@ratcatcher@danimo@actuallyautistic I have taken your suggestion and began tooting questions with #AskingAutistics so that those who don’t want questions can filter them out. Perhaps I will start using #AutisticThoughts for posts such as the above. But remind that filtering those out may cause people to lose acccess to some of the material that they’re looking for
The problem with using #AskingAutistics is that this hashtag is in general use and I would not want to filter it.
My suggestion was that you should invent your own unique hashtag specific to your questions so that those of us who are not interested can filter them. To be clear, I'm not suggesting that you stop using other hashtags or stop posting to @actuallyautistic - just include a unique hashtag that can be filtered on.
I'm curious… does anyone have good recommendations for sneakers for people who walk/run on their toes?
It seems like all the ones on the market assume everyone walks heel to toe. So they have a lot of cushioning under the heel and very little under the toes. Exactly the opposite of what toe walkers need.
Do you have music that you listen to over and over again? #AskingAutistics
There’s this one playlist that’s practically the only thing I listen to. It’s motivating and positive things to ingrain in my mind. Haven’t gotten tired of it and the playlist has been growing for over 2 years now.
Occasionally I’ll let the app mix and play music it thinks I’ll like, but mainly the same like 25 to 30 songs. I feel like this is one of my many autistic traits.
The Double Empathy Problem is like you're D&D characters, and your CHA (charisma) is only full-strength with your own neurotype. When autistics encounter allistics, each sees the other's CHA at -4. Autistics can use the Masking skill to help on some CHA rolls.
The Social Model of Disability is like how a Halfling is fine in their home village, but in a Human town they are too short to reach all the things that have been built for people twice their height.
Am I on the right track here? What would make these better? And do folks have other explanations they have had success using?
For Autistic people, interoceptive differences are common.
This can range from not knowing we need the toilet through to being unable to identify or articulate our emotions.
This means that we will often stim in a way that triggers our interoceptive sense. Our sensory seeking will try and trigger those feelings that interoception senses.
#AskingAutistics (if you are not autistic please don’t comment, read and learn. Yes, I’m fed up to read allistic comments in thread asking input from autistics. And don’t waste your time and mine by trying to argue with me about that I will simply block you)
Why did you choose to identify yourself as #autistic, #Asperger, being on the spectrum, etc. ? Usually from what I read it’s a generational word and/or a cultural one as our #ActuallyAutistic is international and this is too often forgotten
This is a roller coaster. I'm good most mornings for a few hours...
Then I crash. The initial presenting symptom that got me into the doctor was really bad hot flashes. Apparently, I'm told, pretty much identical to "severe" hot flashes accompanying female menopause.
Hard to blv. Kinda weirdly hard on the ego identity. Even embarrassing...
I was so used to autistic burnout that I assumed I was just having a bad one...
Til the only NP I could see with Medicaid finally tested my testosterone. That took over a month...
It was 56.
Normal ~500. Supposed to be a minimum of 300. At least around 200 at my 70 years.
For all males, there are serious implications for neurology, heart, bones and more below 100.
Hospitalization around 30...
But my thyroid and other endocrine systems are involved. And I can't see an endocrinologist until at least November.
PTSD, elderly autism, heavy cannabis use may all be involved. They're each known to depress Teststerone and other hormones.
There's one study on older autistic males and testosterone. We may be prone to such a crash...
There aren't many of us to study...
As you can see I'm fairly available right now...
By mid afternoon I'm likely to be in dysfunctional brain fog, extreme physical fatigue, and possibly paranoid as fuck.