#actuallyaustistic

I am absolutely devastated that they are making the criteria for an autism diagnosis more conservative. As an afab person who suspects they have autism, I was really looking forward to seeking a diagnosis once I had the money. But now it seems like it's gonna be even harder to battle.

why is it so much harder to mask after certain upsetting things? after i break things my autism characteristics get so much louder like today im pretty much over the teapot but im still totally overstimulated and in constant movement and not talking its so weird

April 17th: How do you feel about terms like “special needs”? The way neurotypical people say it sounds poisonous and demeaning and I can’t de-associate that.

I started college this month and I just wanna say something about communication. I have to talk to my family only via text or call and it’s…exhausting? Texting is so hard because there’s no tone/facial expressions/nonverbal communication to read. Even emojis aren’t that helpful because I can’t always tell when they’re sarcastic or not. Calling and facetiming is also hard because it’s not like hanging out with somebody. It feels like you HAVE to be talking the whole time, which is hard for me. I like sitting in the same room as people I like, but talking to them on the phone is so much harder. All that on top of trying to make friends and learn how to talk to a whole bunch of new people just makes this really hard. Zoom classes don’t help either because I lot of how I make friends at school is sitting near them and little stuff in class, but you can’t do that on zoom. I’m excited to be here but all this social/communication stuff put together is a lot and it’s really really hard