Show threadGoiterzan/Amygdalai Lama2h ago
@autistics
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I didn't know the difference because my family of origin was the same - that's how it is for #Autistics - but my heart knew it, goddam I was lonely, who said it, you're never more lonely than with people around, they might have been one of us.
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That's one I'd love to shout at someone, goddam it was lonely living with you idiots. Like the bloody Martian, no human contact.
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Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach5d ago

Communication problems aren't always because of us.

A lot of people are bad at communication. Not just #Autistics.

A lot of allistics are really bad at it too. And sometimes the communication breakdown is their fault.

It's not always us. (Even when they claim otherwise.)

Show thread'Pa Apr 13
@TrilliumTriffid Well that's the rudest reply of my year, blocking you.
Extra context wasn't for you. You hoped to reach #autistics? Clickbait isn't the way.
Simon 🇳🇿🐮Apr 10
So we are now unconditionally buying a house.
Is it me, or is two #autistics buying a house a recipe for disaster? We've not had so many fights in 1 week ever before. Holy hell, _everything_ is disagreeable.
And I did/do not have the energy for any interaction...
Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣Apr 1

Did you know that Autistics are AAA? We are Ausome, Aumazing, and Authentic.

So join us as we observe and celebrate the "Autism Awareness & Acceptance" month this April 2026! Because Autistics are AAA!

#Autistics #Autism #Ausome

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The autism symbol by MissLunaRose ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autism_Symbol_Proposed_2.png ).

Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한 謝雪矢Apr 1
Did you know that Autistics are AAA? We are Ausome, Aumazing, and Authentic. So join us as we observe and celebrate the "Autism Awareness & Acceptance" month this April 2026! Because Autistics are AAA! #Autistics #Autism #Ausome
Show threadOwl EyesMar 4

@minego that's funny and all, but I assure you #autistics tend to have their "weirdness budgets" all spent down to next to nothing.

@autistics

The Dead And The DecayingMar 4

There’s a lot I don’t like about Uta Frith, but too much of the #Autistic Community unintentionally makes excuses for Medical Misogyny by clinging to the “Girls Mask” ideology, instead of acknowledging the fact that Women and Girls can most definitely have #ASD manifest pretty severely WITHOUT Diagnosis, and similar dynamics are a thing for women with #ADD #ADHD.

#Neurodiversity #Autism #Autistics

Show threadDouglas Edwards  🇭🇺Mar 3

@KatyElphinstone If I may sum up:

(1) Neurotypicals are the ones who are rigid, not #autistics! They have a hardwired set of assumptions and mental reflexes that facilitate efficient interaction with common environments (especially social environments) but can fail very badly outside their native domain. What I call the #EnvironmentalYoke.

(2) Autistics appear to pay a heavy price for our disconnect from the hardwired social interactions at which neurotypicals are so facile, but it is a FIXED price, paid up front. In return we get a potentially unlimited income stream of principled insights into how the world — the WHOLE world, not just the socially relevant part — REALLY works.

(3) Given (1) and (2), no wonder evolution keeps inflicting our kind on a bewildered neurotypical social world that sees nothing in us but weirdness and inefficiency.

(4) Your references appear to be a gold mine of resources for giving detail and concreteness to the very general concept of an #EnvironmentalYoke.

@autistics

cdayzeeMar 1
It’s ironic that after a lifetime of masking so hard when you’re hurting so deep inside, it’s still not seen & even in your despair of not wanting to continue, you’re still misunderstood. I guarantee that even if I left a note detailing all the things that were weighing so heavily on me, compounded by many years, that would also be misinterpreted, the pure truth lost. And a false narrative would prevail. So that in & of itself makes it futile.
In all the talk & crying out, I won’t become among the statistics like my ancestors, kin & so many others. Some of us will continue to trudge through as always, feeling weak even in this. I can’t be alone but it’s not widely talked about that I’ve seen. It’s always under the guise of poor mental health. We are medicated, chastised, institutionalized, patted on the head as if we are simpletons.
Where are my late-realized #autistics ? Another shot in the dark.