Hello to all that is autistic 👋

Just love that I have now noticed a typo on this **rolls eye** I understand sarcasm when it's my own.

Autistic Adam@autisticadam.bsky.social · 6d ago

When your autistic self prepares for a phone call the the best way that you can, with a list. Soon as that phone call happens you can be sure that list you created, well its like the list ain't in front of you anymore and you just go completely blank.

When your autistic self prepares for a phone call the the best way that you can, with a list. Soon as that phone call happens you can be sure that list you created, well its like the list ain't in front of you anymore and you just go completely blank.

When you ask someone who is autistic "what are you thinking about?" Just prepare for a long and detailed answer that from experience you don't want to know.

If vaccines caused autism, then I'm a maths genius.

The autistic experience of wanting to continue focusing on my interests rather than my chores that are pilling up hour by hour. Ok just 15 more minutes...

When I'm in group, I often feel like everyone knows how to socialise naturally. Autistic me is just trying to work out what is happening. Back ground noise makes it difficult for me to understand what people are saying. I catch a few words, miss the rest and lose track of the conversation.

It's bizarre that others will still try to tell you you're not autistic even though you're autistic.

Autistic life is being accused of being secretive or got something to hide when really deep down you just value privacy so much.

Autistic interest checklist: Spend hours researching even though your chores that need doing keep on pilling up - Check. Hope you get to tell someone about your new interest. I just need the opening from you - Check. Hmmmm clearly not interested in what you have to say about this - Check.

The autistic ritual of over explaining. Not because it's otherwise wrong but the brain has been misunderstood many times and you would rather give too much information. Ethier that or your brain says you have to anyway.

It's wild because as a autistic kid I was often told that I had an "old soul" or that I was smart and had wisdom way beyond my years, but now that I'm grown up, I feel like a child in an adult body.

Being autistic can increase the chances of us having insecurity feelings inside. It's not about how someone looks or how someone is, but we do get told otherwise. It's about not feeling the same as everyone else and the way the world reacts to you, that's the issue. Just for being how you are.

Being autistic, It's for the best that I limit the amount of time in unpredictable environments and avoid them completely when I'm able to. Years I used to force myself through them because everyone else seemed capable of coping. Now I know the days that follow afterwards are just not worth it.

If you ever leave a conversation with autistic me and wonder why I said that... I'm wondering the exact same.

I can't remember the world cup final at half time being this long before but here we are.

Autism for me is I hate change but love new things. I hate loud noises but love loud music. I hate socialising but love seeing people that have the same interests.

Why is the response to what you're saying always “you’re autistic” and not “thank you for telling me about your interest”

Just a little reminder to all my favorite people that I am, in fact, autistic & I am not always able to yap. When I get quiet, it is never a reflection of you or your value. I am just overstimulated & need to regulate (also I probably didn’t see it since I’ve had all notifications off since ‘08).🖤

Autistic life is not looking directly at someone when talking/listening, considered rude. Not giving the answers that someone wants, rude. Not being a sheep and follow what everybody else is doing, how dare you do that, rude. List goes on. Cut a long story short 99% of life is considered as rude.

You have sooooo many chores that need to be done but you need another hour for like the 9th hour in a row now to research a interest. You could be autistic.

"You don't seem autistic" "Thanks, it's because I deem you/this situation as a threat, and I dont feel safe being myself around you."

I'm not the only autistic one that struggles with hot temperatures but hot temperatures lasting day after day after day after day after day are quite simply just too much. What do you do to help you stay cool with hot weather conditions ? To all the autistics that struggle with this, I see you.

Autistic me had a revelation today that took a whole 30 plus years to occur to me. Neurotypical people almost never like to state plain, neutral facts. They only like to express their opinion on facts.

Autistic me doesn't argue with people, especially online. I don't see the point. Never have seen the point of this. It could be relationships, or family. If they try to argue with me I'm just going to shutdown and not say anything. If I can, I'll leave the room if possible as quickly as possible.

Many autistic people are told that they have social anxiety, but what they really have is a rational and legitimate fear of being treated badly by others, who may neglect their needs or judge them for their differences both of which have happened to them a million times before.

I’m fed up of people not taking the “R-slur” seriously as a slur to target not just autistic folk but anyone. Folk drop the R-slur like it’s nothing and say things like “you’re so sensitive” and “it’s not a slur” it became a slur when it started to be used as a derogatory term in the 60s.

I have lost count how many times my autistic self has been told, "I know folks that are autistic and they ain't like you" Always one of the most pointless pieces of information to land with me.

S R Jones @aegisimmemorial.bsky.social · last mo.

If you see this, please tell me the worst/most baffling bit of creative feedback you've ever recieved. Mine is still the time somebody told me my aliens had names that were too alien. Not that they were unpronounceable, just that they didn't sound enough like human names.

Being autistic means I spent most of my childhood trying to hide the parts of myself that were deemed too weird for everyone else. I didn't know who I was, I didn't know anything about myself, because I spent most of my childhood trying to hide the parts of myself that were deemed too weird.

Functioning isn’t the same as okay. Something I have been thinking about a lot lately. Most autistic adults I know appear fine from the outside. Jobs, relationships, social events, eye contact on demand and everything else. Quietly, running on a battery that has not been above 8% in years.