Anonymous

Anonymous asked:

have you heard of autistics-speaking here on tumblr?

No, I haven’t until now. Good site though. :)

- Lucas

I dunno if it’s an autistic thing or just a me thing, but I’ve recently got back into the habit of sleeping on the floor with my blanket between me and all the junk on it because my bed is too smooth and feels wrooooong.

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[Caption - Listen to the same song on repeat / for days]

i seem to really annoy allistics when i do this. it’s not on purpose! they get stuck! (does that happen to anyone else?)

[ IS IT STILL ECHOLALIA / IF I’M ECHOING MYSELF? ]

Not according to the Wikipedia article, but I still echo myself if I just said a fun-to-say word. With modifications to the phrasing. (Balls! Balls balls balls, balls made of balls, balls made of balls on a mountain of balllls…) (Hugs made of hugs!)

Anonymous

Anonymous asked:

Could being non-verbal also be the massive feeling that you don't want to talk, and if you do you'll be irritable and all like "RAWR RAWR BLARGH"?

Sort of that bubbling feeling that starts to boil eventually?

I think so, probably.

- Lucas

Anonymous

Anonymous asked:

I'm curious, are a lot of other aspies aromantic?

Some are. The chance of an Autistic person being aromantic is the same as a non-Autistic person, so.

- Lucas

[Top text: “Forgets how”

Bottom text: “to breathe”]

my parents never believed me when i would tell them this. it happens all the time though.

I had to..

Don't want to shake hands / others think you want to kiss cheeks

[Top text reads: Don’t want to shake hands] [Bottom text reads: Others think you want to kiss cheeks]

It happened quite some times to me, that after refusing to shake hands, they wanted to kiss my cheek or me to kiss their. At first I did not understand, because who would be comfortable with kissing cheeks if they aren’t with shaking hands? Well, I guess some are, but I’m not and in fact it feels even worse to kiss cheeks for me than to shake hands. I was really confused the first time it happened.

Just recently, while browsing a trans* forum, I found an explaination: I managed to not learn until recently that you’re supposed to shake hands with men and kiss women’s cheeks, so when I refused shaking hands, they probably thought I wanted to get kissed on the cheeks because they read me as a woman.

[Top line: ”N-T person who puts on a bad accent: Why do you speak like an [Insert Race Here]? Are you from [Insert country]?

Bottom line: ”No I am more culturally diverse and don’t abuse people for the way they speak like an illiterate egomaniac.”]

This is what goes on in my school: people get harassed by students in EVERY year group if they speak differently from the social norms. (Me being Irish but having a American accent.)

[[Top line: ”Just because I don’t talk.” Bottom line: ”Doesn’t mean I don’t want to.”]]

[Caption - needing personal space / does not necessarily make me antisocial]

This is another targeted meme, specifically to people who don’t have a social phobia.

One thing that bugs me about not having social phobia is that whilst I can’t be around large groups of people, small groups of maybe 2 - 6 are fine, even encouraged some of the time. I have no issues integrating with a small group of people I like, but it’s when people crowd and crush me that I freak out.

Just because I need personal space does not mean that I don’t want you around. I just don’t like hugs or hand shakes or things from people I don’t know too well.

— Sam