Anyone know of some good autistic spaces that primarily have medium and high support needs autistic folks that:
Note: None of the spaces on Reddit for this work as they are all filled with a gigantic amount of lateral ableism.
If you’re #ActuallyAutistic like me, go check out and follow @hmm_cook!
There will be plenty of disappointments in life, but is being uncomfortable now actually preparing me for that?
Honestly, no. I have faced so many disappointments in life already, I don’t need to get used to them. I’ve already faced them and I know that I can survive them.
Has anyone had any luck with reducing skin picking? Particularly around the fingers and nails.
I can't stand having anything on my nails like nail polish or acrylics, and I'm running out of plasters. 
I'm a trans autistic person hoping to raise $3200 to cover the fees for my Residency Visa. It is imperative that I reach this goal before July otherwise I may not have the opportunity to be approved before my current visa expires.
Please, consider boosting, sharing with loved ones, and donating a few dollars to make this dream areality!
Reached 50% of my goal!
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please help my friend at risk for eviction!
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Cancelled this arvo’s supervisor meeting so I can write instead. Meetings suck because I spend hours being anxious about them beforehand and I can’t do anything 
#PhDLife #actuallyAutistic
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Took me 36 years of friendship, but today, I had a flash of insight about one of my friends: I think they are Neurotypical!
I realized this when I asked them a direct question about their work schedule tomorrow (because right now I am their personal Uber while we're trying to get their car fixed).
They did not give me a direct answer, nor did they give me the correct answer.
We established about two hours after I had asked that they had not told me what their full work schedule was tomorrow, and also that they could not assess whether or not they needed a ride, even though I was telling them my schedule and when I was available and that it might rain tomorrow (and I know for sure they don't have any rain gear -- I mean come on).
They loooove to talk about people. They like to talk about relationships, and things that people have done and said, and what they're thinking about their connections with people, and their kids, and the people at work, and their relationships to those people, and things that have happened to them related to people and...
... I thought to myself, oh my gosh, they're NT!!! This is what NT people do, right?! It was kind of astounding.
(Thirty. Six. YEARS.)
How we have maintained a friendship is beyond me. We do have some things in common, and they are somebody whom I try to support in their endeavors to teach the really cool martial art that they have been developing for longer than we've been friends.
Holy buckets. I didn't think I had ANY NT friendships. And this one is and has been important to me, so I'll keep trying to cultivate it (mostly through care tasks).
They also seem to like to rely on me for advice about people and... RELATIONSHIPS? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha gasp you can't hear me laughing until I can't breathe... lolololol I can't even.
I mean, I guess that the neurodivergent perspective can be... refreshing? I don't play the social games that they play, and said games seem really important to them. So I'm like, well, you know, as long as you're not doing any harm to yourself or others…
We definitely speak completely different social and skills languages. Then again, my realm is embodiment, so I totally get the martial arts stuff that we do together.
You know, now I'm gonna be trying to ferret out who else in my life is actually NT so I can start studying them, and our interactions, and how we do or do not successfully communicate.
I feel a new special interest coming on!
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I've been feeling ground down by work, so this morning I gave in to the urge to info dump about my special interest, and wrote a piece about the gods of Exandria.
It's amazing how much better I felt. Just from focusing on something I'm actually interested in.
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 556 , Tuesday 06/05/2025
Tuesday started around 07:30, Mrs S being on her holds this week.
Made breakfast & we watched an episode of ‘Call the Midwife’ with our coffee.
I did my chores & then the we decided to go to Chatsworth for lunch.
The weather was sunny with broken cloud & was moderately warm - about 15ºC so it was a lovely drive across the moors & thru some of the most gorgeous countryside in the UK.
We stopped off at Chatsworth’s garden centre to buy some birthday gifts for my aunt & uncle - they have ended up with his n hers hedgehogs to sit on the edge of their pond.
We got to the cafe at Chatsworth’s farm shop just as they were opening for lunch & so managed to get a really nice seat by the window.
I enjoyed their special of the day - a minted lamb burger with chips & salsa dressing, it has to be said it was delicious!
Mrs S had the beef roast dinner which she enjoyed a lot.
We decided to raid the farm shop itself for goodies to enjoy with a coffee at home, we also picked up some of their superb ‘ready meals’ which are really very nice. So that’s our evening meals for the rest of the week sorted.
After another lovely drive home we settled in to watch a Star Wars fest - Mrs S being inspired by the whole 4th of May thing.
We managed to get thru Eps 1 & 2 today so a decent start.
Final Thoughts.
A decent day, the drive out thru the countryside really cheered me up as did the lovely meal. I guess I will have to count the cost to my waistline next week.
Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 
@actuallyautistic
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I have just enough to pay my hydro bill. still trying to cover a $150 payday loan, though.
I also desperately need food and pantry staples like oil and sugar.
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Man! As a mid-80s baby, I just barely made the cut! 
I like to imagine that if I were born a few years earlier, I'd have forged an #ActuallyAutistic ID making myself *younger* so I could get past the surly, formidable bouncer of "The Spectrum"
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(Also, it's tragic that this satirical post from TheOnion displays a vastly greater understanding of #Autism than the policy makers endangering our rights & very existence
)
For those of us whose senses work a little bit differently, the touch, or the feel, or smell of something can be a really big deal.
Yet we’re often expected to deal with it or ignore it when it’s simply inconvenient.
https://neurosciencenews.com/bodily-awareness-morality-28819/
Translation: Alexithymia (difficulty identifying your own emotional state) is protective against groupthink.
Mooi werkweek allemaal 
En aan alle (neurodivergente) vrouwen: laat je niet onderschatten 
#actuallyautistic
EXTREMELY URGENT! $999/$1500 CAD DUE TODAY
i am so stressed about my friend that i dreamt about them all night, please help!
- https://www.paypal.me/aliciaheart?locale.x=en_CA
- http://paypal.me/DWebber428 if the above doesn't work
"for a dissociative unemployed autistic agender biracial person- please help my lil family if you can! i need to collect at least $1500 in the next two days or my landlord is going to start the eviction process. my rent is actually 2350/month but i'm hoping i can get enough to tide him off until the end of the month. i'm in the process of interviewing for work but the job market is a complete shitshow right now"
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