7 Odd Behaviors Autistic People Think Are Normal

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• UK

  @UKCougar · 3 weeks ago

  "Replaying conversations for days."  Days?  I replay conversations I had twenty years ago.

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• ME

  @meredithwoody2013 · 3 weeks ago

  Being happy and relieved that plans got cancelled I thought that was just because I'm an introvert?

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• TH

  @TheBumblingBea · 2 weeks ago

  I’ve never felt called out more by a video and yet I’ve never been called out in a more positive way in my life 😅

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• JA

  @jackojay6290 · 3 weeks ago

  &quot;are you okay?&quot; <br><br>&quot;yes. that&apos;s just how my face looks&quot;

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• EL

  @elias486 · 3 weeks ago

  #2 is so bad, if you watch me do something or check if I am doing something correctly my brain will literally shut down. DO NOT LOOK AT ME WHILE I COMPLETE A TASK

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• YA

  @YannMetalhead · 2 weeks ago

  Plans being cancelled is one of the best feelings ever!

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• PR

  @proudkat9790 · 3 weeks ago

  most people :uhg, leftovers<br><br>me: lets make lots extra so I dont have to cook again untill next week!

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• SL

  @slightly_confused_angel · 3 weeks ago

  God, the replaying conversations thing KILLS me. I&apos;ve lost so many hours of sleep to it, just laying there crying because I can&apos;t stop analyzing it or thinking about what I should have done differently. I know I should brush it off most of the time because I often won&apos;t ever even interact with these people again, but I can&apos;t make myself stop.

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• NO

  @nordicdreki2068 · 2 weeks ago

  things that I thought were normal behaviors:<br>- 1. Sleeping with a covering on my head. I&apos;m talking fully covering everything except the nose. I usually have done this by pulling the bedsheets over my head and wrapping them around my face. Or I can also use an upside-down t-shirt if it&apos;s too warm for the other method.<br>- 2. as an adult I still have a teddy bear whose eyes I rub for stimulation. I don&apos;t know why, but his eyes are genuinely comforting to rub. It&apos;s like this automatic go-to thing I do when I&apos;m at my desk and not typing.<br>- 3. Literal thinking. This leads to me seeming to be &quot;sensitive&quot; to jokes made at my expense, but I genuinely dislike them because they feel hurtful regardless of what they may say afterward.<br>- 4. overwhelmed easily by loud noises and people. My hearing is very sensitive, and I remember having to get away from a loud house party and just crying in the bathroom because it was so dysregulating and lonely.<br>- 5. repeating sounds that people or animals or equipment around me makes (echolalia), but as a form of stimulation. I sort of have a tendency to mimic speech patterns, tone and mannerisms of people I meet, especially if I&apos;m unfamiliar with them and/or nervous.<br>- 6. I never really &quot;learned&quot; how to smile, despite being surrounded by people. Maybe my brain just didn&apos;t pick up that information somehow. But when I smile, it&apos;s more of a cue that I personally trigger when looking at someone sometimes. And it&apos;s weird because it&apos;s a full-mouthed smile, but it&apos;s my own way of expressing that same emotion that people associate with smiling, or at least I think it is. Some of us smile differently, and not like the tutorials on Youtube say that &quot;real smiling&quot; looks like.<br>- 7. Hello I can&apos;t believe you read all this. Thank you.

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• TH

  @thelittlethingskate9567 · 3 weeks ago

  Ugh I do all of these things, hardcore. I’m 50. I haven’t been diagnosed with autism but I’m certain I’m autistic. I appreciate your videos so much, because they help me feel less ashamed, and helped me realize that maybe I’m not just a bad person.

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• FU

  @Funkymonkee29 · 3 weeks ago

  “I nailed that social interaction.”<br>No, no you didn’t 😂

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• NA

  @NatalieHutchings10 · 2 weeks ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m22XKtTdpr0&amp;t=350">5:50</a> my boyfriend was showing me his music and I just had a blank face the entire time. He thought I wasn&apos;t enjoying it, which is untrue

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