So here’s my history. Diagnosed at young age as adhd but medication has never really helped me. It just hid the hyperactive part for parents. I’ve tried stimulants and no. Stimulants. I also have a love of symptoms that seem to correlate with autism. I’ naturally loud, i walk on my toes a lot, i hav
I (30M) volunteered at the SPCA in my town and I got made fun of for talking to the kitties by the staff. This was my plan to get out and maybe make friends and give back to the world and now I feel ashamed to go back.
Edit: I asked for help as I didnt know what to do and she said "Just go back in
I’m in college (23 F), in a medical technical program and I get treated like crap due to my autism. I don’t talk about it much, if not at all to my classmates who are older than me. But an older woman (mother of an autistic son), keeps trying to baby me and outs me without my consent whenever she br
For my speaking exam I'm doing a presentation on autism to spread awareness (I am autistic myself) and I'm looking at the DSM5 and the NHS but I want some stuff from actual autistic people. If you have any personal experiences, any myths that aren't true, or just something you want people to underst
I got diagnosed last year. I’m 25 now. I feel like in the past year I’ve realised I don’t really like my friends and right now I kind of have none. None that I see regularly anyway. I’ve never had a partner because dating has always been a language I didn’t know how to speak. I’m currently trying to
Okay. in the grand scheme of things this isn’t that big of an issue. But I HATE how often people assume Im mad at them and demand reassurance when I’m not bouncing off the walls because I’m happy. When I’m TRULY happy, and TRULY interested I am putting all of my focus into whatever it is and taking
Hey all,
The title may not fully capture what I am feeling, but I don't have a better way to put it. Recently, I've been thinking about my personality, things I like, things I do, etc., after a colleague of mine recently got an ASD diagnosis. I would think about those things occasionally, but neve
I just got back from a concert, and met up with some friends that I haven’t seen in about 6 months.
I was feeling anxious due to the gap between our last meeting, and while I was excited to see them again, I did feel pressured to mask since I wanted to make a good impression on them after such a l
19M and pretty much I have struggled to find friends everywhere I go. I seem to always get picked on by people because of my lack of self respect.
Is there things I can actually make a significant change on and what would they be? I’m not rlly that open to doing new hobbies because I just haven’t
Does it depend on your age? I.e if you are a toddler (1-3yrs), children / teen, or adult, did it differ in effectiveness in changing your habits?
I'm not sure if I'm using the right tag for this. But whatever it is, is this something I should try to figure out or let it be? I don't know what triggers it. I have a fairly calm and sensory friendly life for the most part. I mostly end up crying when I spend too much time with my friends or when
Hi everyone,
I’ve been thinking a lot about how we navigate our sensory needs and focus throughout the day. Many of us use stimming or fidgeting as a way to regulate our nervous systems, but we rarely have clear data on how these habits actually impact our internal state.
I’m curious to hear from
Hi all, I’m a teen girl and I’m just wondering why no one ever wants to stay friends with me? The longest close friendship I’ve ever had was around 9 months maybe a year and I feel like whenever I talk to someone or try to make online friends I get annoying and end up talking about myself so I alway
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I was diagnosed with Aspergers when I was younger. I'd generally describe myself as an extrovert, meaning I'm very social and gain energy from social situations (though I'm a bit of both because randomly sometimes I need to be left alone)
I've had so many jobs, retail and hospitality and office w
So 2 times a week I go to school and 3 times a week I work.
Rn I have 10 b codes. It means that in my country if you skip school without giving them a doctor paper as proof you were sick you get a b code.
If you have 6-8 hours in some of the day (s) school and you skip at that time school, you get
Our daughter is almost 4 and was recently diagnosed with autism. We have good insurance, but choosing an ABA provider feels overwhelming. Online reviews all seem to say the same things: high turnover, inexperienced therapists, and too much focus on billing.
For parents who found a provider they lik
How can you tell that someome is being mean to you? Ive had (NT) family members see me interact with like professors and say they were really mean to me but I didnt notice that they were being mean? I don’t get how to tell if someone is being mean. I can tell that one of my coworkers is being mean t
So every now and again I see posts about music that feels relatable as an autistic person but finding them after a few weeks is always difficult for me.
So in the spirit of Autism Acceptance Month, I thought I should make a Spotify playlist for our thread that we can all add to to keep it all in on
Looking for brands that have quality comfortable basics that I can return to over and over.
I already do this with socks. Years ago I decided on only buying Puma socks. They fit me well, are comfortable, and the exact same socks are always available somewhere. I wear them until the fabric starts s
I tried searching tips online but I could not find them, help me plz.
For as long as I remember myself I had trouble dealing with environments where rules keep changing and tasks with tight deadlines appear every second. Right now I study at a college with dysfunctional administration and I'm no s
I find when I post on Reddit unmasked it really offends allistic people. I am always cordial, but I prefer accuracy and clarity. It causes people to be downright vicious to me. Because of that my karma always takes a hit. For that reason I have two profiles. A masked one where I enable their bad beh
my almost 3 year old girl is getting diagnosed with autism and adhd (auhd). she's almost at the final stages of diagnoses. she's non-verbal (was at 10 months, but stopped at 18). I can see things being worked out in her head, but I can't seem to communicate with her beyond play time, and even that's
This isn't my first time going inpatient, but my last hospitalization was traumatic if I am being honest with myself. I am trying to prepare, and my therapist suggested I write down some of what I want to say ahead of time. I guess I don't know what I want to say. Does anyone have advice?
Seen some posts similiar to this, but it only clicked with me recently, is this an issue with transitions? Like mental transitions, or states of mind.
Just finished one of my favourite series of all times and it physically pains me to think about my real life and the chores and whatever else I nee
I feel chills and a 'warm' sensation (that invades momentarily my body) when I hug of a book, smell it, read it out loud or even just think about it). I just love this sensation
Hi all. I’m curious as to whether people with autism struggle to show empathy or have an extreme delayed reaction to feelings, which I, for example, who doesn’t have autism would feel straight away.
I have read a lot regarding autism to attempt to understand it better. For clarity, my ex, has autis
I'm 56 years old. Always felt different. If I couldn't fit in, I did whatever I had to do to fit in. It was excruciating. The big question was "what the hell is wrong with me?" (I could curse now lol). Now, after all those years and with no help from my family, I'm able to breathe better. I see w
is anyone able to chat i don’t want to be alone right now
Curious to hear how other autistic people experience depression and anxiety. Specifically anxiety I guess. I don’t know how to describe how I feel to others outside of just saying I feel doomed. It feels like everything shuts down and I can’t wrap my brain around how I’m going to move on and be okay
Hello, I’m new to this page. I’m not autistic but my longtime boyfriend is. He’s high functioning but we’ve run into an issue. He has meltdowns over cooking. We will be cooking, everything will be fine, then overstimulated and now breaking a salad bowl. Or it will be an argument over the ingredients
I just make 10000000 knots until it gets shorter
So yes you read the title correctly.
(Sorry in advance if I jump around a lot with my feelings and such, kinda hard putting things down in a good order)
So I had a tiny disagreement with my boyfriend while I stayed at his place from Sunday to today (Tuesday) about feeling ignored, when I really wa
Especially in highschool when there's alot of social pressure, peer pressure, and so forth. For me being exposed to that environment caused sensory overload. And I just had weird habits that I didn't know were weird like staring into the roof of the bus or just outside and not saying anything to any
It doesn’t make sense to me that there would be a being outside of the earth that would control the outcomes of life yet doesn’t contribute or make itself known. It feels like people who believe in religion are just looking for someone else to blame or to make others follow what they want.
It does
I know this is an autism group but I want to know if anyone else has struggled receiving help for their children? My toddler will be three in a few months and I fought hard for her to receive any kind of help in my area. She will be getting a referral for autism in a few months but the path I went d
mean this in both the Platonic and Romatic contexts. I'm a bit older than most of my peers at this point in my life (21 from the UK) and in my final year of college. this means that the people i'm meeting could be anywhere between 17 to 19. basically, people I think could be older end up being young
What the title says. this is a bit of a rant, im open for advice
for context i love radiohead, i dont really care about anything else i like even if i try.
i see everyone else like multiple different things, easily move on from interests and they arent obsessed.
What do i do about this? i dont
I'm so excited
I will go off like k always do. I am so upset and distraught at witnessing videos and hearing stories of autistic individuals being brutally beaten up, bullied, mistreated, abused, neglected, made fun of, rights being removed, humiliated, etc. I am fed up with America and its slithering lies that sh
So I have someone that lately has been making me feel like a 5th or 6th option for everything. For context until this year we were really close.
For the last 6 months I have to initiate every conversation. When I send a text I rarely get a response. If a text has multiple parts I might get an an
I’m an autistic woman. Not a single woman believes that I’m autistic, but men seem to notice right away. It’s weird because I thought it would be the other way around? Curious on why I’m experiencing this
I feel like when I got officially diagnosed I lost the ability to have like a deep guy voice and lost all regional accent for like a weird autism accent it seems? Is this normal because others in family have noticed it.
Hola, hace tiempo que pienso en preguntar esto a la comunidad.
Puedo pasar un dia entero con un solo vaso de agua, se que no es bueno para mi, pero se me olvido que necesito beber agua y tampoco tengo la sensación de sed.
He probado con botellas de aluminio, comprar una botella cada dia, beber de
the funny thing is i work as a RBT, and you’d think these others RBTs would be accepting but BY FAR my experience has been the polar opposite. i have experienced more ableism in this career than i have in fast food and retail. but the consistent thing every place is always having people hate me for
Hi! I want to preface this by saying, I don’t think I could fully stop cricketing. I do it every night and i need it to fall asleep.
But! Sometimes when I’m really anxious or just am struggling to fall asleep I get into doing it more and more intensely, to the point where it hurts.
With most bad
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Hi everyone, I’m a Year 12 student completing my Society and Culture Personal Interest Project (PIP).
My topic explores how gendered socialisation, media representation, and institutional practices contribute to masking in autistic females and their under-recognition in soc
fyi i'm not autistic but i have a cousin (who i am very close to) diagnosed. it pisses me off so so much when people just casually say are you autistic like its not even funny its an actual thing people deal will with and we have idiots in this world just using it with no regard to others feelings!!
I have a sensitive sense of taste and have never met a water bottle I can get along with. Every type I’ve tried (cheap disposable bottles, stainless steel metal, giant plastic jug) leaves some kind of taste no matter what. I’m told steel is the way but I can totally taste it. Any water that sits in
Autistic Accommodations for life:
(Diagnosed 2024)
* Swings, rocking chair
* Time alone
* Sunglasses
* Fidgets (please list favorites)
* Only fabrics that I like
* Time outside
* What social skills do I hone and where do I drop the rope?
I’m so tired of being misunderstood. Som
