I had a great afternoon at a meeting with autists. We had lots of subjects, and not only autism related. It was a moment without judgement and everyone expressed themselves in an autistic way. A great success.
Autistic love languages can look different than NT ones. We like to share experiences, may unmask around people we are comfortable with, do penguin pebbling, share a special interest, stim, or infodump.
Autistic people can be excluded from so many places and abandoned by so many people and then be criticised for spending so much time alone and doing things (by) themselves.
It’s giving “I don’t want to help you, and I don’t want you to help yourself either” energy.
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What's the largest number of people with identical names you've ever come across in one household?
I've just found a census record in which Margaret Rankin is living with her husband, her sister-in-law Margaret Rankin and several children, including another Margaret Rankin. It must've been a confusing household!
Many autistic people struggle with “multiple choice” and “select the right answer” exam questions. A key reason for this is that the options available can feel - to our brains - like such vague simplifications or awkwardly worded answers that they all feel somewhat incorrect. 1/2
Our best hope at succeeding with exams that have questions like this is to use the process of elimination to eliminate options one-by-one from our pool of potential answers
eliminating them in order of how incorrect sounding they are (most incorrect going first). 2/2
Sorry I can’t come to the phone right now. I’m autistic and simply not good at calls. Please call back literally never. Texts and emails exist for a reason.
Fed up of kept seeing of all the war toots or anything other as a reason to use the actuallyautistic group, as I'm not sure this is what the group is actually for.
A strange part of being autistic is getting in trouble for your facial expressions, tone of voice, not inferring things you haven’t been told, & somehow implying things you haven’t implied. It can feel like people get offended by stuff that’s unavoidable & beyond our control.
You're basically getting in trouble for what others are reading in between the lines because they're making assumptions that are only valid for the people they're used to dealing with.