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@pathfinder @JackTheCat There does seem to be a high proportion of #Trans people who are also #ActuallyAutistic, just as there does seem to be a high proportion of kinked people who are autistic.
But how we view those correlations depends on whether we view #autism as a defect to be eliminated or as a difference to be celebrated.
Personally, I'd always prefer to be celebrated.
Autistic brain vs. non-autistic brain. Neuronal pruning theory.
@actuallyautistic On a related note to my last post, I came across this today... Wow!
My 35-Year-Old Son Is Learning to Drive. It’s Complicated.
Sam Huber’s autistic mind processes every moment and movement in technicolor intensity as he struggles to get his license. For his father, Robert, the question isn’t can he—but should he?
By Robert Huber and Samuel Huber· 4/27/2025
Excerpt: "I look down at the controls, and I get a little dizzy looking at all of the knobs, gears, pedals, and the steering wheel. The thought of having to move my hands and feet in sync to get this bucket of bolts going is scary.
"After checking that all the mirrors are to my liking, I start the car, which roars like a lioness on the hunt. I want to scream, Why does this seem so loud when I am in the driver’s seat?!?! I reach into my pocket for my trusty headphones to block out this horrible noise, but they aren’t there. Sweet baby Jesus! Am I going to have to listen to this car the whole time? How can anyone focus on driving with that noise?"
So, I'm finding these lists pretty relatable. Learning how to focus and multi-task were a bit challenging, but luckily, I had mastered the gas pedal / brake pedal / gear shifting on my grandfather's riding mower, and then had Driver's Ed classes when I was 17. And yes -- I am a STICKLER for the rules of the road!
From: Can Autistic People Drive? published in 2022
"Research suggests that drivers who are autistic may experience the following difficulties:
- challenges with concentrating on own driving while paying attention to what other drivers are doing on the road
- slower detection time for road hazards
- being easily distracted
- becoming too bound by rules
- inability to identify social cues, like tailgating
- nervousness related to comorbidities, like ADHD or anxiety
- reduced self-confidence
Strengths associated with autism and driving
On the flip side, research also shows that autistic drivers have certain strengths that other drivers may not possess. These include:
- desire to strictly adhere to driving rules
- obeying traffic rules
- limited risk-taking, like speeding
- paying closer attention to their overall driving environment
- being able to remember details and information for long periods of time"
Source:
https://www.healthline.com/health/autism/can-autistic-people-drive#is-it-legal
For autism awareness, or I should say my autism and awareness.
Today I went out and did a couple of necessary tasks, tasks I had been aiming to do for a while now. I got around to booking an appointment with my optician, which meant that I had to go to their office, as phone calls of this nature are, if not beyond me, far more uncertain in terms of being sure I can wind myself up enough to actually make them and costly, in terms of the effort of not only speaking on the phone, but actually trying to make that conversation work and make sense enough that I don't end up feeling like smashing my phone into a million pieces halfway through it. So, the easier thing has always been to drive to the high street, find somewhere to park and then walk through the crowds and noise and overwhelming peopling, to eventually stand before a receptionist and hope like hell I can make enough sense to get what I need there, before I lose it completely from the overwhelm of it all. Which, actually, should pretty much tell you what I think about making phone calls.
Then, after that, I got to go to the post office to pay some money in. Thanks to the banks abandoning towns left right and centre here in the UK, this is the only way left now to deal with the tricky issue that some of us still get paid in and deal with cash. But, it also means that there is always a queue, there is always some old couple at the front of it, making a grand day and adventure out of what should have been a two-second job and waffling, gossiping and muttering their way into a state of ever-increasing and self-inflicted confusion over their task, just to further muddy the waters and make the whole thing last past the endurance of a saint. That there is always someone in the queue who is not only wearing a scent that is a sensory nightmare, but also seems to have bathed in it. That everyone in the queue needs to have their "little" chat with the women behind the counter and everything takes at least twice as long as it should and that during all this and by the looks I'm getting, that my ever-increasing frustration and discomfort and actual physical pain at having to stand in the queue, is not only being noticed by those ladies, but that as usual it's not necessarily in any good way.
And then after all that and I get home, after this simple, quick, trip out to do just a couple of things, I get to wonder why I'm suddenly so tired and why I feel as if that's pretty much it now for the day. Of course, I know that I am still in burnout. That I've always struggled, but didn't use to acknowledge it. That the ease I can remember in dealing with things like this in the past, isn't entirely the truth of how it used to be and that being 60 and a spoonie for other reasons doesn't exactly help. But, realising now that it's never been easy, doesn't make it any less frustrating. Or ease the dark thoughts gathering, that after a lifetime of this, of the exhaustion of masking and hyper-awareness, of rarely truly relaxing or being able to trust anyone. Of being alone and struggling, of PTDS and RSD and PDA and all the other things that make each day a struggle, that it will never get any better and only, in fact, worse. That this is the true price of getting older as an autistic, and that I'm only just beginning to pay it.
And then I hear a bird sing and see the sunlight dancing in the leaves of a tree. I remember something that makes me smile every time and find myself stimming in joy and alone in my world, I remember the truth of being autistic and the happiness it brings.
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Let's Talk About Why The Whole Autism Registry Thing Is Important From A Subclinical Autism Perspective.
Review of “NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity” by Steve Silberman
DATE: April 29, 2025 at 03:12PM
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U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a number of incorrect statements about autistic people recently, one of which was that "they'll never write a poem."
Bradley J. Irish, an autistic professor of English, writes for @TheConversationUS about the remarkable corpus of poetry written by autistic people, from modern poets like David Miedzianik and Adam Wolfond, to people from the past who may have been neurodivergent or autistic. Neurodivergent poet and educator Chris Martin describes working with autistic students: “Time and again, I have watched my students … grasp the hand of poetry and begin dancing like they’ve been doing it their whole lives.”
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@rebeccawatson He also claims they'll never work or play sports. Article in which Dr. Temple Grandin, autistic scientist, receives the honor of adding her National Portrait to the gallery.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/meet-this-years-winners-of-the-portrait-of-a-nation-award-including-steven-spielberg-and-temple-grandin-180986502/
#RFKjr #autism #TempleGrandin
Windows and back door open cos Spring is summering and it’s hecking hot at 6am. Body fed up of lying down and also aching. I’m seeing my therapist again and it’s helping, I’m able to go with the reason for everything of “autism, huh” cos it’s pure acceptance at this point, though fucking hell, I get bored of fatigue, who wouldn’t. She’s very informed on #autism and adamant I have #EhlersDanlosSyndrome. I’m stiff but apparently also hypermobile. Fingers bend back a bit, is that not normal?
Autism and alexithymia: The fallout for our mental health Autism and alexithymia are two things you might se https://emergentdivergence.com/2023/06/28/autism-and-alexithymia-the-fallout-for-our-mental-health #ActuallyAutistic #autism #ADHD #neurodiversity #neurodivergent
Now is a really bad time for anyone in the US to be watching any videos on Youtube about "How to identify autism" or "Signs of undiagnosed autism", etc.
Google is not your friend.
They will help put you in a kz camp if they can.