Neurodivergent Culture - Tumblr Posts
I just woke up, man... but no, Tumblr chose to get personal today. 😅 Well, at least I'm fully awake now.
ND culture is spending your whole childhood being told you're "too sensitive" and "need to toughen up." Then realizing as an adult that it was basically just "traumatize the ND kid until they stop melting down." Bonus points if the adults in your life still feel justified in how they treated you because you "turned out OK" despite needing years of therapy.
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Me, often called a Vulcan by my family: 👀... 🖖🙄
Autism culture is identifying with autistic coded characters, but as soon as someone who is not neurodivergent says "Hey you remind me of *insert autistic coded character*" getting very uncomfortable
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*inhales deeply* ..... oof. I felt this one in the pit of my stomach.
nd culture is not having anything to say and then one of your special interests comes up naturally and you think "talking about this has gotta be better than the silence right?" and next thing you know your 40 min into an info dump and the other person is barely paying attention.
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FACTS! Say it louder for the NT's in the back!!!
ND culture is that the "taking stuff literally" thing goes in both directions.
No, allistics, I'm NOT exaggerating, saying things between the lines, being metaphorical, emphatic, or sarcastic, or anything like that. I'm being LITERAL. So when I say something, take me seriously and at face value, damnit!!
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This always irritated me, too, and what's worse is that, "I planned to do it" has never been accepted as a good reason for me to be upset, since, "it's getting done anyway"; I'm not upset about it being done, I'm upset that you didn't even warn me before disregarding my plan, and it's only going to get worse because I can't properly explain it anymore than I can contain my frustration at this point.
when your mom presses the button on your laundry, and you planned to do it yourself. but no one will understand why you're so upset. your doubly angry because you know she knew it would trigger you and she still did it nonetheless. it was just convenient for her. (oh and she put her laundry in with it too).
no one will ever understand why I am so angry. (cause I planned to do it). no one around me at least.
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Autistic/neurodivergent culture is: you are wondering "what is the table made of?" So you get under the table to know what's it made of. Then, you decide to stay in there because it feels nice
i would have been one of those rock collector people if the streets of my city weren't marinated in dog poop and random garbage
Me since moving to the US and forgetting Taylor Swift is literally one of the biggest artists and that I don’t have to get excited every time someone plays her songs somewhere
autistic culture is someone even mentioning a word that is slightly related to one of your special interests and having to force yourself to hold back from infodumping
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I want to add that sometimes it can also be getting off your phone to talk but no one wants to hear a thing you say because all you talk about are your hyper fixations. And then the next time your told to get off your phone to talk you refuse in fear that they’ll yell at you to shut up about your fixations. Even being made fun of for your hyper fixations and put down in many ways.
ND culture is being told by your family to get off the phone and engage in a conversation, but as soon as you get off your phone you start to zoon out still not talking to anyone or paying attention.
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Wtf is this real??? This isn't just something I thought must be a me problem???
autism culture is: why can't i tell the difference between platonic and romantic attraction. aahh!!
helphelp i keep falling for all my friends :(
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I was diagnosed as autistic (technically Asperger’s but that’s completely out of date now) and recently got diagnosed with adhd. I never wanted to step on the toes of the adhd community either.
nd culture is being diagnosed as adhd but then later wondering if you're also autistic but being afraid to self diagnose because there's so much overlap and you don't wanna step on the toes of the autistic community
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The autistic urge to have a strict routine at all times VS. the ADHD urge to break that routine constantly in favour of doing something spontaneous/more stimulating.