ADHD be like

You’re supposed to go to a free yoga class

You randomly remember about it at 11 am, & believe you’ll definitely remember to go

You randomly remember about it at 4 pm, & believe you’ll definitely remember to go

You randomly remember about it at 9 pm & realize you forgot to go at 7 pm

As an autistic person, I really value the bonding that occurs over shared experiences, but especially difficult or traumatic ones, because as autistic people, we’ve spent so much of our lives feeling so, utterly alone in our worlds. Realizing you’re less alone than you thought is really healing.

I always thought it was weird when older people clearly remembered exactly who was president during every year of their life.

Now I understand why they did.

When you’re late-diagnosed autistic and autism becomes your new special interest.

That autistic experience when you think someone is your friend the moment you have a good conversation with them or you relate with each other about something.

As an autistic, the drunk (or tipsy) version of me is the only version that people ever really liked or accepted. And it's the only version of me who could keep and make friends, because it was the only me that was conventionally "normal".

Allistic: “Why did you do it like that?”

Autistic: “I thought that’s what you wanted?”

Allistic: “No, I wanted Y. Why didn’t you ask me any questions if you were confused?”

Autistic: “I didn’t think I was confused. I thought I understood. So, I didn’t think I needed to ask any questions.”

As an autistic person, asking me to have energy to do anything social after work on weekdays or weekends is like, as an analogy, asking someone with a broken leg to run every day for work, and then asking them to keep running after work and then to also run on the weekends.

After getting my autism diagnosis, one person I did not expect to have trauma from was my autism diagnosis assessor.

Putting an autistic person in a neurotypical work/education setting w/o proper accommodations & wondering why their performance is low is like putting a cat in a room with dogs w/o making any cat-friendly adjustments to the room, & wondering why the cat is stressed out & can’t focus on catching mice

In autistic burnout everything feels so exhausting that doing anything but the bare minimum feels like asking me to climb to the top of Mount Everest without an oxygen tank.

I think one of the most difficult parts of being autistic is that I’m constantly ready to go back to sleep.

Simply being awake as an autistic person in a non-autistic world is so mentally exhausting.

Being autistic is so funny.

I get really hurt and upset when I don’t have any new messages or notifications on my phone from anyone I care about.

But when I do have messages and notifications from people, I will get instantly exhausted, drained, and… (1/2)

A few traits I both love and hate about my autistic self:

1. I can be very stubborn.

2. When I see something that doesn’t seem right/okay to me, I say something.

3. I stand my ground if I deeply feel something is the right/moral thing to say or do, even if it may be hurtful to someone I care for.