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when ur friend says a speech pattern that u also use

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They say I have complex tics, I say the little baby demon inside of me is growing up and learning new words

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So, there’s a new trend on TikTok of people without tics making “that girl who faked Tourette’s” (tics and roses) parodies but the problem is most people don’t know enough about tics and TS to tell the difference between real and fake tics. Plus, these videos all include things that are very real to Tourette’s (like context based tics etc.) and all the fakeclaiming of real TS creators in the comments really shows the harm it’s doing.

These people are using our disability for views and getting them while doing nothing positive to actually spread awareness of what it’s really like or raise OUR voices. It’s 2025 and people still get ass pats for mocking Tourette’s smh

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It's just a Migraine…

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reblog to give your headache to elon musk instead

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tics make me shake my head so fast everything blurs and I think one day I might see an old god in the corner of my vision while doing that

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they weren't even trying to write it as that but this is genuinely the best description of premonitory urge ive ever heard

especially when its sensory tics that just sit no matter how much you try to get them to go away

sometimes you find the deepest understanding for the concepts you struggle to explain in the worm episode of a horror podcast I guess

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ive found that partially treated mental illness can sometimes look to uninvolved onlookers like faked mental illness.

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'Cause people tend to not get the memo: People acting strangely in public is not a danger to you. Pacing, talking to themselves or something you can't see, laughing to themselves, stimming, twitching, ticcing, making "weird" noises--it doesn't fucking matter. They're not your personal freak show, they're not broken, they're not a murderer and they're definitely not going to be fucking helped by you calling the authorities or anyone else on em. These actions alone are not indicative of danger to you, as a random person on the street. Shut the fuck up and move on, leave disabled people alone.

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they won't tell you this in therapy but sometimes the best way to stop catastrophizing/anxiety is to interrupt your spiraling with "girl what the hell are you talking about"

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ahhhh so the guilt is NOT supposed to be neverending and haunting and constant and persisting beyond a doubt over even the most menial of things that i would not be upset at someone else for. i understand now.

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Light it up, Blue! happy autism acceptance month, don’t support autism speaks!

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Nobody:

Absolutely no one:

My entire nervous system:

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One of the most life-changing things I ever learned came from Mythbusters, where they tested and proved (with cognitive testing puzzles and reaction time tests) that lying down and resting with the intention to sleep STILL provided significant mental benefits over just staying awake, even if a person couldn’t fall asleep in the amount of time they had. 

It helps me to actually sleep to know that just lying down with my eyes closed is still doing me some good, and helps me to not freak out/beat myself up when I stay up later than intended. Any amount of rest is better than no rest!

So if you didn’t know that…now you do

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"I might be disabled, but at least I'm not that kind of disabled" is an ugly sentiment that we as a community need to lose asap.

I got told today by a disabled person who doesn't need carers that my life is "depressing" because I need help to use the toilet. It's not the first time I've heard something like that from someone with fewer care needs. And people are way too comfortable saying shit like "I may be unable to walk/autistic/ neurodivergent but at least I'm not [slur for intellectually disabled]"

It needs to stop

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Applying for jobs is a hell designed specifically to torment autistic people. Here is a well-paying task which you know in your heart and soul if they just gave you a desk and left you alone and allowed you to do it you would sit there and be more focused and enthusiastic and excellent at it than anyone else in the building. However, before they allow you to perform the task, you must pass through 3-4 opaque social crucibles where you must wear uncomfortable clothes and make eye contact while everyone expects you to lie, but not too much (no one is ever clear exactly how much lying is expected, “over” honesty is however penalized). You are being judged almost entirely on how well you understand these very specific and unclear rules that no one has explained. None of this has anything to do with your ability to perform the desired task.