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There is something that I have always liked in my daily life and that I recently understood is autism. I have always liked having routines, the same every day. I cannot explain why I like it so much. For example, having the same breakfast every day, at the same time, with the same utensils, the exact temperature of the water for tea or mate, always having lunch at the same time and sometimes even spending months eating the same thing. When I can regulate my activities following routines, schedules, rituals, it is a huge pleasure, a great tranquility.
Also listening to the same music hundreds of times, repeating the same exercise countless times (that's how I became an expert in martial arts or chiropractic techniques). Rotating movements, the mastery of which is so important in some martial arts. Repeating a guitar lick to exhaustion until you can do it while sleeping.
For many people, this repetition can bore or stress them. For me, it gives me a lot of pleasure and tranquility.
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Today's job hunt was painful, as was getting ridiculed by family for not finding new work while being taken advantage of by current work.
Time for some cookies and hot cocoa.
#jobseeker #lookingforwork #autistic
I have met people who are bored with everything, with their clothes, with their food, with their house, with their family, with everything. They want to constantly change everything because they are bored with routine.
I am a fucking autistic who loves to do everything the same way, at the same time every day. I have only one way of tying my shoelaces, one routine for getting up, getting dressed, go to the bathroom, drink some mate, wake up my wife to sit down and meditate. I love that, that most things are the same. Colored clothes? No, most of my clothes are black.
The sun has risen on the same side every day for thousands of years, the seasons always come and go in the same way with minimal changes. The cycles of life are a repetitive spiral.
If you think about it, every day is the same day, like in the movie Groundhog Day.
Like dancers and martial artists, we repeat the same steps thousands of times in search of some kind of perfection.
When we reach the final stretch of life, we realize that this is what it is all about and that for some mysterious reason our lives have been in a constant spiral that in turn contains other spirals.
The cyclical and repetitive quality of life and nature is an impulse that autistic people know and love without knowing why. I live fully and peacefully that way. Nothing more is needed.
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In a few days, I'll be 62, and I have an almost ritualistic custom every year when I complete another orbit around the sun. I consider "New Year's" to be the day one was born. The world began that day; that day was the "Big Bang," the origin of this universe that I am.
Taking stock of my current situation and circumstances, I consider my needs and my vision of life at this moment and I intend to live according to that configuration, which changes every decade, every year, every month, and every day.
This time, I thought it might be interesting to share some of that with the autistic people I come in contact with here, just to share the experience and hope it might be of some use to others. After all, the experiences others have shared online have helped me understand who I am.
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Sometimes, many times, I have felt like a kind of Gulliver in Lilliput. I know that talking about high intellectual abilities makes one be considered arrogant, but in reality it is not. There is a tendency to believe that people who have one deficiency, or several, are disabled or limited and need help.
But if you have a high IQ, if wherever you go you have been given dozens of tests and they all confirm that you are a brain monster, then it is assumed that you have no problem, that your intelligence is more than enough to live in this world. And it surely is so. But when one has other concomitant conditions, everything changes. That is double exceptionality, a genius who does not seem like it because he is autistic. And an autistic who doesn't look like it because he is very intelligent.
And do you know what it feels like on this side? Frustration and desire for isolation. It becomes difficult to relate to someone. And I don't need people to be especially intelligent, in fact many of my friends and loved ones have been almost illiterate.
For such a person, solitude and anonymity are more comfortable than a life of relationship.
Two things prevent you from understanding a person with double exceptionality (gifted + autism)...
1- One is that you can't believe how easy some things are for them, just those that are very difficult or almost impossible for you.
2- The other is that you can't believe how difficult some things are for them, just things that seem easy and normal to you.
They don't look gidted because they are autistic and they don't look autistic because they are gifted...
#2e #gifted #autistic #twiceexceptional #actuallyautistic #autism
Every autistic person needs support and help. We should not be ashamed to ask for help and asking for help should not be used against us.
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Autistic Coach I’ll admit that I still need a lot more rest than our capitalist and ableist ideals say that I should need, but I don’t really care anymore.
I'm so autistic I just worked out I would like more touch after two years without a partner by imagining a switch where I can have somebody nice hold me and that seemed nice.
#Autism #autistic #neurodiverse @actuallyautistic #AutisticBurnout #ActuallyAutistic
Unable to use her arms and legs Lenore Soleil draws #art with her mouth. She's a #disabled #trans #artist who recently lost her partner and caregiver, trying to make ends meet with her fantasy romance comic about an #autistic woman. Featuring a wide variety of #lgbtq pairings.
Currently $2660/3000. All or nothing. Only need 23 more backers.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lenoresoleil/hexed-volume-1
That research shows that up to 80 per cent of #autistic females may initially receive an inappropriate diagnosis – of social anxiety, or an eating disorder, or borderline personality disorder – before it is recognised that they are autistic.
https://aeon.co/essays/the-missing-women-of-autism-are-differently-different
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It's been more than a third of a century since most of the key ideas needed to make sense of autistic experience were formulated.
It's encouraging to see people finally starting to listen, but frustrating that it's taken so long, and infuriating that so many people (and organisations) still haven't caught up.
I wrote about the key lessons people should have learnt by now from the autistic community.
#waad @actuallyautistic #autistic #neurodiversity #monotropism
Oh yes, #redinstead #asd #autistic #autisticprideday #autismacceptance We fight hate groups every single day.
In a few days, I'll be 62, and I have an almost ritualistic custom every year when I complete another orbit around the sun. I consider "New Year's" to be the day one was born. The world began that day; that day was the "Big Bang," the origin of this universe that I am.
Taking stock of my current situation and circumstances, I consider my needs and my vision of life at this moment and I intend to live according to that configuration, which changes every decade, every year, every month, and every day.
This time, I thought it might be interesting to share some of that with the autistic people I come in contact with here, just to share the experience and hope it might be of some use to others. After all, the experiences others have shared online have helped me understand who I am.
@hzulla @Fuchskind And that #blind kid who got told "don't do X thing, people will think you're autistic" may have *actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe* been autistic. Not all #blindAutistics necessarily look like the classic autistic look either. Some of us look perfectly normal, and believe me when I say that some of us normal-looking #blind #autistics have spent a *bunch* of energy maintaining that normal appearance because it was expected, but are paying for it now.
***Hashtags and Mentions***
#ActuallyAutistic #NeurodivergentBlind #Autistic #Neurodivergent #Neurodivergence @actuallyautistic
Don’t put too much effort into trying to prioritize “the best thing”, just pick anything that feels within your capacity.
Happy Autism Acceptance Day from Iridium and Mercury! #originalcharacter #asexual #autism #autistic #gold #iridium #mercury #oc #periodictable #red #yellow #elementeon #actuallyautistic #autismacceptance #autismacceptanceday #redinstead #lightitupred #rainbowinfinity #lightitupgold #autismday2025
