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I prefer being called autistic because it just feels more personal. Autism is a part of me. It's part of my identity. I am autistic.




49 143
2023-04-05

Feeling too many emotions at once confuses my brain out to the point that it doesn't know what facial expression to make.



24 74
2023-03-15

I can count the number of people I can be around when I'm peopled out on one hand.




17 80
2023-03-12

Saying everyone's a little autistic to validate self-diagnosis doesn't help things. While self-diagnosis is valid, saying that everyone's a little autistic invalidates autistic experiences.

It invalidates the validation



33 98
2023-03-08

I have yet to meet an autistic person who doesn't hate clothing tags.





14 121
2023-03-01

This isn't about autism, but it is something I've had to deal with as someone who don't really drink. Why someone doesn't want to drink is no one's business but their own. Leave it at that.



19 103
2023-02-19

Hiding someone's autism diagnosis doesn't help them. It doesn't stop them from knowing they're different. All it does is make them think that there's something wrong with them.





77 311
2023-02-15

As I age some of my stims are actively painful. That's not going to stop me though!




9 62
2023-02-05

Don't you just hate it when you leave the house not looking like you have autism? It's just SO inconvenient!
I wonder if I could be any more sarcastic.




19 86
2023-02-01

The parents who claim they "lost the war against autism" are 100% the parents who make it all about themselves.




41 169
2023-01-29

Flashback Friday: Originally posted November 3rd, 2019

Funny how anxiety just inserts itself into every facet of life, even if there's nothing to be anxious about.

6 54
2023-01-20

I'm grateful for the autistic community because seeking help from the professional world as an autistic person is so difficult.
Most of the resources go to the families of autistic children to the point where there's almost none left for us.

65 265
2023-01-15

Flashback Friday: Originally posted October 30th, 2019

Being loved is nice, but being appreciated just hits differently in the best of ways.

8 33
2023-01-13

Canadian (and apparently Midwestern American) slang can be really confusing.

3 48
2023-01-04

Flashback Friday: Originally posted October 23rd, 2019

No one wants to silence autistic people more than Autism $peaks.

12 49
2022-12-30

Loud noises are so startling! Doesn't matter if I know they're coming or not they're going to startle me.

12 70
2022-12-28

I've heard so many reasons why people self-diagnose, and their reasons show several faults in the system. Accessibility, stigmatization, ableism, racism, sexism, ageism, and so much more.

43 160
2022-12-21

Chatting with autistic people is so much easier because we know that neither of us are good with small talk, so we just skip it entirely.

16 72
2022-12-18

Food aversions aren't just "I don't like this food."

It's "I hate this food! I will always hate this food! Nothing you do to it will ever make me like this food!"

If an autistic person says they hate a food I assure you they HATE that food.

14 57
2022-12-14

Flashback Friday: Originally posted October 6th

Being part of the autistic community has helped me, and so many others realize that we're not alone. We're in this together, so let's support each other.

17 84
2022-12-09