Let’s talk tags on clothing. I hate them and they annoy me to no end. And even if I cut them off, the tiny bit remaining always manages to touch me and I hate it.

Do tags bother you?

#AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic

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Let’s talk tags on clothing. I hate them and they annoy me to no end. And even if I cut them off, the tiny bit remaining always manages to touch me and I hate it.

Do tags bother you?

#AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic

image: unknown

#AskingAutistics

Have there been times when you've taken things literally when you probably shouldn't have?

A couple of mine are in the first post below.

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In what way(s) are you NOT typically autistic?

I'll start:

While I don't always super enjoy it, I really, really appreciate small talk. Having a socially approved script for interacting with strangers makes life so much easier for me than trying to create a conversation from nothing!

#WeAreNotBorg #NoGroupIsAHiveMind #ItsASpectrum! #Autistic #Autism #AutisticAdults

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In what way(s) are you NOT typically autistic?

I'll start:

While I don't always super enjoy it, I really, really appreciate small talk. Having a socially approved script for interacting with strangers makes life so much easier for me than trying to create a conversation from nothing!

#WeAreNotBorg #NoGroupIsAHiveMind #ItsASpectrum! #Autistic #Autism #AutisticAdults

I've just read that when people are hypervigilant, receiving more information is reassuring to them.

While, if people are not particularly vigilant, they find receiving more information on a topic unsettling, even anxiety-provoking 😳

#Autism#Neurodivergent#AskingAutistics

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Ok so I know that my baseline is anxious and hypervigilant.

Which makes me wonder now... could my tendency to want as much data as possible be connected with my baseline of hypervigilance?

While, perhaps, non-autistics feel generally quite secure... and prefer to leave it at that?

🤔

#Autism#Neurodivergent#AskingAutistics

Ref: Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow by Daniel Kahneman, chapter 13, on availability, emotion, and risk.

I was telling my friend who's a doctor about how I want as much information as possible on whatever is wrong with me. I bring a notepad and have questions to ask, and make notes.

Doctors sometimes seem annoyed at this approach. I asked her why she thought this might be.

She shrugged and said, "you're quite unusual."

(#AskingAutistics - do you do this, too?)

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I've just read that when people are hypervigilant, receiving more information is reassuring to them.

While, if people are not particularly vigilant, they find receiving more information on a topic unsettling, even anxiety-provoking 😳

#Autism#Neurodivergent#AskingAutistics

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What's your relationship to information and data?

Is it like mine... in that the more info I have, the happier I am??

🧑‍💻💞

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