#ACTUALLYAUTISTIC

Hex

gaylicgoddess

Being #Autistic during a #pandemic : trying to stay busy to keep brain from crashing into burnout. Work to much resulting in PDA and near #autisticburnout. Can feel cognitive function

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LilSeaplane

CW med trauma. please read if you've ever invalidated self-dxers who refuse to seek pro-dx. #ActuallyAutistic by age 10, I was a frequent visitor to the hospital. from night terrors

gentle beasts

gentle_beasts

it's been a rough month for us #ActuallyAutistic , & a rough however long for pretty much everyone. so here, we're sharing one of our fave fun #neurodiversesquad catharsis things.for

𝕷𝖆𝖉𝖞 𝕬𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖔𝖓 🦇 - busy

WoodIandWitch

A question I'm getting asked a lot is "why are there more autistic people now than ever before?" and I thought I'd do another thread on it. There are several

Patricia_#AutisticBurnout

pgzwicker

Yesterday a health condition I have, that's already taking years off my life expectancy - had a serious setback.I'm back at day 1 and desperately hoping it was a blip.

autistictic

autistictic

Puzzle pieces are triggering for many autistic people.First they represented autism being a "puzzling" condition (because autistics were never consulted).Then it became a representation of the "missing piece" to autism...a

Ruby

AutisticRuby

With the #ColorTheSpectrum discussion going on, I keep seeing the term “autism industry” get thrown around, and I want to explain what it means, because I think understanding the autism

Daniel Sohege

stand_for_all

TREAD: Ooookay then. Seeing as #AutismAwarenessMonth seems to be going exactly the way many #ActuallyAutistic thought it would, with people being told they "can't be autistic", "aren't autistic enough" etc

another autistic psychologist

aut_psych

The other day I had a big rant about the show #LoveOnTheSpectrum and how it doesn’t represent my experience of dating & relationships as an #ActuallyAutistic person. So I’ve written

Autumn

AtmnR

I've been trying for days to figure out how to verbalize exactly this. I'm an #ActuallyAutistic person struggling my way through a corporate job, and it's frankly 100% the environment

Chris is #GoingGold for #AutisticValue

AutistTrainGuy

Well, #AllAutistics - since it looks as if the sunnybug is going to preclude a RL protest around Autism Awareness Day (), I intend to go forth with a mass

EarthNamek (he/they) check pinned!

earthnamek

.@DNCI've been attacked by Trump supportersI've been attacked by Bernie supportersBut your candidate's supporters have a lock on offensive canvassing #ActuallyAutistic #JustUs #ableism I couldn't even report this it was

Joseph

Joseph_wolfstar

Ok this guy was obviously being super unnecessarily rude and dismissive of his partner, but it reminded me, i actually find memes hellishly inaccessible as a way of reading or

Angry Black Femme

AshleighJMills

Let autistic people use the comfort items we want to without assuming we are 'childish' or 'immature' or have a younger 'mental age'.Self-soothing is a skill EVERY adult person needs

AutisticSciencePerson

AutSciPerson

#Autism101 #AllAutistics #ActuallyAutisticcw bullying, mental healthAnother "Please tell your child they are autistic" thread. My advice to every parent, as a person who was undiagnosed growing up, is to TELL

NortherlyRose #AncientAutistic

NortherlyRose

Just before the psychologist told me whether or not the multi-disciplinary team had concluded I was #autistic, she asked me what I thought about getting an #autism diagnosis. #AllAutistics#ActuallyAutistic 1/