Autistic Adam

Autistic burnout is literally my body and brain shutting down in unexplainable ways. People will say relax but the thing that helps me is allowing myself to cry and feel everything I’m feeling so I'm familiar with the feeling in case it shows up again and i’ll know how to cope, not fix, just cope.

Looks great as always 👍

How can autistic adults thrive in life?

This should be at the heart of autism researchers, not what causes autism.

But instead.. 2025.. and I still keep seeing all the same things that's labeled as negative or a barrier from these researchers, that is disappointing to say the least.

Come on now.

Sending you love Vanessa.

This is wonderful to see 🙂

Some individuals out there will tell you autism isn't real and that autism doesn't exist.

Says the person who's dad gets very anxious about social situations.
is blunt, or is just not interested in others without meaning to. Along with taking things literally and getting very anxious if it changes.

Autistic burnout isn’t a nap. It’s watching your life collapse while people ask if you’ve tried yoga.

Not just fatigue ethier. The body hits limit after years of pretending everything’s ok. You don’t recover by “resting more,” you recover by rebuilding safety. That’s the part no one talks about.

I do love the double chocolate gu pudding.

Raise your hand if you're autistic.

I love you for you.

🙋‍♀️

I agree.

I need to sample these obviously.

Being autistic and sending a text message and not knowing when you'll get a response just hits differently when you're autistic.

Why ?

It just does.

I like the bowl, it's all about the bowl for me.

Sorry for infodumping about my special interest out of nowhere, I'm autistic and you said a keyword and it activated my unskippable dialogue which I simply had to share.

Wishing you all the luck in the world 🙂

Being autistic is realising you're never too old to find out you were just masking through your entire identity.

Thank you for sharing this Lauren.

Unmasking when you're autistic can be one of the hardest things for someone to do.

Don't expect or ask someone to do this.

Just respect.

That is all.

The autistic experience of being the joke when you're telling a joke.

Because well it's funny when someone else tells the joke but when you tell the joke it's a completely different story.

To the point of you're the joke instead.

That doesn't seem funny to me.

Being autistic is getting told you’re hard to read while literally saying what you mean out loud in english.

Because I have to sleep at some point.

But I suppose I can have it playing in the background 😆

If anything it means you can get more listens in.

Result.

Autistic me will stop listening to this song.

I will.

Just one more time.

I will.

Just one more time.

** 100 listens in a row later **

I will.

Just one more time.

: (

The autistic experience of being misperceived as complaining when all you’ve done is just describing something you’ve experienced.

How else am I going to accurately describe something that has happened in a way that’s not complaining if my emotion free descriptions look like complaining.

Love to see posts like this.

Good for you Himal.

You like what you like, and that's that.

Keep being you.

Yeah this one stings.

Being autistic is being told why didn’t you ask for help.

Because asking required social scripting, shame buffering, tone analysis, and a risk assessment.

Autistic life is apparently sticking out like a sore thumb when in reality you just can't be like someone else.

You did try that one though, for months or years infact.

Look where that got you.