Being autistic is kinda weird because most of the time when people try to hug me I just let them wrap their arms around me but I just stand there awkwardly because I don’t get why people want to do this at this specific moment but when I’m with people I like and I’m in a good mood i kinda just hug them very tightly and almost squeeze them to death because I like the tight feeling of hugs at that specific moment.
Since too many of the badass autism posts is about the people AROUND the autistic person, I’d like to fix that. Here are some potential communication things, idk:
Autistics are said to have weird fears, I’m curious what some of yours are. Tell me the weirdest ones in the replies !! I’m talking stuff that’s not like the dark, snakes, spiders…
Mine are stickers and graffiti!
Also stickers! Can’t stand them!
Anything rotting! (mainly food, but any sort of mold scares me too.)
Escalators. They scare me so bad. The way they move the sounds… its just BAD!!!
Is it an autism thing to get stuck on words? Not like echolalia, but finding a word that, for whatever reason, you accidentally use it in the vast majority of your conversations?
I’ll get stuck on one for a couple weeks, then boom, a new word replaces it.
Ex: I used the word “copacetic” in almost every conversation, and I mean EVERY conversation, for about two weeks. I would use it contextually correct, but often (in hindsight) it probably sounded clunky and pretentious.
“Yeah, I can wash the dishes since you’ve had a bad day. It’s copacetic. Relax and unwind.”
To the point where someone actually pointed it out to me and now it makes me nervous when I say it. It’s happened with random words for god knows how long. And with figuring out this Dx, I’ve done a good amount of “is this a me thing or an autism thing?”
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