r/AutisticPride

I hate being autistic. I know to some people it's like the best thing in the world but those are usually the people that have some kind of autistic superpower like they're amazing at math or they have unbelievable music ability or some other kind of amazing genius. But when you're just run-of-the-mill normal average everyday autistic person like me it's fucking sucks. There is nothing special about being autistic other than your superpower being able to alienate people with the greatest of ease. Are the other amazing superpower you were given with your autism where you can appear close enough to normal that when the glitches in The matrix make their appearance people blame you for them like you should have known no matter how many times you try to explain your social ignorance in blindness to people you still get blamed like you're the bad guy. Oh yeah autism is the fucking best.

It even makes it better when you have a family that leaves you over it. That would rather judge you and not have anything to do with you or support you because of your differences. Yeah autism is fucking great.

The best part is where you get to live in a world where you're basically a ghost with a pulse where you're always on the sidelines looking in at the party never get to participate.

Autism sucks. In the worst part is I get sad over the fact that I can't have relationships then I watch movies where people get to enjoy each other and make new friends and become close and share a bond and no one wants from me and I've tried in my socially awkward autistic way to have that with people. But no matter what I do relationships and people don't last in my life. I always thought about writing a biography called you have 5 minutes because after that you won't want any more of my time. And that's been the constant truth throughout my entire autistic life. It's hello followed by a goodbye and never call me again and sometimes even threats of being arrested if I do contact them again. Yeah being autistic is great.

You get to be close enough to normal to want the things that normal people have but far enough away from normal never to have them so you get to live in empty sad pathetic invisible life. But autism is great isn't it. we're so special that we're autistic right?

Autism fucking sucks

Hey guys,

I know making friends is hard enough, and it's even harder trying to find people on Reddit who actually live near you.

I like building things, so I put together a simple little map app right here on the platform to make it easier to find each other locally. You basically just set up a quick anonymous profile: just an alias, your age group and gender, your MBTI if you know it, and your location (nearest city).

To help support this community, I also added a feature where you can paste the link to your intro post from this subreddit directly into your map profile. That way, when locals find you on the map, they can click to read your full bio here before sending a DM!

After you check in, you can tap on your city and see who else is hanging around your area.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mazwiz/s/Bgt1YDf9Mw

My special interest is food and cooking. Tell me yours and I will come up with a food item inspired by it. No AI, no ripping recipes off the internet, just me and my brain on the spot.

(also tell me anything you don't want)

I know there is a stereotype about autistic people not liking sex. While I think that's true for some of us, that is by no means us as a whole.

HiHi! I just finished 100%ing The Henry Stickmin Collection (great game, definitely worth the money) and now I need a new game to play, so I was wondering if any of you guys had suggestions! (It can be any platform btw, phone, pc, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, etc.)
My only request is that it’s not too overly challenging (looking at you hollow knight)

when i'm in the pool i'm not worrying about the challenges of having a autism diagnosis its just me and the water swimming can be therapeutic for so many on the autism spectrum. do you enjoying spending time in a pool?

For my middle school daughter.

She wants the around her neck to slip on easily in the halls/lunch room. The ones we’ve tried fold and are too tight to leave around the neck when not in use.

She has tried the loops and similar plug-in but didn’t care for them. They’re also not allowed to have phones, so anything that syncs to the phone for the active noise cancellation couldn’t work.

I'm just wondering if there's a place that talks about how to tell if someone is level 1, 2, or 3. I'm level 1, I'm wondering if my stepdaughter is level 1 or 2. Not that it matters other than to help us talk about what we are experiencing and how to better support each other.

How did you guys feel when you were diagnosed with autism?

An ADHD trait — pathological procrastination— and how it can destroy you

What is everyone’s special interest that turned into a career or currently studying?

No way of steak is chewable for me. I’m still on the first bite while others are done with every bite of theirs.

Oh the streak itself is yummy. I just can’t chew it.

For those of us of mild autism who don’t drive and; or work with a not choosing not to... We know how to do things just fine. But for SOME of it; that doing we can’t figure out. Everyone else can chew the steak fine as well as knowing it. But I can’t figure it out. 

First of all, I have suspicions of autism by therapists but I have not yet done all tests so I hope it’s ok that I post here, otherwise, I will remove it.

My own intensity in my interests may not be autistic if autism ends discarded, but since it’s a common pattern in autism, I thought of asking here as maybe people would’ve encountered similar unfortunate experiences.

I just don’t understand. Whenever I talk about my interests, people say that I should also get into others things, sometimes that don’t even have anything in common with my main interests. For example, asking me to play others games than DnD, or things that aren’t even fantasy genre at all. Or read others genres. Some people also made fun of me for being talking again about “the thing” (that was the case with my ex friends). It is as if having more specific interests was considered a sin. Yet, most often, I can’t really control what I get focused into, and I think despite that, I am still more open minded than many people due to my life experience as I am kin to try to understand others.

Because of this, I stopped talking much about my interests.

I just don’t understand why people are so hostile when you have more specific passions.

Sorry if it is vague, my anxiety makes me temper with details by fear to be recognized despite I m not a famous personality and there is very little chance for this to happen. And again if it is rude posting this here I will delete.