#AskingAutistics - If you're on twitter, people assume you are #highfunctioningautism or #HFA (function labels are a myth). What is something you wish non-autistic people understood about why you are not "high functioning"? (Please RT. Algorithms are not in my favor)

I had to get up 4 hours early every day of my life when I could work, & at least an hour was allocated to weeping over my sock drawer because I had to have the right socks.

CN (self harm): I have hundreds of cutting scars. I've used surgical glue to close wounds to be at work.

I have gone to work, twice, in sepsis & multiple organ failure because I have been told so many times that I'm fine if I'm not crying that I just don't know what an acceptable threshold for suffering is before going to a doctor. I always appear "fine" until I lose consciousness

I’ve gone mute and literally 100% unable to move, even to close my mouth, mid sentence.

I’ve been asked if I was using drugs by two different employers. Twice, co-workers have told me to stop moving so much because I look “like a crack head.”

I require a back-and-forth to know why I’m losing my bearings because I don’t know why I’m upset. One time it took an hour to figure out I had multiple third degree burns on my arms.

If things are loud or too many people/things are moving around me, I have to sit down. My visual and auditory processing is so slow that I become dizzy and can’t understand what I’m seeing or hearing.