I just found out that my mom had me in a Montessori type shit experimental school as a kid this explains so much
i’m losing my mind
my one skill socially as an autistic person is my ability to adapt to any situation by just going "sure I guess this is happening!"
i live my life in a constant state of social confusion and it has made me incredibly good at just going with the flow even if the flow befuddles me and im only really putting in guess work at best.
Lydia: Goodnight moon Lydia: Goodnight tree Lydia, to the Maitlands: Goodnight ghosts only I can see
Things that make me (autistic and goth) a vampire:
Sun? No, thank you. Instant kill.
Counting everything. Please don't throw rice at me.
Invite me directly. "You're always invited". No, I have to stand at your door and you have to say "Come in", else I can't physically enter.
Did someone eat garlic like 5 days ago? I can tell.
You don't want to be informed for three hours about the different sounds bats make?
Black cloths. Everything else is too overstimulating.
Very formal and rigid way of speaking and behaving, almost like a dark lord in 1894.
"I've recently started this hobby... wait, this was a decade ago?"
"autism/neurodivergence isn't an excuse!" "I'm autistic and I act normal!!!" and phrases like that are usually said by other neurodivergent folks who are probably more functional and sociable, but the reality is that it's still a disability that is ON a spectrum. sometimes it is an "excuse"
people forget not all autistic folks act the same and some are very high support needs and will say and do things that may be "off-putting" or heavily misguided. please kind about autistic folk who need help with basic tasks or can't socialize well. the ones who are "weird" and don't understand boundaries correctly.
House MD depicts an autistic who has gotten insanely good at reading people and is just in too much pain to use it for social engineering much beyond his weird little pranks and machinations. my dad is this type of autist, i think of it as the Frasier Crane type as opposed to the Star Trek type. you know. capable of being jocular, jovial, charming, even seductive, but it requires so much bandwidth its still extremely taxing. i have been telling you on this blog for ten years that it is in your best interests to become jocular. it will stun you how much better you are at reading people than the majority of neurotypicals. there's no reason for them to get good at it when they dont even know what there is to get good at. microexpressions are real and i can see them
gender of being a funny little guy. a he/he/he , if you will.
i am a menaceMy name is Baby🦇they/them/theirs dey/deren/dessen it/its🦇🦇This is my blog about all my favourite things: Bob's Burgers, The Simpsons, Halloween, Literature, Witchcraft, History 🦇🦇 A-gender 🦇🦇A-sexual 🦇🦇A-romantic🦇🦇 A-utistic 🦇🦇A-DHD🦇🦇I like peppermint ice cream, sour gummybears, salt'n'vinegar chips, pickles, ranch dressing and peanut butter m&ms 🦇🧛♀️🦇🦉🕸️🎃🧟♀️👻🌕
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