Baby steps

Friendly reminder that the pyramid of burgers were canonically disgusting while Spongebob’s single one was the most delicious thing ever

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As it was requested by @peculiaroptimism, I made a diagram showing the overlap between Autism, ADHD and PTSD. [I was so surprised to realise that PTSD and Autism don’t have any overlap that isn’t also shared with ADHD!]

executive dysfunction babey

Welcome to ADHD emotions! Get ready to experience

Don’t forget:

Autistic children are not infants.

Autistic teens are not toddlers.

Autistic adults are not children.

Your 23 year-old autistic cousin does not have “the mind of a 7 year-old.”

Stop calling autistic men “buddy.” Stop calling autistic women “sweetie.”

Don’t act like it’s a crime to swear in front of an autistic adult.

Don’t assume that because someone is nonverbal, they can’t understand what is going on. ESPECIALLY don’t assume that they can’t communicate at all.

Stop infantilizing autistic people.

As an autistic person, THANK you.

Shout-out to everyone, who as a kid and as a teenager:

- didn’t go to parties

- was bullied and mocked

- had interests and hobbies others thought as “weird” and “cringey”

- wasn’t into sports

- didn’t hang out in the shopping malls

- was lonely or had few friends

- wasn’t very sociable

- struggled with mental illnesses

- was left out because of their disability

- talked “strangely” according to their peers

Childhood and teenage life aren’t always like in TV and movies. I always compared my “imperfect” life to fiction, but now I’m happy about my childhood and teenage years despite the struggles. And if you’re a kid or a teenager reading this: live your life as you want it. Don’t compare yourself to others. Be proud of your quirky side. 

failure anxiety really is psychological torture

you can't bring yourself to start any task because of the possibility that you'll fail to produce anything of value and end up not only having to confront the fact that you were never capable of doing it, but that you wasted time and energy trying. but every second you don't spend working on it your brain is screaming at you that you're losing valuable time and only increasing the probability of failure.

and every success you've had in the past does nothing to reduce your anxiety, and in fact only makes it worse, because you feel like you've given other people expectations of you that are impossible to meet, since as far as you're concerned all your previous achievements are the result of chance and not your abilities and skills.

Also, like- can we normalize all types of stimming, not just flapping hands? Normalize pacing. Normalize vocal stimming. Normalize tapping your toes. Normalize singing to yourself. All stims are valid stims, and we deserve to be able to use them.

2 years ago today, I was diagnosed with autism. It’s a wild frickin ride and I’m glad to have this community!

As a treat to y’all, here’s another pusheen picture:

Pusheen! <3

Sensory overload

By far my biggest complaint about being easily sensory overloaded isn’t the sensory overload itself

It’s when I tell people that something they’re doing is causing my overload, and they shrug me off because god forbid they change something about themselves even in a small way.

Over 90% of my sensory shutdowns and meltdowns could have been prevented by people just listening to my simple requests.

me: h-

a thousand neurotypicals descending upon me like buzzards: you talk too formal, too casual, too quiet, too loud, too weird, too monotone, too emotionless, too emotional, too–

me: *doesn’t talk*

neurotypicals:

I know it’s like cliche to say ‘everything is problematic’ but it really is such a continuing thing to watch shows and go “if it weren’t for the homophobia… if it weren’t for the ableism…. if it weren’t for the fatphobia….. if it weren’t for the transmisogyny…. if it weren’t for the anti-blackness….. if it weren’t for the misogyny….”

‪The incorrect and negative beliefs we can get from years of negative feedback not knowing we have ADHD or how it affects our lives. While not everything is solely caused by ADHD, it can affect us and our comorbidities in many, many ways. Good news is, treating ADHD can do wonders for Anxiety and Depression!

Abled Person: Hey man, can you hold this wad of $2,000 and this one penny for me while I open my wallet?

Disabled Person: YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER FOOL!

The United States Government:

(Watch how many people don’t get this.)

#raises hand #i dont understand #please explain? 

In order for disabled people to receive any sort of financial assistant for their housing, food, bills, medical supplies, etc., they cannot ever have more than $2,000 of resources to their name. Ever.

It doesn’t matter what it’s for.

You’re saving up for a new wheelchair?

For college?

To put a downpayment on a house?

Hell man, you just happen to budget for once in your life so that you can have some extra money in case something bad happens?

Your benefits immediately get cut off if you’re a cent over $2,000.

And, even worse, you usually end up having to pay back every dollar the government gave you that month.

So say you get $400. If they find out you’re twenty dollars over the resource limit, you have to give them all $400 back and you undergo an investigation of your funds to see if you will continue getting money.

“What if I spend the money that day?”

Doesn’t matter. In fact, from what I can tell, people who do this are actually put under investigation for fraud.

And yes, this system literally kills people.

Remember when “Guardians of the Galaxy” came out? one of Rocket Racoon’s creators, Bill Mantlo, suffered an accident in 1992 and has irreparable brain damage.

before the movie came out, Marvel gave him an exclusive preview screening. SOme people were upset because they felt if Marvel was really wanted to thank mantlo, they should have donated money to Mantlo’s family.

Bill Mantlo’s brother had to come out and explain: If Marvel gave them monetary aid, Bill Mantlo would lose his financial assistance.

That’s so utterly depressing.

disgusting

I have friends on welfare who won’t pick up a penny in the street because they’d risk the welfare they struggled to get for 10 years.

oh look another fucked up thing in this world. let’s just add it to the list. number 63858b

My brother has been on California State SSI for autism for the last 10 years, and he absolutely has to (no joke, HAS TO) spend all 720 bucks of his SSI every month, because if he puts it in the bank he risks losing his SSI altogether.

Sometimes, at the end of the month, he has no idea what to do with his money because the whole month went by and he still has 400-ish bucks in his account, and he fucking panics because he doesn’t want to get anywhere near 2,000.

And here’s the funnest part of the story!

One day he did a huge commission on Second Life and wound up earning 1500 bucks off of it, and he told the guy to donate it 500 bucks at a time over 3 months. The guy didn’t want to, and just donated all 1500, which put my brother at 2,036 bucks.

The state IMMEDIATELY (I’m talking less than an hour) called him up to tell him over the phone that they were canceling his SSI, because they noticed he had gone over the 2,000 buck threshold. He had to tell them that someone had made a charitable donation to him and that this was not a common occurrence in any way shape or form, and upon not believing him, my mother had to call to talk to them as his legal caretaker and say basically the same thing until they called off the cancellation of his SSI money.

He also had to cancel his renter’s assistance because it put him to 1,062 a month, so if he went 30 days without spending any money they’d cancel his SSI altogether. Like, none of us in the family have any fucking clue why that regulation is in place and it’s the stupidest shit in human history.

Please, legal side of Tumblr, tell me what positive reasoning this law has?

Happy 4th of July everyone! This is what the “nation of opportunity” looks like.

There’s something called an ABLE account that can help. If you are on SSI and were diagnosed as disabled before the age of 26 you can apply for an ABLE account that will allow you to save up to $99,000. More people need to know about this!

thank you so much for this information. i’m applying for an abled account right now

THERES A WHAT

OH GOD BLESS THE SHIT OUTTA YOU YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW FREAKED OUT OVER THIS I WAS

I’ve been looking into SSI; I had no idea about this!

Read till the end for the important info

Reblog to literally save a disabled person’s life

I mean, frame it any way you want, when autistic people are saying, "hey, a lot of stuff you deem "cringy"/make fun of, like hyperfixations and not getting jokes, is actually tied into our autism and it's really shitty to mock those things" and your response is "well then stop being cringy" or some shit, I'm sending an unmarked package of hornets to your house with instructions for the UPS driver to "shake box vigorously".