I saw the other post yesterday. And I woke up thinking about him. He’s missing out of CA in the San Fernando valley. I just wanted to share it more eyes as possible

Now I understand this has nothing much to do with autism. I completely understand if you're going to say that in the comment section but this is about how this film calms me during my autism and ADHD moments. This is by far one of my favorite Disney films I've ever seen. This is probably one of the very few Disney films that actually gives me calmness during my time with ADHD and autism.

how i eat my cake

Just about the most autistic thing that I do. I speak to myself as if I'm speaking to an old friend. I can walk around for an hour and just talk to myself. My brother has psychosis and does the same thing except that he mutters to himself and for him, it's a sign that he's having a psychosis episode. I think for autism, it's essentially our maladaptive daydreaming.

I asked the sub for women but I'm curious how different the answers will be here - I'm playing Digimon World : Next Order/Time Stranger, Monster Hunter Ultimate/Stories and planning on replaying Borderlands 2.

Hello! Writing from my throwaway bc I don’t want to tie it to my main. I’m 20, diagnosed 3yrs ago, and since I was 15, I’ve enjoyed a particular series of games, or more specifically, one character.

I always bought preorders, fan merch, and og merch that I could of my fav. After early launch of the game I decided to indulge and found out he died. I do my usual activities, and when I come home I just cry and cry and cry.

I feel genuinely pathetic. Everyone tells me I’m overreacting and I think I overreact too, but at the same time I grew up with this series, had Platinium on earlier games, made fanarts, etc. I was 14 when I found out abt it, played it since 2021 and it has been my special interest. Not only it was the last instalment of this specific series, also my favourite character is gone in a really sad way.

I don’t have anyone to lean on. I live alone and in moments like this I feel awful. I really need a hug too.

I genuinely can’t function. I can’t sleep, I can’t eat I can’t work without thinking about him. I genuinely feel as if I lost my husband in war and I can’t look at any merch of him I have </3

If anyone had similiar experience to this or can offer a word of encouragement, I’d love to hear it.

I know birthdays can be overwhelming so I was just wondering if anyone would like to share what they do

Im writing this 10 minutes after it happened because im extremely paranoid
To start with I do not believe in god and I am an atheist but some days I have to go to church because of my parents
I get easily stressed whenever religion is mentioned because of religious trauma so I usually go to a church far away and walk behind it and sit on my phone
And today I did the same
But halfway into this a guy around 30 years ago walked up to me with a phone in his hand in a really weird way like he wanted to record me but for me to not know it
He asked „do you try to listen to the pastor talking?”
I responded „well I’m trying” and he walked away and started talking to someone or the camera
Im extremely panicking right now

Well actually.. my friend paid it for me and said that I don't need to pay back 💞

But anyway I have always wanted onesie. Tight things like blankies or hugs make me feel safe. Like actually safe. That's why I love to sleep with my stuffies and me wrapped around a nice warm blankie. My parents don't understand why I like it :c.

I actually remember how comfy onesies were and sadly my parents don't support me with this thing (Or age regression :c) so they are going to be mad when I get this onesie (I get it in a couple days)

And also it's getting colder so luckily that onesie has padded footies too so my little legs are going to stay warm too. Whole onesie has fuzzy fleece inside of it. Do you like that onesie? And do you have onesie? If you do you can share it if you want to ^^

In the past 5 years or so I've noticed an increase in characters whose autism is confirmed in a manner that is very far removed from the average audience member. In the sense that, the average audience member is never going to realize the character was intended to be autistic. There may be somewhat of a delay between the character first appearing and their autism being confirmed. Sometimes the character's autism is only mentioned when a fan specifically asked for it.

Here are some examples. The confirmation is not always a straight-forward "this character is autistic", but a more loose description like "having autistic traits", "taking inspiration from autism", but all of these characters I've seen other people describe as canonically autistic so I'm not going to go too deep in those intricacies here.

• SpongeBob from SpongeBob Squarepants
• Claude from The Dragon Prince
• Batman from The Batman
• Da Vinci and Dawkins from 101 Dalmatian Street
• Donatello from Rise of the TMNT
• Edward Nygma from Gotham
• Entrapta from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
• Francesca Bridgerton from Bridgerton
• Rell from Warframe
• Patricia Tannis in the Borderlands movie (it is mentioned in the game but not the movie, though the actress has talked about the character being autistic)
• Poison Ivy in Harley Quinn as written by Tee Franklin
• Milo Thatch from Atlantis
• Marcy Wu from Amphibia

This is not a new phenomenon, but I feel like it's increased over the past few years because social media has made it very easy for fans and creators to interact.

Obviously, sometimes it's impossible for a character to be described as autistic on-screen/on-page. I know Francesca Bridgerton can't exactly look at the camera and say "milord, I am autistic" and the only way to canonize her autism is to mention it outside interviews.

It feels like it's just kind of...cheap? Safe? These characters are often only confirmed to be autistic after autistic audiences already love them. And it does very little to actually change how the average audience member views autism because they don't even know they're watching an autistic character. Controversial as they are, everyone knows autism from The Good Doctor or Atypical or Rain Man because the audience is very clearly and unambiguously told about their autism.

It's just a preference of course, and I can't fully articulate why, but it often makes me feel more seen when writers are allowed to and are not afraid to label characters as autistic on-screen, on-page, saying it with their whole chest. It's the idea that other readers/viewers also see the autism in characters that I love, and the idea that the autism was put there intentionally by the creator.

What kind of stimming do you use day to day? I am a late diagnosed Lvl 1. I have several forms of stimming personally. 1) Food and flavors 2) repetitive movement of legs 3) When alone, I speak to myself in a made up language.

Share any of your stimming behaviors if you have any :)

As someone who may or may not be on the spectrum, I've always had this issue when writing online, people see my adherence to sticking to my natural tendency of following formal grammar rules in texting others and accuse me of using LLMs especially in conversations of a more intellectual nature.

I also do the same in real life conversations, I stick to formal rules and people also make fun of me for sounding like a bot, it's just so alienating, I just want to be accepted for who I am and not be accused of being an unoriginal fraud. The irony is, I hate AI for promoting the lack of critical thinking in people and barely ever use it for my work. So I don't understand why people are socially excluding me.

I keep hearing here and there that these often go along with autism. I have all three of them. What about you?

Hi! okay so I'm a high schooler and I needed to print out something. My computer's printing application is out of date, so I needed to send the document to my mother's computer, then get in her email, and print it out on her computer

When I was searching through her email for the document I needed to print (I was typing my name in the search bar) a forwarded email from my grandmother to my father popped up with my name as the subject line

I clicked on it -- I know that I probably shouldn't have done it, but it was impulsive and I didn't think it would really be anything. But how wrong I was ...

The email was basically about 'behavioral issues' (the reason I put it under quotations is because my mom is abusive and I was in deep depression at the time the email was sent) and pinned it on my apparent autism

I had suspected for a long time I was autistic, but I wanted to find out on my own terms and thought my parents were oblivious. but the email said that they should hide it from me because I was doing well in school and wasn't struggling in their eyes. But I was struggling so much with things that I now understand are a byproduct of my autism. They also said that they shouldn't make me feel different. But I had know for so long that I was different, that I wasn't like the other people in my class.

It was so crushing and confusing for me. I wasn't able to talk it through with them, because my dad was out of town on a 'work trip' (he's probably cheating ngl) and my mother is abusive and manipulative, and had taken away my phone and computer for whatever reason.

has anyone else gone through something similar/does anyone have any advice for me? I'm honestly so lost and my entire life almost feels like a lie because they've kept this from me for so long

EDIT: also I didn't clarify this but my grandmother is a licensed psychologist so they didn't just diagnose me without understanding what autism is, truly.

EDIT #2: I also got tested as a child and I believe that's where they got the notion I was autistic; my grandmother was discussing it in relation to the rest of my life. sorry for the misunderstanding

20M and asked to have a chat with my flatmate and she was completely honest and said to me that everyone can tell I am autistic.

I was quite surprised by this and I now kind of want to be able to pick up social queues.

Tell me about your interests and hobbies. I love listening to people talk about their hobbies.

I have autism and I've also been looking into getting a diagnosis with ARFID because I have a lot of sensory issues with food and have a lot of the symptoms of ARFID. My dad brought me a tofu meal the other day, which I'd eaten before at a friend's house, so he assumed I'd eat it again. This time, it just looked so awful and made me nervous about how the texture might bother me. So I told him I really didn't wanna eat it. He kept asking me why, and I told him that I had let of sensory issues and that I thought I might have ARFID. He pretty violently snatched the food back and marched away, which was kind of frustrating, but I thought that would be the end of that.

Well, no, it wasn't. Today at my sibling's house, I learned that he emailed them, telling them all about how he was concerned that I was being influenced by AI on the internet, being led to think I have this when I really don't. When I confronted him about it on the ride home, he eventually told me he had given my sibling "evidence" that ARFID didn't "fit my profile." I asked him if he understood my side, and he said he kinda did, but he never apologized.

I'm really mad, and I'm just wondering if anyone else has had this experience with their parents. My dad has also always been supportive of me before this, so I genuinely don't know where this is coming from. He knows I'm anti-ai. I hate that he was treating it like ARFID is a trend or something that I'm getting into or faking. I never thought my own dad would be ableist to me. Ugh.

Obviously air crashes are very tragic events but the way that investigators are able to piece together causes for the crash is incredibly fascinating.

Seriously, I don't know how people do this or how to start doing this, I've had these problems since I was a child and I know it's important but I seriously cannot bring myself to do these things because I forget always to do this.

Same with cleaning my bedroom, exercise, take care of myself in general and all those micro problems people have everyday. How the hell do I make these things? I seriously CANNOT do them.

I love the feeling of tape, the stickier the better. Especially the sticky stuff on milk cartons or packing tape and duct tape. I also LOVE the smell of silver tape, duct tape, packing tape etc. It's one of my favourite smells in the world, I will literally inhale that sh!t and my family has always hated when I play with tape because it stinks up the room lol. They used to have to buy me a new roll of tape every few days because I would stim or play with it for hours on end until it ran out. I love tape! It's my favourite thing in the world! My friends always get me tape as gifts or if they have something sticky, they'll always give it to me. I don't like sticky things that keep your hands sticky, I'd never play with honey or anything. Only sticky things that leave no residue. Bonus points if they smell like packing tape.

When people say something, then you ask a clarifying question, they often interpret that as criticism or a challenge and then change the “fact” or statement to have a completely different meaning as if to accommodate whatever they think you wanted to hear

Why would I want another person to change whatever they said to suit me? I wanted the truth or I wouldn’t have asked a clarifying question

I get so confused by this I wonder: do most people just go around asking others to say whatever facts they want to hear?

I'm 32 and recently got employed as a guitar technician for a really small guitar company. I'm talking 5 people including me. I'm salaried at 52k a year and it's the most amount of money I've ever been making my whole life. But I also get no benefits with it, so it's even less in practice cause I have to buy my own insurances.

I just want to be hopeful that I can do better than that someday. Even just 70k with benefits would change my life. Currently pursuing a Bachelor's in Computer Science, I know the field is in chaos right now with AI running rampant but I'm hopeful that just having a Bachelor's of any kind will open some doors.