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Taylor Swift’s silence on the Trump administration using her music speaks volumes | Alim Kheraj
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Autistic people can recognize autistic people?
Maybe my budding suspicions about myself were wrong.
Yeah. it depends on the visible and vocal characteristics.
Please tell me the visible and vocal characteristics that identify autists? I'd like to know if they apply to me.
There are a lot. And they vary in intensity.
There's a couple of screeners out there that you can find, I don't happen to have a link to them right now.
Like one obvious one is hand flapping to specific intense emotions such as excitement or frustration.
Another is your ability to understand and use body language.
Special Interests. Stimulation seeking or sensory avoidance. Specific patterns of speech.
To us, autistic people look normal. Neurotypicals behave in ways that are weird.
Hand flapping is infuriating to me. It's the source of one of the biggest arguments I've ever had. It feels so dismissive.
I have no understanding of body language. Or people. Especially faces.
I can't even be okay without some kind of stimulation, usually music. When I was in therapy, my therapist found this odd.
I don't know what this means, but now I'm a bit sad and worried.
I'm sorry, the hand flapping? Not everyone does it. It's just really obvious. And we can't control it. Not without losing our shit.
Bro.
Can be ADHD. Bro.
Calm. Autism isnt bad it's just an explanation for things you already know about yourself.
Like maybe you need little ouchy stims. Or maybe you need earplugs everywhere to prevent overstimulation. Or maybe a lot of things.
Basically you just gotta take care of you so you don't stress the fuck out living in a neurotypical world.
I'm very confused about the tone of the message. I feel like it involves a lot of sarcasm and criticism, but I genuinely can't tell.
edit: changed "my" to "the."
Dude I can't fucking tell either that's why we gotta use /s
We're all autistic here man I thought you knew that
Im sorry but this made me bust out laughing. My people
If you ever find yourself in group therapy I highly recommend figuring out who the autistic ones are.
Fun will be had
I can clock people fairly easily, only took me half an hour with my current coworker lol
I meant (and took) no offense and clearly misinterpreted the direction of the conversation. My apologies.
Look, all I'm saying is, you are here on Lemmy.
That means you ain't neurotypical. It's easy to see once you know see?
it's like gaydar, but for eye contact (or lack thereof)
It's not a smell then? I guess I have something different.
What tells you that another is autistic?
I usually just look to see if they have a cord coming out of their guitar
That.
We can barely look eachother in the eye. It's fucking funny because the NTs get all confused how we know who's turn it is