#Asd

[borderline-culture-is]

BPD + Autism/ADHD culture is having an interest you’re extremely defensive and territorial about since that interest is the only thing defining you.

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[narcissisticpdcultureis]

Autistic NPD culture is like yeah bro, I AM special

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[nilla-divergent]

parents didn't know??

Its so frustrating to think about how my parents "never noticed" I'm autistic. How? How could you not have noticed? I struggled in every aspect of my life. I had bad meltdowns. I had hardly any friends. I pulled my hair and eyelashes out because of stress. I screamed and cried for help when they locked me in dark rooms until I couldn't cry any longer. I couldn't sleep from the buzzing of the lamp on my nightstand, and it made me cry too. I was put under so much stress, shame, and emotional neglect that I started regressing and struggled with bADLs that no normal child would struggle with. Especially hygiene.

Can somebody explain how on earth they couldn't have known?

[autismcultureis]

autism culture is i have dyscalculia and hyperlexia so i can spell anything im a spelling superhero but i just pulled out my phone calculator to do 25 minus 9 because i tried multiple times and couldnt get the same answer

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[neurodivergenttales]

Neurotypical standards have really rubbed away at my self-esteem so persistently that I have spent years trying to take-up as little space in everyone else's lives as possible

Asking for help feels like a betrayal of the impulse to make myself small and convenient

[dani-sdiary]

I can't take yes for an answer. Because what I thought were literal and exact statements have turned out not to be so many times, I have to parse your "yeah, sure" when I ask if you want to hang out for its ~hidden meaning~ and ruminate over your inflection until I've convinced myself you hate me instead of just being excited to hang out with you. :/

[snakeautistic]

People underestimate how much it fucks you up to be subtly excluded as a kid. I would try to talk to my classmates and be met with disinterest or annoyance. The one friend I had, who I clung to and nodded along to his every word, had other friends he liked just as much or more. And his other friends didn’t care for me at all.

I look back at pictures from the time and see how separated I was from them. I remember knowing I was different. I remember posing questions about the world to the girls playing next to me and realizing that they had never asked the same ones to themselves. That the ways we thought couldn’t be more different.

I kept myself amused with my own fanatical stories and musings in my head. I would wander the playground on a circular path, imagining a friend and being sorely disappointed when it didn’t feel as real as I’d hoped.

There was a bubble separating me from everyone else, thin, and nearly invisible, but with a pearly sheen you could catch under the right conditions. I knew it was there, they knew it was there, and it changed me

[pigeon-cave]

Diagrams are helpful to me

[magentasnail]

served my duty as an autistic artist and made a bunch of autism creature reaction images

[aimlesspoet]

a bottom-tier autistic experience is being told throughout your entire childhood that you are just an overthinker when it comes to social situations and later finding out that your friends did, in fact, hate being around you and tried to communicate that through weird little hints

[borderline-culture-is]

bpd + autism culture is having a strong sense of justice but always feeling like you're being dramatic because of how overwhelming your emotions are

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[the-toybox-sys]

reading the symptoms of autism as a now grown adult after being bullied for no explainable reason all your life

[crazycatsiren]

No no you don't understand! I want to watch this show/movie, read this book, listen to this podcast, etc.! But I must be in the right mindset and the exact head space to begin, or I just can't!

[aw-tysm]

"All autistics have low empathy" - This statement is wrong.

"Autistics having low empathy is a MYTH, we actually have HIGH empathy!" - This statement is ALSO wrong.

Autistics can have low empathy, they can have high empathy, they can have learned empathy. The myth would be that all autistics only experience one end of the empathy spectrum.

In spreading around misinformation that autistics actually have high empathy, you are disregarding the autistics who do have low empathy. And vice versa.

[autismcultureis]

undiagnosed autism culture is wondering why you get anxious and sob your eyes out when traveling to your grandparents house 2 days away once a year even though you love them but also you just want to stay home why do we have to leave

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[neurodivergenttales]

The ‘you’re mature for your age’ to sleeping with a bed full of plushies in your mid twenties pipeline is real