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ideogramHaving some time off I realise just how much sleep I really need. It turns out it's about 10-12 hours a day. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autism</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autistic</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/neurodiverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neurodiverse</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@actuallyautistic</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/AutisticBurnout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AutisticBurnout</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActuallyAutistic</a>

🔥Cassandra🔥After much consideration, I have decided that I would pick hologram with mobile emitter (with the autonomy to activate and deactivate myself, and a team that supports me when I would like help with my programming). <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActuallyAutistic</a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/StarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarTrek</a>

Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama<a href="https://autistics.life/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#actuallyautistic</a> . responding to all this by trying to fix something, anything. Now I’m trying to rescue a warped aluminum frying pan. 😇🙄😳

Chroniques autistes 🇨🇦<a href="https://mas.to/@mirjanx" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mirjanx</a> Welcome to the international <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActuallyAutistic</a> community. 😊

Kevin Davy<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@actuallyautistic</a> One of the things I've always loved is spending time alone in nature. Mostly for the obvious reasons that most people enjoy it. But also, as I now realise, because I could drop the mental shields and defences I'd created, almost entirely unconsciously, and really allow my senses to expand and sink into the world around me, without all the usual noisy horror of humanity causing me its pain. There was also a sense of peace in the wilds, that nothing was being demanded of me. Grow up knowing you are different, even if you don't really know why, and you quickly learn the dangers of showing it, of letting others see the truth. It's why many of us learn to mask from an early age. The world around us quickly lets us know, in many subtle and, quite frankly, fucking unsubtle, ways, that we aren't right and that it's us who have to change. Being in nature was the only place I could feel free of that. Alone in it, nothing was being demanded of me by the world around me, just as I demanded nothing of it. We could just be, existing in the world that we made together. It was the only time I ever felt truly at peace and relaxed, without the nagging thoughts and whispering fears of caution and of not being seen. I realised today that this was because I separated, in my mind, the human world, from the world of nature. In one, I had a sense of belonging, of just being a part of something, just like everything else. In the other, I was always the outsider, who could never really belong because he was too different, too other and that all I could really do was hide that, mostly for justified fear of being seen. It was, and still remains, the cause of so much of the anxiety and stress I feel just being out in the world. This sense that I'm always in hostile terrain and the fear of showing it. Which, whilst still so true in many ways, I realised isn't really needed any more. I'm an adult now, OK a gnarly old git, who's often far more trouble than he's worth, and I have my own truths to live by and don't need theirs and that it was never their world anyway, they just happen to populate mine. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autism</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActuallyAutistic</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neurodivergent</a>

David Gray-HammondWe will be presenting a free webinar on April 24th at 7.30pm UK time to explore the findings of our new paper on improving Substance Use services for Autistic adults. The papers authors will hold a live discussion of the findings and answer some questions from the audience. To register, go here-<a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/improving-substance-use-treatment-for-autistic-adults-tickets-1315555173939" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/improving-substance-use-treatment-for-autistic-adults-tickets-1315555173939</a><a href="https://disabled.social/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActuallyAutistic</a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autism</a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/Autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autistic</a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/AutismResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AutismResearch</a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/SubstanceUse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SubstanceUse</a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/Addiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Addiction</a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/MentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MentalHealth</a> <a href="https://newsmast.community/@mentalhealth" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mentalhealth@newsmast.community</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mentalhealth" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mentalhealth@a.gup.pe</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/neurodiversity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@neurodiversity</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@actuallyautistic</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/autisticadvocacy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@autisticadvocacy</a>

Green Roc ThoughtsDoing what works for me. Finding my routine. Discovering my way.I'm different. I see differently. My needs are different.Self-discovery. Self Advocacy. Self Respect.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActuallyAutistic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AutismAcceptanceMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AutismAcceptanceMonth</a>

MossI'm gonna smell like damp laundry all day today 😑 <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActuallyAutistic</a>

J.Been really unwell since Friday. Or, rather, my already questionable heath kicked it up a notch.Went to the ER because my blood pressure dropped low enough to lose my peripheral vision. The diagnosis the ER doctor gave me was that it was dehydration which was not helpful and didn’t explain much of anything at all. If I was dehydrated at that time, I’m definitely not chronically so.I’ve been experiencing a lot of symptoms mostly on and off for almost a year. Now some of them are running completely rampant. I’ve been looking at symptom lists all weekend and the one thing that fits best and includes almost every single thing is <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/dysautonomia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dysautonomia</a>. The only items that it leaves off are a couple of symptoms that can be very reasonably explained by other things.And I read too that dysautonomia is possibly more common in autistic individuals. <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#actuallyautistic</a>

César PoseAnother birthday present, this time from my wife's middle daughter. Another chocolate bar, and it's from a luxury brand in Argentina. This is what happens when your family knows your vices too well. 😅😅😅😅<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/birthday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#birthday</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/chocolate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chocolate</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/darkchocolate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#darkchocolate</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#actuallyautistic</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/argentina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#argentina</a>

Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama<a href="https://autistics.life/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#actuallyautistic</a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/ActualllyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActualllyAutistic</a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/autismacceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autismacceptance</a> . A thread. Jeff’s Antisocialization theory and Neurodiversity theory. . Always I am trying to lay it out in short form, spoiler alert: it never works. . 1. Spanking is an attack and can be a trauma and what a spanked human baby, born to learn, learns is that the human they archetypically expect to love them attacks them, the first human they interacted with attacked them. . 2. If we could run, it would be like any hostile animal, like a predator, simple, and possible to learn, but we cannot, so there is conflict, pain, fear, and hatred, we have reasons not to acknowledge or express these, we are still in the predator’s larder. . 3. This conflict produces ambivalence, we learned early to hate and fear, but we must find love also, somehow, and so we are split within ourselves - and this splitting is what we produce in the world, this splitting is what makes us a “social animal,” whereby we must have people to love, which seems healthy enough, but we must also find people to hate, to reconcile our earliest childhood survival learning. . /1 . I think that’s new, a thing I intuited but never said before: this early abuse creates the NT social life. 🧐💜 . tired. TBC, hopefully.

Seth the braveMany christians run to grace churches in the hopes that they will be shown "grace" and "mercy" little do they know that such churches are lead by narcissist pastors, ready to trap them and destroy them. Learn why you should not attend a grace church: 👇 <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/seththebrave/p/why-you-should-not-attend-a-grace?r=5bhbya&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://open.substack.com/pub/seththebrave/p/why-you-should-not-attend-a-grace?r=5bhbya&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autistic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#actuallyautistic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neurodivergent</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AutismAwareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AutismAwareness</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AutismAwarenessMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AutismAwarenessMonth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/adhd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#adhd</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lgbt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lgbt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trans</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transgender</a>  <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christianity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/church" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#church</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bible</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/god" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#god</a>

SHODAN :nonbinary:Interesting encounter out bargain hunting today, met this person who seemed to have this shared interest in photography with me at this event and the ability to just talk to them without shame and be myself was something neurotypical people seem to take for granted but <a href="https://mas.to/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#actuallyautistic</a> people can't. Unlikely to ever cross paths again but I just appreciate people like that. They even handed me a neck camera strap I needed at the end. I want more people to be that awesome please.

Mirjan X<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@actuallyautistic</a> After a period of trying to find any (non)scientific piece of literature about autism that doesn't feel dangerously personal, I gave up yesterday; but as the last resort, I've spent this day taking online tests, and test after test my scores were way above thresholds.As you would expect, my life story is mostly about me and others trying our best to fix me but failing over and over again. Now the story finally makes sense.<a href="https://mas.to/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#actuallyautistic</a>

Annelies Kamran, Ph.D.I need to be grading but I went to brunch with friends to celebrate a birthday and recovery is taking longer than expected ☹️ <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/actuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#actuallyAutistic</a>

J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF:Sometimes, "sending a message" is all you can do.Sometimes, you can't even do that.Sometimes, you are the one that needs help. But the world will blame you for not being able to help others, even your allies."Please see me. Please see that I am hurting and afraid. Please see that I am at my limit mentally and emotionally. Please see that my heart is broken every day and I feel powerless and worthless."Do they see that? Do they?Does anyone see us?<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActuallyAutistic</a>

Simon Brooke<a href="https://neurodifferent.me/@theautisticcoach" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@theautisticcoach</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@actuallyautistic</a> if I were to unpeel all the masks like layers of an onion, what, if anything, would be left?I think I now know the answer to this question, and am satisfied with the answer I think I know – but for many decades I did not.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActuallyAutistic</a>

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