#auctober2022

[selfindulgentraptor]

Auctober day 13!

Sometimes I point with my eyes and body before I realize I'm not pointing with my arms

[autiebiographical]

Hello all autistic creatives!

I've made an autistic themed prompt list for October 2022! You're free to draw, animate, write, etc, etc, etc for a prompt. I want everyone to have as much creative freedom as possible! You don't have to do every prompt, just do the ones you want!

If you want to take part I encourage you to do so! You don't need to tag me in any of your works, but instead tag #auctober. Let's spread this around! I'll try to reblog as many of your works as I can!

I hope you join in, and if you do I hope you have fun!

[catboyrichardkarinsky]

Sometimes self care is curling up with your blanket and water bottle and watching your favorite musical

[maybeacrowdedmind]

Auctober 2022

Day 29: Gold

If gold is the new color for autistic people and I’m the only autistic person in my family, does that make me the golden child? Pun aside, Fuck Autism $peaks and go for gold, my autistic peeps!

[starlitink]

Day One - Stims!

So I am autistic and ADHD, and here are some of my Stims!

balling my hands into fists and waving them side to side (happy stim)

Making the okay symbol and moving them back and forth (I do this one upset or nervous, which is kind of ironic)

Clapping my hands really hard (still not sure about what triggers this one)

[icannotgetoverbirds]

Auctober 2022: #2

Infodumping my beloved 💖

Seriously, if you ever need someone to infodump at, please for the love of god consider me. I do have a few rules: trigger tag appropriately, ask first so I know what I'm getting into, and I get to infodump back at you. That's pretty much it!

It's been a while since I've infodumped at anyone, but my favorite topics to infodump about are:

Birds (because of course)

Animal intelligence/psychology

Reptiles

I'm sure there are others that I'm not thinking of right now, but those are the main ones, and they all kind of connect in one way or another.

Honestly, I'd love to get infodumped at about pretty much anything, but especially:

Avatar: The Last Airbender

The Legend of Korra

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

The Hunger Games

The Underland Chronicles

History in general

SCPs

Literally any living thing

Writing and worldbuilding

Again, I'm sure there are others that I'm not thinking of. I'm writing this half an hour before my internet cuts out the day before it's scheduled to go up, so I'll add anything I missed if and when I think of it.

Happy Auctober!

[angelboybreakdowns]

figured id do a couple days of auctober at least, so day 3 (collections)

i actually have lots of little collections. i have a pretty rock collection, a couple jars full of origami cranes ive folded, and tons of stuffed animals. id say the biggest one + one that brings me most joy is my books, though. i absolutely love having my own physical copies of books rather than ebooks or library books - im not sure how many i own, but it must be well into the hundreds :) its stuff all the way from books i liked as a kid to various fantasy series to classics to art books to womens studies and i love all of my books.

[mental-autopsy]

Auctober Day 04 - Animal Friends

I love animals!

I grew up in a family with five cats, two dogs, and chickens.

Now I own my own cat (called Austin), and own hundreds of snails, lots of shrimp, and lots of catfish. I love them all.

Bonus pic of my fish tank:

[strawberry-sticky-autism]

Auctober Day 2 - Info Dumping

"Sugar is a molecule called Sucrose." Himari had been talking about sweets again.

"Sucrose is a disaccharide, which means it is made up of two molecules stuck together." For about 10 minutes.

"The two molecules, monosaccharides, are known as glucose and fructose." Together in Ichika's bedroom.

"Because of how sucrose as a molecule is formed, we can make all kinds of candy and sweets, using only sugar and a type of liquid!" Himari was lying on Ichika's bed, talking at length about sweets. And Ichika sat next to the bed, listening.

Listening. Something so simple and easy to do, and yet so many people had failed Himari on that very front.

When she was a child, Himari had no fear of talking about what she loved. And so she would talk, and talk, and talk about sweets whenever someone brought it up. But soon enough, people decided that they were bored of Himari. And so, they would brush her off when she tried to talk about her passion.

Before long, Himari "learned" that people were bothered by her. And so, she stopped talking, about sweets, about books, about... anything really. She'd just quietly stand off in the corner, reading her books, keeping to herself.

Then Ichika came along. 

Ichika was like a bolt of realisation in Himari's life. Ichika loves sweets too, though not in the same way that Himari does. Ichika was passionate, bright, determined. Everything Himari wasn't.

And Ichika cared about her. 

Meeting Ichika led her to meeting the rest of her team too. Pekorin, Aoi, Akira, Yukari, Ciel, and Pikario. 

They all cared about her. They loved her. She could talk about sweets for hours and hours, and they would just sit there and listen. They would ask questions, they would be excited to hear more, they would care about her feelings. They encouraged her to be herself.

Before long, Himari learned that it didn't matter that some people were bothered by her, as long as the people who truly loved her, her true friends, stood by her, then Himari was okay.

Just sitting together, enjoying each other's company, and listening to Himari rattling on about sweets at a mile a minute, made Ichika very happy. 

And that made Himari happy too.

[thegreenhairedwerewolf]

Auctober

Most of these are in the past, but here goes, a random collection of things for Auctober:

12. Sensory Euphoria:

Today I was listening to music with headphones in and just started dancing. I love dancing barefoot, hearing just the music (preferably because it’s so loud I can’t hear anything else, but living near and with other people means it’s usually done via headphones). My whole body moving, moving, moving. Singing along. Big movements and small movements and just this flow of things. Tension and release in my whole body. Everything feels so connected in me then, my brain and every inch of my body. Everything is right there. And in it, I am.

13. Alternative Communication:

When words leave me. What’s left: Gestures, facial expressions, noises, half-words. Writing often works, when I’m being given the time to figure it out. (Smartphones are a blessing for this.)

14. Verbal Stims:

Singing. Repeating words/phrases. Making noises, especially things like smacking my lips or humming. Singing is usually the one on the way to feeling better, whereas the others are for regulating bad times.

16. Unmasking:

Since having a kid, I find it more difficult. I have less time on my own. Am watched all the time when I’m with them. Always aware of that.

I also started at a new job last year. Makes it harder for me as well.

18. LGBTQ+:

Hell yeah. Queer, in several different ways.

[currently-getting-a-diagnosis]

Day 25

I did not do a single one of the other days. But I saw hyperlexia and I was like I can't just ignore that. I first started reading when I was around 2-3 years old. And from there my reading proficiency only grew as well as my love of reading. Sadly I don't read as much as I used to but I always love thinking back to when I was a kid struggling to read a sentence in the car at night hoping that we drove past a street light. I can't say that I'll ever hate reading either especially since I work in a library. I hope I can one day go back to reading more.

[selfindulgentraptor]

Auctober Day 2!

I actually don't infodump too often, irl at least. I was encouraged to stop infodumping as a kid and I have a really hard time doing it now since I feel like I'm just wasting people's time. And the times I do try it REALLY HURTS to get shut down so fast. Online fandom spaces are a godsend, they're the one place I can infodump freely without anxiety of being ignored or getting too intense.

That said, if ANYONE mentions Jurassic World I WILL go on a rant about inaccurate dinosaurs and you best be prepared for a science lesson cause DINOSAUR ANATOMY IS IMPORTANT!!!! >: (

[autiebiographical]

There's one week until #auctober!

I'm going to be posting something for every single prompt. That means that throughout the entire month of October I won't be posting any new comics since I'll be too busy with the prompts.

Remember, if you're taking part to use the tag #auctober or #auctober2022.

I'm so excited for this!

[catboyrichardkarinsky]

Anyways for this day of auctober i just filled a page with musical references in hopes that someone will get at least some of them

[maybeacrowdedmind]

Auctober 2022

Day 31: Autistic Pride

Although I spent many years being ashamed of the word autistic due to only seeing where I didn’t fit in, I am now at a point where I talk about what it means to be an autistic adult regularly. I strive to educate those who don’t understand autism, and have lists of resources on different topics surrounding the autistic community. I’m an active advocate for people like me, and I’m proud to be an autistic woman.

[starlitink]

Auctober Day 4 - Animal Friends!

So I'm a huge animal person, mostly because animals always want my love and affection when humans don't. I'm mainly a cat person, but since my dad and sister are allergic, we got a dog instead.

Here he is at my old house in Connecticut! His name is Todd, and he is an idiot. He once ran face first into a tree at top speed because he was chasing a squirrel.