ickplantIt makes me shudder
☭SaltyIcetea☭this may actually be better than a singular one, as that is now somewhat consistent
Who hurt you
There’s no way this is an autistic only trait right? You’re telling me people just go around dealing with those things?
It’s kinda concerning how people often are taking normal reactions/behaviors and labeling them as autistic or ADHD.
CatoblepasEveryone pisses, but if you did it 50 times a day you’d go to a doctor.
Lumidaub
frozenYou try having ADHD and going 24 hours without food. All you can think about is eating. It’s very distracting. It’s an ADHD thing 🤷♀️
ebolapieironically I often forget to eat and get trapped in binge/fast cycles unless I painstakingly log every single thing I eat.
It’s a consequence of low blood sugar. Although there are other possible causes.
It also helps to check for signs of pre-diabetes, as afaiu healthy people don’t get this issue. I didn’t start getting the shakes until I gotten fat and unexercised.
Yeah, sugar intake, I’m aware of that and fighting for a long time. But no, it’s officially no drug, hrhr. Fun stuff to look up, the sugar cartel.
Anyhow, my condition is okay but I’ve got too many neurological issues which basically make it impossible to read my own body, so that’s there, too.
Btw, a simple alarm on the phone helps me remember when it’s time for a meal in my whack schedule.
I’m not sure if it applies to autism to the same degree, but that’s actually one of the main problems with ADHD:
Most of our symptoms are things that neurotypicals struggle with too, but taken to 11 because of congenital differences in neurochemistry including but in no way limited to chronic dopamine deficiency.
Coughing can’t possibly be a symptom of any illness because I sometimes cough without being sick.
I’m not saying it’s never the case I’m just saying people need to stop self diagnosing themselves and others.
ryvenI read your comment, thought “Am I dealing with one?” and had to reach into my shirt to check if it had one or not. It turns out it does! So… I guess so. I’m irregular in other ways, though, so I might not be a good point of comparison.
I confirm i have one, well two, but i can’t tell exactly. The annoying ones are usually long. Also you better not start thinking about these little things because it’s like virus.
No really don’t even start to think about it.
sp3ctr4lThe only time I think about them is if I’m dressing in the dark and need to orient a t-shirt
I’ve never not ripped one off. Reee, I guess.
truiteIf you take a single trait, it’s almost never autistic or whatever only. But it can be a common one among autistic people.
But there are people who don’t care about tags and let them in their clothes.
There’s a difference between “that’s a bit annoying” and “I literally can’t think of anything else and I must tear off the tag even if I destroy the shirt and I mean RIGHT now or I’m getting naked”
Its annoying to normies.
It causes more or less significant to extreme mental and physical anguish to many autists.
Many autists have basically heightened levels of awareness with one or many of their physical senses, as compared to non autists.
Like, I frequently notice minor visual details in the world around me, that most other people completely miss, tell me I’m lying when I say I saw them, then they go check and are angry that I was right.
Same thing with heightened sensitivity to bright light, as well as extreme repulsion from certain color palettes.
Or, same kind of thing with sounds. Myself, a lot of other autistic people get extremely irritated by low intensity, but perisistent sounds that are either very high or very low frequency … that most people don’t notice untill you tell them to stop and focus, then, they can hear them.
But for autists it is… sometimes literally so annoying it will drive you mad. It causes actual pain from how stressed it makes you.
Its why autists and noise canceling headphones are a thing.
Most ‘ASMR’ videos?
I’d rather run into brick wall at 20 mph.
ASMR is a thing, but, as a genre of content, its largely a bunch of idiots making the most annoying and aggravating sounds possible, and acting like its soothing.
tl:dr; yeah, its not an autistic only thing, but something like this is fucking kryptonite to autists.
I have sound sensitivity as well, but actually love asmr when it’s done correctly. But you’re right, the majority of it is garbage.
Thanks! I was curious because I have other traits that have been labelled as neurodivergent by my therapists but I’m not diagnosed or anything so I never know if something is “normal” or not.
Yeah!
Real, actual ASMR is very neat, when done properly…
… but, these days, its mostly idiots that have warped it from an actual, specific, biophysical effect, into a massively bastardized basicslly just flavor of slop content.
because most US therapists don’t know that much about autism.
Fun fact - many textbooks still say girls can’t be autistic. I tutor psychology occasionally and I’ve seen it more than once.
It’s that or the shirt with a syrup spot that’s always at least a little sticky no matter how many times you wash it (and somehow never in the same exact place so don’t bother trying to get used to it). Rather back-stroke my way through a mile of tangled concertina wire.
Not kink-shaming, but I think this transcends anything short of genuine torture.
joelfromausI’d be screaming the safe word just by bringing this thing into the room.
ChaoticNeutralCzechWhich way is the rear? I tell that by the tag. (Yes, I add tags to clothing that doesn’t have them, except socks)
One can usually tell by the cut of the material. For example, on tshirts, look at where the shoulder seam meets the neck, it will usually be to the back of center.
(Yes, I add tags to clothing that doesn’t have them, except socks)
You monster.
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but you’re right. My shirts that have the tag printed on are nearly impossible to put on without at least one ‘oops it’s backwards’ event a week.
She’s wearing it inside out.
one shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind the creator’s face…
what dreams of chronic and sustained cruelty?
mojofrododojotwitching just looking at this
Is It just be that loathes the word “autist”? Gives me real “Oriental” or “the blacks” vibes
I’ve only ever heard the term(?) used by people with whatever aspergers is being called these days. They used it to refer primarily to themselves. It’s only 3 people though.
Aspergers has basically been rolled into Autism Spectrum Disorder.
More technically, its a more specific sort of set of behaviors/mannerisms/ways of thinking and acting, but, they all fall into the new category of ASD.
ASD is… a spectrum, of things that are different from the norm, Aspergers is basically a subset within that set, though many other subsets are possible and exist, in different instensities.
In my experience living with an autistic husband and having working with many autistic people, they don’t mind the word at all and use it themselves.
As an autistic person with several autistic family members, friends, and associates, I’ve never met someone who used it or liked it
Perhaps it’s a US vs UK thing? I’ve only seen US and Canadian people use it, in the same way that I’ve only seen US people use the term “blacks“ when referring to black people
It has that connotation to me. And the fact that it’s the term of choice to use as an insult in places like 4chan and other edgelord spaces doesn’t help
Seems like it’s one of those things like “autistic person be ”person with autism“ where there’s no consensus within the community
I am in the “i dont have autism, i am autism” camp because i consider stereotypical autistic behavior to be “autisms”.
When neurotypicals start saying “they or everyone also have a little autism” what i understand is they have 1 or 2 autisms but besides those scenarios they are completely within classic norms. The difference then with someone like me is there is no situation in my life where i am not actively experiencing one or more autisms. I have never known anything else and is therefore a core part of my identity.
This said, i would so much prefer that everyone used the term neurodivergent instead and left the term autism for professional medial diagnosis only.
No, I describe myself as an autist all the time.
I am an autistic. I am an autist.
Its a word that describes what I am.
If you get bad vibes from it, you have some insrcurities you need to handle.
Say it was Black instead. Can you not see how describing someone as “a black” could be dehumanising?
I am autistic. I am an autist.
I am schizophrenic. I am a schizoid.
I have Down’s Syndrome. I am a Down’s.
Or just disability in general.
I am blind. I am a blindist.
I am deaf. I am a deafist.
Or even just other self-describing words.
I am old. I am an oldist.
I am tall. I am a tallist.
I have zero insecurities about being autistic. I also dislike coy phrases like “on the spectrum”, which have the implication that there’s something wrong with saying that someone is autistic. Like it’s something to be ashamed of. It’s fine. I am autistic. You can say I’m autistic. That’s cool.
But that doesn’t mean that I should accept a term just because that’s what 4chan, WallStreetBets, and Gab popularised by using to put us down either by using it ironically or just by straight-up using it as an insult. You can make an argument for reclamation, perhaps, but I don’t think we’re there.
And, and perhaps this is just me, but isn’t it a horrible word? Phonetically?
As I’ve said, there seems to be no consensus in the autism community and one dividing line appears to be America vs. the UK
“This is an American.”
You don’t need to accept a term you don’t like for yourself but others may not mind.
Btw, autistic brains exist outside the UK and the US. In German, it’s becoming more common to say “Menschen mit Autismus” (people with autism) but I suspect that’s actually more to do with an effort to de-gender because constructions like “Autistinnen und Autisten” (female autists and male autists) are clunky.
Also, your “blindist” and “deafist” don’t exist in English which is why they sound weird, they do exist in German.
The “American” one would suggest “an autistic”, rather than “an autist”, no? He is American, he is an American.
You don’t need to accept a term you don’t like for yourself but others may not mind
I’ve said repeatedly that this isn’t a settled debate within the autism community, and at no point have I suggested that other people aren’t free to use whatever terms they want
Btw, autistic brains exist outside the UK and the US
I understand that. I’m specifically talking about the English word “autist”. Ich rede nicht über Deutsch.
Also, your “blindist” and “deafist” don’t exist in English which is why they sound weird
I suppose that asks the question why is “autistic” one of (if not the) only example with a dedicated noun?
The “American” one would suggest “an autistic”, rather than “an autist”, no? He is American, he is an American.
This may be an issue with English not differentiating precisely between most nouns and adjectives relating to countries. In my head “an American” is clearly a noun but that might be me. Better examples might be “a New Yorker” or “a Londoner”.
I’ve said repeatedly that this isn’t a settled debate within the autism community, and at no point have I suggested that other people aren’t free to use whatever terms they want
You did say you don’t want to accept a term just because it’s popular and I was agreeing to that. The fact that we’re talking about this seemed to suggest to me that you felt at least some pressure to conform to what everybody else is saying.
I understand that. I’m specifically talking about the English word “autist”. Ich rede nicht über Deutsch.
And I was drawing parallels between two very closely related languages of two closely related cultures. The words “autist” and “Autist/Autistin” are obviously related so it’s interesting to see if there’s differences in how they’re used and what they are.
I suppose that asks the question why is “autistic” one of (if not the) only example with a dedicated noun?
Language is under no obligation to be consistent and logical. Speakers of English for some reason didn’t see need for dedicated nouns here and they dropped out of use (or never developed in the first place). Why English doesn’t have a word for “doch” is beyond me but here we are. English also doesn’t have dedicated nouns for “person from [country]”, as we established above. Does that mean anything profound in particular? To my mind it suggests simply that English somehow tends to prefer adjectives.
The fact that we’re talking about this seemed to suggest to me that you felt at least some pressure to conform to what everybody else is saying.
No, not at all. There is no pressure I’ve encountered to use the term “autist”, and if I did feel pressure to conform on this subject I wouldn’t have continued to discuss it after my initial post was downvoted