Autism

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A community for respectful discussion and memes related to autism acceptance. All neurotypes are welcome.

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Understanding
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Mutuality
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No abusive, derogatory, or offensive post/comments e.g: racism, sexism, religious hatred, homophobia, gatekeeping, trolling.
Posts must be related to autism, off-topic discussions happen in the "Hey What's Going On!" daily post.
Your posts must include a text body. It doesn't have to be long, it just needs to be descriptive.
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Mark NSFW content accordingly.
Do not promote Autism Speaks.
General Lemmy World rules.
No bots. Humans only.

Encouraged

Open acceptance of all autism levels as a respectable neurotype.
Funny memes.
Respectful venting.
Describe posts of pictures/memes using text in the body for our visually impaired users.
Welcoming and accepting attitudes.
Questions regarding autism.
Questions on confusing situations.
Seeking and sharing support.
Engagement in our community's values.
Expressing a difference of opinion without directly insulting another user.
Please report questionable posts and let the mods deal with it.

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It's Saturday 08/02/2025. Hey, What's Going On! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by Lexam@lemmy.world to c/autism@lemmy.world

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Got the day off yesterday and survived the License Office! Bonus the clerk processing my paperwork is a neighbor and nice.

This is a daily post for “casual” conversation. If you want to post or talk about something non autism related this is where to do it. For example if you want to info dump about your special interest but it doesn’t fall into “autism related” then you can post it here in the comments. All other rules are still active, be respectful to each other.

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[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

Still unemployed, still suffering from EDS

Had a really bad episode today at a convenience store where the cashier overcharged me for a 12 pack of hard seltzer, and pretended not to speak english, I wanted to slam his head into the counter again and again and again. It was so fucking obvious, 12 packs are 20 cases are 40, I DID NOT HAVE A FUCKING CASE

So I left the 12 pack on the counter and walked out and now I'm sober and even agrier.

WHY the FUCK do people constantly seek to take advantage of everyone?! Why DO I FUCKING HAVE TO BE ON MY GUARD EVERY GODDAMN SECOND I AM OUTSIDE

My therapist wonders why I'm an agoraphobe, and it's shit like this.

Fuck people, all of them

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago

This may not be any help but I typically don't get upset in those case. Remain calm and burn time if you need to going back in forth until it is resolved.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago

Username checks out