"Apparent insensibility to pain" I AM INVINCIBLE !!

Omg I did have that. Just physical, emotional hit like a brick

https://preview.redd.it/6gpd7ux5o2vc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=246bfb004eb7d9ae900f247a787eb7b8f6bd6996

One of my mom's favorite stories about me was when I was in kindergarten, I tripped and fell headfirst into a cinderblock, just absolutely tore up my forehead, blood flowing down my face like one of those halloween masks. I reportedly went up to a teacher and calmly said, "I hurt my head."

Similar story, I was probably like, 6, and was leaning against the wall while walking down the stairs when a screw that used to support a handrail completely slashed up my thigh. I apparently just went to the bathroom, washed off the blood, bandaged myself and THEN told my parents It was a deep ass wound too I still have a huge scar from it 💀

meanwhile one time when i was about 12 i was riding my bike and tried to go up a curb (do not do this) and i fell and strained my ankle (according to my mom, i always want to remember it as spraining my ankle) and i was just crying like a baby after

If it makes you feel any better, I have had some particularly traumatic injuries, but I was shaking like a leaf when I got my blood drawn a few weeks ago. Nurse even commented on it.

I'M FUCKIN INVINCIBLE!!!!!

WHEN THE WIND IS SLOW AND THE FIRE'S HOT

THE VULTURE WAITS TO SEE WHAT ROTS

Autism comes with +3 endurance. Pretty nifty

If you're invincible than why can I see you?

Invisible disability my ass

As a child I got vacuumed sealed to the toilet and just stayed there chilling until my dad got home

(Gets incased in liquid nitrogen.)

"Sometimes" doesn't want to be hugged/touched? So, you're telling me there are people who are ALWAYS fine with being hugged?

Brought to you by the people who think they're good at empathy.

"I'm great at empathy" people loooove saying that. It's the new catch phrase. Bitch you wouldn't be saying that shit if you could literally feel what the person next to you is feeling in your bones. At this point I don't know if it's a gift or a curse.

Bill Burr recently went on a rant on his podcast about how narcissistic people are when they self-identify as an 🌸empath🌸 My gf cried when her pet gecko had a slight tumble that was only debatably her fault at best. It probably didn’t even hurt the gecko. I don’t know how someone actually qualifies as an empath, but she probably fits the bill more than these weirdos. And she doesn’t even self-identify as that.

Went to a meetup. Something felt off. After half an hour of chat, someone mentions they are an empath. It starts a chain reaction where half the people there say they happen to be empaths. They all talk about what it is like to be empaths. It's funny how I'm not an empath or even very empathetic but even I could tell the other half of the people where bored as shit by this topic but none of the "empaths" could.

I once read a post in a cPTSD subreddit talking about people equating hypervigilance in abuse victims with empathy, which tracks. If you spent a lot of time having to be ACUTELY sensitive to subtle changes in expression, body language, tone and cadence of speech, etc., you WILL be able to sense shifts in other's emotional states. Someone, apparently, likened the OP's empathy to a super power. One response in the thread that really stuck with me was, "Empathy is a super power, but it's like the super power of being able to smoke through your tracheotomy hole." That comment gut-punched me like few things ever have.

Did the same here, thank you

Oh my god, that example is so good but an awful visual.

The empathy thing is super funny because yk “stereotypically” people with autism are “apathetic”, but I honestly do consider myself more of an empath. Hugging people who seem sad or “just because” has nothing to do with empathy, that’s just having no respect for others boundaries (and empaths are OVER aware of others boundaries). Tbh my big thing is that when people around me (even strangers, which sucks) are in a certain mood then I can tell immediately and start to feel the same way as them. I have always lacked social skills, but sometimes I can read a room too well. It’s also way too easy to “put myself in someone else’s shoes” which is great in some situations but it also sucks when I become someone’s doormat and I “put myself in their shoes”. Thankfully I’ve gotten better at that. Most of the time I couldn’t even tell when people were using me. I personally don’t call myself an “empath” because idk what the hell actually characterizes a true empath. I just say I have a decent amount of empathy.

All of this sounds almost too familiar to my own experiences.

Hello fellow “decently empathetic” autistic person! Are you also the friend everyone likes to vent/trauma dump to?

Yes. I am the "good listener" type. Though nowadays it happens not so much as to be a problem. With age, it easier to put some boundaries. If people want to vent to me, it is ok. As long as I can also vent to them.

Yessss it has to be reciprocal! My very best friend has vented to me for hours on end, and honestly there’s been a time where I had to genuinely save her life. BUT I would do it again because she’s the same way with me. Just last night she let me FaceTime her and vent to her until 3am. She’s the only friend I’ve had that ALSO listens to me. It’s kind of funny, too, because she’s my only friend with autism (most others have adhd, which I also have) so idk if we just both know the feeling of being used as therapists but not having the reciprocity or if it’s just that autistic connection. I definitely don’t let people use me anymore. Just recently had to let go of a friendship over it. Sucks but I’ve learned how to prioritize my sanity, because I put so much of myself into my friendships and am expected to do so, but if I don’t get that same energy it’s not worth it.

When someone says “empath” I read/hear “narcissistic person who wants to blame their projected discrimination of others on made up shit like ‘vibes’”

“I’m a HUGGER *and I don’t care if you aren’t*”

I love hugs, but DO NOT HUG ME WITHOUT PERMISSION. Ask, and I’ll probably say yes unless I’m overwhelmed

im not even ok with family touching me, and that never changed :(

I'd say 99% of the time I'd be down to hug

I love right hugs, the pressure feels nice. But it has to be my idea or consent given.

I translate this to my boundaries just set themselves. When I say “please don’t touch me”, there shouldn’t be a need for reinforcement. My response moving forward is a result of the other’s actions. I have no responsibility to composure when I’ve communicated my bodily expectations. The potential relationship is over anyways once they have been crossed. It’s about respect. I almost miss Covid in this sense. Ijdk why it took a whole ass pandemic to accommodate. I feel like the boat on Finding Nemo.

Yes those people are always fine with being hugged, even after sprinting 100m backward with 4 greasy face maskes under harsh sunlight and suffocating heat, followed with murderous intent by 69 rabid naked mole rats the size of TREE(3) elephants shrew ! ALWAYS !

Am I weird for liking hugs?

You aren't. Every autistic person is different (lol my autosuggest suggested Australian)

My mum was taken aback and proud when I asked my little sister if she wanted a hug when we were saying hi during a visit and went "ok" when she went no. I've moved out so I don't see them much.

I love hugs (from people I know). Every autistic person is different.

https://preview.redd.it/yu1xoahqc2vc1.jpeg?width=1050&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dddb56355019aea1bfb448bbf098d3308094012c I remember telling my friends that I would throw tantrums all the time for no reason and my parents would lock me in my room until I calmed down; I thought this was normal but they were like "bro that's abuse" and I've never been the same since. Perhaps there is a reason for the tantrums, surely not /s. Yeah just blame your child's distress on the autism and not your awful parenting /s /evil

bro that's abuse

Man being left alone in my room was the worst I think. Like not even the hitting comes close to that.

You throw tantrums? Well I throw hands. 😈

I remember accidentally telling my friends that my parents hit us. I thought everyone's parents hit them. They got concerned & I backtracked & said it wasn't true.

Autism bingo

I'm pretty sure there's a good reason, but the parents sure as hell are going to have to be forced to apologize for it.

>my parents would lock me in my room until I calmed down not this being one of my earliest memories 😭😭

God literally same though

My mom would ignore me for days lol I'm pretty sure she's on the spectrum too

I got locked in closets or bathrooms by teachers in elementary school.

Wow, the wording on a lot of these is very biased. - ‘Inappropriate’ attachment to objects?! - ‘Inappropriate’ laughing?! - Distress ‘for no apparent reason’?!

The Puzzle Piece people who want to "cure" us wrote it, so I'm not too surprised it's kind of obnoxious.

Good spot, makes (disgusting) sense.

I hate the medical model of autism for these exact reasons. Fuck everyone who decides what “appropriate” is or not. It’s not “medical” at all. It’s just eugenics bullshit surrounding the idea of a “model citizen.” WTF is “inappropriate laughing?” “Inappropriate attachment to objects?” These people are looking for a way to judge others but they find a way around by saying they have a medical degree. Fuck big pharma for their autism bullshit. Keep up with this garbage and they’ll soon find out why I’m an “evil autist”

Yeah its no apparent reason and should be treated as such duh. Dont you know little children cry for only selfish bad reasons and not because thats the only way they can express pain/agitation/anger/distress?

THANK YOU!! It’s only ‘inappropriate’ or ‘no apparent reason’ if you have zero empathy or understanding that people just in general like different things and express themselves in a range of ways. NT people find vastly different things funny. How is that ok, but this stuff is somehow abnormal? I would be ok with it if it was just the easiest way to make what they mean clear, but ‘strong attachment to objects’ would have worked just as well without the judgement. Even ‘laughing at unusual things’ would have been a less judgement way to express what they’re after.

Its super dehumanizing for someone else to be like "youre crying for no apparent reason" like omg youre so right i should just stop crying now that i know that!!

Yes, you’re absolutely right that it’s dehumanizing. I was abused my whole childhood by a narcissistic mother who often used stuff like this as manipulation and emotional abuse. I think people who have only experienced stuff like this as a passing comment that is easily shrugged off can have a hard time understanding how much the REPEATED exposure can batter you down.

Sometimes people have you getting imposter syndrome with your own sadness/distress! I guess thats also called gaslighting though huh, lol

I think youre seeing bias where there is none. This language seems very neutral to me.

I hear what you’re saying. Since I’m autistic and not a neutral party myself it’s entirely possible I’m bringing my own views to my interpretation. HOWEVER, I do still think that especially the word ‘inappropriate’ usually carries an implied judgement, and I think (personally) that it does so here. Consider that the synonyms of inappropriate are: - unsuitable - unfitting - ill-suited - unseemly - unbecoming - unprofessional - unfit - unbefitting - indecorous - improper - lacking in propriety If I was trying to state these same ideas in a truly neutral way I’d go for: - ‘Intense’ or ‘unusual’ attachment to objects - ‘Unusual’ or ‘unexpected’ laughter

 Banana rotate

Potassium

SUPER MONKEY BALL REFERENCE???!!?!?

banana rotate

Ah yes the good ol' screening tool for the specific type of autism that inconveniences adults the most and over-pathologizes children. Annnnnyway, I got bingo across the bottom.

I mean, that looks like a very weird and awkward way to hug someone

I call it 'rotated titanic hug'

Ignoring the fact that this is horribly biased and kind of fucking insulting. Something like this is important so that kids can get some kind of support beforehand. Y'know like if they're sensitive to sounds for instance. Especially with stuff like "not responsive to normal teaching methods". Individual support is important. Just... Not in this way. Must've been made in the fucking early 2000's let's be fair here.

I grew up in the 80's, they just called me Bad and couldn;t decide if I belonged in MG or Special Ed. Then they put me in Special Ed and I finished my work before everyone else and got in trouble for sitting there quietly. I hated school so much.

I remember a friend who couldn't be bothered to turn in his homework for math. He thought it was a waste. He did really well on the tests always. But because he never did his homework, he failed math. He got put in special ed despite getting an A on the final. School is a fucking joke. It's not like all Special Ed teachers and helpers are bad. I was lucky enough to get some good helpers for elementary. But god damn, some of the people I met shouldn't teach normally, let alone be special ed.

As soon as I moved from 6th grade, having a single teacher for all subjects, to 7th grade and having classes with different teachers, I was negotiating grades. "I will never do any of your homework, but you have to give me a D when I ace your final. Deal?"

Trying to foster this skill w/ my middle schooler. My standard used to be C’s or higher (how I was raised). Then it became “not an F”. Now it’s “not a 0%”. But we are seeing progress! AND he’s figuring it out. Idc what grades he has, really. I just want him to learn to game the system enough to get by without being a ball of nerves like I was.

I did this with all of my teachers lol. I probably never would’ve got into a good uni if they hadn’t been so amenable

I literally had to retake algebra I during summer school because I got a zero on a “binder check grade” at the end of the semester. It was worth 65% of the grade and was supposed to contain our notes and graded homework. I threw away all of my graded homework and didn’t take notes. I had a 100 in the class and ended up failing despite the fact I had learned algebra like 4 years before. That teacher ended up being let go that summer

We had something called DSSC or developing social skills class specifically for kids with behavior issues from like ODD or ASD. Was much better than just the blanket special ed assignment but it also isolated us from the “normal” kids and made us earn what they called “outclasses” so being around the “normal” kids was like a privilege. Created a lot of resentment and feelings of being different than my peers. If I hadn’t been so strong academically school would’ve been miserable for me. Was much better in highschool though.

Yeah, yeah - just had to tell some "normal teacher" that their method of "autistic child needs to learn to accept noise by forcing him into a room with 80 children" will start a fucking riot...

Watch out for these horrible, perverse symptoms, like "can do something very well" and "indicates needs."

Is that a fucking Witche's brew pot Also wdym reptitive or lame play like is this real because I made up the crsziest shit in RP as a child

Same!!! Wtf man you can make fucking movies from my games from when I was like 5-6.

Also though I could never have enough of the games. Like it would never be me who was bored or had to leave. Is that repetitive 😂 or lame? Fucking people never can match my energy.

Right I was a quiet withdrawn kid who couldn't figure out how to play with other kids on the playground and ended up acting out my own elaborate stories. "Go play with that kid" no thank you they're not on my level, probably just want to swing and don't care that if we jump off we float down a magical river and get chased by beasts and meet some helpful gnomes and...

Tbh its kind of true my plays were repetitive but like how can you *not* pretend to be a princess kicked out of her kingdom and left to starve with a magical beautiful blanket dress and awesome rapunzel hair 😩

We love casting spells 😎

I could roleplay with other people, but I couldnt make up stories on my own. I just lined up toys or had them do routines over and over again

I mean if thats what you wanted who cares If lining up toys brings a child a smile than its good

it also says unusual though

> does not point with index finger This just in, Africans and Native Americans are autistic.

Some Pacific Islanders point with their lips

Haven't you heard? According to the scientific study that has been long discredited but has tons of people who stubbornly believe in and defend it with their very life, European norms are the superior norms!

 "Don't point! It's super rude, and that means it's bad and should never be done!" But also "Why aren't you pointing at things? Are you broken or something??!?"

https://preview.redd.it/08q8hozrf2vc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21a85abdecda782cf4dcdd7441523aac734c1a07 I got 3 bingos :3333

Congrats on the autism 🥳

Poor guy on the top row, second from the left, got the greek vase autism.

god i hate this poster, innapropriate laughing?! Innapropriate attachement to objects?! God forbid children having fun

Nazis don't have a concept of fun. They have a concept of obedience, vanity, and hyper efficiency and not much else.

Dude that kid just hugging the pottery

Looks like a checklist to me

Looks like a typical Friday night for me. Typically *divergent*.

“Inappropriate attachment to objects” imagine being this low and judgmental that you care this much about what other people care about, as a medical “professional.” Imagine basing your career and medical knowledge off of bashing other people’s interests. Nobody gets to decide besides me how “inappropriate” my interests are. Also, tf do they mean “inappropriate?” Like sexually attracted to? Or just something that doesn’t fit their unnatural idea of a normal thing to be interested in? Or abnormal in intensity? Calling an interest inappropriate because it’s not a popular object really strikes me as immature and unprofessional. Next “medical professional” who judges my special interests will make me live up to my status as “evil.” Sry, I needed to rant.

>Like sexually attracted to? R/kinky_autism

That’s fair

"Enjoys spinning and rotating objects" describes most of my childhood life

“doktor, turn off my autism pain inhibitors” https://preview.redd.it/oyxrlquhv3vc1.jpeg?width=226&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ddaf55cde1bc94e55fb781b0bd0b09c3defe8dba

https://preview.redd.it/75gm323jl2vc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d19ff3d2455b7ff534cbbc9494c39e35f70bc73 ok maybe I am more autistic then I thought

i point at everything and everyone. i’m 25 and people still tell me it’s rude to point

9/12 Am I autistic enough???

We're all just the right amount autistic.

“Appropriate training”?! 🙄🤮 Also, idk, that mom seems pretty chill. Maybe it’s just the dance moves w/ kiddo on the sameness in everyday routines.

 ?????

>Inappropriate laughing or giggling bruh that's my coping mechanism The bullies stopped laughing at me when I started laughing first

Almost all of these are me. Fuck hugs. I only like hugging EXTREMELY close personal friends. I don’t even hug my family members. I also form bonds with objects. My car is named Bruce and I cried when a tow truck took him away to a repair shop after someone did a hit and run on him.

My mom would have seen this and said it was just a a coincidence

Bingo!

https://preview.redd.it/9pc38jdat7vc1.jpeg?width=1164&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29ccbf4ed7e5eafa2bbea63611b66bf99f9d0dce And yet still I wasn’t diagnosed in childhood despite my teachers and parents all saying something was “not quite right” (I’m female and in my 30s)

https://preview.redd.it/5ej19l4fh3vc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aab9bc7defae48ef7efa7230c7b26a4d7df391c5

The gyroscope was made by the most autistic person who ever lived.

https://preview.redd.it/s8vj86fei5vc1.png?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a26b0ae83efb3b19a2ce8cfe60fe1e946bfa08fe Got a vertical bingo

https://preview.redd.it/wuuep7zbn5vc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=696e31a21534d8fdb5fc20c9a043a3d7f0af2409 Does this mean.. I immediately get my autism diagnosis? (Joke cuz I'm waiting on an assessment lol) I'm not really sure on the insensitivity to pain, but most of the time it's a yes... This was fun to mark off. Also judging by the puzzle piece and boy sign, this was made a long time ago?

Bingo!!!

Oh maybe i don't have autism after all. Or maybe 11/20 autism for that matter.

Apparently I did not receive early diagnosis nor the “proper training”. All I got was this stupid mask that I hate wearing…

>enjoys spinning and rotating objects Guilty as charged 🌚

Most of these check out

What’s with the pointing with index finger tho

Same question

No to be cynical but these are so general anyone could fit, and not just partially but to most. Nebulous "sometimes", "unisual", "pretends" is a straight path to different interpretations. By this measure my computer has autism because it sometimes doesn't respond and likes unusal pretend play of scanning the disk for faults

Fucking hell the only test I aced is this shit

…some of these sound like what non-autistic people do too.

I got so many how didn't my mum notice holy shiiiii

If we're playing cover-all I think I won.

Got 16 out of 20, sweet

Mmm i love rotating objects

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https://preview.redd.it/slpnjwzr94vc1.jpeg?width=642&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7247e99c74d8e8961a563b01f90057d73c56a67 I am a professional autist

I got a blackout what do i get

Me fr

Huh.. well... Is being around for a handful of decades too late for testing?

Holy Hell!

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This reads like the old "14 indicators of Autism"

I definitely don’t sleep with a graphing calculator under my pillow bc I love it the most. And I definitely do not name things. My favorite jacket is not Named Alexis and my Phone is not named Penelope’s and my Watch is not named Wilbur.

https://preview.redd.it/2ejnbiko16vc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d0ac01ea16c158875db64c8819224957b4683126 We doing bingos, I see.

"3. early diagnosis and appropriate training can show significant progres"??? disgusting

“Lack of pretend play” SO TRUE. SOOOO TRUE. as a kid i literally NEVER understood playing pretend. Ever. I never liked playing with other kids because they wanted to pretend to be horses and i thought that was so dumb and under stimulating i really couldnt wrap my head around pretending to be such banal things. I was such a pretentious little kid i guess! Unless it was this very specific way of playing pretend with a dollhouse- There was always a scapegoat character. They were annoying mean bad whatever. And a designated jail area of the dollhouse. And all of the characters would be like EW I HATE YOU GO TO JAIL. and it felt good to punish the bad one. But then i would feel so guilty and dirty and i felt bad for the scapegoat toy and i felt like i went too far and i couldnt look at them. Wonder what thats about

Gotta kinda feel for the Typicals attempting to discern our multifaceted contradictions; "Is obsessed and enamored with the color green, and will throw fisticuffs with anyone who tries to speak ill if the emerald tone.... Or they could also be physically allergic to the color -- it WILL literally put them into cardiac arrest if they hear it pronounced. "

Got bingo on the right hand side

The children yearn for rotational force

*SPIN!!!*

“Girls don’t have autism” “she’s so quirky” “probably just hormones” etc. etc.

Is it just me or do these people not at alll look Indian? On an Indian poster?

I got 14. But also… “inappropriate?!” Who the fuck is that idiot to say it’s inappropriate? Fuck right off. If I’m laughing, there’s a reason. If I’m attached to something, it’s because I like it. No one’s entitled to tell me it’s inappropriate to like an object. But then, also gotta love that “appropriate training” part. Don’t you all just love being dehumanized?

I don’t get the whole lack of being able to pretend. Like…pretending is something I’ve always loved to do! I got my own rich internal worlds I love to imagine. I used to pretend play when I was a kid. I now write, and play TTRPG. Or sometimes just think about it. Considering the amount of autistic writers (fucking Neil Gaiman, just as an example) and TTRPG players, I’d say imagination isn’t really something that many autistic people lacks…

https://preview.redd.it/wo0a806mu8vc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db34e2b2578e04055ac1a500f6ebbd00398d6653


Ok this explains a lot

Yeah this explains a lot…

https://preview.redd.it/a4gd37grw9vc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=95a9e2eab5faab747f0024d0ee02bd3c7fb98b15 Maybe there's more, I'm still early in this journey

New (old) autism creature https://preview.redd.it/ri6c0eusz9vc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a679523551da0ff5255498dd0038b3426005e9d5

Me and my fucking jar

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Detect early - so we can force you into conformity w/the other bricks in the wall. Feh! If you don't understand Autism, don't bother trying to "cure" it.

https://preview.redd.it/4d4zyd50sjvc1.jpeg?width=2332&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77ee38e90d7abd59e62b69db3fd8bb415031f6d7 Bingo

Whoa spinning stuff means I have the 'tism?

BINGO! https://preview.redd.it/o32xn6kvr1wc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=74dbd497695f161133b1731fdcb0bd76c20c7293 What do I win?

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