great article, highly relatable; matches my own experience quite well, down to the smallest details. so many more of us are slightly autistic (aspie) than is commonly believed; autism is a spectrum everyone is somewhere on, rather than a discrete disorder.
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RT @sashachapin
Hi, I'm slightly autistic, I wrote this about being slightly autistic https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/on-being-slightly-autistic
https://twitter.com/sashachapin/status/1453086069616898051
autism is fundamentally about sensory sensitivity and disregulation, how deeply one is able to perceive the world, and how unable they are to handle that depth of perception. everything else is downstream of neurology.
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RT @pee_zombie
y'all seen Atypical? its this Netflix show about an autistic high schooler and his various struggles. I've seen it around but only just watched the first episode; it's wild how relatable it is, tbh. I'…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1425298091813523456
as usual, if you recognize any of these traits in yourself, I encourage you to consider where you might lie on the spectrum; it's ok to decide that you're a little autistic without a doctor telling you so, I promise. it might help you make sense of some of your patterns, too.
I've previously described my perspective in a very similar way, including the "social simulation" aspects Sasha mentions. we act normal... because we learned how to do it
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RT @pee_zombie
sufficiently advanced autism is indistinguishable from just being competent
many people IRL don't actually believe me when I tell them i'm an aspie; i'm too sociable, too perceptive, too "normal"
thats bc i've sunk much effort into learning to be …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1397985417639698432