Fuck Yeah Aspergers Robot

My opinion... well... HMM.... Where to start...I guess my opinion is that divine intervention is hard to come by. That if there is a deity of some sort, then it’s up to their believers to carry out their good will. If there is a God, then we’ve been put here together to better ourselves and understand the universe more wholly by learning from one another and challenging problematic mindsets. The world is steeped in ableism and ignorance, and it’s up to us and our allies to challenge these systems and educate those around us.I think we’ve been lucky thus far, as lucky as you can call it... while other people with disabilities have not been so uh, blessed, if you will.

((Gonna get a little trigger-warning here on a touchy subject so brace yourselves? I’ll even put it under a read more!))

Me? My first special interest that I remember was dinosaurs, this was pre-jurrasic park so it was actually a huge challenge for my parents to find me dinosaur things, but after the movie? I was in what they call “hog heaven.”

My second special interest then was simply animals. I still have that old DK animal encyclopedia with the spine all worn from over use... which turned into interest in animal behavior--

And currently? I’ve gotten really into psychology and human behavior from the perspective of an animal behaviorist.

Sadly, in my older age, my ability to retain everything like I udrf yo . It really makes me sad because I really enjoyed that aspect of me as like, an individual trait-- something self-identifying and it’s kind of fading away. ;v; I don’t know if that’s normal for aspies or if I’ve spent too much time learning and imitating how neurotypicals function that I lost that brain space.

It looks like the old one is broken anyways :(

Top: Learn about Autism Bottom: Oh shit it all makes sense now

If you are gonna “grow out” of them It’s around 25, 26. Though this was thought to be a developmental delay a while back, we’re starting to discover most people don’t really finish developing socially until that age. 18-19 is a rough stage for a lot of people, even if they don’t talk about it, so in some regards what you’re going through is perfectly “normal”It’s also suggested that people on the spectrum do have a latent social development, so the stuff that matters to neurotypical 12 year old is gonna matter to maybe 16 year old on the spectrum. I did personally feel like I experienced this, because when I was 19-20 I started messing around with fashion and looks and cared more about what my friends thought about them like teenagers do, whereas when I was a teenager I gave 0 fucks xD You can look up developmental stages for teens if you want to kind of suss out things that may happen.

But long story short, teenagers often feel a lot of social anxiety as a means to prompt them to pay attention to these social developments, which when you start having that natural progression of concern added to preexisting anxiety disorders... it’s gonna feel like a lot. My best recommendation for this is to seek individual therapy for the anxiety. I found a good balance using propranolol for anxiety, its non-addictive and has little side effects because its really a blood pressure medication, combined with therapy and this thing I did with my counselor called a “magic book”... essentially a visual life planning strategy. if you’re interested https://sites.google.com/site/lifeplanningtips/ I had once attempted to make a page to explain how to do it.... be mindful that it hasn’t been touched in like 5 years so its probably very out of date. 

I’ll admit now that I wound up on disability income for 7 years. Professionals at the time told me I’d never keep a job or even have a stable relationship or live on my own. I was lucky enough to have a friend and a mom that were supportive enough to agree with me when I said that wasn’t true. But I did need help while I sorted everything out and went to college. However, I’m happy to say I persevered and got my degree, now I work doing something probably no one would have thought I could do... social work. I do this hella awesome thing called HOST https://www.desc.org/what-we-do/health-services/host/ and I do it GOOD. 

Meltdowns usually respond well to the “low and slow” method. But also keep in mind that these are usually a result of being over-stimuliated, so you also want to remove the problem.1) You may want to attempt to remove any stimuli from the situation, noise, words, lights-- preferably you could get to a quiet room where you can decompress. Your friend could be helpful in that regard if you were able to let them direct you to such a space if there was one. Alternatively, they could ask people to be quiet for a few minutes or try to redirect the milieu. 2) Back to the low and slow-- Your friend would probably want to speak in a low, comforting tone without too many words. They can offer you choices then: Ie “Hey... do you want to go to a different room or stay here?” in that same calm tone. 3) Support your natural instincts. Lots of people have a particular stim that helps, society typically suggests repressing this but if you and your friend both do the stim then people aren’t going to pay as much attention to it. That sounds weird right? But abnormal means that most people aren’t doing it. All it takes for something to become “normal” is for more people to do it-- hell, look at fidget spinners! I won’t get on that rant tho.4) Make a self soothing kit, I have a really old post over here about that http://healthofmind.tumblr.com/post/22571448384/self-soothing-sensory-kit , 5 years ago they weren’t so common but there’s a lot more on the internet now about them. A google search pulls them up now... :’D man things are changing so much as I get older.

wildcard-draws: Hello! I’m the artist-anon you so kindly responded to. I’ve created and developed the character thanks to your help and suggestions, and I wanted to share her! Her name is Neko-Chan, and she really loves cats. She even wears little cat-ear hair clips that she refuses to take off unless she’s sleeping. She’s really the sweetest thing, probably the kindest and gentlest character I’ve created so far, and if she’s fond of someone all she wants to do is hug them. She wears these large colored sunglasses because it helps soften the environment around her, making things less bright and turning everything her favorite colors of purple and pink. Her cat is her anxiety and support animal, he follows her everywhere and is her best friend. Let me know what you think! And I’m always open to more suggestions! For more updates on this character as well as others, follow my Instagram: @bellemcauley

Amg I love her. I mean, I might be biased because I love pastels sweatshirts and cats but hey. I also admit that I wore cat ears like 70% of my highschool years through a weeby goth phase… BUT ME ASIDE I know a lot of people on the spectrum that relate to animals a lot and some that feel it would be easier if they had something like ears and tails that would move to express emotion as opposed to figuring out this whole how my face works thing. Not everyone, of course, but a few. Also I love the glasses so much, and one of the pro tips for people on the spectrum is to get colored glasses to help with reading/over stimulation… and the baggy fashion you had going on there. And I really love the expressions you’re giving her (I snooped the instagram) like I think they’re there but more subtle if that makes sense? Honestly I think she’s great. You got in more little details than I thought to mention in my suggestions. A+. I may have done a quick doodle fanarts.

I hope you don’t mind me posting this. Gotta give you some publicity.

Baw that’s so cute.

So, for starters. Both? Probably. I have not met someone on the spectrum that has not also had anxiety or depression or TRIPLE THREAT: all three. Funny how impaired social cue reading can result in anxiety, especially in social situations. Or how being ridiculed/blamed at a young age can reduce self esteem and damage your resiliency to depressive episodes.

Though special interests and sensory sensitivity, aren’t typically associated with anxiety. Plus, you have your dad in support of seeing patterns in childhood, which is what you’d need for a professional diagnosis. If you’re worried about being taken seriously that’s pretty much the only thing that jams people up, because a ton of parents are like “oh you’re fine, you’re just lazy, you’re just anxious” etc. Second is age, it’s harder to find a person who can diagnose over the age of 18, and the further into adulthood you get the more the diagnosis is masked by coping skills and poor recall from family members about said childhood experiences. 

Oh goodness, hmm. It’s really difficult to speak for the community as a whole, because everyone’s experience is different? Myself and some others have had complaints about people on the spectrum as characters being used as a punch line; ie, personally I dislike big bang theory for that exact reason, as it amps up the “look haha he can’t understand social cues and comes off as really selfish hahaha”… I just recall an episode I saw where he was insisting someone drive him around at times that were really inconvenient and asking her to do ridiculous things for him. In Bones they’ve really played up like “haha she’s so painfully blunt”… to the point she hurts people constantly and argues like “well why are they hurt by that it’s just sense.” Which I admit happens sometimes, but I associate this more with adolescents than adults, because adolescents are still legitimately trying to learn this, if that’s an issue… and usually care a LOT like “oh god I hurt someone but WHY?” in a “I don’t want to do it again” way not a “they should get over it” way.I’ve always liked series where they mention it once or twice, tops. They did it in bob’s burgers with Tina, like first season they threw a few jokes in “You’re the worst kind of autistic” which was… ehhh, bordering on kind of offensive, but never brought it up again. The series really mellowed out later too, I tried to show this one to my parents and was like oh god season one has so much cursing… I digress.I really like Reid in criminal minds, it comes up now and again but usually from outside characters. In the main cast he’s just Reid. I’m trying to think of defining characters that make him “autistic”… struggling a bit. I think it’s really subtle cues like the pauses he makes. Just small hesitations as his brain processes something and then he catches up. He’s also fairly logical, but when something gets to him emotionally it really gets to him and he seems to have trouble processing it and sharing that experience and just works on handling it internally. http://criminalminds.wikia.com/wiki/Spencer_Reid#PersonalityI liked the kid in Jurrasic World, I had a rant about it at one point when the movie first came out… they never said he was on the spectrum, but he displayed a lot of behaviors I associate with it, and identified with. http://fuckyeahaspiebot.tumblr.com/post/121547676957/im-sorry-but-im-really-confused-are-you-saying here it is!Another one is CSI las vegas’ Gil Grissom. Again, mentioned only once or twice throughout several seasons, very smart, great leader, he’s got his quirks but they’re useful and relevant to the career he chose and he’s more than happy to share and teach… he seems to have trouble switching tasks and hates being interrupted, again like Reid when there’s something going wrong in his life he retreats inwards, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Grissom#Characterization