It’s funny how people characterize us as rude and uncaring, when all of the autistic people I’ve known (and I’ve known quite a few besides myself!) have always been the most polite and kind to service workers. You’re definitely right that there’s something about the ease and brevity; I think knowing I’m not expected…

Not to sound cheesy or virtue-signal-y, but honestly, the human interaction I get. There’s a couple places I visit regularly that I’ve started tipping even though it’s not expected, and the gratefulness and friendliness I’ve gotten because of that is amazing. There was one place where the lady was really pretty…

Oh sure, I’m not saying it is. I’ve just noticed some comments along the lines of “I never need to know where my partner is” and was curious.

It’s not any time—usually a combination of factors, e.g. they’re taking twice as long as usual, it’s raining, it’s not rush hour, they had to go on the highway to get here. I do usually alleviate these thoughts with “it’s just traffic” but there is still a little bit of worry.

That’s adorable and hilarious. Somebody should make a comic strip out of it.

Also, honest question... do most people not ask their partner to text them when they’re home safe? Because my partner and I have done that for years—and it’s a habit we learned from their parents. If we left from their house, they’d ask us to text them to let them know we were home safe. If they left from our house,…

“Sure, sometimes I’ll check his location when he’s out drinking with friends to see if he’s left the bar yet, and when he travels for work I’ll sometimes have a look to where he is so I feel a little closer, but for the most part this saves us a barrage of neurotic texts, What’s your ETA and Have you left the bar yet a…

Okay but literally from the abstract of the article “However, when participants zoomed in to photograph a specific part of the object, their subsequent recognition and detail memory was not impaired, and, in fact, memory for features that were not zoomed in on was just as strong as memory for features that were zoomed…

I make Christmas gifts for everyone except my younger brothers (and that’s mostly just because my parents hate fun and won’t buy them the video games/tech they want so it falls to me). I actually find this a lot easier than buying gifts? Like, yes, sure, it takes a lot more time and effort, definitely. But figuring…

“If you break your arm, you wouldn’t call yourself ‘disabled’” No, people do this too, it’s super annoying. It’s a stupid thing humans do: “I experienced this thing once, so clearly I know what it’s like to experience it every day of my life!”

Late reply, but it does. I went there today and it defaulted to September. The link Lifehacker gives just happens to be specifically for California in August, but if you just go to the main site it defaults to the current month.

Okay, now how can I get people to stop going “you’re such an amazing self-sacrificial person, you must have such a big heart!” when I tell them I work with autistic people?

Because you might not be looking for what’s in season right now. I for example was curious what was in season in December (brussels sprouts, mushrooms, leeks, and horseradish mostly) to give me ideas for what foods I could make in the winter while still using fresh produce. If you were making a trip to a particular…

I wipe off excess water with my hands, and then step out on the bathmat and I have not once in my life had an issue with the bath mat getting soaking wet. My partner does the same thing, and neither of us has ever found the bathmat too wet. Even before I started wiping off excess water (a habit I picked up from my…

ADHDers and daydreamers will find this doesn’t work because then you just spend 2 hours imagining how awesome this is gonna be when you finish instead of actually starting.

Clean eating, for me, means stuff that doesn’t irritate my gut/bowels or otherwise make me feel unwell. Mostly sugar, grease, and too much carbs are the main culprit. And wheat, but that’s cause I’m literally allergic to it, so.

As a disabled, chronically ill person, this activity would just depress me. But I do like the idea of it.

So what you’re saying is more men in skirts/dresses? Because I can get behind that.

autistic people: “sounds fake but okay”

Yeah, my partner’s most viral post, 600k+ notes on Tumblr + being stolen countless times across the internet, came from a real situation. They were trying to get my attention and I was hyperfocusing so wasn’t really listening, so they went from calling me “honey” and “sugar” to “flour” and “egg.” Thus the “cute things…