@MistyMelanie @actuallyautistic @Tooden Only very mildly #snark. More #exasperation about keeping up with how to be #acutallyautistic the #rightway on #mastodon. One of my #autistic features is #followingrules. So if the rules changed, I definitely want to know.

Can an #AcutallyAutistic let me know why I get disgustingly overwhelmed/ over stimd trying to do something I used to love…what changed in my head? #neurodiverse

Someone said to me: "I enjoy being someone else at carnival".
I thought: "Well, I'd rather be myself more often."
Today I know that what I meant was the autistic masking and trying to fit into a world not made for me as #acutallyautistic

I moved from another server to neurodifferent.me, so hello to the #neurodivergent community 👋

​I'm self-diagnosed #acutallyautistic since about one year and feeling weird and alien since always.​
I'm currently waiting for an appointment for psychiatric diagnosis, this will be sometime in 2023. I have many interests and not enough energy for all of them.
Looking forward to meeting some fellows with similar struggles and/or interests #neurodivergent #autism :infinity_rainbow: