BTW, I have a new episode out to launch Season 3, “Love, Politics & Faking Normal: 3 New Autistic Myths s03e01.” Text/transcript, audio, and captioned video.

#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #ADHD #AuDHD #AdultAutistic #LateDiagnosis
https://autisticaf.me/2023/01/07/season-3-love-politics-faking-normal-3-new-autistic-myths/ /14

A human…
slowly turning toward the camera….
and telling me exactly…
what’s on their mind.

Never, ever happens on my block. Not my nabes.

Coming soon as AutisticAF.me podcast & YouTube segment.
#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #ADHD #AuDHD #AdultAutistic #LateDx
👇 /13

While other kids were hitting the playground. Learning to pick sides, squabble, fib politely, fight... kiss… and make up.

#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #ADHD #AuDHD #AdultAutistic #LateDiagnosis
👇 /3

Why…? School, home, family, nabes on my block, church… Gobs of stress in my early autistic life.

So, naturally, I spent acres of hours escaping reality.

Either  nose-planted-in-book… or eyes-glazed-on-screen. Zoned-out,  dissociative trance.
👇

Star Trek “reboots” by the light-yard…

#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #ADHD #AuDHD #AdultAutistic #LateDiagnosis
👇 /2

🧵
"Promising Me Beautiful Lies: How Hollywood Failed My #Autism"

I remember a lot of movies & TV in my life. I gotta believe more than most of my generation. Except maybe fellow autistics.

#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #ADHD #AuDHD #AdultAutistic #LateDiagnosis
👇 /1

Hollywood sells flattering lies. Unrealistic fantasies of  wealth, power, breaking taboos...

Nothing that screens ever showed me… not effing “reality” TV… prepared me for an #autistic life.

Premieres 10am ET/3pm UTC.

@actuallyautistic
#ActuallyAutistic #AdultAutistic #LateDiagnosis
https://youtu.be/7JBkvqbti8k
https://youtu.be/7JBkvqbti8k

Season 3‼️ Things are gonna be different around here…

I've got 3 stories for ya…
"Living Unmasked Is a Political Act Autism"
"Love & My Friend Billy: A New Epic Myth"
"Faking Normal… Writing, Masking, Autism & Me"

Podcast, Text, Video (captioned for audio processing)

@actuallyautistic #ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #AdultAutistic #LateDiagnosis #ADHD #AuDHD #Masking #AutisticMasking #AutisticJoy #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent

https://autisticaf.me/2023/01/07/season-3-love-politics-faking-normal-3-new-autistic-myths/

I was invited to do a blog post for Christmas. The host was hoping I could add the autistic experience. Maybe I did. Being autistic is what natural is to you 😜

So if you’re interested, here it is

https://rebbiereviews.wordpress.com/2022/12/05/christmas-guest-post-author-m-e-purfield/

#actuallyautistic #adultautistic #writer #christmas

@RenoirDana Hi! I don't mind if you read my diary, but could you please refrain from quoting it directly? LOL!

Seriously, though, learning about stimming behavior in my son was my first clue that I, too, should be seeking diagnosis. As an #adultautistic it has been a journey digging through the layers of masking painted in vivid colors of 80's-elementary-school-bullying. A qEEG did a lot of the heavy lifting in my case.