Being Autistic in a Hectic World ( piped.video )
Josef Schovanec, PhD, is an activist in the field of autism and human biodiversity....
[Video] Why do autistic people toe walk? ( youtu.be )
Painful sensitivity to touch?
Just wondering if anyone else experiences this. Things like my hair laying on the side of my head or bracelets cause a medium-intense aching pain on my head or arm. Some days, I'll have a pretty bad headache just from wearing a shirt, and I'll occasionally just have to take it off. It sounds like a milder form of allodynia,...
Shirt Tags ( lemmy.world )
Image: Two images almost identical to each other stacked vertically. The top one is the back of a neck of a person wearing a sweater with the tag sticking out. It is captioned "What it looks like". The bottom image is the exact same image but the sweater's tag has been replaced with a cactus. It is captioned "What it feels...
I'm flirting illiterate ( lemmy.world )
Image: A person writing on a large chalkboard the size of a large wall covered with mathematical formulas and notes. The caption reads, "My autistic mind trying to figure out if she's into me, she is indifferent or she absolutely hates me."...
[OC] Anyone else insist on using the generic name for all meds? ( lemmy.world )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12917886...
Anyone else travel with a backpack nearly everywhere you go? If so, what's in there?
Let's see how much we have in common with our backpack inventories.
Neurotypicals, what do autistic people look like to you?
Trying to get an idea of how NTs see us. I know that when I see autistic people, I see someone that's like me. Obviously, that's not how NTs perceive us, so what do we look like to yall??
OP: Giles Corey ( lemmy.world )
Cross posted from https://startrek.website/post/5847747
Is society just a bad dnd campaign?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.giftedmc.com/post/246881...
The fear of being perceived + autism ( lemonandlively.com )
How do you cope with autism?
Please leave me alone ( lemmy.world )
How to keep track of events and reminders without being sucked into distractions
Hi all....
Did I do a faux pas here? I literally figuratively get more autistic when I have to txt ( lemmy.world )
why did the app do me like that with the spacing...
Processing... ( feddit.nl )
What limits your behavior?
I read that autism comes with repetitive behavior...
Mine's a teaspoon ( lemmy.world )
Autism and manipulation
I am finding, that i get easily manipulated, aspecially when it comes to other people's enjoyment. I usually know, when it's happening and still go along with it. This is supposed to be a lightharted post (not asking for help or empathy, I just hope to know more).
Any autistic people use Mastodon?
We have a matrix space
We have a chat room for the smallest of talks!...
Poem 2.
Slipping in and out...
Today I realized something about my bus route in grade school.
The regular bus wasn't full, so they didn't randomly pick me and 3 other kids to be in the overflow bus. It was the literal short bus. I rode the short bus to school with the other autistic kids. How the hell did I get to 40 without realizing I was autistic? 😆
Are dating apps uniquely challenging for us? ( lemmy.world )
even for normal people they're not really designed with human joy in mind....but GOD it's miserable trying to start a real thing just from cold texting...