#itso

Flag of Imperial Japan itso the USSR

As we get a lot of questions that follow similar themes, we’ve created a list of acronyms to use when tagging posts. The new (and a couple old) acronyms are as follows:

AIA - am I autistic

IIAAT- is it an autism thing

ITAAT- is this an autism thing

ITAMD - is that a meltdown

ITASD - is that a shutdown

ITSO - is that sensory overload

ITASPIN - is that a SpIn (special interest)

ITASTIM - is that a stim

For a full list of acronyms used on this blog, please check out our acronym page. 

Itso (from Christo) - 14th gen thin-blooded

First vtm character i ever played, tho only briefly 🐀

Managed to live as 3's ghoul for a few years, got into an unreasonable amount of trouble around him & his crowd before @ some point 3 decided to turn him.. did it mostly just to see what'd happen, ngl he was pretty bored at the time

I’m not sure how common this is, but I know it’s a thing I experience (also varying by time of day).  In my case it’s usually the other way around - my “normal volume” for music or TV feels Too Loud at night or when I’ve had a particularly stressful day.  I interpret mine as sensory overload, so yours could easily be underload.

Followers, does anyone else experience this?

-Liz

I’m the same anon. Usually means I’ll have a panic attack or meltdown soon.

-Wren

I experience varying volume needs with both underload and overload. Like, I have my standard volume and I sometimes need a much higher volume and other times I need a much lower volume. 

Not being aware of your expression could be an autism thing but I also think it’s just a people thing because everyone I know (autistic or not) has a neutral or “resting” face that they’re normally not aware of. Although, depending on the situation, it could also be related to mismatched facial expressions/emotions which is an autism thing (smiling when sad or frowning when happy for example)

The smiling at people in the room no matter your emotion could be an internal rule you’ve come up with for how to socialize. In which case, it would be an autism thing.

Crying if water splashes on you could be a sensory thing if you don’t like some sensory aspect of water and that’s why you cried. It could also, again, be internal rules about not liking water on you. For example, I’ve always loved water. But I have an internal rule about it not getting on my face if I’m anywhere but the shower and get upset if my face gets wet say, at the pool. Both of these reasons would be autism things.

Not knowing why you’re crying could be due to alexithymia, which many autistic people experience. So, yes it would be an autism thing.