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it's hard for me to hold my finger in this position

i grew up where my mum gave me an option to look into religion, but my whole life i’ve been so focused on my special interest that i don’t think about religion and i just don’t care. i’m happy just way i am with my special interest and idc for religion. anyone else?

Yes, it should be a great day for someone, you're one year older, your family calls you and they tell you happy birthday, but you still feel empty and alone inside and just think: ok and now? i should be happy but it has been almost 10 years since my last relationship, and when you just want to find

I am an autistic guy and I just found out that a friend of mine is going through divorce because he really fucked up. He and his soon-to-be ex-wife have two children together. I know both parents well and the news is emotionally overwhelming. After hearing the news, i was washing some dishes by hand

Diagnosed at 48 less than a month ago and am having some imposter syndrome about it all. For the first time in my life I feel actual seen and validated for my life experiences yet when I try to talk to people about my experiences the general response is some thing like "I feel like that too" or "tha

I often end up saying the wrong thing at the wrong time and it ends up hurting people I care about. It's worse because a lot of these friends are online, and so, what I say ends up being taken literally. I rlly just wanna stop hurting people inadvertently because I care about them and that's the las

The title pretty much sums it all. I have had MULTIPLE encounters recently where people thought there was some “double meaning” behind simple phrases I said. It’s the most annoying thing because I usually state things quite literally and I don’t have the time to study what a person might perceive my

I feel so annoyed at this girl at school and it makes me feel super guilty. Basically, shes super popular and always chatting with loads of people in my classes and has this big friend group of the more popular kids yet she really ignores me and is plainly rude to some of my other friends who I know

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I'm very curious if there are others who are like this. (Especially pertaining to movies/series/shows)

ive always been really interested in comedy. listening to the stewert lee and Louis theroux podcast got me thinking.

lee was saying how his comedy is pointing out “i think this. Why doesnt everyone else think this?” - as apposed to- “why do we all do this?” In the way observation comedians do.

I would like to apply for this position, but I'm afraid I won't be able to because of sensory issues. I love children and I find a good approach to them. I have a lot of patience and I want to help them develop, but I can't. I go crazy from loud noises and have some social problems. I don't know. I

To my successfully and happily partnered neurosparklies:
How do you get your partner to

1. understand that you might "look" normal, but your brain is freestyling
2. be curious about how it is that your brain freestyles and how to NOT make it worse

Currently, I’m (38f) in a one-year relationship

Hi I’m (30, ftm). I’m in university, live at home. I was diagnosed at 29 and feel a lot of grief for my younger self and not knowing that I was autistic having to hide my stims (still to this day when home) When I have a verbal shutdown I hug my whale shark whose name is Nyx very tightly and rock ba

I’m just over 30 years old, I’m a Level 1 autistic person, and I’ve noticed that my life is stable. Not stable in the sense that everything is wonderful, but stable in a sense of neutrality as if my life is at a standstill, without any perspective. I have a good job, I make a decent living, but the

Hello. For Easter my girlfriend and I were at my parents house and to do that we asked the parents of my girlfriend to feed the cats and give 1 cat her important medicine.

Yeah we came home now and I saw that my cup was in the sink, it was used. I didn't use it today. They drank coffee out of it. I

I think in the US, it's well agreed that the "autism meal" is dinosaur chicken nuggets with fries and ketchup, or maybe Tostirolls (though I never really liked them).

According to some ND Mexican friends, their version of the "autism meal" is bean and cheese quesadillas.

Hi 19F here. last night i was at a house party, i didn’t know anyone there as it was my friends friend that invited us and i was just her plus one, when we got to the party i was sober so i stood in another room drinking until i was tipsy enough to go in and socialise, after i went into where everyo

It's like... I received $20 from my grandma because she sent me a card in the mail for Easter. Where does my mind go? Immediately to "Hey, I'll need to use this for something interest-related." I already have a lot of merchandise for my interest. Why. The. Fuck. Do. I. Need. More? I don't. I really

I feel like crawling into a hole and never leaving.

On Friday evening I went on a date with a guy from a dating app. We had been texting for about 2 weeks prior and really seemed to vibe, so I was excited.

The date itself went well, honestly. At least as far as I can tell. We were talking, laughin

Briefly about the situation: I've never been liked by people (strangers and family alike), and I've spent most of my life online: games, books, comics, social media (I only read on them, never post anything). It's all like the puzzle pieces of an addiction, fitting together to form a larger picture.

i feel pfp is a big and deep part of myself that really express who i am and what i like or how i feel

but ive been thinking alot about removing every single pfp on every place available, every social media, every app, anywhere

and i dont know how i feel about it, so i want to know how u feel abou

Apparently, this is an actual thing in my life. And it’s never a crush.

This causes problems for both parties, so I wanted to ask if anyone has experienced this and how one can genuinely avoid this.

I’ve seen tips about distracting yourself but I still end up spending too much time thinking about

i dunno if its a personal issue or if its just me but i noticed i get upset pretty easily almost everyday, i dont act out on it or do anything about it but i just wanted to know if its a personal thing or if anyone else feels like this

if I click with this guy(also autistic) I've been talking with for a while ,I will want to do it with him but I have a hard time knowing what feels good and what I like. I dont feel great pleasure when I touch myself or when I watch certain stuff

As my skin scratching/skin picking habits have been reduced (found fidgets and scratchy crochet acrylics satisfy the need), I've noticed I've started pulling out hairs from my eyelashes and eyebrows more. I know everyone is different, but was there anything that helped you to restrict or stop the be

idk why im posting this, ive just never seen anyone else do it. when i get frustrated I have a variety of stims, and my counter to the more self-injurous ones is the stomp. it is what it sounds like. I stomp the ground as hard as I can like an angry rabbit and the little bit of pain from the impact

Food I like is really limited compared to food I make myself eat

1. Coffee

2. Baked beans

3. Eggs

4. Bananas

Everything else is meh and I eat it because I should. My local supermarket prepares a mixed salad that I try to eat every day or two and I take a multivitamin every day.

Is that just

25 M, still living with parents, did what everyone recommended in life, went to a tecnical school (highschool+tecnician degree) and now I'm in college, highschool was already hard, too many subjects to care about at the same time, sacrificed my teens for that degree, then I went to college, first it

I don't like bland food or music.

I like lots of interesting flavours in my food and lots of interesting chords and rhythms in my music.

I respect other people's tastes, but deep down I get bored easily.

I love Korean, Japanese, Thai, Chinese, Malaysian, Vietnamese, Indian, Mexican, Italian and G

I really only use phrases when it comes to vocal stims. They are the following:

1. I guess it ain't your day (This one is SOOO funny to me, i love saying it. It's from a video game, the guy says it when pointing a gun at someone)

2. It's game time! (This one is also from a video game, guy says it

Plainly stated: I'm burned out. But I'm still showing up.

I keep a good morning routine and then schedule for the rest of the day but I am so overwhelmed lately it makes me want to sleep for a week.

As a result, I’m reconsidering everything I deem necessary and rewriting my plan of priorities. T

this feeling of being abandoned or being left alone for me to wallow hurts so much and makes me cry. Everyday I cry so much I feel like i need someone nearby to talk to me or hug me. I feel like I’m mentally broken and needing a hug to be told you’ll make it somewhere big. I fear of being left alone

I recently heard about wenwan walnuts (they have a much thicker shell & knobbier surface than grocery store walnuts). They've been specifically bred to be used as fidget toys since the Qing dynasty in China. It was considered something for the scholarly/royal classes to roll around in their hand for

It's about connection across life forms and I related hard to the similarities with interacting with neurotypicals. Made me cry more than any film in a while but it's not a sad film don't worry.

I've been collecting Transformers toys for most of my adult live, and recently been collecting Masters of the Universe figures from their Origins line and it got me to thinking....growing up (I'm now 45) 2 of my favorite toy lines were Transformers and Masters of the Universe. After sitting and mess

I’m looking for a parents perspective on this because I’m 16 and I have autism and I feel my mother doesn’t care for me or take the right steps to help me. It’s not really noticeable unless I’m overwhelmed but my mom constantly tries to make fun of me, say it’s an act, or threaten to kick me out wh

Terrified of having a MRI and need help

Hi everyone,

About a month ago I (27f) had a routine appointment with my neurosurgeon for a hydrocephalus check up, and they ordered an MRI (since I haven’t had a brain mri since 2004 and apparently have never had a spine mri even though I was born with a sa

Hello,

Since a few months I feel extremely sad and miserable in a friendship with a fellow autistic person. I already told my friend that I feel like she's putting distance between us and I feel insecure about it due to some past trauma that I had with people but she said that it's not true.

Mayb

I’m newly diagnosed AuDHD, and am separated from my husband. I met a really great guy online and we started DM-ing regularly. He said he was likely AuDHD but not diagnosed.

After we’d been DM-ing a few days, he mentioned how he wanted to talk on the phone but that he felt so nervous, “like junior

There's some of of link between being left handed and autism and i want to know if it's really that common.

sorry if the formatting is weird or if the tag is wrong i don’t use reddit and im sorry it if this post comes off as a vent it isn’t intended that way, i just want to know if anyone has feels the same as me.

anyways back in January i was told i was autistic by 2 psychiatrists and i was telling my

i'm a graduating high school senior this year, and i feel so disconnected from my emotions. i don't know if this is an autism thing or if it's related to depression that i had in the past, but i just feel like there's something wrong with me. i've gotten accepted into lots of great colleges, but eve

Obviously today is Easter and it’s honestly one of my least favorite holidays. There’s practically nothing to do, especially if you’re not religious. Holidays like Christmas, Easter, etc, even Memorial Day are all so annoying to me. Everything closes so I can’t go anywhere to do anything. I just sit

My mum was talking about goats at dinner so I started going ‘mehhh’

She told me to shut up bc we were in a restaurant but it made me want to do it even more and I had to try so hard to keep it in. I only said it once more 😭

Is this an autistic thing or am I jsut mentally like screwed up

so I(19f) have started having some resentment and hurtful feelings towards my 8 year old brother who’s level 2 autistic. Over The course of the year he has become violent, mean, and very aggressive, he will hit, kick, punch, and scream at me for things other people in the room will say or even for i

About A month ago, my 15 year old brother got broken up with with his girlfriend. This was his first girlfriend, and he loved her a lot. But ever since then he has been bawling, but I mean bawling his eyes out. He won’t listen to me and my parents, he keeps saying to leave him alone, but I have told

Got this for my two year anniversary of my diagnosis 🎂

EDIT: I really didn’t think a pink autism themed heart shaped cake tattoo would’ve gotten such a strong reaction from this community but here we are.

To anyone questioning why I would get such a thing, I’ll explain.

I grew up thinking I was