Autism

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/thepurpleskinnypup on 2025-11-13 10:44:35+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/OBunny_023 on 2025-11-13 04:27:49+00:00.

I’m sooooo happy! I’m 20 years old and a girl, and today… I’ve been diagnosed with level 2 autism and ADHD.

It’s like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I can finally start my life now that I have all the puzzle pieces on what makes me me.

Now I can understand why I’m so different and I’ve never felt so happy after a diagnosis before. But I was shocked that I’m level two because everyone thought I’d be level 1 but the lady said that I’m quite smart for my brain thingy and that my intelligence hid my struggles quite well up until I had to start doing all the living things on my own. Something like that, I kinda forgot everything she was saying after a certain point but I’ll be getting the report soon anyway so I’ll just read it again.

Anyway, goodbye! I’m going to go take a nap. It’s been a long day

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/Sad-Particular-6740 on 2025-11-13 04:22:42+00:00.

I genuinely don’t get why people would want to be autistic? I don’t get why it is trendy to be like “oh I’m a little Autistic, I like eating pasta.”You can be quirky without being Autisitc. Like no one is actually normal. Everyone wants to be weird or quirky but none of these people get the actual pain it is to be seen this way and be unable to fix it or change how people see you . Like I spent so much of my childhood trying to figure out what people expected of me because all my interests or behaviors were seen as weird. I almost erased myself with masking because people kept telling me to be more normal. And now? It’s a trend to be this way! Things I got bullied for are praised all over the internet by people who glamorize this stuff. I struggle to smile at people, I can’t understand properly people’s tone of voice, I have to constantly tell myself what to do when I have a conversation with someone. I would like to come home at the end of the day and not crash out from masking all day. I would love to not have to pretend and actually be neurotypical. I would love to actually have the ability to make and keep friendships, instead of always struggling to do so because I find people so hard to understand. I’m content with the fact I am autistic but it’s a disability and it affects me everyday. I just wish people would stop glamorizing it and just be themselves. You don’t always have to justify being yourself with a diagnosis.

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/Unlikely-Pen9939 on 2025-11-13 03:53:36+00:00.

I genuinely get like zero matches all the time it's exhausting trying to find someone who has the same beliefs as me as well as someone who would even be willing to put up with me but whatever I just want someone who understands me fully

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/Mammoth_Tomorrow_169 on 2025-11-13 01:54:20+00:00.

That's it. That's the post. The world is impossibly difficult.

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/TheFutureScaresMe333 on 2025-11-13 00:12:05+00:00.

By unconventional I mean something that wouldn't normally be thought of/talked about as overstimulating. For me, speed bumps on the road are really overstimulating.

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/SperBcity on 2025-11-13 01:44:52+00:00.

Fire drills? total nightmare for me and caused me so many problems (Anxiety, missed days at school, and my god i could go on and on about it all day long ha ha)

In addition to that, I sucked ass at communicating with others and to nobody's surprise? That led to severe bullying as a kid (not that I give a fuck anymore because those other kids were well...just kids, and that was more that 20 years ago so they probably grew up and aren't fuckheads anymore lol)

But Anyways, My social skills have improved greatly and I can read people much better (not at NT levels but close enough I'd say) than I ever have and quite honestly I'm actually blown away by how far I've come 🤔

And yea, I was diagnosed when autism wasn't really that well understood and you were just seen as a weirdo (2008) Sorry for going off the rails here but its information i thought I'd add for context...

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/notthelasagna on 2025-11-12 23:55:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/BeepBoopDigital on 2025-11-12 21:20:36+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/Dry_Succotrash on 2025-11-12 22:40:20+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/Zealousideal-Tax-937 on 2025-11-12 22:05:18+00:00.

I wish i could not be innocently insensitive for once. I've gotten into so much trouble both irl and in the internet because of it. More so in the internet than irl but STILL. Like- sorry, subreddit #9000, how was i supposed to know i was being an asshole?

Fucking horrid, man.

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/red-fox-972x on 2025-11-12 21:06:19+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/red-fox-972x on 2025-11-12 21:04:42+00:00.

Like it doesn't matter what you're doing, good or bad, hidable or not, you just always default to that window when you are not using the computer, or when someone walks in.

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/iam_someonedumb on 2025-11-12 20:54:29+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/Comfortable-Funny826 on 2025-11-12 19:09:02+00:00.

Idk if this is an Autism thing but it’s getting to the point where I just don’t drink, like now I’m like under a Liter every day. I have headaches a lot and I just feel bad when I’m dehydrated. I’ve tried everything! Even my favourite Batman cup :c. I just either forget or plain don’t want to. It makes me feel really weird and I hate it. I only like Capri suns but I can’t drink it all of the time because the sugar makes me feel weird. Need advice!!!

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/Plushie-Queen254 on 2025-11-12 17:54:20+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/Available_Cress1820 on 2025-11-12 17:50:37+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/LuckyVersion5576 on 2025-11-12 16:25:45+00:00.

so i’ve got told today after 6 months of being assessed that im autistic by a psychologist, i found this both eye opening and very interesting in understanding why life has been so difficult in understanding social interaction and sensory processing, i also have told a close friend that im autistic, i have not told my family as of yet but i am going to, for some reason, everyone keeps saying sorry when i tell them, i don’t even know why? its really confusing…

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/Ilovedia on 2025-11-12 16:18:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/iwillchangeiwill on 2025-11-12 15:28:26+00:00.

I always knew something was different about me from other people but I just chalked it up to the fact that I was a nerd and most people weren't. But then I noticed that other nerds weren't like me either. They somehow did not fixate on their interests like they were air to breathe, their interests were something they just... do? And I knew that I couldn't just do things like others could, I had to have this and that in order and this amount of background noise and this amount of destressing to do things before I could even imagine it. That's if I hadn't just gotten deathly upset over wearing the wrong kind of sweatpants that day. Because wearing the wrong sweatpants feels like my skin is on backwards. Speaking of skin, every time I have to go outside and Be Seen I feel like I'm an alien putting on my human suit, and I fucking suck at wearing it. I figured out everybody has a human suit they have to put on but mine was just a little ill-tailored, with seams that kept coming loose at every second.

I had a suspicion that something up there wasn't in the default settings for a long time but every time I looked at the symptoms (at the suggestion of everybody who knows me ever) none of them really sounded like me, and I chalked those up to ADHD, which I do also have and take very helpful medication for. Then my therapist who happens to specialize with autistic adults hit me with the "yeah you're on the spectrum", which at first felt very liberating for some reason, then I went home and did some more reading, started laughing at myself and months later I still haven't stopped.

Social issues? Yeah, but that's just ADHD. My brain is too busy running 30 tabs in the background, two of them playing music to compute what somebody really means when they're speaking.

Sensory issues? None because I've successfully rearranged my entire life around avoiding them.

Not being able to understand what others are thinking or feeling? Absolutely not. I've been practicing the craft of reading people and computing the most correct possible reaction to what they're saying after over two decades of observing them in movies and books from the 18th century. Unfortunately it turned out most people rarely go into long monologues, but I did for a while because that's what they do in Russian classics.

Avoiding eye contact? Unfocusing my eyes and staring at people's eyebrows isn't avoiding, it's just deflecting by like 5 degrees of my vision field.

Taking things too literally? I used metaphors throughout this entire text right? I know that's how it works because that's what taking things too literally means. Right? Please tell me you see the humor in this. What is that phrase about not being able to see the forest for the trees?

When I told my loved ones I found out that I was the last person to be surprised and I think that's the funniest part. I have to say I feel happy that I know I have a reason for being the way that I am and that the key to my happiness is, after all, doing the things I love and avoiding crowds and wool sweaters. But also I feel sad about the time I lost approaching my limitations from the wrong side. I had a lot of misconceptions about myself and seeing that it's impossible to tell what is me and what is being autistic, I guess I have to reapproach some things from that perspective.

Also I had no idea that your blood pressure spiking when somebody mentions that thing you really like isn't normal.

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/Emergency_Notice4699 on 2025-11-12 07:56:05+00:00.

Has anyone have overly developed empathy? I used to be very empathetic when I was a kid, to the point I started to feel other people's emotions. But I have always struggled with sympathy, which is weird. I know how the person feels but I feel no remorse or sorrow. Just nothing.

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/try_too_learn_enough on 2025-11-12 11:16:38+00:00.

since I was very little I've had severe sensory issues with clothes, my mom said she tried putting jeans on me at 6 months and the moment the denim touching me I was bawling until she stopped, that persited. demon has always been an unbearable texture, my friend made me a funky DIY plush toy back pack that had a denim strap and I wasn't able to touch it despite loving it.

currently I only have basically 2 safe outfits, I hand wash them daily. The safe tops are both from the same shop only on the other side of the world. I have one safe pair of fleece leggings and a semi safe pair of pants I wear when I need to wash the leggings(I was them every 2/3 days), although I am trying to get a second pair of the same leggings so I can rotate them easier I just keep not getting to it.

I've been lightly spoken too before about it. I don't really get it my hygiene is was better then it's ever been before, I shower 2/3 times a week, I brush my teeth 2-3 times a day, I brush my hair.

today I was told, by the autism spectrum teacher, that I wouldn't be able to get a job if I can only wear two different t-shirts. I was told that it was a big problem and implied it been a repeated topic in meetings. she said that they would make me go clothes shopping as part of reasource?

I don't really get why I'm in trouble it's genuinely made hygiene so much better. I have always had relatively small amount of wearable clothes and in the past I didn't wash them, not that I have less options and don't have to think it's so much easier to just put on something clean that doesn't distract me all day, I've gone home in past because I thought I liked a piece of clothes but then had severe meltdowns.

I feel so uncomfortable that they care this much about my clothing choices, I don't know if it's wrong and if it is I'm not sure what to even do about it.

edit: we've no uniform, the close are more dressy than casual.

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/shyhi244 on 2025-11-12 09:57:43+00:00.

I have been saving up for a new computer to play games on for 7 months now. I have my brother hold onto my money because I trust him and I found out he spent all the money I gave him and I am very upset I can’t work or anything so it’s hard for me to get money. He spent it all on skins in a game. I was very excited too because Black Friday is coming up.

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/various_butterfly_8 on 2025-11-12 07:52:37+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/One_Loss_4816 on 2025-11-12 05:02:27+00:00.