Tag: autism

autistics-speak:

karadin:

stimpoweredgiraffe:

i was ranting about ableism on twitter and.  i realize a lot of people genuinely do not know this and dont mean harm. so please know this and cause less harm. you will make my life and the life of other autistic people just a little bit better.

and people can gain new skills over time, where you are now is not where you will always be.

Also, what skills and needs an individual autistic person has can vary a lot over time (even day to day or hour to hour!) depending on lots of factors. When I am not putting my energy into dealing with sensory overload or making the effort to seem neurotypical to judgy people, I’m able to cultivate a lot of abilities that I just can’t maintain when I’m under heavy stress.

sbroxman-autisticquestions:

If you see an autistic person trying to talk positively about autism, don’t try to shut them down and tell them “autism shouldn’t be talked positively about”

It doesn’t matter who you are or what your reasons are, this is a person who’s autistic who is trying to see something positively that they will be living with for the rest of their life

It’s not “romanticising”, it’s not “ignoring the negative sides”, it’s taking something we live with and seeing the positives it’s given us, as well as the negatives

Do you want to know how much seeing the positives has helped me? A lot! It’s helped me to focus on things I’m good at, it’s helped me to like myself more

All you’re doing by telling an autistic person not to look at autism positively is ruining self-confidence, telling them they have something “bad”

Sometimes I hate being autistic. I hate it. I despise it. I can’t fully express myself in a way that makes sense to other people and I get frustrated and feel like I’m getting talked down to because of it and I fucking hate it. I’m 30. I’m fucking 30. I’m not a child anymore and I don’t have to be treated like one and I just want to be able to be given the chance to express myself and my thoughts without someone thinking I can’t talk or I’m not going to talk because of whatever fucking reason they think.

Ilove being myself and I’m proud of being autistic, but this I hate. This bothers me. This is what upsets me the most.

I hate being nonverbal sometimes. I just want to be able to express myself and I want people to consider what I have to say.