#MyAutisticExperience is self-confidence in accomplishing a goal, but grappling with anxiety and self-questioning when someone else comes around to evaluate it. To wit, when I've just redrawn a map of the intermodal yard where I work to show what should be stored where, [1/]
By all means feel free to use #MyAutisticExperience to talk about what you've been through and if you think it tells you, and everyone else, something about yourself.
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One of the earliest misadventures of #MyAutisticExperience.
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#MyAutisticExperience is self-confidence in accomplishing a goal but anxiety and self-questioning when someone else comes around to evaluate it.
#MyAutisticExperience is being pretty sure no one will give a shit about me sharing it hoping other auties will open up about their own #MyAutisticExperience so they can bring the right kind of #AutismAwareness forward this month.
It's despising inaccuracy - especially in the narrative about us.
#MyAutisticExperience is trying to make friends in #ActuallyAutistic spaces online and being rebuffed due to my opinions. It's trying to enlighten #autistic people and their relatives about the ups and downs of being autistic, and being shit on by martyr parents who hate having an autistic kid.
#MyAutisticExperience is being judged harshly for trivial things. It's keeping my distance from my parents because they didn't understand me when I was a kitten. It's not understanding all the unwanted attention I got in adolescence until growing up and learning that most men have a one-track mind.
#MyAutisticExperience is being good at languages but absolutely atrocious at math. It's having a very narrow range of musical tastes. It's loving Star Trek and certain other media. It's being aroace -- yes, many autistic people are aroace, sorry not sorry, not for you to judge.
As long as it's #WorldAutismAwarenessMonth, yay cool, now let me make you aware of #MyAutisticExperience.
It's sensory overload. It's superior proficiency at my day job. It's burnout from multitasking. It's acutely keen attention to detail. It's unique sensory quirks. It's trouble making friends.
How about...
We'll discuss #MyAutisticExperience to talk about how we're getting through our days, the realities of our lives for better or for worse, and the hoops so-called "autism professionals" are forcing us to jump through just to prove that we need support. #ActuallyAutistic what say y'all?
Well, that's the gist of #MyAutisticExperience...
So #ActuallyAutistic homies, how about yours? Please do share. We've all had different experiences and the rest of the world needs to know that we don't all get through it the same way.
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Having a hard time relating to... well, just about anyone, unless I meet them through some kind of common ground or setting... and even then, having a hard time getting to know them when they so frequently brush me aside, from elementary school to social media.
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Having average grades in school (and again, being punished for not excelling in everything like my older sister). Getting a college degree that I've never really put to use. Instead getting a trade job, which I mostly like, that requires superior attention to detail.
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Began with a lot of hyperfixation in certain areas of interest when I was little, to the exclusion of all others, even those academically necessary. Thus, being punished for it. Having ears that were sensitive to EVERY sound and couldn't filter out background noise.
