People have asked about my #Neurodivergent marriage...

Umm... over and over.

👉 Later today? Gonna start sharing about 12 years of working toward #AutisticJoy...

through #AutisticLove...

With my wife🤶, who confidently claims to be typical.

Big topic. Just a short post to break the ice for future writing...

Later today. Turns out there WAS hope for me...

🚨 mebbe you too.

#ActuallyAutistic
#AutisticX #AskingAutistic #AutisticAdults
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@actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd

People have asked about my #Neurodivergent marriage...

Umm... over and over.

👉 Later today? Gonna start sharing about 12 years of working toward #AutisticJoy...

through #AutisticLove...

With my wife🤶, who confidently claims to be typical.

Big topic. Just a short post to break the ice for future writing...

Later today. Turns out there WAS hope for me...

🚨 mebbe you too.

#ActuallyAutistic
#AutisticX #AskingAutistic #AutisticAdults
.

I guess the reason I’m #AskingAutistic is because I see soooooo sooo much of myself in the research I’m doing to learn about my kids but I’m very wary of self diagnosing & don’t want to take away from the support they need. I just can’t help but think. all. the. time: “Well, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” & “yup, he’s a chip off the old block”

How common is it for #Autism to run in families? #AskingAutistic Are there #AutisticParent #AutisticParents groups? It could be that I’m just overwhelmed navigating the healthcare jungles between my #ADHD #ODD kids, chronic self & recently adding an in-law w/cancer/stroke on top of it all, but I am swimming in Symptom Soup and dunking in Diagnostic Punch trying to be an advocate for all of us so we can get the support/meds/tools/coverage we need. It’s just. fuck. It’s a lot.

#ActuallyAutistic #AskingAutistic

Okay, I've only known I was autistic for a couple years, so bear with me. I keep hearing about noise-cancelling headphones. I thought they were just for listening to music and blocking other noises, but they seem to have a greater functionality than that?

I've never seen them. Know nothing about them. Could someone explain them to me, their types and uses, in a very simple, easy-to-understand fashion? Examples are always welcome.

#AskingAutistic Should the U.S. Government put an end to the Mandatory Autism Databases?

@actuallyautistic
#Autism #Autistic

The series Inside Job about Illuminati seemed to have a clearly autism-coded main character. In the lizard people episode this is made explicit, with two references to her 'aspergers' and this as a joke and a disorder.

For some reason I'm ok with this and I'm not completely sure why. What are your thoughts? Maybe it's partly because everyone in the series is a greater or lesser kind of awful?
#askingAutistic #asperger