Ich poste ein Video, in dem ich Menschen im ländlichen Raum Alternativen wünsche und werde als neoliberal und verlogen sowie als oberflächlich bezeichnet.
Dabei WÜNSCHE ICH MIR NUR ALTERNATIVEN.
Wie krass sitzt bitte das Auto im Gehirn - und im Herz?!
@grumpygamer Even if it is the most basic 2d game, I always look into the options first. There could be such fundamental settings like if the toilet paper is over or under.
I've been trying to understand what it means that an autistic brain is bombarded with so much information. We spent some time at our summer cottage and I think I got some insight in this.
Instead of seeing the lake in front of my eyes, everywhere I looked I saw a detail. Its size would vary but it would still be a detail. A swan there, its partner there, no leaves on that tree yet, what a cool pattern on the small waves, what does it look like when I move my eyes this way, or that way, a car on the opposite shore, the shadow of the tree, I wonder what seagulls those are etc. A new detail with every single glance.
At the same time my attention tried to keep track of the dog and listened to birds singing and bumblebees flying around.
Now I wonder what it feels like just to see the lake.
@LehtoriTuomo@actuallyautistic In the past year I was so mentally exhausted that going on vacation only made it worse. We‘ve been to Sweden an I absolutely could not enjoy the landscape. I was utterly overwhelmed by everything I saw, heard, smelled. The mere fact being there was too much for me.
@actuallyautistic
When it comes to #autism awareness and false stereotypes an important topic is autistic woman that were ignored to exist for a long time.
When people talk about that they often refer to "female autism" or "female representation". That often focusses on higher level of masking and deep compensation in social skills.
I find that sometimes irritating because I kind of see myself in that description. On the other hand there are woman that show rather stereotypical traits.
@Dr_Obvious I don't have that much insight on late diagnosed autism in women. I've read some texts from late diagnosed women and the autism itself does not sound different from what I, as a man, experience or read from other men. So I don't think that there is a great gender difference in experiencing autism itself.
@Dr_Obvious What I do think is that women have a much harder time being acknowledged to be autistic. Our society has internalized the tropes women and men have to have. And while boys will greatly differ from those tropes, people see that there is "something wrong" with them. When girls show signs of autism it's just "oh, they're just a girl".
Say you only took NT's into account without saying you only took NT's into account...
"Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have posited that these types of pre-performance rituals help to alleviate our stress in part by simply forcing us to focus on something else, giving us less time and space to spiral out of control."
In the middle of me typing an email, my laptop decides it's time to update Outlook... I mean, seriously? And of course it turns out it didn't save the latest edits when I open the draft again after. Now I have to go fishing for that last train of thought I had before the whole thing shut down. Goodie. (Focus, Twan. Focus.)
@autism101@actuallyautistic I‘m still trying to figure out what routines might help me. I do have set dates for cleaning the house or grocery shopping. But besides that it‘s still hard for me to figure out something helpful. I‘ve only become aware of my autism in January and haven‘t worked since February. My new job starts on 1st May, so I hope I‘ll have something basic figured out by then.
@actuallyautistic So, today was my first appointment with a therapist who specialized on late diagnosed autists. She thinks that I am most definitely on the spectrum and strongly suggested to go for an official diagnosis, which will now be my next great quest. I got many addresses from her, so I‘ll have to do a lot of phonecalls after the easter weekend.
It still feals weird, but it took a part away from my impostor syndrome. I now have a first professional opinion who reassured my suspicions.
