#transautistic

Unconventional transautistic tips!!

From a cisautistic!

Hopefully these will all be tips you haven't heard before that help you subtly pass/feel more autistic, rather than the generic stuff I see ☆(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*

Part 1 - Special interests

✮ everyone says pick a special interest, it can be anything you currently like a lot- you just have to like it enough to base a lot of your personality off it!

Most of these tips only work if your chosen special interest is a media, since that's all I know as a cisautistic, but I'm sure some can apply to other special interests too!

✮ you DON'T need to know that much about it to start. If its a media, just watch it/play it/read it/whatever passively. REMEMBER KEY DETAILS!!! Now, keep those details on mind. Whenever someone mentions the name of a character, or anything that can be twisted into a reference, point it out!!!

Ill use TADC as an example here: if someone says they have an OC named Jax, obviously mention Jax from TADC. But, if someone says the word "remember", you can point out that remember in Russian is pomni, therefore making it a reference- that makes you look a lot more obsessed than you may already be!

✮ obviously, despite this, you should still try to learn as much as you can about your chosen special interest. One thing I cant recommend enough is WATCH ICEBERG VIDEOS!!!! You get a lot of information it takes ages to gather for a usual person with those, looking like you've researched loads with minimal effort

✮ HAVE MERCH!!! You don't need to buy anything, in fact, it shows way more dedication to the interest if you make your merch! Make pins out of paper and safety pins, draw on your phonecase or laptop or headphones, make plushies out of felt, paint on shirts- just make sure that anyone can see your love for the media and it's characters

✮ simple one, make your pfp related to your special interest! Not all autistics do this, but it's an easy way to show dedication to the interest, and combined with other things really makes it look like your whole life is dedicated to this.

✮ be annoying about it!!! Make posts dedicated to characters, or how much you love the interest. Once a day at least, if you can manage it. Bring them up in every quiet moment in a conversation. If you think youre being too much, youre not!! There is no too much

✮ BE OVERLY EXCITED!! If someone brings up your special interest, the autistic reaction isn't "oh, I like [thing] too!" It's an overwhelming excitement. Speak louder than usual or type in all caps. Ask them questions about it (like favourite characters). Someone bringing up a special interest genuinely feels the same as someone offering you $1000 or smth like that.

Thats all I can think of for now I got tired hope these help!!! Ill be making more parts based on different parts of autism! Please feel free to request (◍•ᴗ•◍)

we live off helplines that are too busy to pick up the phone, school therapists who give us backhanded comments, and parents who say it's the phones problem. in fact, i'd say if you're not getting the "care" that cisdisordered people get, you're actually getting affirmed more. you're lumped in the same boat as us. you're trying to get help? so are we. we're one in the same. we should be trying to make resources available for EVERYONE. yes, everyone.

i promise you that is you're transautistic, chances are we're in the same boat when it comes to resources. if you're transadhd? we're in the same boat.

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under cut bcuz long!

hallo !!! Of course I can!!

I accidentally rambled a little bit here, so I highlighted the key points in green =^w^=

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1: this is something that I will be recommending for most of my trans[mentally]abled tips, which is don't be outward all at once. Meaning take your transition slow enough to be believable. If you start showing symptoms all at once at full severity, then people will probably clock you as non cisID, and it'll be harder to socially transition.

2: All levels of autism have sensory challenges, and level 2 and 3 sensory challenges are usually obvious, level three especially. Since you're level 1-2 already, my advice is to focus on your current ones, and try to exaggerate them and/or to stop masking. Let yourself be uncomfortable, and let others know that you're uncomfortable. Wear headphones, firmly decline anything with bad textures, let yourself engage in your comfort interests to regulate, things like that.

3: Beings who have level 3 autism are quite often Semi-Verbal or Non-Verbal, and have a really hard time communicating their thoughts, wants, and needs. Lean into that. Decrease your usage of mouth words, and/or your ability to keep a "normal" conversation over time, and show yourself getting frustrated whenever you can't get something across.

4: Focus on your special interest(s). And by focus, I mean let yourself prioritize them over most things. Bring them up whenever you can. Let yourself infodump. Go back to engaging with them as soon as you can.

5: Transitions suck. They suck a lot. Let people know that they suck for you. Focus on behaviors especially with this one. Display a hard time pulling yourself away from your current task. Let people know how much you need there to be an actual heads-up when changes in your plans are going to be made. Preferably a couple of months for big things, a couple weeks for medium sized things, at least a couple days for , and at bare bones absolutely minimum 1 day (*cough cough hack cough*1 day is bullshit though especially when your guardians decide to spring it on you that your going to be at the other ones house that weekend instead of being where you were supposed to be*wheeze cough cough* OMG WHAT WHO SAID THAT)

6: Just like Autism itself, the levels are all spectrums. Good clinicians use them, but don't necessarily super like them, due to the inability to capture the specifics. Think about where you want to be on the level 3 spectrum. You could be a "low" level three, where you might just be displaying a bit more support needs than you would as a level two, or a "high" level three, where people usually go to when they think about level 3.

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I saw someone talking about how they're transautistic, but specifically they said they're "low functioning" this is a harmful term

The proper terms (instead of high/low functioning) is high support needs or low support needs

This still applies to transabled folks