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I got told by a government occupational therapist that I have "extreme shyness" (no such thing). That was when I was 17.
I'm 37 now and I'm waiting for my autism assessment. (I'm female).
So I just saw this for the first time and I’m thinking myself if somebody said to me “you can’t be autistic because you’re married” I would laugh. I would say OK no- clearly people want to marry us because how else would we even be in the gene pool surviving? There’s such a lack of respect for our community – and women and people of color are absolutely the ones bearing the brunt of a non diagnosis. Thanks for spreading awareness. Also for any high functioning autistic women? We tend to only find out when we’re in perimenopause because we also tend to have PMDD and we feel it faster just be warned and talk to an obgyn who is literate in pmdd and peri for ND ladies. Adhd types also can have issues w the aforementioned
The stupid thing about concluding that a girl who's struggling socially is "just shy" or "just socially anxious" is that when you look at all the autistic little boys, they're generally pretty shy and socially anxious by the end of elementary school. I was an extremely outgoing 5 year old. By 10 I was quite withdrawn. Social awkwardness leads to stigma, stigma leads to anxiety, anxiety leads to isolation and/or camouflage.
This woman was living a perfectly happy life and felt she didn’t need support to get by (she admitted in her documentary) to doing a test which suggested she could be autistic to now analysing everything. She conducted a perfectly fine life masking or not. We are all on the spectrum and I can’t help but feel putting her in this box has now dimmed her in some way.
my favorite was i explained all my symptoms to my GP and she looked at me and said “i think you’re just smart”
40 year old male here was diagnosed last year. It took so long as I've been told I have more traits similar to females. However from all I have read high functioning autism they now think only around 30% of people with it have the expected traits.
Don't THINK she's autistic
It's exhausting all the work "behind the scenes" I do to function in society what she called masking. Just to go through a normal work day feels to me like a normal person working a double shift as a server. It's truly exhausting. I finally feel seen. Finally I have something to show someone when they ask why are you so tired you've done nothing today.
an ambulance worker asked me how i'm allowed to drive . . . .
If you're autistic you can do anything, it's just like learning to drive. You practice, practice, practice, we as autistic people are so clever, that's what makes us good learners. ❤❤❤
It’s a lot easier for women with autism to get through life better because people generally treat women better than men
ALL AUTISM IS DIFFERENT!
When i was young i got tested and diagnosed with aspurgers which is autism, one day a kid in my art class in middle school was talking abt his little brother having autism and it was a bad case where he had to be in special education, i brought up my autism and he said so surely and positivly i was not autistic! Cuz i did not act like his brother💀
And it made me so pissed this rando kid thought that he was a child psychologist or smth and he self diagnosed me it still makes me upset to this day.
Actually, people just simply hate us women with autism. I’ve been yelled at and harassed by people for just existing. Especially neurotypical women. They are the biggest bullies.
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What even is autism?
I have practiced conversations for 20+ years, maybe even all my life. I am 43, and i dont even know how not to mask.
She looks comfortable. Most with autism can be extremely awkward.
@Bullhorn Betty says autistic children are Defective. What does that mean?
I had a teacher in middle school tell me that autism hadn’t made its way to Africa yet, so there’s no way I could be autistic.
Sigh… I still have problems at my college with math, I'm constantly depressed, I still miss Rush the band playing in Poland (they never did), I'm obsessed with geopolitics due to the threats of war and I also want to be a full-time rock musician…. maybe I'm famously autistic?!
"Invisible work".. YEA…
To be frank, my grandad and my mom usually use this methos to. They masking to blended in 😢
I think I have autism, I’m not sure. I am currently laying in my bed rn bc my head hurts bc I hit it so hard when I got frustrated and overstimulated 🤔
I usually think about every kind of scenario but I always end up making myself procrastinate in the end cause I was only thinking about what of those bad scenarios actually happened and not thinking about the good cause your so caught up In everything
Autism shouldn't be the first thought for anyone. Some people just are like that, or it may be something else… For me it is something else, I've been arguing about my incorrect diagnosis for five years already, my previous psychologist flat out refused to acknowledge she made a mistake! Fortunately, recently I was assigned a new psychologist who actually listened and referred me for a personality disorder investigation, accurately diagnosing me with C-PTSD beforehand.
There was a kid with autism and he was being bullied by my friend and so I stood up to him and now that boy if my friend😊😊
Wow, I have pre-conversations in my head constantly. I thought everyone must do it 😅
If you're not a young white boy whos obsessed with trains, you don't have autism. That's basically how people think lmao
I've been practising conversations since I was a kid and have had ridiculous social anxiety to the point I can't even speak. I hate making eye contact the moment i do i feel im the weaker person automatically. I have never been diagnosed with Autism but it's really interesting to hear that in woman it's been ignored.
English please!.
I have autism and every ones just like oh she’ll grow out of it but then nothing happens I’m 10 and I still walk on my toes and I don’t use cutlery I will only use one pencil at school I always put things in my mouth and I always do animal things and noises but I don’t like loud or bussy things 😅and nothings worse when some ones mean to you because you’re different
Growing up as an autistic girl I was more often labeled difficult or lazy or defiant vs shy
Autistic people are unfortunately viewed satanic here in the Bible Belt
Ffs sick man stop making all about gender ,so much for being against bias 🤣
I literally have 2 symptoms and Im autistic so
yeah
Theres no incentive for someone to change when the system they created still benefits them.
Its mostly the meltdowns for me, i cant function for long on public and yet somebow i was never diagnosed or they thought i was making it up :')
I'm a guy who was diagnosed at 8, but I think I was masking at the time that I got diagnosed, as I did things like observing and imitating other children, and rehearsing conversations. I also played with friends a lot and made eye contact. It also seemed that most of the girls I knew who were diagnosed had a more obvious presentation of Autism than me while most of the people I knew who had a less obvious presentations were guys.
I'm not certain how common it would be for guys to be social and mask but still get diagnosed early, but I think the reason for the under diagnosis of Autism in girls/women might be more complex than girls masking more. For instance I think even when boys and girls mask about the same amount the masked signs of Autism may be more likely to be recognized as signs of Autism in boys than in girls. Also I think there may be a bias towards being more likely to recognize an intense interest as a sign of Autism when it's something more commonly an interest of boys than if it's more commonly an interest of girls.
I also feel that being diagnosed at an early age doesn't help much as some of the accommodations are misaligned and are more to help caretakers than the actual Autistic individual unfortunately.
I am unlearning masking because of that… When I feel, like I need to make weird noises, I will.
Other people: You don't look autistic!
Me: I am autistic and not a downy, how am I supposed to look? walks around like a pangolin
I'm autistic too
Why is every other person trying to label themselves as autistic nowadays.
This gender myth you speak of cuts both ways as a 37-year-old autistic man, he would be surprised at how many things are described as narcissistic man, explaining, etc. when it comes to men
I was diagnosed at 4 and it took me a while to actually like being autistic, my brain was filled with so many
Toxic thoughts about myself BECAUSE of autism, didn’t help my 1st grade teacher lashed out at my
Mother while insulting me, but now, I love it, I just had to LEARN that it didn’t bring me down no matter if I thought it did
Or not, I couldn’t let it get ahead of me, now I’m learning about it like crazy and I’m actually pretty informed about it
Autistic people, please understand we all have our different opinions and this was my perspective of my diagnosis
No matter what you think about it, don’t let it control you! Hate it or love it TRY to live the best life ya can!
Doesn't help me at all for people to know I'm on the spectrum.
People dont practice conversations???
Welcome to my world. People think that adults don’t have autism, only kids have it. But what happens to those kids that grow up? Yes, they have Autism. We are living it, we bare breathing it, we are living with it we die with it. So a massive thankyou to those that don’t believe that Autism is just foe kids not adults. I’m 44 years old. I’m am living with it. I hate it when adults say only kids can get Autism, what happens to those kids whom grow up with Autism? We are living it and will die with it, like a patient with cancer, it not just restricted to kids. We are adults. We live it, we live it and breath with it for the rest of our lives. It’s not just a a condition we live with as kids, we do grow up as adults with it. I’m a Physicist, a a master with a PH Degree in Practical Application of Time Travel, and a Quantum Mechanics theorists on computers. My thesis has been published five times and I came close to winning the Nobel peace prize although I would not have accepted this gift. My brain is a gift to the world, through Thespian scripts, gags and Jokes. I actually won an award for in 2009. It was an honourable gift to achieve such credit in my local theatre. I refused local press and I helped over 211 people pass their test with advanced computing skills often volunteering at the collage to make it fun foe the at mathematical equations. I received an award for and became a model teacher at the age of just 16 year old to help those whom were illiterate in their compacts. It is with compassion and my joy in working with people that I helped them get jobs, learn new skills and adopt to new environments. I loved helping people out. I am the author of 11 books published under a different name all before the age of 21. I help the poor with sandwiches and a bottle of water in the streets when I can with my own money. I’m proud to be an upstanding citizen of my home town in Rhyl, North Wales. I love all sorts of people especially my future wife Naomi who I will marry in 2024. She is my world. I’m rich, famous I direct t.v shows/series and now films and I love it. But helping people is my greatest gift. Love you all, Hanseatic David Stonebridge born in Germany. Peace to all of mankind ❤️
I smell BS.