Oh shit, they're on Autism :3 now? What happened with Autism :2? I completely missed it.
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i'm diagnosed and i hear people say they are autistic every day. i also used to say it jokingly but turns out it was true so i'm pardoned in retrospect
My boss at work is diagnosed and has said multiple times that I'm definitely on the spectrum. Also my coworkers have said that. Idk, I don't feel autistic. But I do have very specific opinions on most matters, or absolutely no opinion at all.
This, I'm the same. The only sign that I can look at myself and think "thats kinda weird huh?" is me stimming when I'm excited. And even then, didn't have a clue that was related with autism until I was told. I thought it was weird, but I just tried to rationalize it as being hyped up on sugar or smth even when I hadn't had any recently.
As far as I'm concerned I'm just like a guy? Idk
Hey let me have my jokes so I don’t freak out thinking about my serious social/spatial impairments and sensory oversensitivities. Or how the smallest break in my flow/routine throws off my whole week and I’m a dysregulated mess.
I’m allowed some fun.
well yeah but do you want to hear me yap about full body trackers for vrchat? :3
You think FluxPose is going to live up to the hype and finally solve the full body tracking problem?
well I sure hope so because I'm broke now lol


I plan to 3d print a little clip so I can just attach the chest one to my bra, but I got the strap bc I'm autistic and don't always like to wear a bra
Read that as full body tractors the first 2 times and was truly baffled that I had missed this huge development in tractor technology.
Jokes on you I'm stiff diagnosed from watching a self diagnosed influencer
I also get stiff thinking about the chthaoctardriam of my schizophrenia.
I stand by my autocorrected typo
Wym i have autism which decreases my magic missile spell's cost by 2 points, letting me spam it with reckless abadon :3
Magic Missile normally burns a level one spellslot. If its cost is decreased by 2 points, does that mean your Magic Missile recovers level one spellslots?
If so, your DM is way too nice and also likely to deeply regret giving you such an ability.
dammit. my various disorders give me all kinds of spellcasting bonii, except for the one where my magic gland fell out.
My autism balances out my ADHD.
Both are utterly destroyed by my BPD and general anxiety.
It really just told me that I wasn't just a shitty person. I was autistic and shitty.
I don't want to defend my past self because while I wasn't evil, I was garbage, and while it objectively wasn't my fault that I entered college broken n shitty, I let it get worse until I realized I was going over a cliff with the help of a friend and I started working on myself, then acid happened, and juggling, and more acid, and MKULTRA, and a cult, and homelessness. Oh! I was a woman for a few years. Can't forget that. I stayed at the women's homeless shelter in Portland; I wasn't the only one with a beard there! And that's all going to factor in to how much the hate-fueled peoples are going to fuck themselves for it was my one handler that told me that it was my recovery and transformation that would inspire people.
I’m hesitant to call it a disability, but it certainly is a somethingability.
when my disability makes me unable to do something other people can do easily

Likes other says it's a spectrum.
Think about how a leg issue can be different;
- some people might walk perfectly normal but it starts to hurt after 5 min and they can't lift too much.
- some might have a limp.
- some might need a cane.
- some might need a wheelchair but can still walk a few feet.
- some might wheelchair and not be able to walk.
- some might not a leg
- some might not have either legs
No matter what it is, it's still a disability, just are some are more of a struggle than others.
Autism has a spectrum too, the problem is somewhere in the brain so we can't see it like we can see a cane or missing leg. Things like asthma or color blindness are disabilities too, but we can't see those either.
I think what they're trying to point out that ppl with autism get really good and other, non normal, things. So it's a negative in some ways but positive in others
like it's still a disability, but like there's nuance in it
Thank you for this comparison.
Invisible disabilities are still disabilities. I hate that society can't seem to understand that.
Also,
some might not a leg
For my kiddos it is a disability. 😕 They have amazing talents, but he world just isn't built for them.
If they're up for it, put them in an improv class for kids with autism, this helps immensely. You could reach out to Giant Steps or Second City. I might be slightly biased because I teach improv but it's a good way for kids on the spectrum to practice social situations and to learn how to deal with sudden changes.
That sounds pretty awesome. My kids are a bit on the young side and don't have a great grasp of English so that might be a little bit challenging for them. Maybe when they're older...
That sounds really cool
Autism spectrum disorder can present in a really wide variety of ways. Sometimes it's severely disabling, sometimes it's a mixed bag of strengths, weaknesses and quirks.
I am high functioning. I'm one of those that people like to point to and say it's a superpower. I have a successful career as a network engineer because of my technical mind. I'm generally funny and can make people laugh. I've been happily married for 25 years. I'm not even bad looking.
I cannot drive without sunglasses. Light sensitivity means my eyes will tear up and force themselves closed in bright sun light. I wear flanged earbuds because I have auditory issues so loud sounds are painful and I can't filter out background noise so in even slightly crowded spaces I become virtually deaf. I have an extremely sensitive gag reflex and have thrown up while brushing my teeth enough to a point where I will usually just power through and finish brushing my teeth. I have severe IBS-D and have spent more time in the bathroom than anyone should (smartphones became a life saver when they came along.). I have a kidney transplant and spent three years on dialysis because I have an autoimmune disorder called IGA nephropathy. I am left handed.
It's not always what people view as the "main" issue, so much as all of the co-morbidities that go along with the issue.
I am left handed
Is this the least or the most of your concerns given how you threw that fact in? /genq
it's a neurodivergence, literally being weird differently
sometimes it's mostly good, sometimes it's mostly bad, sometimes it's balanced
Spend time with my 5yo non verbal son and you’ll quickly realize it can fully be a disability. His teachers just told us he’s the smartest in his class yet he can’t speak, write, do math, use the bathroom on his own, and will elope into dangerous situations he can’t get out of without help.
I used to go weeks without saying a word to anyone, have constant meltdowns and got repeatedly hospitalised because I wouldn't go to the bathroom because I couldn't stand the sensation of passing a bowl movement. And I'm still considered "high functioning"
With social behaviour under control, it's a superpower in my line of work.
I can't go to clubs or listen to the sound of Velcro™, and I don't like the texture of paper. Also, most autistic people I meet assume I am also autistic.
The fact that I can also give a basic history of the ITV network, install Gentoo, and theorise as to why none of the characters in The Simpsons ever age is just the icing on the cake.
I am levels of weapons grade neurodivergent and I have been weaponized by the military industrial complex to start the memeplexic fusion reaction because I accidentally told my ROTC cadre that my (nonexistent) sister got me pregnant over the course of weeks, and then I had the Craigslist incident, which only helped me be so counterintelligent. Can't stare at enough goats, y'know?
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I can't go to clubs or listen to the sound of Velcro™, and I don't like the texture of paper. Also, most autistic people I meet assume I am also autistic.
The fact that I can also give a basic history of the ITV network, install Gentoo, talk for hours about PSAs, and theorise as to why none of the characters in The Simpsons ever age is just the icing on the cake.
I love paper and velcro but synthetic fibers are genuinely torture
Hm I hate the flimsy kind of plastic like on top of a ketchup bottle or the aluminum piece covering things like joghurt and stuff. I flinch and have to look away whenever I have to peel it from something.
I cant stand oil, like any kind of oil at all. It just feels so icky on my skin and thats why I dont fry things often
When you say oil do you also mean waxes? And is there a difference between plant and animal oils? What about wax like in candles?
The difference between oil and wax is whether they are solid or liquid at room temperature. Higher saturation fats are more likely to be solid at room temperature, and longer chain fats are the same, so a long highly saturated fat is likely to be very solid at room temperature and therefore hard and waxy.
I find that vegetable oils excluding olive oil are pretty awful on my skin, but animal fats tend to be less of an issue. Tallow and coconut oil are my favourites for texture for animal and plant respectively, and while butter is OK ghee is strangely nasty.
Viscose is technically synthetic but it's organic from trees, it's breathable and really comfortable. Best sheets imo. Stuff like modal too.
Swap Velcro with cotton balls and that's me. Gives me goosebumps and spine shivers just thinking about it creak when squeezed.
styrofoam and cardboard for me.
I have no idea how to explain to a normal person what the sound is sandpaper feels like
Wool for me! I think I bit the sleeve of a wool sweater as a kid once and my teeth still feel that creaking whenever I think about it
Theorize on why characters in The Simpsons never age
My theory is that they are cartoons and the animators don't want to draw them differently.
I hate communicating. I hate phone calls. I hate having to TRY to express feelings (that I don’t fully understand most of the time). I hate that people want to talk to me at times.
I hate that if im expected to do something i dont wanna do it.
It’s annoying how much more uncooperative my brain gets as I get older.
It pains me that as much as i love animals I forget to care for them (cat litterbox, clean aquarium).
I hate how much i hate the last half of every year because of how stressful the holidays are for me.


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