AutisticErrant 🏞️

Curious late discovered autistic ecologist.
Similarities not differences.
#LateDX #ActuallyAutistic,
#AuDHD #AutisticElder #cPTSD #ADD #Alexithymia

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[AutisticErrant 🏞️ @AutisticErrant]

@Autistic_Lia Autistic people can have nonstandard physical health risks / reactions to meds.

It's important Drs know that ND folks have higher risk of specific physical (eg heart, gut, autoimmune) issues and may not react well to usual treatments.

ND drug responses need much more research.

[AutisticErrant 🏞️ @AutisticErrant]

Physiological/medical differences are one of the fundamental arguments for knowing if you're ND I think.
Knowing we communicate differently is one thing. Knowing we may react differently to life saving treatment adds a whole new level.
#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD

[AutisticErrant 🏞️ @AutisticErrant]

Great short film from Laura-Lys Alvarez young #ActuallyAutistic filmmaker. Really captured how I feel - from the initial confusion to the sensory overload.
https://t.co/lB80D9bj3E

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@danidonovan The Cold Wet Sleeve
Nightmare on 10 Pin Bowling
The 49 Tags
Funfair
Biscay Ferry Crossing

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@Autism1o1 I learnt to take my glasses off. I can look happily at my fuzzy best guess location of their eyes and give the impression of eye contact without the pain. Perfect.

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@AutisticCoach_ It's a bingo card. My prize was PTSD.

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@AutisticCallum_ Good point, but... I'm #ActuallyAutistic and I write the criteria for the roles I hire.
It's usual for applicants to be scored on how they fulfill them.
I use keyword searches for the first pass because don't have time to read everything.

[AutisticErrant 🏞️ @AutisticErrant]

Anyone else here fall headfirst into other people's #uncannyvalley and still trying to make a home there?
#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #AutisticElder

[AutisticErrant 🏞️ @AutisticErrant]

I'm #latediagnosed #ActuallyAutistic #audhd and I've just claimed my bonus #ptsd diagnosis, yay!

[Autistic Girls Network @AutisticGirls_]

On the very first day of #AutismAcceptanceWeek we didn’t expect to need to make a statement about developments which show a profound lack of acceptance and understanding of neurodivergent people. But here we are.

[AutisticErrant 🏞️ @AutisticErrant]

@AutisticCoach_ My job is surveying plants and trees on nature reserves.
Me: I'm really lucky!!!
Also me: no I don't want to go for a walk in the countryside to relax. How about we go to your office and relax there?

[AutisticErrant 🏞️ @AutisticErrant]

@AutisticCoach_ My theory (please don't break it, it's my only consolation 😆) is that I'm slow to get going because I can't tolerate caffeine etc. Many people neck coffee and off they go. I need a longer run up to the day.

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@AutisticCoach_ Still booting. Please come back later 🔄

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@AutisticCoach_ I've usually tried to be booked as autistic. Sometimes it doesn't make much difference, but occasionally me and anyone I'm with have been given VIP treatment and whisked past huge queues by helpful airport staff.

[AutisticErrant 🏞️ @AutisticErrant]

@autist333 "I want a Word with you." may be one of the most ominous sentences in the English language.

[AutisticErrant 🏞️ @AutisticErrant]

#ActuallyAutistic #Menopause Fans 🪭 for socially acceptable flapping and hot flushes #FTW

[AutisticErrant 🏞️ @AutisticErrant]

My grieving #ActuallyAutistic brain has unilaterally put on an out of office message, leaving me unable to focus enough to work.
Thankfully my employers are being super supportive so I'm on gardening leave for a month, with my work covered 👩🏽‍🌾🌦️

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@AutisticCoach_ Aargh. Just had to have a meeting under dreaded fluorescent lights. I've still got visual blizzard 2 days later.

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Managing appropriate interactions rn is even more exhausting and some scripts would really help 😕

[AutisticErrant 🏞️ @AutisticErrant]

Does anyone have any good resources on navigating the social/emotional aspects of grief and bereavement while #Autistic? What to say to people?
Not legal/admin stuff, I got that, but what to say to work colleagues n stuff.
#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticTwitter
#AutisticElders
#Audhd

[AutisticErrant 🏞️ @AutisticErrant]

Back to work tomorrow.
Years ago, b4 realising I'm #autistic, I knew I needed a few days extra to recover after midwinter festivities. But I never new why I did and others didn't.
#AutisticElders