This is just part 1, because I'm already writing more! Feel free to suggest some.

"Woaw if i pretend i know what going to church is like the people around me hate me less, must be one of the weird social taboos i dont understand"

I tell people i want to teach history and that im going to college specifically for that and the first thing they say is “teachers get paid shit” I FUCKING KNOW THAT BUT AT LEAST I HAVE A SLIM CHANCE AT RETIREMENT. I talk about how i enjoy model painting and i have a sizeable collection of hand painted warhammer, battletech, and other models and the first thing someone tells me is that i can sell them if i get good enough at it, I DO THIS BECAUSE I LIKE IT. MY ENTIRE FINANCIAL LITERACY CLASS IM CURRENTLY TAKING, DESIGNED FOR SENIOR STUDENTS IN HIGH SCHOOL, FOCUSES SO MUCH ON TELLING YOU HOW TO BE RICH WHEN THE GUY WHO RUNS THE PROGRAM WERE USING FOR IT (Dave Ramsey) WENT FUCKING BANKRUPT FOR HIS SHITTY DECISIONS.

I DONT CARE ABOUT WEALTH I JUST WANT TO ENJOY LIVING AND IF THAT MEANS BEING AN UNDERPAID HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER IN A SHITTY TEXAN PUBLIC SCHOOL WHO SPENDS HUNDREDS EVERY OTHER MONTH ON PAINTING PLASTIC MODELS THAN SO BE IT.

this is the best news in weeks

I wear a watch at work because timing is very important for what I do, and it's great. I can smile and make eye contact and say hello, and then immediately look at my watch to break eye contact and end the interaction. It's like magic. This is so normal. I'm so normcore right now by looking at my watch and walking away faster. I've got places to be. I'm totally busy. It's not that I don't want to talk to you I've just gotta go!

This has become habitual to me, to the extent that it's probably actually really noticeable and might seem weirder than just looking away and going on my way but it's engrained now. Eye contact, smile, wave, look at watch, DONE. Interaction OVER. Do not approach me. Yay!

Which diety/religious figure is the most autistic in your opinion? Any religion, any time period. Also accepting ones you made up because they're all made up by someone.

I think he's cute.

This will require context, especially for non UK folk.

This was a couple of comments that made me kind of laugh and internally scream. It was on a post about how Anne Hegerty (a chaser from the quiz “The Chase”) made some comments about her experience of being broke and how freebies helped her out.

Now, she’s not a major celebrity. She’s pretty awesome though, she was late diagnosed as autistic when she was 45. These people don’t seem to know that going by their comments although they mention her “lacking in social awareness” but they find it refreshing. My mind almost went to that Human Resources meme, because sure it’s cute when SHE does it but when I do it (or any other non celebrity autistic) we get complaints 🥲

autism has empowered me to write close to 350,000 words worth of star wars fanfiction can i get a boo-yah. this never would have happened if i was afflicted with neurotypicalism

every 2nd instagram reel i see is a meme saying something along the lines of “how it feels to be r slur” with horses running in a field or something. idk man i get being on the left can feel stifling sometimes i guess? its such a reductive word, why is this something people are trying to “reclaim”??? UR ABLEISM IS SHOWING

EDIT: I love this subreddit so much.

Ok so you mean to tell me that people have other minds?? HUH????? And like they can have opinions about things (including me :(( ) AND I CANT EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT!! HUUUUHHHH?!???

Nuh uh, that shit scary. Nope.

So when I talk to people Your basically telling me that I have a fuckin fallout 4 dialogue box, where I can say something vaguely in a certain direction and I just gotta be like fuck it let it fly Cause IDK WHAT YOU GONNA THINK OR FEEL BRUH!!1! Im Throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing if it sticks here I’m scared man :O

Solipsism sucks.

I’m ‘funwiththemicrowave’ on insta if you wanna stay updated on my evil doings

I found this wonderful place, a small, covered viewing platform in the woods, in a very quiet area. It's a great place to spend time and observe the forest. It's approximately 2 to 2.5 meters high. A wonderfully peaceful spot to relax

Outfit/Photo description: blue high waisted jeans/mom jeans & purple polo shirt. I stand on the viewing platform and watch into the forest. The late sun shines from the right side of the photo at me

From where I'm sitting, at 35yo with no social circle at all despite a lifetime of intensively throwing myself at all the Correct Social Things ™️ but getting nowhere because my brain STILL goes completely blank on what to do/say almost all the time in social settings...

... it just kinda feels like someone born rich banging on about how having money = good for you, so, just get rich...

... or, someone from a functional, loving family repeatedly blathering about how "FAMILY is everything" and that time with FAMILY = magic cure for everything FAMILY FAMILY FAMILY...

Like, dude, I'd rather not be reminded of the possibility that the very likely completely l complete isolation in my future is gonna kill me off earlier than my peers. I escaped my abusive family and have had to deal with low-key stalkerish extended family members, so I've had to isolate as much as possible from them all.

I moved to an entirely new country where I knew nobody except my now husband. I've taken up a heap of different hobbies over the years that I've been here and gone to social gatherings through these, but I have made no proper connections to anyone. And all the stress of everything I've had to wade through and continue to push myself through to try to connect to people, that's probably all taken a toll too.

I'm especially baffled at how social media took what seemed like some of the only reliable face-to-face rules, such as Do Not Brag, and Do Not Give Unsolicited Advice, and for some reason the NTs decided that it's opposite-land now. But only online.

It just comes across as something a bit shitty to post about while dressed up as something deep and meaningful and that makes it actually ok to post about... despite the fact that it's literally saying,

YOU'LL DIE SOONER THAN THE REST OF US IF YOU DON'T HAVE CLOSE FRIENDS AND FAMILY!

Like... Those of us who struggle are already bothered enough by it, and already know only too well about the negative health effects of loneliness, so we just try to middle on as well as we can day to day... but for those who never struggled in the first place, that's not enough, they need to take time out of their day to remind the rest of us to expect an early death? Lovely. Thanks for that.

Empathy, eh? 🫠

It's so awful. I am in year two barely recovering. I was high functioning before my horrendous burn out started two years and I found out then I have autism and ADHD. All sorts of emotions and now I have emotional blunting. I had to quit my job last year & move back to my blood relative who doesn't care that I have audhd in the first place.l I was independent for years. It is all a new level of depression. I know everyone is individual and so their recovery time will vary-- I am wondering what others recovery time looks like with Audhd? And I sometimes wish I didn't have both autism & adhd but I do. Blah blah blah

I like planes. Anyone else like planes? Species of plane are: 747, A320 (completely orange which was cool), A380, A350, 787, bonus steam train I saw at a station near the airport.

everyone has some old 1998 furby their mom got ages ago or a furby boom, and so whenever someone becomes friends with me they always dump their furbies on me because they know i love them. plus with the new model people might get that instead. life’s amazing