#actuallyautisitc

Stimboard For Master Ball the Glitch Rhydon

A Missingno converted to a Rhydon who keeps destroying the party menu but I'm keeping on the team anyway.

The best way to help the doctor get a picture around the masking is to tell him that you’re masking.  For example, during my evaluation when the doctor would ask me “Do you do X?” I’d say “I used to when I was a child, but I have learned to hide that symptom.”  That way you’re being truthful, but you’re explicitly telling them that yes, you have the symptom, and the reason they can’t see it is because you’ve learned to mask.

In fact, you can even begin the conversation by saying to them “Do you know about masking in autism?” and if they don’t, you can explain it to them, and say “I don’t want to be mis-diagnosed because of it.”  

I created this blog to talk about stimming because I felt that most conversations about stimming on Tumblr were centred around gifs that people use for visual stimming. I also created the #actuallystimming tag to make it easier to find posts by people who stim talking about their stimming. Over time the purpose of this blog has expanded to discussing autism and stimming.

I make posts, occasionally reblog things, answer questions about autism and stimming, and post things people send in talking about how they stim. If you’d like to send in something showing or describing how you stim you can send an ask, submit it, or tag me in a post. I don’t reblog photos or videos of people stimming or any photos or videos showing people’s faces without being explicitly asked to.

Just the other day I told my dad about my chest pain, and what type of chest pain you're having is important because it can tell you a lot about what's going on, so when he asked what it felt like I told him "It's like someone's taking their knuckle and pressing it into my sternum but worse" That's easy for people to imagine, hell you could do that to yourself right now and see that it doesn't feel good.