When I Mask My Disability And Autism It Physically Hurts My Brain/head And Causes Me To Have Headaches

Seeing a lot of trains discourse going around so I wanted to remind you all of this

Sometimes I hyperfocus so hard on something, I forget I’m a person until someone interacts with me. I feel like some wild animal seeing a human being for the first time. I’m like “oh yeah I’m supposed to speak and stuff”

"you sound smart" that's because i've spent years doing academic writing to the point that it's my default cadence plus or minus the use of profanity as a tone indicator

"you sound stupid" that's because i'm dumb as fuck

living with the type of autism that Neurotypical and even some neurodivergent folks can't romanticize/bastardize is hard, especially when I let others know I'm autistic but they just assume it means I'm quirky and silly and not struggle with basic functions most people already know how to deal with or doing things considered "off-putting"

Beetlejuice (1988)

Autism Acceptance Month: Autistic Headcanons

↳ Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice)

“Well, I read through that Handbook for the Recently Deceased. It says live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself am strange and unusual.”

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autism is so funny because it's like. here's a thousand little inconveniences for you to suffer and a thousand little things you dont know about yourself that will nonetheless make people hate you. in exchange: you get to be one of the few people in the 21st century who still thinks zeppelins were a pretty cool way to get around actually :)

I’m not intersex and I’m not deaf and I don’t have a TBI or a learning disability or schizophrenia but I still care very deeply about issues that affect these people because nobody deserves othering and social ostracization just for being born and being alive and having a body or neurology that is different from others

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