Als ich gesagt habe: du, mich schafft es, wenn mir ständig jemand in mein Telefongespräch reinquatscht, oder mich unterbricht weil ich ja gerade da bin, und wenn ich Smalltalk in der Kantine machen muss - ich profitiere nicht davon, von mir bekommt ihr mehr und bessere Arbeit, wenn ich zuhause sitze... Das Argument hat offensichtlich so irritiert, dass man es einfach ignoriert. #ActuallyAutistic
@dbattistella @joshsusser @cesarpose @actuallyautistic
For me it's cozy mystery audiobooks. Or sometimes very old movies.
Is your cat a hunter? No, but he is an electrician. 
#cats #catsofmastodon #electricity #actuallyautistic
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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. 
#autism #autistic #actuallyautistic
Scientists managed to film how a black hole absorbs matter.
(reposted from my old account @bughuntercat because post had 858 favs and 532 retoots)
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.
My two daughters relaxing in the front yard. The gray one is Mandy, 11 years old, and the black and white one is Tie, the same age.
#cats #catsofmastodon #kittens #daughters #actuallyautistic
I've moved my account from @bughuntercat to this @cesarpose.
The idea is that I want to return to using my real identity online, as part of the change that the diagnosis of autism and giftedness brought to my life and the understanding of what it means.
I'm grateful to the online friends who have helped a lot with this over the past two years, especially here on Mastodon.
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.
#autistic
#autism #actuallyautistic
#Neurodivergent
„Hallo Versorgungsamt, hier, Autismus-Diagnose, bitte berücksichtigen.“
„Wo machen Sie denn deshalb Therapie?“
„Ich mache deshalb keine Therapie.“
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Hach ja.
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.
If anyone was wondering the state of paediatrics in Western Australia, I'm in Sydney with my child because that was the closest place with an open waitlist.
And that's paying to access the private system. The public waitlists are even worse.
#WAHealth #ADHD #AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic
I need to go out and talk to a human about something that will require an improvisation style conversation.
Improvisation means it’s much harder or impossible to script beforehand! As an #ActuallyAutistic person that means I am more likely to make a mistake in what I say, miss vital context, and/or be slow to process all the unexpected input… (my slowness to respond is usually interpreted as something else, usually people assume something negative).
Must be brave and just do it. Must. Can’t keep hiding on here! 
I don't think I can express how much I hate leaf blowers... Argh! I am being noise polluted by multiple of these things buzzing in front of our house. 
What happened to good old rakes and brooms!?
#ActuallyAutistic
Here is the first academic article published by ASUN! It explores experiences of substance use treatment for Autistic adults.
The paper is not open access, but the intro is available and we will be writing a summary!
met een migratieachtergrond When I was little, someone asked me what colour the sky was. I told them it depended on the weather and the time of day, and they got mad at me for being a smart-ass. 
#ActuallyAutistic
@foolishowl
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of coarse I got a theory, I think I know why I do it - because the inanimate object can't refuse it and hate you for it. It's somewhere I can put my empathy and it's not coming back as something else. 
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#AutismAcceptanceMonth
This month is Autism Acceptance Month. As Autistic people, we don't need just the term thrown about for a month. We need people to understand our differences and accept them. Then, maybe, we can feel included, accepted and supported.
So, I will be posting about autism-related terms to try to increase understanding.
The first one is: the “double empathy problem” — A term coined by Dr Damian Milton to describe how people with different backgrounds may have trouble understanding each other. Both autistic and non-autistic people have differences that can contribute to social disconnection and understanding.
Here is a link for more information: https://reframingautism.org.au/miltons-double-empathy-problem-a-summary-for-non-academics/
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