ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

@ScottSoCal oh man yes. Or replaying and reconsidering every part of an interaction after to second guess everything I said in case I need to apologize or just feel awkward about it. 🤣 @dirtyoldtown @wakame @fidalgo @actuallyautistic

@btaroli @ScottSoCal @wakame @fidalgo @actuallyautistic I'm so tired being told I am "verbal for an autistic person." I mean, YEAH, I sound fine to you because I spend every waking hour practicing human interaction to the extent that I'm exhausted after a half day. But I sound like a weirdo to you the moment I am called upon to say something I have not practiced 37x.

@ScottSoCal @wakame @btaroli @fidalgo @actuallyautistic Oh god yes. My entire adult life is divided into situations I prepared for endlessly and am told I am very well-spoken and intelligent for based on my reaction and things I had not foreseen that make me react like an alien and everyone wonders what precisely my deal even is.

@wakame @btaroli @ScottSoCal @fidalgo @actuallyautistic

"Wow, this is an unforeseen situation. Let me react in the moment without apprehension or anxiety about misspeaking."

@btaroli @ScottSoCal @fidalgo @actuallyautistic
I would love to have a show called e.g. "Normal Person" that stereotypes neurotypical behaviors.
Maybe with some explanations why the NT behave like they do.

@ScottSoCal @VoxofGod @terminalimpala
@actuallyautistic
Who has trained who?

@ScottSoCal yeah, I totally get what you’re saying. I flip between liking it lost my and truly loathing the portrayal. It feels A LOT like how other #marginalized groups are portrayed in media: harmful #stereotypes that the #mainstream finds amusing or familiar. It’s for #ratings really. It’s not to educate or expand minds. #ActuallyAutistic #TheGoodDoctor @fidalgo @actuallyautistic

@ScottSoCal @ReimanSaara @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

#SoRelatable. I have several times tried to explain this idea to ppl by saying "a group of people are talking about Game of Thrones...I chime in with "I like the color of the dragons' eyes." #Nonsequitor #OnlyPartiallyInContext
Anyone else think the character Luna Lovegood (from Harry Potter) is on scale???

@ScottSoCal @Bette @Threadbane @LetsRoc @DemocracySpot @1finekitty
I am no expert but this looks like a blatant fake. I have been unable to find any evidence anywhere that he had a golden carriage ride. If he had, it would have been all over the major news outlets with plenty of credible photos.

@doggle @MarmadukeCWest @ScottSoCal @VoxofGod @terminalimpala @actuallyautistic There is a robin who comes by every evening to shriek at us for covering up the spot she used to nest with lawn fabric.

@MarmadukeCWest @ScottSoCal @VoxofGod @terminalimpala @actuallyautistic a crow once got me to move my boat after I obviously had moored up in a spot he 'owned'.

How?

By pecking loudly on the window early each morning.

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics Most of my clothes are +5 years old, many are almost 20 years. I don't get bored with what I wear. BUT my clothes must be neat and in good condition. I mend them, clean them with care, dye faded clothes back into their original color in washing machine if possible, and may take them to seamstress for repairing if need be.

IMO, really wearing out an item of clothing is not easy if you take good care of it.

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic When I bought my house I bought 2 bookshelves so I could have my own library. As a blind person I never owned a physical book until I was a teenager because books were too expensive to own in braille and I borrowed from the library only. So now I have a house full of books and I am proud none of them are in print so when sighted hearing people enter my house they can't read any of my books unless they know braille😁😈

@merashie @fidalgo @actuallyautistic this convo is giving me flashbacks to debates about queer representation needing to diversify from stereotypes... I remember a show came out with a gay character who was stereotypical, but otherwise pretty developed. Lots of back and forth about whether we should be offended that he had to be stereotypical vs people pointing out that he wasn't unrealistic, just not representative. It's a nuance we need to navigate imo

Today my counsellor/coach asked if I had "delayed sensory processing," then she described it. A rough summary is that it's having too much input and being unable to process it at the time, but then having to take a lot of time in the next few days to process.

So yes, absolutely I have that (it was particularly strong this past week). I do perceive it as being about my emotions, but it could be senses instead or as well.

But I come home and google the phrase, and I instead get only "sensory processing disorder" and universally links to things about children. My guess is that my counsellor was probably talking about the same thing but de-pathologizing and re-contextualizing it. I have only been self-diagnosed for two years and am already tired of every mainstream #Autistic resource being about children and pathologies and nothing about adults nearing burnout in their late 30's after years of working around cognitive differences (me).

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He's family too (by u/King_Pee)