Autistic Life - Blog Posts

Feeling confident 😌 ✨️

The ‘you’re mature for your age’ to sleeping with a bed full of plushies in your mid twenties pipeline is real

Sometimes the autism wins and you have too lay in the foster position watching steven unviverse for 5 hours straight.

Neurotypicals when autistic people do anything that shows their autism, aka just existing : Are you fucking r***rded??

Yesterday I was supposed to meet with my case manager, since we’ve never met. I had the address and even confirmed in the morning it wasn’t a Telehealth visit, like the additiona automated call I received the day before said it was. I arrived early and waited in the office. And waited. And waited.

Then I received a message from my wife saying that the case manager was at our house. She never said it was in home. I couldn’t handle anything else after that call.

I cried so much. I never ended up meeting her because I was 25 minutes away from home.

We will eventually reschedule.

Why is life so challenging?

you don't have to be "burnt out" to justify tasks being difficult for you. Being autistic or having ADHD makes TASKS DIFFICULT INHERENTLY. WE ARE DISABLED.

Well this explains a lot. I started getting migraines at 7 as well.

Not so fun facts about my migraines:

15-20% of people get migraines

0.002% of people get Hemiplegic migraines

Sometimes I get regular run of the mill migraine. The kind where your head hurts and lights and sounds are horrible.

Sometimes the left side of my face goes numb and I can’t smile right

Sometimes my right arm gets weak

Sometimes both of my legs get weak and I can’t walk without a cane or walker

Sometimes I struggle to find words

Sometimes the vision in my right eye is just not quite right

Sometimes I get terrible vertigo

Sometimes I get super nauseated

Sometimes my teeth hurt

Sometimes I feel super hot/flushed

Sometimes I get all of the above

Autism is an independent risk for migraines

Autistic children are far more likely to experience migraines

One study showed that autistic people were twice as likely to experience migraine

I started getting migraines at age 7

My triggers are weather changes (I can usually tell it’s going to rain based on my aura) and hormonal changes, especially PMS

These are the two triggers that are impossible to avoid

Thank you all for listening to me complain while I lay in bed miserable because I can’t walk or smile or have the lights on.

Needed to hear this today

Your disabilities’ effect(s) on your schooling do not make you a bad student; you are not a bad student because you are disabled.

If being too giving is wrong, I don’t want to be right. I currently don’t have enough money to give to all the causes I care about. Included in my “When we have more money” list is so many causes and people I want to help. It’s also why I want to help people in my future work. I’m a helper because someone has to be. My mom taught me that the meaning to life was to love, and that includes those less fortunate.

one thing I've noticed with being autistic is my innate sense of justice

people tend to be so passive to awful injustices and say "well it is what it is"

but I can never see it that way

how can people be so dismissive of other human beings and their lives? how can we reach equality when every person has such a selfish point of view?

it's really horrifying, and yet we're considered the ones with no empathy

Y de repente todo tiene sentido / And suddenly everything have sense 🤣

- That feeling when neurotypicals say to me "just be yourself"

- Me:

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Life as an Autistic Teen (Autism, ADHD and Anxiety)