@hmm_cook Especially the early days of parents building organizations to help their kids. Some of the parent quotes make seeking a cure about making their kids neurotypical so they can be the parents they wanted to be.
Autism indicator of “One-on-one interactions can be handled, but group scenarios are overwhelming” didn’t occur to me till I realized it’s because we process social cues consciously/manually, which takes so much processing power that multiple people’s cues exceed the rate limit
@Autistic_Lauren Failed handwriting in 2nd. 3rd, and 4th grades. Teachers constantly griped about reading it all through school. Only stopped when I typed or printed papers. Maybe part of why I got so good with computers earlier than my peers.
@DanielSmidstrup Out of the office today or I totally would grep my terminal history across our thousands of servers then | awk '{print $1} | sort | uniq ‐c | sort -n to get the commands minus flags, count them, and sort the largest to the bottom.
@SahilPanhotra@DanielSmidstrup I had a Thinkgeek teeshirt with this text. It encouraged a few people to try to recruit me. Good sign they saw it as smart and funny; not offensive.
@Autistic_Lauren Example: A couple summers ago, I re-watched Into the Spiderverse and played What’s Up Danger over and over. It took over a year, closer to about 1.5 to ease out of it being the main song to which I listened.
@Autistic_Lauren https://t.co/mu2Q1UMrTG
Music soothes my inner beast. It creates regulation so well, I easily play some songs on loop. I obsess on a song which becomes the center of my plays until I move on. That can take hours to years.
@7why__ydm ^^^ inside stuff
Outside: explore; find people to play football, soccer, tag, hide-n-seek, war, etc.; solo soccer (goal was a small section of fence); climb trees
@7why__ydm Books, board games, computer games installed on the computer, console video games, drawing, action figures, writing stories, listening to vinyl or radio