@StrassenKatze@actuallyautistic I’m not autistic, and these all sound exactly like the thoughts of neurotypical people. Not sure why these are presented as particularly describing the thoughts of autistic people.
@StrassenKatze@actuallyautistic i still remember the childhood friend i recently reconnected with whose reaction was a 3 minute voice message where she explained that she is "actually a bit autistic as well" but she has done a lot of mindfulness n shit and now whenever she gets the impulse to do "one of these behaviours" she just, doesn't do them!!
@pinkpenguin@StrassenKatze@actuallyautistic i had a friend who wasgoing to start marketing that shit. i told him it's ableist, he didn't want to hear it. that was the last straw, in a string if ableist fuckery.
I ordered some chew jewelry to reduce stress and maybe help curb my urge to chain smoke, and holy cow it's amazing! Been going to town on this thing for qn hour now, can recommend 👌🏻 @actuallyautistic
@yourautisticlife@actuallyautistic can't really say yet, it's only been a few hours... Tho I only smoked 2 cigarettes since then, so I might be onto something there :D
@markusl@cwebber@ginsterbusch@dpnash@sentient_water@hosford42@Tooden@actuallyautistic@neurodiversity strangely, at concerts and in clubs it's not the noise bothering me. I guess it's because I chose to be there, so it's "good" noise (same as enduring tattoo pain without a problem because it's "good" pain).
Or maybe it's just my hyper vigilance being too high to be bothered by the noise. Because what bothers me more in these situations are the crowds. I can only enjoy events from the very back of the venue, well out of the crowd and preferably with an (emergency-)exit in my direct line of sight. Getting touched and jostled around from all sides by strangers all up in my personal space is a perfect receipt to reduce me to a sobbing, panicked mess 🙃
@StrassenKatze@markusl@cwebber@ginsterbusch@dpnash@sentient_water@Tooden@actuallyautistic@neurodiversity I have posted about this myself, on multiple occasions. Thoughts of self-harm to intentionally terminate my sense of hearing. Prosthetics to turn off my hearing with the flip of a switch. The horror of a continuous, life-long case of ear worms -- even in my sleep! How I know every dog in the neighborhood by its bark.
Ice picks are usually what I daydream about, but a screwdriver would get the job done.