I've been part if a game for two months now, playing a human Wizard. A week ago a couple minutes before the session started all five of us were in the voice call, and I don't remember how it came up but I said "oh yeah, I'm autistic" the dm said something like "oh you do a great job at hiding it" and I said "yeah thats what all the therapy was for" yk traditional pre game stuff right then NEXT session (last night) at the very end of the session we had come across the mindflayer bbeg we had been chasing. He cast a spell on us (he never said what the name if the spell was, just something about a wave of psychic energy) and me and the fighter failed a wisdom saving throw and had to roll on a hidden table the dm had prepared. I rolled autism and the fighter rolled depression. Mechanically speaking I had a -1 to my intelligence and a disadvantage on spells with somatic components, while the fighter had to make daily rolls to not become suicidal. The session ended right after that and I haven't been in contact with him since. He didn't seem like the kind if person to do something like this, it was really out of left field. I guess there's no PROOF he did it because he found out I'm on the spectrum but I mean, the timing lines up. I think I'm gonna ghost him and leave the discord, the fighter and another player already left and I'm mostly just sticking around to see if anything interesting happens but its been totally quiet since last night. I'm not very beat up about it but like, that was pretty scummy lol
I hate how people use it as an insult of sorts.
I hate how you say things like "I'm not on the spectrum but I have autism". I hate how "autistic" is used as a derogatory term.
I hate how people will say things like "I'm autistic and I can't function without autistic people".
I hate how we have people on TV that say things like "I'm autistic so I can't relate to you".
I hate how our society views Autism as a bad thing.
I hate how Autism is seen as a bad thing.
So please, stop calling people on the Autism spectrum autistic. It's offensive, it hurts people, it's hurtful to those who have Autism.
Hello! Me(f22)and my husband(m23)got married about six months ago we are both diagnosed originally with Asperger syndrome. The topic of children has been on our minds, we would both love to have our own children but we have been having a hard time finding research online. We would love to have a child, autistic or not but we just want to know about the facts of having our own child.
Since we are both autistic what are the chances of our child being autistic? Would they be under the same spectrum area as me and my husband? We are both by societies standards “very high functioning”. I don’t like using that terminology but not sure how else to explain how we both function. We both needed some help when we were younger and I was nonverbal the first few years of my life but most people wouldn’t know I’m autistic until I start popping off about one of my special interests lol.
My husband‘s parents don’t think we should have our own children or be parents at all and say that we are not fit since we are autistic. My parents on the other hand think that I would be a wonderful mother and my husband a beautiful father. They think we would understand our child more than anyone in the world autistic or not.
We have just been very conflicted by what we do see online and what we’ve been told by certain family members and we just wanted some opinions from other autistic parents and how their children are doing with them being autistic since we both are. We want to do the right thing and do what’s best for our kids. I’ve always wanted to be a mother ever since I was a kid myself. I worked for a daycare most of my life and I raise my two younger siblings.
We own a house, we have two loving cats we adore and consider our babies. We both work and are doing well in life. Feel free to ask questions! Any opinions are appreciated.
sorry if I used any of the wrong terminology
Hi everyone!
I think I might be suffering from mild gastroparesis. I haven't sought any treatment for it, although the team responsible for my mental health are offering me Fortisip and want to investigate my food issues due to it becoming apparent a historic anorexia diagnosis is not the right fit for me.
I starve because it eases my anxiety both generally and surrounding my emetophobia, I hate eating as the digesting sensations are unbearable due to my ASD, and this led to me developing ARFID.
After a long period of disordered eating and/or insane restriction, nothing. digests. at. all.
I ate nine hours ago and it's like I'm carrying round a belly full of raw dough. So heavy, so exhausted.
Anyone else with delayed gastric emptying due to ASD, eating disorders or emetophobia? I just want to feel less alone :(
Thanks xo
So there are a few books where one of the characters is on the spectrum, but I don’t know of any books where both MC’s are autistic.
There is this thing called the double empathy problem. It’s basically the observation that while there exist communication difficulties between autistic and neurotypical people, these problems do not exist between two autistic people.
I would love a book where two autistic people get to know each other, maybe not even realizing the other person is autistic as well, and finding they finally met someone who understands them.
I ask because i recently found out i may be both. I've had bipolar from age 13...well a diagnosis of bipolar and I'm nearly 30. That's all I've really identified as but i started noticing things i thought were regular ways to act and the way i experience thing could be autistic traits. I may have been overlooked because of being bipolar.
It's not the first time i try to tell my parents about my situation and they act as if im joking or using an excuse.
I send them screenshots of tests ive done which shows ultra positive. Including the 2 mentioned in this subreddit - the RAADS-R and Autistic Traits.
Every single time we have a discussion I'm the bad guy. The insensitive who doesnt measure his behavior and that i should say im sorry. They are never wrong. And i never feel like i did anything wrong.
Maybe im too honest and direct. sometimes i say more than i should but its hard to control myself and keep quiet. Specially when i feel its an unfair situation.
I feel like I'll never have a healthy relationship with my parents - and its one of the reasons i feel pain and depression. No pills or treatment can change the relationship since its not me who has to change - i dont have a cure because Asperger is not a disease.
If your parents doesn't believe in psychology, and won't consider Autistic Spectrum Disorder as a thing...
What would you do? Can life be ok if you don't get a supportive parents?
I had a 6 hour evaluation.. clinician said I couldn’t be on the spectrum because of a few reasons but one that stood out was that my social anxieties and phobias have reasons for them.. they didn’t really seem to know all that much about Level 1 ASD based on what I’ve seen online but they are a doctor..
Other things that threw me off was they said that I’m probably not autistic because I have too much empathy and that I use hand gestures- which is likely the opposite of someone with ASD I guess?
The vast majority of the results were based on multiple choice questions and reading through the DSM-V
Edit: I haven’t read your responses but am very happy with the overall sense I’m getting from them.
since I seem to be talking to a lot of experienced people I’ll say that I did stress asking for someone with experience in diagnosis adult ASD. The doctor I got gave this example for hand gestures: they said that, if the patient is asked to pretend they’re brushing their teeth (the doctor pointed out “this is the toothpaste, here’s the toothbrush, here’s the faucet”) - the patient wouldn’t know what to do.
And i’m fine to keep it to myself, but sometimes I wish I could share it so people can empathize with me. And yes I was diagnosed by a professional. It made sense to me and my family.
The problem is that.. I’m highly functional, I mask very well, I don’t have any stims or stereotypical characteristics. And the only time I opened to someone (a teacher I really liked, who is a psychologist) about this part of myself she told me “I don’t think you are autistic”. I felt really bad. Like an impostor. But I know who I am and my problems and how this affects my life.
I’m fine I just wanted to let this out. Thanks for reading
Because looking at some videos of him especially the "did you like the synth" video may have got me thinking he was on it.
I mean also I should state I'm on the spectrum too so the way he acted sometimes gets me to compare that to what I've experienced and can definitely see they it may be, so sometimes I kinda even tell when someone else is on it just by those certain remarks, and Tim definitely give some of those vibes.
Idk tho mabye it's just me but what do you guys think?
Recently I've started looking at all my characters and tried to develop them decently as best as I can, one step at a time. And I'm here to ask for a bit of advices.
So- I have this one character that I love very dearly, and my brain is constantly bringing up the idea of making him on the autistic spectrum, also because I'm starting to realize that his personality is slowly falling into the "eternal child"/"pure innocent baby" thingy and it's kinda starting to bug me quite a bit- I don't even know if starting to work on his development by making him on the autistic spectrum will be a good idea- or if I'll even succeed without fucking things up, as I'm not neurodivergent myself and I am aware this is a delicate topic to touch and I don't want to end up offending people or falling into stereotypes that can be harmful without even realizing.
As I said, he's very very dear to me so I want to improve his whole character and also improve my writing skills, so any help is super appreciated! And- please have mercy on me- Character development is quite hard for me and I'm not really used to it, I'm here cuz, in fact, I want to improve and learn as much as I can so I can do better in the future, as I look forward to make my own story on my own- so yeah qwq
If you need some infos about him and his story or something- it'll- be kinda hard to make a quick summary without exaggerating and infodumping too much- so I won't really put all that stuff here but if you want to I'll write it down as a reply to your comment I guess sjdjjd
Daddy Pig is clumsy to the point that even his children not only call him out for it but are not remotely shocked when something happens. He is also a little eccentric and undoubtedly one of the smartest adults around. Also when he is explaining his job to Peppa he doesn't attempt to simplify his description of what he does. All traits that can be associated with ASD.
Edmund, we see less of, but aside from the first couple of appearances where he is a filler character, he talks at a level well beyond that of George and the other toddlers. He is extremely knowledgeable for a child of his age. Again, traits of having ASD.
My son 13 now was diagnosed with adhd 6 years ago. He was hyper, made poor decisions in his reactions and had slight attention issues. He went on medication and we worked diligently with the school for the right support and he was winning thru grade school.
Middle school got tougher and faster. He has a good group of 5 kids he was genuinely friends with but coke middle school they dispersed, covid hit and my son stay isolation for almost two years. I think remote learning made the add issues more dominant.
He has no friends. I don’t have any expectation to have tons of friends nor do I care who they are. Meaning, cool or sporty or super smart. All you need is one friend to me and he doesn’t even have interest or wanting for one.
He’s also very difficult socially. Since he has no friends he doesn’t know how to act in social situations were in as a family, like last night at our friends house for new years. This family are our BFF, all Kids r the same age and know each other well.
My kid is only good when they’re an activity. Like playing ping pong or Xbox but when it came time to just hang he lost it and in a somewhat controllable way demanded we leave. We then get home and one of their kids slept here. We setup the basement to watch the ball drop and my son was very hyperactive. Anxious. And eventually a situation because he purposely blocked his sister when the ball dropped so she couldn’t see it. That leads to hitting and then my son Jumping off the couch and landing on something and getting some silly injury. That lead to tons of screaming and then finally ending the night.
It kills me that he gets so hyper in these setting and can’t control himself and there’s always an issue.
The doc says let’s do more testing and see if he’s got something else. Apparently if so we change his support. I’m not in denial I just don’t see what the label gives us.
Does anyone have experience with Aspergers ?
I want to preface this by stating probably the most crucial aspect of Autism: it is a spectrum and range of conditions that are related to each other, but present differently and in different intensities in different individuals. While two people on the spectrum may have similar traits, no two individuals will ever be alike in the way that they present.
I’m going to describe my experience in obtaining a special issuance medical. But before I do, I want to address you potential flyers and dreamers of flying, and ask you to really evaluate yourselves realistically. If you can’t honestly do so, ask someone close to you to evaluate you, specifically on your ability to communicate and be clearly understood, on your ability to read between the lines, your ability to plan ahead, your ability to deal with large amounts of stress, and on your intelligence. Because, I can assure you, flying will, at one point or another, test each and every single one of these aspects of you.
Other questions I would ask of potential pilots on the spectrum: Do you have a job? Do you do well at the job, do you get along with people at work, or are at the least amicable with them? Have you graduated high school? Are you in college? Are you handling college well and passing classes? These are rhetorical questions, of course, but I specifically named these because they’re environments where you can be exposed to stress, and in my estimation if you can handle those, I think you can handle the realities of being in the cockpit.
I was diagnosed when I was seven years old and underwent behavioral therapy and medication. I went to college from 2015-2020. I used to take medicine in high school but decided to go unmedicated and have been unmedicated for close to ten years now, a very good coincidence because I’m probably avoiding one of the many medications outlawed by the FAA. In college I made the decision to pursue aviation as a career, knowing well my diagnosis would make it difficult to pass medical exams, if ever. I joined AFROTC in 2018-2019 and was summarily rejected by their medical board, but it was also during that time that I began accruing my flight hours.
Here I made the first of my mistakes in not immediately starting the process of obtaining the medical when I started my flight training. The medical processing takes an eternity for completely healthy people, and will take subjectively longer and longer for each condition you admit to.
However, that being
... keep reading on reddit ➡Hey y'all, i'm razor, i am starting up a new modded smp made specifically for those on any part of the autism spectrum. The server is on 1.12.2, and has a custom made modpack to go along with it. While i have not tested it with lower specs, the modpack isnt super heavy. This server and the community are brand new, the only requirements are you are above the age of 16, and you are somewhere on the spectrum. This will be a community based server, which means if you are looking to start a crusade, this is not the place. Feel free to message me for more information on reddit or discord at Razormark#1944
Hey so i myself am diagnosed with ADHD and Aspergers, and ive seen that a lot of other INFJs are too!! so im very curious to see the results of this poll!
Color is a spectrum, so wouldn't that encompass everyone?
I thought high functioning autistic kids would also remember a vehicular make & model real well. I used to be on the spectrum so I would very much know this. He could've said something like "Ford F-150" or "Chevy Silverado 1500" or "Dodge Ram 2500" or "Toyota Tundra" because it was a pickup truck.
Don't makes & models EVER get mentioned on this show? What's up with their omission when real-world police agencies rely on those kinds of details ALL THE TIME in order to narrow down their suspects?
I tend to talk to girls quite alot and have quite a few friends that are girls. I sit beside two girls in my English and I get to talk to them very easily. I'm quite eccentric and they seem to be fairly interested, although they say I'm weird all the time. I'm relatively good looking I'd say, I'm not REALLY good looking by any means, I'm skinny as fuck (although I'm working on that) but I have an alright looking face and I tend to have weird awkward staring matches with girls where I'll look at them and they'll look at me right back, but then we'll just keep looking at eachother. I don't really know what any of this means, I don't know if they are just being friendly or it's something more. I just don't know. Any advice?
How do you describe your condition, and why?
What are the differences for you?
I've seen in Atypical on Netflix that "being on a spectrum" is apparently more politically correct way of referring to ASD diagnosis. I personally don't see any difference*.
*Aspergers of course is different, because it's less generic and currently is considered as a part of ASD according to DSM-5.
