I tried info dumping during training today. It really did help.
And, I feel better than the last time we had a day-long training. #ActuallyAutistc

What am I doing today? The same thing I do every day, battle my anxiety! #Today that looks like falling back asleep here shortly for a couple hours because you can’t be anxious if you aren’t conscious! Then once I wake up I’ll resume my binge of Chuck to try and give my brain something to focus on other than berating me with its self loathing, paranoid, and delusional thoughts. I’ll be counting the hours until my fiancé gets home bc he is my comfort and the minute he’s by my side anxiety usually flees. #ActuallyAutistc #anxiety #AlwaysKeepFighting

I find it hard to reconcile being an #AuDHD therapist and helping people all day, then falling into a crying overwhelmed mess in the evenings. It makes you feel so fraudulent and isolated. #ActuallyAutistc

#ActuallyAutistc activists online: #neuroqueering for the win ✊

The same, offline: Fuck off, weirdo.

Looking for advice for therapy/counseling. #ActuallyAutistc #AuDHD
I'm in the US if that makes a difference.

I've never had a therapist before and I have a few consultations set up for next week.

What are some questions I should ask to make sure they are not working with bad/outdated information regarding autism, ADHD, and AuDHD.

Red flags to look for? Green flags to look for? Other pitfalls to avoid?

Other general therapy, US mental healthcare, advice welcome too.

@actuallyautistic @audhd

Still on the apron.. Still waiting for take off. Only one toilet working on plane. I'm rapidly running out of spoons. Young autistic boy at back of aircraft having a meltdown. No wonder son, I might be joining you :(

We should have touched down 45 mins ago.

Oh.. and my phone's trolling me. XD

#ActuallyAutistc #gatwickairport #delays

One of the hazards being Autistic creates is getting in trouble for what other people assume you meant, feel etc and people insisting they know better what you are thinking and feeling than you. I was often told off for what my parents insisted I was thinking and feeling. & when my now ex-husband got my kids put on the At Risk Register it put my kids at risk when Social Services did the same. #ActuallyAutistc
#Autism

Yay!! My pre order book by @DrAmyPearson (twitter) and @KieranRose7 (also twitter) has arrived! I'll add it to the very top of my to read pile. It can jump the queue although I'm already neck deep in another book series at the moment.. might be a while before this gets finished. Looks interesting though!

Unfortunately I'm not on twitter any longer so if any #ActuallyAutistc tooters follow them there let them know it arrived safe and looks fantastic!!!

@markwyner
They are also flashing at such a rate to give me a headache.
#SensorySensitivities
#Autism
#ActuallyAutistc

I'm slowly realizing that the well actually reason that I don't use cars anymore is that all the real social interaction in traffic is just too much for me. 🤣

It's just the immersive sensory satisfaction of locking myself in a tin can that I really miss. 🫠 😥

#ActuallyAutistc

Skill regression. Anyone experienced it? I’ve recently been struggling and coming to grips. For me, this has been just staring at code on a screen, having to dig really really really deep about what to do next. It’s like I’ve forgotten the process of coding. Switching back and forth between my editor, terminal, and browser for no good reason because I’m not sure what the next step is. Not recalling built in functions and methodologies. It makes me so sad. #ActuallyAutistc @actuallyautistic #skillregression

That thing where you’re making bread rolls and you take the dough out of the machine but it’s a bit wetter than normal and the sticky dough on your fingers triggers such an extreme repulsion reaction that you momentarily want to be sick.

Oh… that’s just me? Ahh. Ok.

Cue trying not to lose it while sprinkling extra flour everywhere then rushing to the sink to scrub every last fragment of dough off your fingers while cursing your #ActuallyAutistc brain for being so damn silly.

Any #ActuallyAutistc folks have some clever uses for ChatGPT or AI in general? @actuallyautistic

It’s probably minimal photo o’clock. Today, grey. #photography #ActuallyAutistc

More textural than minimal this time, but still pretty minimal. #photography #ActuallyAutistc

“Autistic Community” is really just a euphemism for “Amicus meus, inimicus inimici mei”.

#ActuallyAutistc #KleinesLatinum

I need help finding coping resources for parenting #ActuallyAutistc teenagers. I’m neurodivergent myself so I feel lost & incapable much of the time. I struggle with focus. I know I’m missing tools. Everything I research is for young autistic children, mine are older. This Dx is recent so I still feel bitter we didn’t get it sooner. I envy those who have in-home support. I ask caseworkers but I’m told there’s just a long waitlist. It feels like their hands are tied. I feel helpless most days.

Ich muss (leider) gleich ein Telefonat führen und habe mir ein „Skript“ für Begrüßung und Verabschiedung geschrieben… #ActuallyAutistc

I am now in Orkney Isles working on a memoirish series of meditations about late diagnosed autism, yoga, trauma and class. Will be here most of April. Nice to be back in the UK time zone and finally have time for my new book.

#LateDiagnosedAutism #autism #writing #author #creativenonfiction #ActuallyAutistc #orkneyisles #meditation #yogq #trauma #class #writingretreat #ownvoices

@autisticompulsive
I grew up believing I was in inherently wrong because that is what my parents had drummed into me through constant tellings off, assuming I knew what I should have done and having a brother who could almost do no wrong and at the most got a 'do not do that again' instead of being punished like me.
#ActuallyAutistc
#Autism
#Autistic
#LateDiagnosed