Autism Day

Yup, they apparently are not very bright. Worse, we slip into a world where nobody cares about your handicap , and if we are crippled, or autist, we can screw :'(
 
Financial Panther said:
The teachers in elementary school wouldn’t let me cover my ears during fire drills. What the fuck was wrong with those people? Fire alarms caused me physically excruciating pain.
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Yeah, shit like this legit infuriates me. There's such a shocking lack of understanding, consideration and kindness in society towards people who are neurodivergent. Sorry you had to go through stuff like this, Panther.
 
Saw the date the OP was posted and was temporarily concerned that autism day was on April 1st. Even still, 4/2 is a little close for comfort imo
 
I’m on the spectrum myself, and for a while this was a secret I kinda wanted to take to my grave. I always thought there was this universal stigma against it, and if I admitted it to anyone, I’d immediately be perceived differently. What changed that was TikTok, weirdly enough. I get a lot of videos on my fyp about what it’s like to be on the spectrum, and it just made me feel more comfortable about expressing myself if other people could express themselves. So yeah, I’m on the spectrum, and I’m not afraid to admit it anymore
 
I also have autism as well. In other words, I don't like being bullied either
 
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I am very happy to see a place like this, where it accepts people of all kinds and does not discriminate against them or treat them differently just because they are not "equal to others". Also, it's a pity to hear some of your stories here, yes, the lack of empathy and understanding that society has towards neurodivergent people sucks.

Oh yeah, @ThrashtheTrash it's a shame you had to grow up with that prejudice and felt that way, in such a way that you wanted to hide it and even take it to the grave with you as something horrible. But I am glad to see that you have found a place where they made you feel safe and comfortable, you will be able to express yourself better and you will find more people like you. I am also happy that you have finally accepted yourself as you are and are no longer afraid to say it, I assure you that you are not the only one and there are more people out there just like you.

Sometimes that's just what we need, to understand us and make us feel better, I send you a hug and to everyone else, I'm sorry you had to go through all that. :grouphug:
 
For my part, I don't know if I can be on the spectrum... Certainly I have also grown up in an environment where it is still taboo to say that you have some kind of disorder, but, I suppose I can also take the opportunity to share my experience. My mind is often not focused on what I am doing, I tend to be very forgetful about important things, I often leave my homework for later or postpone it, I have difficulties organizing and managing my time, I often have difficulties staying focused and/or focused on some topic (I usually go completely blank, as if I'm there, physically but not mentally), I tend to fiddle with my fingers when I'm sitting down, I have very poor social skills (I think that says a lot when this year it was the first time in well... Never, since I had a circle of friends in my school environment) and I am usually extremely nervous and I have also suffered from anxiety.

What shocks me about all this is that I have gone to several psychologists and specialists, and most of them tell me that I cannot have any of these things because I am intelligent, I know how to read, and I have good grades, wtf? Which is especially frustrating, because anxiety comes with seizures and most of them have told me I'm just "overreacting" and "being dramatic", I also had/have teachers who say that those who claim to have seizures are just a "tantrum" and that these can be easily controlled by "breathing" and "staying calm" :/
 
That seizures opinion is ridiculous. I used to have seizures and had to have my left hippocampus removed. I once had a tonic-clonic seizure that lasted almost 30 minutes, which could have killed me if the people in the ambulance hadn’t stopped it. I’m imagining a person having that seizure in that teacher’s classroom and dying from it. Sheesh.
 
@Financial Panther Just read about your fire drill story and from one person on the spectrum to another I understand and just like @B-Boy I'm sorry you had to deal with that.

I always hated them whenever they happened at my school especially if I was never told it was gonna happen ahead of time which sadly was more times than not. The worst one I can think of happened right at the end of 7th grade which was actually the result of someone absent mndlessly pulling it by accident so there was some concern that an actual fire had occured. In the midst of the panic while everyone was exiting the building, I ended up accidentally scraping my arm.
 
Sandboy said:
What shocks me about all this is that I have gone to several psychologists and specialists, and most of them tell me that I cannot have any of these things because I am intelligent, I know how to read, and I have good grades, wtf? Which is especially frustrating, because anxiety comes with seizures and most of them have told me I'm just "overreacting" and "being dramatic", I also had/have teachers who say that those who claim to have seizures are just a "tantrum" and that these can be easily controlled by "breathing" and "staying calm" :/
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This is an exceedingly common experience for adults with ADHD who weren't diagnosed as children. I sincerely hope you can find someone who will listen to you and take you seriously. I'm always willing to have a chat if you feel like you need someone to talk to.

BarttheBigBadWolf said:
Do you have autism too?
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Not autism, no. I have predominately inattentive-type ADHD which was finally diagnosed about a year and a half ago at the age of 29. I've struggled with executive dysfunction, emotional dysregulation, emotional hyperarousal, rejection sensitive dysphoria, hyperfocus, and impulse control for most of my life (along with anxiety and upbringing-related trauma). I've spent the last 4 years in therapy working very hard at understanding and managing it all. Fortunately, I have a significant other who is extraordinarily supportive, patient and understanding. I consider myself very lucky - many, many others are nowhere near as fortunate.

Honestly though, I love the hyperfocus. It's truly a super power for those of us who experience it, giving us the ability to absorb ridiculous amounts of information and knowledge on specific topics/subjects.
 
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@B-Boy. That's great man. Congratulations :). I'm sorry that I was hostile towards you in the past (Lisa the Boy Scout). I have autism so it can be difficult for me to realize how I'm coming across. I just need to be more open minded and self aware about my opinions and other's perspective. I don't say this as an excuse for my behavior at that time but I need to hold myself accountable for my behavior on here and in irl.
 
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Financial Panther said:
I’m imagining a person having that seizure in that teacher’s classroom and dying from it. Sheesh.
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The funny thing (well no), is that in high school I had a teacher who openly said he had no patience with people with these types of disorders, so it was not a nice thing to say that my first experience with attacks was in high school and in one of his classes. I don't remember exactly why, I just remember that the attack was so strong that my chest started to hurt and I had trouble breathing (besides that my mind had gone completely blank and I felt like I was about to faint), in the end I didn't I don't know how, but I had the strength to move and walk towards him so I could discreetly tell him if he could let me go to the bathroom, in the end I locked myself in the bathroom and ended up having the attack and then collapsed crying (basically a collapse). In the end I was not present in all his class and he ended up giving me a report for that, (which I decided to accept because I wanted to save trouble with that teacher).

Also, I'm sorry you had to deal with that Panther.
 
BarttheBigBadWolf said:
@B-Boy. That's great man. Congratulations :). I'm sorry that I was hostile towards you in the past (Lisa the Boy Scout). I have autism so it can be difficult for me to realize how I'm coming across. I just need to be more open minded and self aware about my opinions and other's perspective. I don't say this as an excuse for my behavior at that time but I need to hold myself accountable for my behavior on here and in irl.
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No need to apologise! I appreciate the gesture, but I hold no grudge against you whatsoever. We all fall short from time to time. :)
 
I'm just really surprised we are a lot on this forum to proudly admit we have autism, or ADHD. Do'nt know about you, but i was not diagnosed either as a child, and i have a crippled card (do not know how to translate it) in France.
That's great if you just , like i, admit it , because we are all in the same boat.

Also, @B-Boy actually inspired me for one of my novel's characters :)
 
Just dropping in here to provide a few of my own experiences.

I was diagnosed with a mild form of ASD around the age of four. While I'm generally able to pass as neurotypical on most occasions, I admittedly have issues with abstraction - while inside a situation or consuming media, I tend to perceive a huge number of details near-instantaneously, which partially contributes to my heavygoing and sometimes "cramped"-feeling writing style. Possibly due to this, I'm also relatively prone to OCD (it's more challenging to me to "ignore" smaller details or neuroses than for most people), which I suffered through in two separate episodes during high school (spending an entire day believing the apocalypse was imminent...wasn't pretty). Unfortunately, I received relatively little assistance from any of the school systems I went through (who tended to ignore, antagonize or insidiously infantilize me) and my dad (himself a probable sociopath or bipolar/ADHD comorbidity) even less so: he would routinely taunt me for being "not right" and would frequently manipulate my younger sister behind my back by claiming that I was destined to "go nowhere" and that she would inevitably outperform and eclipse me (ultimately a false assumption, I should add), which both raised contention between us considerably (it's only recently begun to recover) and massively eroded my self-esteem further. Nonetheless, I consider myself relatively fortunate on several fronts - my mom and youngest sister (despite the reams of mockery I had to endure from my dad) were majorly supportive of me throughout my teen years, the pandemic estranged my dad from us more permanently (I mercifully haven't seen him for three years) and I eventually managed to negate the worst of my anxieties through several rounds of therapy. Otherwise, I'm basically feeling more solid than I have been in years (despite the general dearth of free time I have to post around here nowadays, particularly given that OFF has become more conducive to analysis again over the past few seasons).
 
i also have autism

kids always made fun of me for it back in middle school, they'd call me things like ''look it's the disabled girl'' or talk slowly so i can understand them and once one of the other girls demanded i kneel to her just cause am ''disabled'' and her friend pushed me to the ground that was very stressful, everyone in class started calling me names after that ''hey slave go fetch me that paper'' or throwing a pencil on the ground so when i go grab it they can put their feet on my head. all of that cause i had autism, how cruel can people be, i get that they were middle schoolers but sheesh that's just cruel and sick, humiliating someone just cause they're different is disgusting, ofc i told my parents about that and they all got suspended.
 
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''Four out of five Doctors agreed, I was traumatized.'' - Anne from amphibia
 
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Kids can be cruel, but the most is they apparently realize they can be mean. In France, some kids were cyber harassed, and even if i thankfully escaped this periode, some hanged themselves.
 
Yup. In France, one of them did that due to the fact an horrid classmate told her to screw herself.
To be honest, i sometimes wanted to commit suicide as well.
 
It's definitely very interesting to see how many people on this site have Autism. I do not, but I think you all are awesome!
 
For those ones wh9 still read this topic, i just wanted to remind you that in ly Episodes ideas, i created this character whose name is a pun of me l'autisticIMG_20230402_182440_850.jpg
 
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