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Hello all! Welcome to the Actually Autistic chat thread. This is a place for everybody-Autistics (whether formally diagnosed, self diagnosed, or questioning) as well non autistics. You can use this to post that info dump that's been buzzing in your head, ask for advice about meltdowns, shutdowns, sensory issues, social problems, etc. as well as to make inquiries about Autism to build a better understanding. Even if you feel like you question seems dumb or weird, ask away! I will do my best to answer any inquiries posed in a timely manner.
And that's not all! You have permission to use this thread for whatever you please, as long as you are kind and respectful. :)
submitted by An Autistic
(April 19, 2023 - 7:56 am)
(April 19, 2023 - 7:56 am)
Thank you a lot. I quite possibly wouldn't have survived Hans Asperger (I mean this very literally). And you're very right, it's really harmful to a lot of the community. I will work on more about this but thank you for pointing this out.
A lot of the information on this thread is targetted towards low level 1 people. (I know the level system is bad, I know they still have a lot of problems, but that doesn't change this.) "Some Autistic people also experience a strong desire for predictability" is one example. For me, even relatively small changes can make me meltdown (usually in connection to another thing but not always). I think this part is worse: "Autism is just a divergent neurotype, so our brains process information and think a little differently then our nuerotypical peers". It's technically true, but "neurotype" sounds like trying not to use "disability". And it's a LOT more than my brain processing information and thinking a little differently. I don't want to pick on An Autistic, they have just written the most. Please don't be mean, they've been helpful still.
If any of this is true for a person that's fine but nobody ever acknowledges that people like me exist. I don't have word ability anymore so stop here. Hope none of this hurts anyone. Thanks again Writing.
(May 12, 2023 - 8:08 pm)
Hi Bobcat! Thank you very much for this post and you are totally right and I'm sorry. I can see now where the information i provided erased or ignored a large percentage of autistics, including a lot of my own experinces, to makw it more digestable and just easier for me to explain. As for avoiding to word disability, i guess i was. I do consider myself disabled, but i have been shut down so many times when i start to discuss my experinces using those words, as well as when i talk about the messier side of my autism (the more honest picture of what my life and brain is like), that i almost unconsciously skirt away from the discussion now. But thats what thos thread is for. A safe soace for us to talk about every nuerodivergent experience, not just the ones people have liked me to tell in the past. Thank you for the kind reminder, and, again, i am sorry and will try to do better in the future.
(May 17, 2023 - 8:04 pm)
Admins, is it possible to delete this? I just want to rephrase some stuff :D
I just deleted the most recent comment from you (dated May 2023) on this thread. I hope that's what you meant. I can only track a new comment to its thread, not to the specific previous comment you intend. It's better to give the exact beginning wording of the thread you want deleted.
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(December 22, 2023 - 10:56 pm)
Oh. I meant the one the one posted by Bobcat@writing that starts with "Thank you a lot." and ends with "Thanks again Writing". It also appears that I commented on the wrong comment, oops. Thanks :)
(December 26, 2023 - 9:46 pm)
In that case, scrap what I said about Asperger's. Both of my parents agree Im 2e and probably autistic.
(May 15, 2023 - 4:26 pm)
Aaaaah
SOMEBODY took their computer leaving this tab open, went back in time, and posted as myself as a reply to An Autistic's comment.
(May 18, 2023 - 3:29 pm)
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I'll post a drawing of a rainbow infinity symbol when I get the chance!
(May 11, 2023 - 12:10 pm)
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(May 11, 2023 - 6:57 pm)
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(May 11, 2023 - 6:58 pm)
I made the Autistic pride flag! I'll put it up on the inside of my bedroom window so that if someone walks by my window outside, they'll see it :)
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(May 12, 2023 - 11:42 am)
I'm just like... So tired of being neurodivergent sometimes. More accurate to say the people around me are, which I can kinda tell when they get snippy and rude. Like my sister is being really horrible to some people on the spectrum and is utterly unapologetic about it and I'm just dying inside because it's seeping out into taking her frustrations out on me and others and I've been trying for a long time to help her understand our needs but it is just NOT happening and-
I don't know what to do. Apparently every single member of my direct family is a horrible bigot of some sort? And I, as well as my friends/people I relate to am like, the epitome of everything they hate? :' ) Can I secede from this nightmare household?
(May 12, 2023 - 10:05 pm)
That's awful :( I'm so sorry that's happening to you. I don't really have any advice, but I hope it gets better for you and we're always here if you need to vent. You deserve so much better.
(May 13, 2023 - 6:15 am)
Rainbow infinity!
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(May 29, 2023 - 2:27 pm)