#spacecaseify

I'm tagging, in response, dadcorn, somecallmeweird, skygawker, 6-cinnamon-souls, and spacecaseify, if you want to. 

RULE 1. You can only say Guilty or Innocent.

RULE 2. You are not allowed to explain anything unless someone messages you and asks! Now, here’s what you’re supposed to do… And please do not spoil the fun. Delete my answers, type in your answers and tag 3-10 of your friends to answer this. Then see what happens.

this time my other bestie magicallyminded tagged me


Rule One: Always post the rules


Rule Two: Answer the questions the person who tagged you asked and write 11 new ones


Rule Three: Tag 11 people and link them to the post


Rule Four: Actually tell them you tagged them.

Rule Five: Tag the person who tagged you.

~~~ 1. What’s one thing that always makes you smile? black holes

2. If you could live anywhere in the world that you wanted for the rest of your life, where would you go? as close to Glacier National Park in Montana as I can legally get.

3. Movie scene that made you cry the hardest? the end scene in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. I haven't desired to learn anything more about the Holocaust since. Actually I think that was the hardest I ever cried in my entire life. I was in hysterics. 4. Last book you read for fun? well right now I'm reading The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. I finished Red Dragon last month and started rereading The Silence of the Lambs, too. 5. Describe your perfect day, weather-wise. Sunny, a light breeze, 60s-70s for temperature. I would say autumn but I'm starting to hate summer less. 6. Describe your perfect day, activity-wise. ohhh ummmm I'm not sure. Doing anything fun with my friends that involves spending time outdoors :) 7. If you were in that movie the Purge, what crime would you commit? I literally would hide from society. If I had to commit a crime I would speed ? but I would probably want to be the hell off the road. wait no I would go to Canada without being stopped by the boarder patrol. does that count I never watched the movie 8. Do you do your math homework in pen or pencil? PENCIL. 9. Favorite thing about being a human? higher consciousness 10. What do you suppose your Patronus might be? a quokka 11. Favorite board game? either Life or Stratego

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ok I'm gonna tag cheeseheadfoley22, spacecaseify, thatanomaly, the-hips-star-dancer, dammit-jim-im-the-docctor, dario-the-wombat, alien-dazed, ringogangstarr, ragarama, trimmingtheverge, the--galway-girl

:)

your questions, if you wanna do it at all idk:

1. When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?

2. Favorite show(s) as a little kid?

3. Ideal date?

4. Dream pet?

5. Favorite holiday or day of the year?

6. Did your high school class vote you as Most Likely or Best something? If not, what would have been the best? (e.g. most likely to wear stripes with plaid)

7. Looking back, how would you sum up your life in 2008?

8. Favorite video/computer/arcade game?

9. Worst book you ever read?

10. Favorite movie(s)?

11. Best thing that happened to you in the last month?

Oh dang, buckle up, doll, because this will be a long ride.

I actually only got diagnosed about a year ago, when I was already a year into college, and wondering why normal “college study tips” didn’t work for me.

Once I got my diagnosis, I was so relieved and excited to try to find really good resources for autistic college students… only to find that there were none (that I could find, anyway). It’s like everyone thinks we’re all eight year old boys and never go to college.

So, to be honest, I’m still figuring all of this out, but I am totally willing to share it with you.

-A formal diagnosis is a necessity. As much as I love and support self-diagnosers, colleges don’t. In order to get accommodations, you need the paperwork. If you think you can get by without the accommodations, more power to you, friend.

-Accommodations don’t cover sensory or social issues. In order to deal with his, I’ll usually wait until. after the first class, and explain to the instructor that I have other things that need to be accommodated. I’ll say that my disability includes sensory and social issues, so I will sometimes not be able to participate in group activity, or that I will need to leave the room if it’s too overwhelming. Obviously, some instructors are better about it than others, but I have not yet come across one that has outright refused.

-Knowing how you learn is a must, in terms of both the classroom and on your own. We’ll have a full post on this, but for example, when I’m given new information, I need time to sit alone with it before I can either move on or join in a group activity. Having this knowledge can obviously help me learn more efficiently, but I can also better explain why I need the time alone.

-Comfort items and stim toys (if you have them) can be very useful. A lot of disabled people need as much control over their environment as possible. One of the ways I try to accomplish this is by wearing very comfortable clothes every day. I almost exclusively wear leggings and t-shirts, with either a long flannel shirt or my denim vest. The vest is both a comfort item and a stim toy- It has studs across the shoulders, so it’s super heavy, and I also set it on my lap and feel the studs. Maybe even finding something to do during class to otherwise keep your hands busy can help: in high school, I would spend most of math class making paper cranes.

-It is okay to make mistakes, there are often things that are out of your control, and having one thing be messed up doesn’t mean that everything is. This one has been a hard one for me to learn- and I still am learning it. It’s very easy for me to feel like a failure, so as soon as something that is out of my control makes me get off-track (even a little bit, like, even if I only need to postpone my work for a day or two and nothing has affected my grades yet) with my schoolwork, I’m convinced that utterly everything is ruined and it is all my fault. This is a faulty assumption. I still have plenty of time to get done what I need to get done, and to earn a perfectly respectable grade.

So, there you have it. That’s really all I could think of for the moment, but if you have something more specific for us to tackle, please let us know!

Why don’t I get to hang out with you?

That. Is an excellent question.