Autism, random question 

Disclaimer: I'm not used to talking about Autism, let alone about my having it. If I ever say something Awkward or not good or anything, please let me know and I will remedy it <3

Gods, is feeling like you're an alien a very autistic experience, I wonder?

Autism, random question 

@Oneironott Very... Most of the time I feel like a tesseract talking to a square.

Autism, random question 

@Roady_Dragonfae @Oneironott Y E S

Ugh yes

I tried to explain this to my partner once as being sort of like how spice trance works in the Dune novels, except I do it all the time and nobody else sees the larger pattern or path I do so they can't understand what my choices are steering toward. But I can't move at all WITHOUT that larger view. It's all or nothing.

Nobody told me, "Consider maybe it's autism: hypervigilant trauma type." 😬

Autism, random question 

@Cobalt @Roady_Dragonfae jhdjghsja,clskfg fuck

Autism, random question 

@Oneironott @Roady_Dragonfae I spent years hanging online with #ActuallyAutistic ppl and thinking, "idk what people's problem is. These folks are great friends and they don't question the weird things I need because for SURELY UNRELATED REASONS they have their own and so we just accept our biz. And nobody thinks I'm a bitch, or if they do they are glad for clarity that if I have Bad Feeling it'll be obvious. So nice to be the token allistic!"

lmao No

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