5 Odd Autistic Behaviors Everyone Gets Wrong

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  @Auticate · 5 days ago · pinned

  Which of these can you relate to? And what would you add to this list? ⤵

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  @PhilBurns-oc2vg · 5 days ago

  Until I was diagnosed at 55, I thought everyone felt this and now I find it harder than ever to manage things when I'm mentally tired

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• DA

  @danwilhite · 5 days ago

  I love it when plans are canceled before I cancel them! 😜

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  @ElephantPatronus · 5 days ago

  Years ago my mother-in-law’s mother died the week of her birthday. I was unexpectedly put on the phone with her (she always made me so nervous). Like an idiot I said, “I hope you had a good birthday.” To which she replied, “I buried my mother!” I felt so foolish and embarrassed. What I had been trying to convey was that I had hoped she was able to find a little joy during a very sad time, but it came out all wrong and she got mad at me. It took me days to get over that one. (Ok, maybe I’m still not over it.)

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• NI

  @ninus17 · 5 days ago (edited)

  On the first one. Today is my birthday and I’m currently hiding in my old bedroom because dinner was too noisy 😢. I’ll be fine in 30 minutes but I have all ready written off the day tomorrow as a loss. I have this thing where I listen to all the conversations at the table at the same time and not understanding the words and not being able to focus on a single person talking.

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  @geoff_va1 · 5 days ago

  The brain costume always makes me smile.

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  @clippys_peregrination · 5 days ago

  I can never tell how much I like vs hate when someone cancels last minute. Yes, I'm glad I get to conserve energy, but often I've already expended energy to make the situation happen or thinking about the situation, so I feel like the other person extorted me.

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  @doubleaaaron · 5 days ago

  I really think I'm autistic. I've never been what you call normal. And a lot of your videos hit my symptoms just right. Thanks for posting your experiences and knowledge.

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• HI

  @hickoryhollowcreations · 5 days ago

  "Dude-Your face is offline." 😆🤣

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  @ShiroiChouChou · 5 days ago

  &quot;Your face is offline.&quot;<br>I&apos;m so stealing that to use in the future for when I do that. 😂

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• CA

  @Cat-leesi · 3 days ago

  Interacting with NT&apos;s always reminds me how performative people are, and that much of modern life is a performance. The constant &quot;You didn&apos;t say the right thing&quot; or &quot;you didn&apos;t pull the right face&quot; oh, and &quot;what do you mean you said exactly what you mean, that there&apos;s no passive-aggressive subtext?&quot; or &quot;What do you mean you followed my instructions exactly to the letter?&quot; <br><br>I&apos;m nearly 40 and I now fully believe that the NT&apos;s are the strange ones, and exhausting to be around. Whereas with other ND&apos;s, we know what we see is what we get, and that we can actually be ourselves around each other. One big realisation for me since my diagnosis was becoming self aware about the fact I had been masking for my entire 25 year friendship with my &quot;best friends&quot; and they don&apos;t actually know me at all, because I was trying to live up to all these strange NT social rules this whole time.

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  @lilalexei01 · 5 days ago

  Unless I&apos;m sick, I can&apos;t bring myself to cancel even if I should. There&apos;s a weird obligation piece that won&apos;t let me do it. Also, if I have plans I want to do; I&apos;ve usually built them up into a focus for that day. When others then cancel on me, that can throw me into a tail spin.

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