robotlimb:

please stop calling autism a mental illness or grouping it w mental illnesses. its a neurodevelopmental disorder. its not an illness.

geekhyena:

dubiousculturalartifact:

believerscully:

believerscully:

you don’t even need any factual backup to headcanon a character as autistic tbh. they don’t need to have whatever you consider to be “common autistic traits”. if an autistic person wants to headcanon a character as autistic because they identify with that character, or because it makes them feel good, or for whatever reason, let them.

I’ve seen allistic people reblogging this post and that actually makes me really happy. thank you for listening to autistic voices stay tolerant and stay lovely

This is especially important for autistic people who don’t identify as male, I think, because so much of the autistic representation we do get in media is men who fit the specific set of traits aren’t always as easy to identify with, as autism presents differently in people of different genders, and that’s something that doesn’t get talked about often enough.

THIS. The diagnosis criteria for autism was based on looking at white, upper class, presumably straight and cis males. Because of this, women,queer people, PoC, non-upper class people all get underdiagnosed.  And because of that, we don’t see ourselves reflected in media. I mean, there is only one autistic PoC in fiction that I know of - Darryl from Young Wizards. And I don’t know of any autistic women except Parker from Leverage, and that was never stated outright. 

SO yeah, you can pry my autistic headcanons from my cold, dead hands. I’m probably never gonna see someone like me represented in media, so I have to claim my own.

e-brat:

im so fucking sensitive to loud noises when im sitting calmly like if someone spontaneously raises their voice or makes a big noise it sets off like electricity in my brain that makes me want to fucking beat the shit out of them 

mulder-are-you-suggesting:

One thing that I think a lot of non-autistic people don’t realize is that, when an autistic person does something “weird”, it’s not necessarily because we’re lacking the Social Skills™ to know better. We might realize that what we’re doing is considered weird. We might know how people think we should be acting instead. But maybe we’re acting weird because the things we’re expected to do in order to be normal are things we can’t do, or maybe take up too much energy to be worth. Or maybe we’re perfectly capable of acting “normal” but we just don’t want to, because the weird thing we’re doing is harmless and we see no need to stop doing it if it’s not harming anyone. Or maybe the weird thing we’re doing serves a purpose. I remember how, in high school, when I’d experience sensory overwhelm, I’d cover my face with my hands. I knew people thought this was weird. People made rude comments and/or laughed at me whenever I did this. I didn’t like that they did that. But I still covered my face with my hands because being overwhelmed from sensory overload was worse than having people laugh at me for covering my face with my hands. Now, had I been diagnosed at the time, I’m sure I would have been sent to some social skills group where they’d try to teach me that covering my face with my hands made people think “weird thoughts” about me and that therefore I was obligated to stop doing so.

I mean, yes, sometimes autistic people do stuff that they don’t realize is weird, but I wish people would stop assuming that the only reason why we’d do anything weird is that we don’t know better. I think a lot of people have this idea that everyone wants to be normal, so anyone who isn’t acting normal just doesn’t know any better.

believerscully:

believerscully:

you don’t even need any factual backup to headcanon a character as autistic tbh. they don’t need to have whatever you consider to be “common autistic traits”. if an autistic person wants to headcanon a character as autistic because they identify with that character, or because it makes them feel good, or for whatever reason, let them.

I’ve seen allistic people reblogging this post and that actually makes me really happy. thank you for listening to autistic voices stay tolerant and stay lovely

The Case for Self-Diagnosis

ratiocinating:

I’ve had this post clattering around in my noggin for a quite a while now, but I was hesitant to write it; I just didn’t want to get stuck on the issue of coming out as a self-diagnosed autistic person. I wanted to look ahead, to figure out where my life goes from there. But as it turns out, this shit is still relevant. Hence, a tumblr post is born.

What follows is a fictional dialogue between myself and an imaginary friend.  It’s pretty long, so I put it under a page-break. None of the points I made are particularly original, but I felt it was important to synthesize familiar ideas in a particular order, for maximum rhetorical effect. Hopefully someone on the tag will be able to use bits and pieces of this dialogue in a conversational script one day.

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pwwt:

comfemgem:

megasumpex:

“Autistic Inertia is basically a state of wanting or needing to do something, but being completely unable to do it, almost like a paralysis.”

I AM INTENSELY FEELINHG THIS SO FUCKING HARD THIS IS AN INTENSE FEEL THAT EXPLAINS SO MUCH

nice to have a name for it.

here is a great web page going more in depth about this and offering coping mechanisms

autisticliara:

flapping when your happy is honestly the cutest thing it makes just smiling when your happy seem really dull

if you flap your hands when your happy then you’re adorable sorry i don’t make the rules