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@autistics #ActuallyAutistic been struggling to find a fidget item that is quiet, portable, an inconspicuous…
...i gravitate toward spinning types and after many, many, many a failure, i think i found the right one...
…a spinner ring but for my thumb…
...never thought i'd be a thumb ring guy but…
…extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures
Aspies e.V. – Menschen im Autismusspektrum führt eine Online-Umfrage zum Thema „Autismus und/oder AD(H)S und Impfungen“ durch, da dieses Thema aufgrund diverser politischer Äußerungen, insbesondere aus dem amerikanischen Raum, wieder in die aktuelle Diskussion geraten ist.
Der Fragebogen entstand in Kooperation mit dem Robert-Koch-Institut.
Die Umfrage ist anonym und dauert nur 5 Minuten.
Die Zielgruppen sind:
- autistische Menschen
- Menschen mit AD(H)S
- Familienmitglieder von Menschen mit Autismus oder/und AD(H)S
im Alter von 16 – 99 Jahren.
Hier ist der Link zur Umfrage: https://www.soscisurvey.de/Impfungen/
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic this just happened at work this week:
(1) covering for a fellow admin and they are due back the next dauy
(2) admin's manager asks me to start scheduling a new meeting that would not happen for at least 2 weeks
(3) admin comes back next day and winds up having to go through multiple rounds of dates over the next three days after my initial dates didn't wind up working
so why was this waste of time initiated by the admin’s manger?
POWER AND CONTROL
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic nothing like watching people at work ignore an email's “voting link” in favor doing endless Reply All emails…
…did i mention i work for an entity that is subject to my state's public records law...
...and that every individual email is a potential public record on its own (for both sender and recipient)...
…but we're all “too in the weeds" on details
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic goes out to all the petty assholes pushing my buttons today
How would YOU communicate thru a short-circuiting transistor radio?
Plain language becomes revolutionary when your neurology sparks and stutters.
My live piece explores dancing close to the edge of the noise.
JRC is trying to be allowed to shock autistic kids again, please sign if you are able
(Edited because I forgot hashtags)
#DisabilityJustice #DisabilityRights #StopTheShock #ActuallyAutistic #Abuse @actuallyautistic
https://autisticadvocacy.org/2024/03/take-action-to-stoptheshock/
Behold - my cats and autism graphics!
How we are similar to our feline companions.
a thread... 1/3
"The #Autism Social Rule Book": https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=131296
Contains nuggs of wisdom like: "NTs voice their opinions to feel heard and validated. That is why it is rude to debate with or correct them in most situations."
🇨🇦Anyone else a fan of the movie/tv show Limitless? Watching them for maybe the 4th or 5th time now. The starting position of these two people resonates really hard, especially Eddie since he's a writer like me. Probably it's the ADHD side, but could be the autistic side; not sure since I'm both. Definitely an executive function issue. The appeal isn't of being smarter (although that's cool too), it's that being able to engage hyperfocus at will. If I could just look at (one of) my to-do list(s), and hyperfocus each item off of it, *that* would be amazing.
Realized at 63, I've developed the autism equivalent of gaydar.
I see autism in all the people I instantly get along with.
More importantly, I now see autism in all the people who are instantly aloof or those that irk me. I know an entire family who are comically exaggeratedly loud even in this era.
I've never wanted to be seen. Often for me, my internal cringe goes off and I want to shout "hide don't be seen", but also "please be more unmaskedly seen".
People often say that autistics are clumsy but clearly they haven't watched high level men's tennis in the last 10 years. No, not that person, the other ones.
Take a closer look at all those mostly individual sports that require immense hours of steadfast dedication dedication. Diving anyone ?
In team sports, look at the largely unnoticed perennial "team players" who are consistently good but never really stand out.
Ah yes. This. My son didn't seem in the least bit "different," to me 😂
#Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #Diagnosis
Credit to ADHD Explained on FB
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic feels like this community to me…
https://mas.to/@skeletor/115231786107775381
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic filtering unpleasant interactions through these #RandomMovieTVQuotes:
I have to be like this ;cause this is what I'm like. —the Doctor, Doctor Who
…what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career, skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. —Bryan Mills, Taken (2008)
No one else will ever have to live like this! No one else will ever have to feel this pain! Not on my watch! —the Doctor, Doctor Who
Something that came onto my feed earlier. Nothing particularly surprising to me. It seems obvious, actually, but it's nice to see that it's finally being admitted. Also shows clearly how the hunt of the brain-worm king, RFK, is just a massive hate search.
1/2
Found my spirit sticker:
"Can't right now...busy multi-procasti-tasking."
Someone wrote about this piece: "I'm not sure if I've been a fly on the wall listening to your family, or if you've been the fly at mine."
That recognition hits deep.
This is "sneaking my mother's creepy g-d on high" - a cinematic spoken word piece about winter 1997, family dinners, and what happens when you finally stop performing neurotypical.
Religious expectations. Neurodivergent reality. The price we pay for authenticity in families that were never built for minds like ours.
Heavy content warning: family trauma, substance use, religious themes, cult references.
How many of us recognize that battlefield of family gatherings where our honesty threatens everyone's comfort?
#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #SpokenWord #WritingCommunity #MentalHealth #DisabilityPoetry
@autistics so just another day being #ActuallyAutistic...
Pixy's Journey 
I saw someone sharing this link, and even though I don't doubt my autism diagnosis, I was curious to how I would do with this test...
https://psychology-tools.com/test/autism-spectrum-quotient
Well, my result doesn't come as any surprise 
Still, wanted to share with you, also because the link might interest some who are curious as well. 
Edit: it came to my attention that the creators of this test/site aren't all good in some ways. Sorry for sharing this without a heads up. I really didn't know. 😔 I will leave the Toot up, but with this little bit of new knowledge added to it. Thanks to @cobalt123 for informing me. 
SO IT'S #Autism Awareness Month?
since am one of those #ActuallyAutistic people Dx at the tender age of 50 (yes, 50. and yes am older now, shut up), am not acquainted with the american rituals of national days or awareness months involving autism.
welp, let me do this as a gentle reminder:
1. BLACK
2. INDIGENOUS
3. PUERTO RICAN
4. CARIBBEAN
5. LATINOAMERICANES
6. WOMEN
can be #autistic too.
and in my case: #dyslexic with a sprinkling of good ol' extra spicy #ADHD.
but ironically, 🧵