Here are a few comments I get as an autistic person that I hate getting.
Masking is exhausting.
Masking takes so much energy. I never know what my mask is and what is the real me. I worked for a few hours and I have two versions of a mask . One is for when I am with customers and I am doing my customer service smile and little bit on auto pilot…
I wish autism had an off button
I really like autism to not be there for a day. Just one single day. I see others and Ii just wish I could be social like them. What sparked this post and idea is how I went to my Christmas staff party a few nights ago (yes hospitality workers do their parties after Christmas…
Being surrounded by people and still feel alone.
This post is all sparked off a Instagram story that @beckiejbrown posted about a day ago which I have screen-grabbed so you can read the caption. credit@beckiejbrown Firstly I really admire beckiejbrown, have been following her youtube and social media for many years and highly relate to her content as a fellow late diagnosed autistic…
Why it is so important to receive a diagnosis as an adult?
Recently a good friend of mine received a diagnosis after 4 years of waiting. I won't say whom or what their diagnosis was as that is their private information, however I am happy they received a diagnosis they have been waiting a long time for. This then created an interesting conversation around being diagnosised and…
I love and hate being autistic.
I have two minds about being autistic, I both love and hate it. I hate it as it makes my life so unnecessarily hard. I cannot understand social situations like everyone else, I always feel like I am on the outside and I never understand what is happening. It's like a blur of people talking…
D.Y.S.L.E.X.I.A.
People often ask, what is it like to have dyslexia. (not very often anymore as everyone I know knows I have dyslexia as I pretty open and chill about it most the time) I often have no idea how to explain it. Its mixture of emotions but mostly frustration and anger over not understanding or…
I am proud of dyslexia for making my life harder…
Hear me out okay. For those of you who don’t know anything about dyslexia it is a learning difficulty that makes reading,writing,memory,spelling, processing,organisation,concentrating very hard! Dyslexia means though out school and college and life in general I have to work twice as hard as any neuro typical person just to keep up and get the…
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