#autistic challenges

[spectrumlife99]

Oh boy...tomorrow's Thanksgiving...that means I have to deal with being surrounded by foods I can't stand. I can't even BE AROUND holiday food, never mind eat it! The smells and looks of holiday food is just too overwhelming for me and I can't be in the same room with everyone while they're eating it. Luckily I don't have to sit at the table with everyone since my family knows about my issues with holiday food. I can count the number of foods I will eat on my fingers, and while it drives everyone crazy, I can't help it. I have issues with the way food looks, smells, tastes, and also texture. My family made sure I have something I'll actually eat tomorrow since I don't eat holiday food, so I'm relieved that I'll be having one of my safe foods for supper tomorrow. So I'll just be watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV tomorrow waiting for the Pikachu and Eevee balloon (my favorite balloon, of course), steering clear of the kitchen as much as I can, and then eating a different, safe meal for supper separately from everyone else...at least we don't have anyone coming over or anything. That would be way too much for EVERYONE, not just me.

To any other autistic people who have food sensitivities, just know you're not alone. I see you and feel you, I'm the same way. It's hard not being able to eat many different foods because of sensory issues, and it's even more of a struggle being yelled at or scolded for it, even though it's not something you can just change. It's not like I can just flip a switch and all my problems with food are gone, no, I've had these issues since I was a kid, and they've only gotten worse over time. I'm to the point where I'm going entire days without eating anything, and I usually only eat one meal a day when I do eat. This stuff is usually really hard for me to talk about but I feel like it's kinda important, and since tomorrow's Thanksgiving, I figured now's as good a time as any to post about it.

So yeah, thanks for reading this kinda long post about how much I hate food, I guess...😅

And everyone in the US, have a happy Thanksgiving tomorrow!

[helenwhiteart-blog]

Exploring the link between hypermobility and neurodiversity

Like the princess and the pea, my hypersensitivity to factors that don’t even seem to register to other people means that the kind of bed that greets me when I check in somewhere new is a make or break situation. “Pretty” metal bed frames that creak and otherwise self-animate whenever you move, especially those with a load of wire springs underneath, under compensated for by over soft or springy…

[mayasaura]

I don't wanna further hijack that poor poll, but the thing about Harrow's schizophrenia is that it's canon. The author has confirmed it, and shared that it's based on her own experience.

It's a pretty obscure bit of canon, so of course there's no shame in not already knowing, but that's why I'm so obnoxiously persistent about letting people know.

Whatever else is up with Harrow, autism or cptsd or any number of likely headcanons, she is also schizophrenic. I feel like that's too important to be handwaved away as a difference of opinion.

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

The “Spectrum”

Autisticality

[daily-dragon-drawing]

Moth-themed dragon, perhaps?

#37- 光蛾 (guāng é/ light moth) - A shining beauty who brings guidance to all 💖🌟🦋

[ohara-n-brown]

Am I the only one that feels like NTs HATE saying 'I don't know.'

You will not believe the amount of times I'll ask a basic objective question about a situation and they'll give me an answer, only for later the answer to be completely wrong. And then when I ask them why they would give me wrong information - they say 'I just guessed.'

I didn't ask you for your guess. I asked for the information. If you didn't have the information don't just GUESS. Say 'I don't know.'

I feel like NT don't realize that WRONG information is worse than no information.

If I want to know when an event will end and you say '5pm' - I'm going to be mentally prepared for 5pm. And if it DOESN'T end then, not only will I be out of energy, but I'll be irritated and confused because I'm in an unfamiliar situation with NO INFORMATION

Had you just told me 'I don't know what time it ends' instead of GUESSING 5, then I would've prepared for the worse. But now I have to literally rearrange everything in my head and talk myself down from meltdown cause I was given inaccurate information and also I thought I was going home.

But they act instead like saying I don't know is a moral failure.

My father used to yell at me all the time to not say 'I don't know.'

He'd always demand I figure it out and come up with SOMETHING no matter how uninformed or vague and that's how you have NTs walking around feeling like it's a crime to admit they simply don't know something

and instead they'll just shamble something together and hope that's good enough regardless of whether in the information is actually helpful or correct.

IT'S SO ANNOYING. JUST SAY YOU DON'T KNOW.

Stop guessing and giving me WRONG information because it only makes the situation worse and more confusing. Say you don't KNOW. It's FINE.

[vvitchella]

do other employed autistic people have advice for how to COPE with the fact that:

I have a job 8 hours a day that I am not interested in but pays the bills and provides essential health care and basically keeps me alive

Those 8 hours a day are gone and leave me too exhausted to engage in literally anything I find passion and interest in (aka. my hyperfixations)

So I am left with the choice to either A) slack off at work to focus on what I love (valid, good option, except that indulging myself even a little bit in this regard makes me RABID to quit entirely because how DARE anything come between me and my interests), or B) just Ignore My Needs.

[apparentlyautisticandanxious]

When you tell you’re coworkers you’re autistic and their response is always “I definitely couldn’t tell”. It’s called masking, guys, and I’ve been practicing for decades.

[schmweed]

[ahxiang]

with the focus on the revolving door again in ep 16, i just want to say a little smth abt the door as an autistic person myself.

i know some ppl are frustrated with wyw's difficulty in using the door, saying it infantilizes her and that "she's a 27 year old lawyer, she's seen a revolving door before, she knows how they work." but the thing is, it's not abt her being familiar with revolving doors at all. at least not in the way you think. it's not "oh look at this lady, she doesn't understand this door bc she's autistic." it's a sensory issue.

autism affects our senses and the way we process them. what many allistics don’t understand about autism is that we’re not just overly sensitive to sounds and bright lights. we can be underly (is that a word??) sensitive to stimulus as well and have a hard time controlling our senses. this includes all seven senses. that right, seven. there’s the five you know, but also two you probably don’t: the vestibular sense and proprioception. these two have to do with body awareness, balance, and spatial orientation. that’s why many of us walk “weirdly” (if i ever catch you saying someone walks weirdly i am coming into your house and punching you in the face) or are clumsy. we have issues with our bodies in relation to the world around us and often have a hard time balancing. i walk into walls all the time and miscalculate and walk into doorways instead of through them. 

so it’s not that wyw doesn’t understand the social concept of a revolving door, but that they’re difficult to navigate through due to her vestibular and proprioceptive sensory issues. i myself have a hard time with revolving doors! so pls no more “this makes her look dumb” or “this is so unrealistic”. if wyw is bad representation and is stupid for having problems with a revolving door, then i’m an unrealistically stupid autistic that walks into walls.

[lazycranberrydoodles]

ouuuu watching through saiki k

full vers. :P

[voxofnox]

Character played by Alexander Ward: [exists]

Me: he's just like me fr (autistic)

[dennifreeman]

i think tommy's characterization by the hlvrai fandom wouldn't be this way if he was a bit more vulgar

[thankkyouforthevenom]

rent fandom still active on tumblr i applaud you for your hard work and also i love every single one of you individually and i am giving every one of you a tiny kiss (if comfy) because you are so cool

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Autism and Challenges with Food (part 2)

The Autistic Teacher

[katyspersonal]

So, I smoked a new Placidusax idea...

Alright so uh... I've noticed at some point during that battle that Placidusax looked like he (?) had severed heads: three severed and two still remaining! It made me recall that there are also exactly three other -sax dragons in the story (Fortissax, Lansseax and Gransax). So like, what if these three dragons somehow grew up/evolved from these severed heads? BUT but but!!!! Turned out that a certain discovery from Zullie can explain even more on this:

(In this ( x ) Tweet)

So, guuuyyyys? We have: 1) Placidusax currently has two heads remaining, male and female one 2) Male heads are bigger than female ones 3) Original look suggests three female heads and two male heads 4) Gransax is bigger and we know is male 5) Lansseax is female and is a sister of Fortissax whose gender isn't stated

So based on this, I think that Fortissax would be female! And I think the idea about these other three -sax dragons somehow existing from the severed heads of Placidusax might work, at least the numbers and internal filenames fall into place 🤔