Let’s see:
- Wants to be a paleontologist REALLY HARD.
- Hates very loud noises (eg ambulance sirens) to the point that they can make them go in standby.
- Goes to a party, it’s so exhausting that they are falling asleep in the bar for being completely drained of energy.
- No friends because everyone thought they were a weirdo
- Picky eater, some food textures felt like a personal attack
- Of course, NO TOUCHING!
- Music? Sure, 3 songs on loop for hours.
- “What do you mean I should have more hobbies outside dinosaurs?”
- “I don’t understand what you are trying to say”
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Good list
Tries to go to parties, and regrets it every time.
Thinks they’re an introvert due to always masking and thus having low energy after socialising because they had to pretend to be someone they’re not.
Being an outsider. Having a low self-esteem because the world and my own expectations don’t suit me.
Oh and:
- Escapism. Finding a better world in books, tv series, games.
- a persistent special interest which is meaningful to me
Not understanding until years later that the “friends” laughing with you were actually bullies laughing at you
Sudden crying, hatred of certain clothing textures, good test grades but horrible homework because I simply never did it, wanting to eat the same thing a lot, absolute fury at injustices.
Who actually does the HW?
Trains
That’s it, I think trains are pretty cool and awesome
Being depressed a lot of times without understanding why.
Just because my obsessions were socially acceptable, doesn’t make them any less autistic fixation. Looking at you reading and music.
Unintentionally offending people
Unexpected loud noises absolutely fucking decimating your entire day.
And the constant low noise carpet of the neighbors rumbling and rattling all day.
Overreaction to people attempting to interact with you in a way outside your comfort zone situations.
Gets transition lenses because the sun makes their brain hurt.
A note saying it doesn’t get better and an option for fast and painless euthinasia.
Yes officer this troll right here.Edit: After a long painful discussion (My fault, sorry Moon), The wording of this post implies what would you put in your own personal starter pack. Not a starter pack for everyone (witch was how I interpreted it). Moon is not a troll. I don’t think they deserve the hate they are getting. This was all my bad. I am sorry.
I’m glad that many of your experiences have been so much better than mine, but I have autism too and it’s not at all rare for autistic folk to be depressed or live with life long depression and suicidal ideation due to our neurological condition making life so difficult for us.
I thought you were a troll because you said it doesn’t get better and I assumed you were talking about life experience. I think you were actually talking just about the symptoms.
I wish you luck with your journey.
I was talking about symptoms and life experience, and also about the state of reality and how fucked everything is.
It doesn’t get better, we’re still powerless and our world is still run by abusers who make us complicit in their crimes. We cope with this till we die and that’s life.
Then your statement is just incorrect. Most autistic people find a way to improve their life experience. Even if it just learning about a new train engine. But also they can learn how to work with their symptoms to generally improve their lives.
Yeah, life is hard, but that’s no reason to miss represent the facts to paint punching your own ticket as a good idea to a larger group of people.
Obviously, I don’t know your personal situation, so you will have to make your own call.
But it sounds like you are depressed, I would seek help.
An option for fast and painless euthanasia should be something every human has a right to and considered on par with access to birth control.
You can disagree all you like, just how you may disagree with birth control, and that’s allowed. You are allowed to have your own opinions.
Your opinions are not fact however, so while you may think birth control is the work of the devil and should be banned and never spoken of again, this does not mean that you are right.
I have no problem with euthanasia being a human right, as long as there is some legal framework around it to prevent bad things from happening. I have a couple of scenarios in my mind where I would probably use it. Also, if you decide rationally outside of depression that it is time for you to choose it, I respect that.
My only issue was the whole, and I am paraphrasing here, “Autism dooms you to a life of suffering and there is nothing you can do about it”.
I wish you could live your life in a more bearable way. I don’t know what life is like for you and how you can make it easier for yourself. The way there is different for everyone. I wish you strength and hope.
I’m not where I want to be yet. Accepting what I can achieve and figuring out what I really want and what I think I should do has helped a little. I have found support. It’s better than before. But again, everyone is different.
(Thanks deepl.com)
And yes. Those statistics suck.
E: the word acceptance only makes sense to me in hindsight. I had to experience it.
This remark triggered a clarification. So thanks for the result.
Having days in which a certain sense like smell or sound or tactile sensation is unbearable and constantly drawing your attention to the point you feel like you’re about to break down in public because you can’t ignore it to focus on anything else no matter how hard you try
