ToddPM

ToddPM , 9 days ago to actuallyautistic

I get very irritated when people (including and especially my family) don't answer my question but instead answer the question they think I meant to ask.

I'm not great at conversation, I think partially because I'm always thinking about how to say things and even rehearsing a future conversation in my mind. (Granted, this causes a lot of supposition on my part regarding the flow of the imaginary conversation.)

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ToddPM , 15 days ago to actuallyautistic

Spontaneously remembered a book we had as kids called "Gus and Buster Work Things Out" about two raccoon brothers. The younger brother, Buster, always ate noisily and chewed with his mouth open. Gus grew frustrated with this and offered Buster several "helpful" tips like holding his snout closed with his hands which then caused Buster to bite the insides of his cheeks so he suggested pulling his cheeks out with his hands and OH MY GOD BUSTER WAS AUTISTIC.

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ToddPM , 16 days ago to actuallyautistic

People who can wake up, run a brush through their hair, grab their keys, and be off to work: WHAT IS THAT EVEN LIKE?

I can't get out the door without 20 minutes of collecting stuff, double-checking my backpack, switching computers, and I-have-no-idea-what. If I don't do any one part of it, my whole day has an undercurrent of wrongness.

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LehtoriTuomo , 2 months ago to actuallyautistic

Someone asked whether I ever played Doom. No, not really. I told that I've never liked first person shooters and then it hit me. I never liked them as there's too much going on. In fact, I've never been a big fan of any types of shooters, the only exception being Cannon Fodder. Now, with the new-found autistic perspective, it makes perfect sense. Sensory overdrive all the time equals no fun. How about my fellow autistics, any fans of shooters?

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FantasticalEconomics , 4 months ago to academicchatter

Turns out, it's only policy makers who get stressed when students talk about race. None of the 67 students in this highschool study reported increased stress when participating in an anti-racist intervention while many reported growth in awareness of social inequality.

This is the first real data I've seen on this topic and it appears, once again, that the fears of harming students is just a boogeyman in the minds of right-wing politicians.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2024/03/anti-racist-school-program-study/

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ToddPM , 4 months ago to actuallyautistic

I petition the court to declare "organizing things" a legitimate hobby.

Sorting my books, keeping a spreadsheet of my digital movies, getting all the board games in the house into one area so they can be culled: these things are fun to me.

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autism101 , 5 months ago to actuallyautistic

If I try to psych myself up for a social event and focus on masking and pretending to be “normal” it never goes well, so I just don’t.

Do you?

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pinkpenguin , 5 months ago to actuallyautistic

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#actuallyautistic #audhd

does anybody know a polite and societally acceptable way to phrase

"dear colleagues,
i would love to spend my lunch break with you, but if i do so my brain has to spend 30-50 minutes being a) completely overwhelmed by the amount of social context and b) severely depressed about its inability to participate in any form of group conversation.
if i am lucky this means a whole workday without a proper break, when unlucky this gets me an extra little mini meltdown in the afternoon which then renders me unable to work for several hours / the rest of the day.
love, pinkie"