I’m rewatching Elementary and I’m on season 4 where they introduce the autistic character Fiona Helbron. While I like some aspects about the character, I don’t like the trope that it is impossible for an autistic person to tell a lie. I’m lying. #ActuallyAutistic@actuallyautistic
@autism101@actuallyautistic yeah she never passed the smell test for me, even though I had not yet been diagnosed as autistic when I watched it. She was too extreme
"Because there is comfort in knowing you are a normal zebra, not a strange horse. Because you can't find community with other zebras if you don't know you belong. And because it is impossible for a zebra to be happy or healthy spending its life feeling like a failed horse.”
q: @omgimautisticaf
Learning the “why” didn’t change me, but finding a community of others like me who I can share things with and learn from has been helpful.
@JessTheUnstill@Schnuckster@autism101@actuallyautistic
Wow beautiful insight! It seems it’s all relative. I have a rough time trying to figure out myself and how I work though. There’s infinite combinations and that makes us different. But finding the familiar when your used to things that don’t make sense is a godsend. In my perspective. ♾️❤️
@autism101@actuallyautistic I’ve noticed on social media, I’ll comment and post my own content less, and like/repost others’ content more. I’m basically using other people’s seemingly more “acceptable” voices to communicate.
@autism101@actuallyautistic Appearing to know what's happening, what people have just said, what a phrase or concept means, but I'm actually completely lost. I bluff well. Chameleon behavior.
Autistic people can be "othered" and discriminated against in many ways. Take the story of Payton Gibbs, a 12-year-old autistic girl who was suddenly banned from the sidelines at football games for "reasons".
An upper level executive involved with implementing the program has an autistic child, so it seems the move is likely from personal experience/preference rather than benevolence from the company.
Autistic people may be dealing with many other issues, dubbed comorbidities by the medical community. I've listed some of them in the mind map below. Many can’t be seen by others.
i understand this now but as a kid i was always told i was doing it wrong and that i was cheating. only once did they define cheating as including doing calculations mentally. their way seemed nonsensical and unnecessarily, absurdly difficult. any proofs of work were rejected because they weren't done their way and only their way. they were never at showing "their way".
i really think i had some of the worst teachers ever.
@autism101@actuallyautistic I don't have this problem all of the time, but it gets incredibly bad for me if the store is packed. This happened to me the other day, and I just wanted to scream and run out of there.
Our microwave oven is a sensory nightmare for me. I always try to stop it before it reaches zero and begins beeping. I get extremely anxious over this.
@autism101@actuallyautistic pointy objects directed towards me and quick movements. I guess it is connected with my vision impairment. Sometimes even a bottle on a table next to me is enough.
@autism101@actuallyautistic i would do that with ours, but it still emits an annoying beep when you hit stop. So... no matter what I get beeped at, and i have to be closer to the beep if i hit stop.
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.
@LilyoftheRally@autism101@actuallyautistic
That's an excellent point. Often, when I search for information about autism, it's specifically about children; adults are an afterthought, if they're mentioned at all. Perhaps that'll improve as time goes by, once serious study of autism has been going on long enough.
@autism101@actuallyautistic True, totally feeling it. Especially when I don't know how something was meant. Was it serious or just irony? Sometimes it's hard to tell for me. This could often lead to me blundering in the "game" of social interaction. Luckily, most of the time people tell me how it's actually meant if I just ask them.
@nina@autism101@actuallyautistic Should add, some powered planes I flew were like bricks with power to idle, flaps down, gear down. Those you always wanted a close-in, high approach. You'd never make the runway otherwise for a power failure. In those, you could be extremely high almost on the numbers and still make the numbers. Example: Aerocommander 112.
I’ve found that my meds make it easier to get back into focus but my focus overall tends to be a little more shallow. Not nearly as many “I blinked and the day disappeared” episodes, now I’ll actually stop to eat
The hyperfocus is easier to aim at what I want instead of whatever shiny the ADHD spotted first. I still have to wrestle it into submission but it takes a lot less time now.
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Some autistic people rely on rehearsed scripts they have memorized to use in certain social situations. They may have learned what to say from observing others, or perhaps from tv shows and film.
Not knowing what to say or do creates a lot of anxiety for us.
1/3 If you or a family member are disabled and you intend to migrate to Australia, think again. The Australian Migration Act is exempt from their Disability Discrimination Act, visas are getting rejected.
@autism101@actuallyautistic "The Department of Home Affairs has previously stated that over 99 per cent of visa applicants meet the health requirement."
Have they not considered that people who probably won't meet it probably won't apply in the first place??