Important:

Unless I make it clear that I don't like something and that a post is negative, you can always assume that my posts are neutral to positive. I mean what I say unless stated otherwise. I'll make it clear when I'm sarcastic or joking. Tone tags like /nf (no force), etc. confuse me because usually it wouldn't even have occurred to me that someone could have felt forced by it. I take things literally and mean things literally. If I don't, I'll make that clear ☝🏼

FAQ:

Frequently Asked Questions (medical and personal)

Autism levels, support needs, severity, and terminology:

What's the difference between nonverbal and nonspeaking?

"Master-master post" about autism and terminology

Archive:

I use "severe" as a self-descriptor because that's what I was diagnosed with and therefore that's what people always refer to me as. I use it to indicate that my symptoms are different from most autistics on Tumblr and that I probably can't relate to most "extremely relatable autism posts" on here. I would never(!) force a label on someone, it's solely for myself.

You'll find my tag system and other things under the cut:

Absolutely, and this is its rest:

For when you want to have a VERY short break after a very short note

😂😂 when your sheet music is yelling at you 😂

What I absolutely love about finally being able to perceive more of my surroundings and other people is that I can be randomly nice to people.

Oh, this trail is muddy and slippery and there's an elderly woman approaching - I can ask my carer to make her aware that she'll probably slip and should rather use the street, not this shortcut!

Oh, someone's struggling with heavy baggage - I can ask my carer if we can help them!

Even though most of the time people are still nonexistent to me, whenever I perceive others, I immediately try to be nice to them because HECK YEAH, I SEE YOU, HELLO, I JUST PERCEIVED A HUMAN BEING, HII!! ♥️

Executive functions

I absolutely hate it that most of Tumblr seems to think that executive dysfunction is simply "Struggling to start tasks". (I just realised that this could come across as aggressive.... It's not, I'm not, I'm chill, I promise ☝️)

And since I don't know how to explain it in my own words, here's a Cleveland clinic link that explains it:

PLEASE don't forget planning, monitoring yourself, and changing strategies while problem solving after you realised that your previous strategy doesn't work/apply here when talking about executive dysfunction - it explains a lot about many conditions!

I swear I'm just doing my thing in the here and now, and suddenly a Death Cab for Cutie song plays and I'm in school again panicking about tomorrow's maths class

If I link a private post to a public post, can people who click on the link see the private post anyway?

(it's about organising long posts, I'm trying to think of a better method to organise my FAQ post)

Edit: I saw that you can't link private posts, so that's that 🤷🏻