#bartholomewfatima

Another thing my mother and everyone really said i would do as a child: i only talked in third person till around maybe 5 years old. I read somewhere that that may have been a sign of autism but i thought all kids did that? I just wanted to ask here! Im in the process of trying to point out possible childhood signs of autism. (Regarding my first ask on echolalia, i feel like i have already asked that question, if i have I apologize.)

Something that you’re repeating out loud is echolalia.  Something that you’re repeating in your head is echologia.  As far as I’m aware there’s not any set time that something has to last in order to count as an echophenomenon, so I think the words or phrases repeating in your head for a few minutes should still count as echologia.

For the thing about speaking in third person, difficulty with pronouns is a common autistic trait (and is found under section B1 of Sabrina’s “Diagnostic Criteria for Autism Explained” post (which, as I’ve mentioned in other posts, I basically always have open in the tab next to this one for easy reference - great job on that resource, Sabrina!)).  Speaking in the third person is definitely not a thing that all kids do

Also, just so you know, we’re usually pretty good about tagging people’s usernames when they ask stuff off anon, so if you ever want to double check whether you’ve already asked something, you can go to https://autism-asks.tumblr.com/tagged/bartholomewfatima.  Right now there’s only one post there and it’s not about echolalia, so if you did ask this before it was likely on anon, but just be aware that that resource exists.

How did u tell ur ma u was autistic? I’ve been wracking my brains abt it but I can’t come upwith anything!

Uh I got lucky in that one respect. I didn’t have to tell her. When I was in like 9th grade she suspected I was autistic and when I brought it up as fact years later she believed me (how she reacts to it is iffy, however, and I still have to be careful bringing it up.

Bart and Sigurd, in a 4-card spread layout. Bart wearing Sigurd's clothing looks a little bit odd, but Sigurd wearing Bart's clothing looks so fucking hot... oh my god 🫠

This is me trying to draw more pretty bishonen anime-style. The background pattern is a free materials asset from Clip Studio, the content ID is 2133942.

Bonus 15 second drawing timelapse video is included "below the break" so it doesnt clog up your timeline

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