#anyway. autism

[hellwurld]

not yet titled, emhahee / run boy run, @pigeonwit / newsies: the broadway musical, disney

[chortlebot]

letting all my followers know i just beat cult of the lamb. none of you will survive this (including me)

[macdenlover]

it came to my realization that 99% of my fandom related headaches would be cured if everyone understood this

[kenapiece-main]

Can you believe I'm having to make this meme even after successfully finishing up taxes and applying to job

[maxgicalgirl]

Being a “Fun Fact !” kind of autistic is all fun and games until you get halfway through sharing an interesting tidbit and realize that it probably wasn’t appropriate to share in polite company and now you have to deal with the consequences :(

[softpastelqueer]

Having autism is like

Having ADHD is like

Having both Autism and ADHD is like

[bluepandadraws-log]

The Amazing Digital COMIC #26-The Amazing AUTISTIC Circus

☕Ko-Fi | [❤PREV] | [🧡START🧡] | [NEXT💙]

[queerdraws]

Fanart for a snippet of my most favorite heartbreaking moment from swordsmans's fic bone-breaker ospreys mate for life (rated E)

[forestofsprites]

tail end of season seven you will always be famous

[dandelion-roots]

yosano-san was supposed to be taking the afternoon off...

[id in alt]

[friendshapedcas]

Let’s play a fun game called am I masquerading as an autistic person and acting how I think someone with autism would act or am I simply learning to unmask

[eggings]

happy disability pride month to anyone who has a disability from a condition that “usually isn’t a disability”. happy disability pride month to people with disabilities that aren’t often understood by able-bodied people. happy disability pride month to people who don’t have any official diagnosis yet. happy disability to people whose “labs look completely fine”. wishing you peace this july.

[yet-another-autism-blog]

It's actually really ableist that I have several expensive interests and no money. I should be given 5k a month just autism related spending money

[bartholomew-junior]

i was listening to exclusively chappell roan while drawing this

[enemywasp]

I hate the idea that weird is bad. Like no actually I think being weird and funky and distinctively your own person is pretty cool.

[matcha-goblin]

Neurodivergent people are never undiagnosed. We are misdiagnosed. Our symptoms don't go unnoticed, and people will always attribute them to some sort of cause. They'll just attribute them to personality and blame the individual for their symptoms.

For example. My autism is not undiagnosed, it's been misdiagnosed as "too sensitive," "awkward," "rude," "obsessive," and "too intense." My brother's adhd wasn't undiagnosed, it was misdiagnosed as "lazy," "impulsive," "annoying," and "can't seem to get any work done."

Growing up without a diagnosis is growing up believing that you are to blame for your differentness. Your symptoms are a personality flaw. You are diagnosed by everyone around you as "weird."

Edit: Some people have pointed out that I'm using the word misdiagnosis here rather loosely. I'm aware that it isn't quite correct definitionally, and I don't mean to say that medical misdiagnosis and the type of social misattribution I'm talking about are identical--just that they are related phenomena, and neurodivergent people are often victims of one or both. There isn't an exact term for what I'm talking about here, so I used the closest one I knew of. Terminology is important and some words need to be used with precision to retain their influence. At the same time, sometimes meanings change, and bending words to fit new circumstances is a natural way that language evolves. I'm not sure which situation this falls under, so while I don't want to change my post (not even sure what to change it to), I thought I'd edit and add clarification. Additional feedback on this is welcome.