Tag Archives: sensory

Aspergers-like

Posted on January 4, 2025 by C. M. Condo

This is not far off from those ridiculous lists of jobs that people on the spectrum should be good at, based on stereotypical tendencies. Such tendencies are just trimmings of our autism and do not give any idea what an autistic’s life is really like. Inevitably, the people who make these lists are not autistic. Continue reading →

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restraint

Posted on May 23, 2024 by C. M. Condo

Autistic people are experts on what is good for them personally. What is needed, however, is not necessarily what non-autistics would expect. But when I do not have enough spoons to deal with another human, I am way past the point of having enough to explain why. Continue reading →

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unrelated

Posted on March 15, 2020 by C. M. Condo

How do we autistics describe to neurotypicals the physically painful responses we have to certain stimuli? How do we effectively convey how we shut down when depleted? How do we talk about how painful it is to feel like aliens in our own cultures, unable to engage with our fellow beings the way they engage with each other? Continue reading →

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