#autistic adult

[itsaspectrumcomic]

If I don't let myself stim or I'm in an environment where stimming is more difficult (like work meetings!) I can get overwhelmed very quickly. For me it often manifests in the inability to focus and involuntary twitching…

[justabunny]

I hate how much that autism has become a joke recently. "omg I'm so autistic 🤪" when they literally just do something a bit out of the ordinary. But in reality autism isn't that at all, especially for me. For me it's sensory issues, missing social cues, overstimulation, sensitivity, stimming, echolalia, auditory processing issues, having difficulty making and maintaining friends, etc. stop making real disorders a little joke, you are contributing to the harmful stereotypes and stigma.

[neurodivergenttales]

I think people overlook the inability to regulate body temperature as a sign of impending burnout

When things are really deteriorating I find that I can never be a happy medium between hot and cold - I'm either freezing and feel the need to wrap myself in layers upon layers or I'm so uncomfortably hot that I'm sweating

It's like my body is trying to tell me that I am dysregulated to the point of needing to stop everything before burnout properly hits

[sprinkleofquirk]

I’m so tired of being honest about my pain level and having no one believe me because I don’t show pain the way they expect

[spookietrex]

[unpopularcharisma]

You want to know something mind blowing I thought of last night?

I was terrible in math all throughout school, teachers could never seem to teach how I learned. They always taught with the dry erase board using methods for auditory learners. They would also have the lights completely on, bright fluorescent lights that I couldn’t stand but didn’t really understand why back then or what to do about it. I just sucked it up and tried my best.

I took one math class that I did exceptionally well in. Which was geometry. I made an A, that teacher ALWAYS taught in the dark using a projector and the few times she didn’t have the room completely dark with the exception of the projector on, she would have the room pretty dimly lit.

Looking back on that I’m sure that is one of the reasons why I did exceptionally well in her class, because she only taught in the dark and she was also a great teacher who could really break it down.

[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

[adhdxxsdiary]

[cafeblossomss]

the most helpful thing i have ever seen from neurodivergent internet spaces is “THERE ARE OTHER TIMES OF DAY TO BRUSH YOUR TEETH”. this has genuinely saved me from executive dysfunction spirals so many times.

[justabunny]

*my phone makes the notification sound"

my partner: "omg let me guess it's Tumblr"

me: "look bro I can't help that the disabled community in tumblr finds me so relatable"

[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!

[neurodivergenttales]

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

[itsaspectrumcomic]

Autism is a disability. Sometimes it disables me.

[beenovel]

Anyway last week my professor told the class "coworkers will put up with poor technical skills but they won't put up with weird" and after class I just went and sat in my car and cried bc how am I supposed to survive if I still don't seem "normal" even though I've been doing behavioral therapy since first grade but masking hurts so goddamn bad that I'm only doing two classes a week rn but I'm still falling apart and barely functioning every day and barely getting my work turned in bc i come home from class and collapse for days at a time and its just not fair, its not fair, why do other people get to be the normal, why do jobs get to be easy for other people, why are 66% of autistics unemployed/underemployed its not FAIR

[autismwithoutpremium]

Just a thought

[theoraekensnotsosecretlover]

Ah yes, the autistic experience of being more mature than your peers as a child/teen, and then less mature as an adult. The window of opportunity to relate is... not there