Yep - diagnosis is a good thing! Understanding how my brain works differently to the majority of people has been a gamechanger. And I found all these "neurosiblings" to help me out and give me tips on living my best autistic life. 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/21/rise-autism-diagnoses-neurodiversity
#ActuallyAutistic
Special interest mode activated, time for some French while I’m totally zoned out!
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The Gen Z Stare.
Uh... I do this but I'm a self-diagnosed autistic 50+ year old Gen Xer that realized that if you let people talk, they exhaust themselves or start revealing too much and tell on themselves.
I also get along very well with the Gen Z crowd. I find my interactions with them tend to be straightforward and honest.
And the best greeting you can give to a worker is, "Hello, does the boss/owner pay/treat you well here?"
AuDHD Work Tips: Personal Care
Emergency mutual aid for food and housing
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 640 , Tuesday 29/07/2025
Tuesday started with a lie in, I’ve been so tired recently that an extra hour in bed was welcome.
Got breakfast, caught up on my TL while I drank my coffee then cracked on with the day’s chores.
Read for a while once I finished the chores & then fell asleep again. Really even with a lie in I’m knackered!
After lunch I hit Night City for a couple of hours.
Final Thoughts.
Not a bad day, there’s something going on with my neck though, it’s sore to touch, almost like a rope burn, & a bit achy into the bargain. The is all started last night - I’m wondering if the aubergine is responsible - maybe it took me scoffing it badly!
I wish I could get past this persistent knackeredness!
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! 
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Was Menschen sagen und was es wirklich bedeutet:
„Ich liebe Tiere“
–Ich finde Katzen süß und esse weiter Schweine.
„Ich könnte nie einem Tier wehtun“
–Ich lasse das von der Fleischindustrie erledigen.
„Fleisch ist halt natürlich“
–Meine Ausrede ist älter als ich und fühlt sich deshalb wahr an.
„Ich bin Tierfreund“
–Ich mag meinen Hund, der Rest ist mir egal.
Autistische Zusammenfassung: Worte sind billig, Taten zu anstrengend.
Marvel Rivals seemed too chaotic for me. Well it's like Overwatch, but probably even more so in a lot of cases.
It really sucks when youre #autistic and you got information overwhelm. Or just any kind of overwhelm. Because its like this... Other type of fatigue that cant be satiated by sleep? And trying to figure out how to recover from it is so fucking complicated #ActuallyAutistic
I have reached that point in my #ActuallyAutistic journey that my phone autocorrected "astronaut" to "autistic." I wouldn't have believed something like that would ever happen when I was a kid, for about five different reasons.
I have an appointment at 2pm so here I am at 11:51 am unable to do anything else with my day but scroll on my phone... is that an #adhd thing or an #actuallyautistic thing or is it both? Or maybe it's an #anxiety thing? Whatever the reason it is just a bit silly. 
At least I NEVER show up late anywhere. 5-10 minutes early always, or I'm internally screaming.
Today I learned about ADHD Analysis Paralysis on the fly as I recognized that I can't just "think of questions" in the moment because brain spiraling down possibilities - I can't get the stupid questions out and asked and I appear slow
Thank goodness this was not a critical call it happened on but there's so many occasions this occurred on that I can look back on
Really wish my brain had a manual 
At least strategies are searchable on the web
Trump's executive order legalizing the forced institutionalization of the #homeless and #mentallyill should really be concerning. I have a diagnosed #mentalillness and I am #actuallyautistic I will be exercising more caution over my #digitalfootprint.
Is It Anxiety or a Bad Situation?
With a freshly squeezed, newly hatched autism diagnosis, I felt a strong need to get a badge to act as proof and remembrance of the moment.
I plan to make a Blade Runner inspired ID and metal engraved badge - which is way over the top.
On one hand, Deckard spent the film running tests and then retiring socially incongruent beings - which is a weird coded eugenic argument/debate.
Having an ID to prove something that doesn't need or lend itself to empirical proof is also dubious. There is no Voight-Kampff and results in an hour - try three years and 3,000 questions, and team discussing the whole thing.
On the other hand, I like Blade Runner and metal badges; plus it is in the spirit of awareness, promotion, and pride.
I also designed in a secret section where I can keep all of my online test scores for when there is any impostor syndrome. I think I am still hung up on the 2000AD (issue 3) Red Alert Survival Wallet from 1977.
I have to ask, does this sit poorly with anyone? Does or did anyone else have this thought?
My nervous system reacts to the world in very different ways than other peoples do, and my nervous system needs different things than the standard that has developed in our modern world.
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I keep getting stuck trying to figure this one out.
On the one hand:
Having to tell people I ABSOLUTELY CANNOT DO THE THING because I know they won't accept "I don't want to" and don't believe "I can do it, but it would cost me hugely in stress and overwhelm." They get to decide when my feelings are valid, after all!
On the other hand:
Being unable to do things because I use that same tone with myself. Now "I ABSOLUTELY CANNOT DO THE THING" becomes a self fulfilling prophecy, and makes it much harder to do things I actually want or need to do.
Maybe a understandable consequence of having my experience erased or dismissed for so much of my life.
Maybe also a part of imposter syndrome. "If I can do this thing without ACTUALLY DYING RIGHT NOW maybe I don't have the right to say I can't do it?"
