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Sad . Mom say something make hurt feelings.

Doctor call me high functioning bc have good grades and after appointment said don’t agree with him because of all support I need, mom said “well maybe you don’t *need* it maybe you just want it.” Very sad mad

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"Carers cant speak for autistic people!!! Autistic people can advocate for ourselves!!"

You think this because you dont listen to carers of autistic people therefore you completely shut out all the autistic people who cant advocate for themselves. Therefore you dont see the people who cant advocate for themselves. Duh.

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yall love autistic kids until they're autistic. fuckin. "homeschool kids are so weird" "the neighbors kid:" "wolf girls" "horse girls" "sword boys" its all just rebranded making fun of autistic traits. "well i was autistic and wasn't like that" ok good for you. a lot of us were. there are kids that are. that see those jokes . once it became unacceptable to just outright say you were making fun of SpEd kids yall invented new ways to say the same shit.

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Debating whether to do virtual school again. Last time in 8th grade did very very bad but was unmedicated mostly so. Now very medication and people at 504 meeting said they’d look into programs for me because of my sensory and social challenges. I don’t like going to public school bc of sensory demand but love the routine, if was virtual would feel more comfortable using AAC and mobility aids more bc no judgement

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I hate when people say that autism doesn’t have a look. Yes, I understand that many low support needs/high masking/level 1s constantly get fakeclaimed because people say they don’t “look” autistic. However, they(low support needs/high masking individuals) usually follow this up by saying “autism doesn’t have a look. Stop saying that”

I want people to understand that to a lot of higher support needs people, we DO look autistic. We do stim publicly. We do grunt, laugh, make noises/vocal stim loudly. We do carry AAC devices. We do look autistic. People can point us out. People can know just from looking at us for a few seconds. That’s the issue I have.

Many of us look developmentally disabled. We look different. It’s frustrating to see time and time again that autism doesn’t have a look when I get singled out in public just for simply existing. It’s just exhausting.

Please in the future rephrase your posts. We are on the internet. We are reading your posts. We’re on tumblr. We’re on Reddit. We’re on Facebook and more. And even if we aren’t, you’re still disregarding those of us who are visibly autistic.

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made a couple emojis inspired by this wonderful ask, to test if I still had that emoji making magick!

remember not to edit, copy or steal my emojis without permission & reblogs > likes 🌈

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Might start my own aac emoji blog! Here’s some of my work :3

Feel and go

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stuffed animals hold such a place in my heart as an autistic person. i often feel overwhelmed with society’s systems and expectations, but plushies simply just.. exist. they exist, and they exist for you. to enjoy things alongside you. to comfort you through your troubles. humans usually dont care like they do (its wonderful when they do !! its just rare), but i can always count on my plushies to understand and support me in whatever way they can.

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personally, to be honest, as person who cant necessarily drink from normal bottles because severe autism, intellectual disability & mobility in hands impaired, sippy cups and yes sippy cups that made for children that have different opening, different thing drink comes through and often different holding handles is something that's considered my need and something which helps functionality in drinking.

sick of seeing neurotypicals or lower needs individuals who do not require these actually judging videos HSN people in who use them online or say to caretakers its treating person as "baby" when clearly the person seems happy drinking out of it plus the caretaker likely knows person best enough to tell if upsetting them or bad.

& honestly, no matter needs or whatever feel anyone has the right to drink out of whatever, be it as said bottles made for young children, babies, whatever, doesn't hurt anyone

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reclusive child with elaborate imagination and maladaptive daydreaming to plural teenager who doesn’t identify with thier own body anymore pipeline is unfortunatelg real

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📲 AAC User Ask Game :] 💬

Remember that anyone can refuse to answer a question for any reason, even if that reason is just that they don't want to say !! Be respectful and courteous. Feel free to tag a friend if you think they'd enjoy :]

!! Geared towards more high tech AAC but a lot of the asks could work for other types of AAC too !!

💙 :: What types of AAC do you use?

🐌 :: Would you say you're pretty fast or pretty slow at using your AAC?

🛑 :: Is there any situation where you would avoid using a certain kind of AAC?

🪁 :: When did you first start using your main form of AAC?

📺 :: Do you have a favorite character you headcanon as using AAC?

🥚 :: Do you tend to rely on labels or emojis/symbols more to quickly find the word you need?

🎒 :: What do you do when you don't have your main form of AAC? (If it runs out of battery, is left somewhere, gets damaged, etc)

🫧 :: What's the weirdest button or card in your AAC?

💭 :: How expansive is your vocabulary on your AAC?

🎨 :: Do you have any fun phrases on your AAC?

🪺 :: [SPECIAL] [HIGH TECH SPECIFIC] Type the next three asks using your AAC (if you aren't already)

🍪 :: How do you organize your food folder(s)?

💿 :: How finished would you say your AAC is?

🎁 :: [HIGH TECH SPECIFIC] Do you have any cute accessories like cases, straps, or stickers on your AAC?

🤟 :: [SPECIAL] Show me the main page/cards/section of your AAC !!

⛅️ :: What's something your AAC isn't great at?

🪱 :: Why do you use AAC? No wrong answers !!

✂️ :: [HIGH TECH SPECIFIC] When your AAC says a word wrong, do you try to fix the pronunciation or do you just let it be?

🧸 :: Do you have a name for your AAC? Do you personify it in any other way?

🫂 :: Are you more private with your AAC or do you like to show it to people?

🪅 :: Would you say your AAC is aesthetically pleasing or is it more chaotic?

🐚 :: Do you rely more on full phrases or do you prefer to build sentences with individual words?

🍿 :: [HIGH TECH SPECIFIC] How deep is your deepest folder?

🛝 :: Are you comfortable using your AAC in public?

🐛 :: Do you use your AAC in any unique ways?

🛍 :: [SPECIAL] Make a moodboard or stimboard based on your AAC :]

✏️ :: Do you use more community made symbols by AAC emoji artists or the original base symbols AAC is typically seen with?

🎭 :: What's the hardest part of being an AAC user?

🫗 :: Do you stim with your AAC?

📚 :: Do you care how your AAC looks? Do you value form or function more?

📬 :: [SPECIAL] Give a shout out to an AAC community member's blog you like !! Spread the love :] ♡

🎡 :: [HIGH TECH SPECIFIC] What does your AAC's voice sound like? Why did you choose it?

🧼 :: What's a button or card that you hardly ever use?

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What are some affordable tablets that can handle AAC apps?

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“autism is just a difference, and wouldn’t disable anyone if society was more accepting”

Tell that to the autistics who need 24/7, 1 to 1 carers.

Tell that to the autistics who cannot communicate even with AAC.

Tell that to the autistics who will never be able to live alone.

Tell that to the autistics who can’t get a job.

Tell that to the autistics with co-occurring intellectual disabilities.

Tell that to the autistics who can’t handle even low sensory input.

Tell that to the autistics with violent meltdowns in reaction to everyday events.

Autism is, and always will be a disability.

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Unmasking isn’t always deliberate. Unmasking and being not able to mask can happen for multiple reasons. From burnout, to regression, to autism catatonia. There are multiple reasons why someone wouldn’t have control over their masking ability.

Unmasking isn’t always something someone wants and sometimes it happens beyond their control. Sometimes it happens unwillingly.

Unmasking Isn’t always deliberate, and that needs to be talked about more.

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Hello. You mentioned that burnout and late regression can look quite similar sometimes, and I guess I am sort of wondering what the difference is between them?

I am curious because I am a young adult and in the past couple of years I have lost some skills (like emotional regulation, masking/socializing, handling changes in routine, and executive functioning) and I don't know if it is burnout or regression or even what the difference is.

Thank you! (I am sorry if I am bothering you, please don't feel pressured to respond if you don't want to.)

Hey anon! So this is seriously just from my own personal research. There is currently one study out to my knowledge about it and a few articles. So do your own research as well! Please don’t use this post to self diagnose and contact a professional if you feel you are experiencing late regression with catatonia.

So late regression itself is said to come hand in hand with catatonia. It’s late regression with catatonia, if you google it then there’s a few articles about it and a study about it.

The main difference between late regression and skill regression caused by burnout is that burnout gets better with accommodations, unmasking, and time. While late regression seems to only get better with therapies, practice with skills that were lost, time, medication, and ECT in extreme cases. The also big difference is that burnout is usually caused by masking too much so you get “burnt out”. While late regression doesnt require masking to happen. And most people from what I’ve seen, were not masking to begin with and get it.

Late regression is more typically more severe then burnout as well, this is typically because of the catatonia symptoms. Burnout is pretty sudden. Late regression happens over time and just continues to get worse. Late regression you also typically begin to degenerate in ADLs and being able to take care of yourself, so typically your support needs change all together.

Burnout can cause you to lose the ability to do ADLs, but usually not to the extent of Late regression.

Not to mention speech. Typically with late regression, people lose their speech, either all together or experience “semi mutism” or semiverbalism/minimally verbal as some people know it.

There are also some things I’m not going into detail about, like loss in independence, increased slowness, needing prompting for basically everything, etc etc that comes along with late regression.

The two are very different. I hope this helps and i hope you understand this! If you have anymore questions then feel free to ask. Have a lovely day anon.

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As an underweight xylophone player, thank you.

op turned off reblogs due to getting harassed over this post but i agree with this too hard .m y post now