It’s the #actuallyautistic community on masto that made me realise I don’t need a dx. I know my mind and body better than anyone else. I know how I suffer with sensory overloads and an entire host of other things.
Even my psychiatrist told me it’s just my anxiety but since being on here I have an even better idea of how much medical gatekeeping goes on for adults with autism. I want to be seen and accepted. Thank you to all of you that have unknowingly helped me achieve that.
Even typing this now is draining, but there’s so much I want to share. I just don’t have the spoons. It’s to the point where I give up and withdraw most of my days.
My voice is extremely soft, a lot of the time words come out in whispers. All I knew was that I didn’t have the energy to assert my voice any louder so I could be heard properly. Speaking saps my energy unless it’s something I’m super interested in.
When I meltdown because of a sound, sight or texture of clothes on my skin, those that witness it chalk it up to anxiety. It’s invalidating. I don’t feel seen or heard.
I’ve long held the idea that I’m autistic but it’s like nobody I talk to about it believes me because I hide a lot of things I’m affected by until I just can’t.
It’s exhausting. There is so much I would like to share but the silence seems greater than my energy to organise anything meaningful.
I’ve been wanting to write more. It’s been a long time I’ve strung together words that make me feel the release of what I truly want to say.
"Keep one unicorn apart." I was reminded.
The other princess giggled; the whole reason I was here. She was slim, with a gap in her front teeth, and more freckles than stars in the sky and I was weak at the knees at the sound of her mirth.
Half way through the poem I had prepared for her, I realized someone had switched it with a saucy limerick.
She liked it anyway, and promised me both an alliance and a kiss once The Great Illness passed.
your relationships with your friends deserve the same work you would put into relationships with your partner. we put that emotional work in for our partners because western society is super isolated and teaches you to only be dependant on yourself and the person you're in a romantic relationship with. this means you end up at least somewhat dependant on one person and you *have* to put in that work so you can like, stay financially safe and stuff
He/she/they.
Fencing. Crypto. Poetry. Cyber.roots buried deep in sand kissed waves of the Caribbean ocean.