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@autisticpup
Reminder that autistic childhood stimming doesn't always go away and become "acceptable" or calm.
So this is a loving shout out to adult Autistics who:
Hand chew or suck
Arm or hand flap
Bang their heads and may require safety items such a helmet
Spin
Jump
Toe walk
Vocal stimming that isn't "socially acceptable"
Hair pull or chew
Skin pick
Lip chew
And all the many ways that you regulate.
I love you so much. ❤️
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stimming positivity !! what's your favourite way to stim with only your body?
hand-flapping, snapping or clapping<3 (a classic)
fiddling with your hair.
rubbing & touching your skin.
small movements with your fingers like wiggling or scrunching.
blinking, staring or something else with your eyes :-)
biting yourself (just be careful<3)
rockin' & swayin' !!
counting your body parts (e.g. fingers, toes, freckles, etc)
making mouth noises :-)
other !! (add in tags?)
stimming is perfectly good & natural<3 it's great for emotional regulation & self-soothing.
When I was a child, many of my sensory issues were used as the butt of jokes by my family. I had many phobias due to these issues, but they were laughed off as they were seen as "extreme" or over the top.
Examples would be I was terrified of pinecones as young as 3 because I thought they were visually disturbing and dangerous. So, at the age of 4/5, we were in a park and I handed my mum my jacket so I could use the public loo. She proceeded to fill the pockets, sleeves and hood with pinecones.
I had a meltdown in the middle of a forest. I screamed and collapsed and i was told I was overreacting.
Now, this isn't good behaviour for an adult for any child.
But when you're an undiagnosed autistic, you begin to learn that your sensory pain doesn't matter. It's too much, and needs to be ignored.
Holding the door closed whilst the toilet flushed, another sensory pain was one done to me "for laughs". I was told it wasn't that big of a deal and I needed to grow up.
So, is it any wonder that late diagnosed (and probably many early diagnosed) autistics ignore their own needs? We don't want to be too much. We don't want to rock the boat and endure being told that we're overreacting and to just shut up.
Some autistic people learn that this is how basic human interaction works. When something bothers someone, it's funny to do it just to provoke a reaction and laugh about it. So they do it to other people as an attempt at interacting with them.
But they missed the most important part of the rule. Only neurotypical people who are doing this to an autistic person can play the Kidding Card. Autistic people can't. Autistic people are held fully accountable when they make someone uncomfortable.
They end up constantly in trouble, disliked by everyone, and often even risk being physically attacked.
But they have no idea what they did wrong, because they were taught that it's how normal human interaction works, and because people who supposedly love them did it like it was nothing.
April might be over, but autistic people still deserve just as much love, support, and acceptance all year round!
Fellow autistic people, are you accident prone? Do you tend to trip/slip/fall down/bump into things/etc a lot?
Yes
No
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Autistic people of driving age, do you drive?
I drive regularly
I drive rarely
I've only driven as a last resort
I know how to drive but I don't
I don't know how to drive
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autistic burnout vs hyperfixation
I am once again asking the autistic community stop punching down on autistic people they’ve been taught to view as “stereotypes.”
I’m talking about nonspeaking autistics. About autistic people who need full-time support. About asexual and aromantic autistics. Autistics who don’t want a lot of friends. Unemployed autistics. Autistics who were/are in special ed. Intellectually disabled autistics. Autistic adults who live with other family members. Autistics whose meltdowns aren’t “subtle.” Autistics who injure themselves. Multiply disabled autistics. Autistic shut-ins and agoraphobes.
We are all just as deserving of respect and dignity as former gifted kid autistics who still do everything they can to distance themselves from us even as they preach acceptance.
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shoutout to autistics who can't unmask due to safety reasons. Black and autistics of color are often seen as dangerous by white neurotypicals and that is so unfair. It must be so frustrating seeing posts about unmasking and stimming in public when you can't safely do so yourself because of how people will perceive you. Your struggle is real and it is valid, please stay safe. You are so unique and important, keep fighting <3
Autism wrapped
1. You interacted with your special interest: 10,508 times
2. Infodumped: 512 times about your spin
3. Misinterpreted a social situation: 425 times
4. Took a joke/sarcasm seriously: 1783 times
5. Unintentionally came off as rude without realizing it: 1246 times
6. Said the "autism wins today" meme: 594 times
autistic people are allowed to fit autism stereotypes
i take things literally. i don’t get a lot of neurotypical humor and often feel left out of the joke or even feel like i’m the joke sometimes. i’m gullible. there’s no way to sugarcoat it or put it more nicely, i’m just gullible. i don’t always know what’s satire. i’m socially awkward and have a hard time befriending or remaining friends with anybody who isn’t like me.
much of the autism community puts so much emphasis on “all autistic people aren’t x” and not enough on “who cares if we’re x, we deserve rights”
this goes doubly for ID and nonspeaking autistics btw i just can’t speak to that experience personally
there are some autistic “traits” that people find really annoying but that are inherently kind
like overexplaining. a lot of autistic people didn’t have certain things explained to them because “everyone knows that.” so when an autistic person overexplains something it’s not because they think you’re stupid it’s because they know how it feels for someone to assume you know something you don’t and just not ever explain how or why. it’s a kindness. autistic people aren’t annoying or stupid for this. they’re kind.
being autistic and struggling with motor skills isn't immature. it's ok to be an adult and struggle to write neatly. your handwriting doesn't look like a kindergartener's it looks like an autistic adult's handwriting.
it's ok to be an an adult who struggles with eating. spilling food on yourself and getting food all over your face and your table doesn't make you a child. it just means you have motor disabilities is all.
being an adult who can't drive, an adult who needs help using machinery, an adult who can't play video games even on easy mode, an adult who keeps dropping fragile things: these are all ways to be an adult. like yes it's inconvenient and uncomfortable and frustrating. but being disabled doesn't make you a child
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What an autistic person says: "How long is it going to take?"
What they mean: "I want to know whether to activate my short term waiting mode where I just wait and do nothing else, or activate my long term waiting mode where I occupy my mind with something else. I fully understand that both are possibilities, and I have no problem whatsoever with either one, but I want more information so I can best adapt to the situation."
What neurotypical people hear: "I am impatient and demand that everything I want happen right now. Please scold me and publicly humiliate me for it."
Autistic Inertia is an autism experience that makes it hard to start, stop, and switch tasks.
It somehow doesn't get talked about enough - so I made this comic!
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Also, if you want to read the research study I based this comic on, it’s right here!
