useless term

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If an autistic person overexplains something to you they probably don't think you're dumb they just think THEY would appreciate those details if they were the ones being explained to

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Me at midnight: I should go to bed

Me: wait shit there's a thing I need to do before I go to bed

My executive dysfunction: but we Can't Do That right now. try again later

Me: there's no later we have to do it or we cannot sleep

My executive dysfunction, now at 3 AM: Then Sleep We Shall Not.

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so did you lay in bed blasting fireflies by owl city as a kid staring up at the ceiling while imagining running away to a happier place bc you grew up on fairy tales and make believe stories since you didnt really have the best social skills due to undiagnosed neurodivergency and thus didnt have a lot of friends so you spent all that extra time you had induldging in fictional stories and then grew up believing maybe one day youd get to go on a magical adventure like those stories had so youd spent so much time just longing for an escape and to go somewhere you understood bc you didnt understand people but you did understand all those stories you read or are you normal

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Ahh fuck it. I’m sick of seeing unrelatable shout outs.

Shout out to all those people who just accept it’s fucking shit and just try to get on with their lives knowing this. Who can laugh at themselves. Who can look at something like a conspiracy theory and be like “actually yeah that could happen, but why freak out about it?”

You don’t have to be positive to be coping.

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Me: we don’t know what plants experience or don’t and it seems arrogant to automatically assume they’re completely inanimate and unfeeling

People: lose their damn minds at me

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ur not evil babe ur experiencing a human emotion

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sensory issues be like *turns up phone brightness to hear better* *turns off light to see better* *socks don’t have to match but they MUST be the same length and texture* *washes hands out of no where because they don’t feel clean* *oversensitive to one sense but undersensitive to another, related sense* *unlocks phone to concentrate*

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And y'all fucking swallowed their shit when they said it was a mistake the first time.