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
This isn't new news but it keeps getting buried and the ND community specifically needs to know about it.
In 2023 the FTC confirmed that BetterHelp shared sensitive mental health data with Facebook, Snapchat, Pinterest, and Criteo. Not anonymized trends. Individual level data — your email, your IP,
As an autistic individual, i wish that neurotypicals knew how i can read into their tone of voice when they send a text. When someone close to me sends me a text, i can feel their tone of voice. I wish they knew how their tone of voice affects me.
Please help, Friendless 23 yo, adult with no previous relationships, struggling with group at med school, lonely in high and middle school, bullied for years previously. I struggle with noticing when somebody doesn't like me or is bored of me in time and end up with my hopes for having friend shatte
So, as the text may say, I am being tested for Autism as most people in my life generally think I have it (including my counselor, but he can't diagnose me, due his status as a social worker, rather than a psychologist). So, the intake took place a few months ago and they were like 'Yeah, we definit
I'll start off with saying I'm not diagnosed as of now. I plan on seeing a psychiatrist hopefully soon to get a full evaluation done to rule out other possibilities as well and hopefully get answers. However, with autism it's not really something you can take medications for, like you would with ADH
I used to wish during most of my life to find my group of people to find the place where I could fit in I could be happy I could feel loved and I could give love. In fact I traveled on the road for so long going from here to there being nomadic just wanting to find that and finally after years of re
So I was only able to get 10 mins in at the grocery store today and I only got drinks and cleaning supplies and toiletries. I don’t have food but that’s fine. I need to pay my bills more. I apologize for my pathetic post and I won’t make anymore posts like that in the future.
I made this animated explainer about pathological demand avoidance… which I didn’t even have language for until recently.
I was diagnosed with autism as an adult and learning about things like this has reframed so much of my life. For a long time I thought I was just self-sabotaging or stubborn (I
I had a conversation with my dad tonight.
He was talking to me about a variety of topics that I was annoyed, upset and angry about. Before he went to get my mom, he told me I need to do better at being specific. He'll ask me why I'm upset or angry about things, and says I give him very general inf
Emotional regulation.
First ill just ask my mainquestion: what should one do if obsessed with something they can't interact with?
I'm extremely obsessed with driving but don't have a license and need to wait for about 2 months to get the drivinglessons.
Its been occupying my mind for the recent c
Hi sorry no better title in mind lol
I'm an older brother to a highly-functioning autistic (I think it's called) brother, and I would never replace him for a different brother ever. Just asking when we grow up, how would he be? Would he probably need some guidance? Should I let him live under my r
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
Beacon of Hope, an ABA provider operating more than 13 clinics across the Dothan and Enterprise areas, has been emergency suspended following an investigation by the Alabama Department of Mental Health and the Behavior Analyst Advisory Council.
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I (34, AuDHD) have this thing I do when my mind starts eating itself, which is that I zoom out all the way to the historical scale and remind myself that I could have been born as basically any random person across the last few thousand years, which means I could have been a random soldier in a rand
I figure it would be a good day to support and reflect on the contributions of people who live with both things as March 31st is transgender day of visibility and April 2nd is Autism awareness day.
Edit: I just realized April 1st was April fools day so comment what other day on the calendar would w
For me, it is brushing my teeth. I can do just about everything else just fine. I brush my hair every morning, take showers every other day, clip my nails on a regular basis. I generally keep myself well groomed. However, the one task I hate with every fiber of my being is brushing my teeth. It’s on
i feel so behind in life right now. i was diagnosed almost a year ago but i’ve know since i was a teen i had autism as do my family.
i want to set up a plan to get started on a path to feeling better, but i don’t know where to even start.
for the last few years i don’t feel like i’ve made any cons
Please
please be nice im having a hard time wording this :(
i lost my stable job back in march of last year because of wrongful termination. and while that is a whole other story, i've been trying to find a job and keep the job. it's hard. none of these jobs i apply to sound interesting or worth my time s
I don’t want to do this. If there truly is no other way to live than I don’t want to keep living. I don’t want to spend 50 years sitting at a desk staring at numbers to retire and be unfit to fully enjoy life. I don’t want to be homeless. I don’t want to be someone who goes out constantly and has fu
Hi, throw away account as I am not sure they are on reddit. Also sorry if this is not in the right flair as I wasn't sure if this was more friendships or communication. However I think it fits mostly in communication as that is where this went wrong.
I have friend (F22) with autism and they kee
I have been picking at my skin, face, lips, the inside of my cheeks and nails for as long as I can remember, and I would really like to stop.
I also twirl my hair a lot, and pick at anything I am holding, which doesn’t harm me but can be annoying because of how others perceive it or because I make
I interviewed to direct an autistic play for a theater company this upcoming theater season. I did not know there would be an in-person artist retreat where I would need to physically stay somewhere else and use a shared bathroom and with staff/other artists/strangers. I am feeling very overwhelmed.
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
I notice that a lot of neurotypical people who want to learn about autism read books about it and I've never understood the logic behind reading a book about autism that wasn't written by an autistic person instead of just being around autistic people it's comparable to reading a book called "the wh
.......Well, I was making this post to ask for ways to help deal with the urge, but, while writing, I ended up punching my glabella 5 or 6 times and the urge was satisfied. Still, despite my success in avoiding rattling my brain, I'd like to find a better way to deal with this...?stim? ?tic? ?urge?
Sonic voiced by: Me lol
I did when I was a kid and I feel really bad
just so you can understand, when i was a kid i had a lot of meltdowns and selective mutism or would straigh just not talk and avoid everything and everyone and just sit in my room wanting to cry and hit everything, but i would always get called stupid or get spanked, so i started to just teach myse
What I mean by that is, when I see someone talk about liking one of my interests, I’ll feel upset.
For example, my special interest is an actor and he’s quite popular, especially right now since he just starred in a fantastic movie.
I feel irrationally frustrated when I see people who “don’t lik
My auditory processing disorder has been out of control ever since I had a head injury a few years ago. I can't afford a brain scan to see what's wrong in there. Even with health insurance it's $3,000 and that's what I make in a month.
My auditory processing disorder used to be a lot more manageabl
I have been learning about autism in women, and I’m not sure where I stand. I know that it’s harder to tell in women because of masking, and I always thought that I was perhaps too extroverted to have it.
But honestly, I find that my closest relationships always suffer. I always end up being blinds
Hey folks!
Would love to have a space to openly talk about hyper fixation and the toll it can take on our mental health!
This past week I started a hyper fixation on a character from a video game I had been playing. I feel like the hyper fixation came out out of nowhere and hit me like a truck.
Hello!
I just found out some reactions I have might be misophobia and/or SEES (sharp edge eye syndrome) and I wanted to know if anyone else her struggle with it too since it's a sensory thing :)
So for me, I get this discomfort in my eyes (sometimes forhead too) and urge to put pressure on my ey
For context I'm a 21M and I have a few female friends of the same age but they always refer to me as a boy but when they refer to other guys my age they refer to them as men. They also talk to me in a slow cutsie voice rather like how you would talk to a little boy or a pet but will talk differently
