This Is Your Daily Reminder To Not Be Ashamed Of Making Your Life Easy For Yourself.

This is your daily reminder to not be ashamed of making your life easy for yourself.

Cut your food into small pieces, make the font size 30 on your e book, use straws to drink, get a pen that’s comfortable to hold, take more naps, walk slowly, eat another cookie, buy velcro shoes, re-watch the part you couldn’t understand the first time, write things on your hands so you don’t forget it… whatever you want and/or need

Don’t let anyone tell you how you should be doing things. We don’t need to prove each other anything

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Things I did as an undiagnosed autistic child (other than struggling with social interaction/making friends):

Monotone voice, so I read books out loud to practice vocal tone.

Repeated movie conversations for the same reason.

"You don't look approachable." Turns out, you're supposed to make facial expressions even when sitting by yourself (??). Blank expressions are still my thing. I'm still called unapproachable.

Wandering away when bored or overstimulated. The school did not like this approach.

Parallel play!!! Best time ever.

Scene playing, where I'd set up my toys in the scene in my head and then leave the toys alone. The set up of the scene was the playing. No interaction required.

Hating certain cartoons because it frequently used a noise I disliked or was visually displeasing to me.

Phobias around what I now know is sensory overload, such as having meltdowns in public toilets due to the noise.

Feeling ill and needing a nap after school due to sensory overload.

Escaping to quiet rooms, even in other people's houses.

Obviously, any kid can do these things and not be autistic. But, for me they certainly were related to my autism.

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