existential crisis

she/they/he 🐌

[Structured Success @StructuredSucc]

Virtually no one is self-diagnosing to be cool.

People self-diagnose because they are in distress and are trying to find answers for why they're struggling & resources to feel better.

Making fun of self-diagnosis is still making fun of people in distress. Stop it.

[Myk is Walking Backwards @mykola]

Fuck.

[Elsa Williams @williamspidge]

Every interaction as an autistic person feels like spinning a frisbee with utmost precision, only for it to be snatched by the wind and land in a hedge

[@[email protected] @AutSciPerson]

I'd like to let Dr. First and all of the other professionals who agree with him know that autistic people are #NotJustALittleWeird

We're autistic. We can have families, jobs, higher education. We can make eye contact and hold conversations.

We're still autistic, weird, & proud.

[Olga Lautman 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @OlgaNYC1211]

Russia is known for killing journalists over the decades but now attempt to do it on camera. Sky News team ambushed by Russian operatives in Ukraine while covering Russia’s war crimes

[Lauren Melissa Ellzey (she/her) @autienelle]

In an ableist society where our worth is often measured by whether or not we can obtain and maintain a full-time white collar job, I struggle to wrap my head around the fact that:

The average employee is productive for only 3 hours in their work day.

[Structured Success @StructuredSucc]

The myth that, if you find your one true passion, you are going to love your work and love your life, is particularly damaging to people with ADHD (1/🧵)

[@[email protected] @AutSciPerson]

I sat completely still for my entire childhood, I suppressed my instinctual response to grimace or yell when there was a loud noise that physically hurt my ears - and it got me nothing.

3/5

[Kavita Patel M.D. @kavitapmd]

And Just Like That...within minutes our map went from
this (cont)

[ADHD J0N-J0N @j0n_j0n]

Tinted my front windshield brow......Keratoconus sucks and this will help with sunlight driving!

[existential crisis @capycopia]

@hassaan97 Is looking down while you walk a common autistic tendency? I thought it was just me 😅

[existential crisis @capycopia]

@hassaan97 @ItsEmilyKaty Lie or keep things in*

[existential crisis @capycopia]

@hassaan97 @ItsEmilyKaty Like a conversation that doesn't end and is added to whenever instead of separate ones? Sounds pretty cool, honestly! I'm a little confused as to what's messier

All you can do is be honest. If they don't initiate it's not on you to lie to spare their feelings if it's hurting you

[existential crisis @capycopia]

@yanskifilms @janesk886 Please be careful. This is likely a scam. They gaslit, lied, guilt tripped, offered to send me money in *insert random amount of time here that never happened*, and threatened suicide. Kept messaging me asking for more money for different situations after I told them I'm broke