#with this
Homegirl about to commit unalive bc I didn’t get into ANY of the universities I wanted and I’ll have to retake the exams next year lol. I’ll be writing through the grave.
Isn’t it so odd:
On online platforms people harass you because you wanna lose weight, saying you should accept your body and feel comfortable… so you often feel like you should not complain about your body.
VS
In really life people harass you because you are overweighted, saying you should lose weight in order to be accepted by the society… so you are often forced to hate the way you look.
What I mean is, it’s already hard enough. So please shut the fuck up.
goodoldfashionedfanboy-deactiva:
anyone else who was diagnosed later in life feel like they finally “found themselves”??
I never knew who I was before getting diagnosed. like, I genuinely had no sense of identity. I had too many interests, was bad at making friends, and was not outgoing - that’s about all I could describe about myself. any real personality traits felt fake or like I had taken them from other people or characters.
realizing i was autistic was like finally seeing myself correctly. it’s not my identity, but it explains so much about who I am, and in realizing all these traits I’m finding my actual personality traits intertwined. and I couldn’t see that before, all I saw was the bad parts about me and how I felt like I didn’t fit in anywhere.
anyone feel me
This was exactly me. Once I was finally professionally diagnosed with autism many years after first expressing symptoms, I felt like I can finally be myself without repressing all my autistic tendencies. I felt like I could openly stim and infodump like I always wanted, and pursue my special interests even more because now I knew the reason behind why I did these things. Finding out I’m autistic gave me a sense of community, solidarity and allyship with other neurodiverse people that I never felt before, and I’m so glad that despite my late diagnosis, I finally discovered myself. Being autistic is part of who I am and has always been so, and now I know I can express this aspect of myself openly and be loved for what I am; an autistic queer man.
I have known I was autistic since Preschool. I was put on an IEP (in preschool lmaooo.) And even though my parents and I opted to not get me diagnosed (for various reasons- But I was evaluated by 1 or 2 child behavior speaclist) I still feel very welcome without a “proper,” diagnosis.
The autistic community will support you with or without a proper diagnosis. There are so many reasons why someone may choose not to get one. I hope that in your real life everyone has a community where they can express themselves freely - not just in the “normal,” way.
