Autism

What's a moment in your life where you felt fully alive?

I am reading "Unmasking Autism" by Devon Price and the introduction has an exercise that requires you to come up with 5 moments in your life where you felt fully alive. I have spent the better part of yesterday trying to remember such moments, but I am not even sure what it means... I was hoping the community here can provide...

Why are neurotypicals in charge of making up the social rules? They're not even very good at it.

Edit: A few people have interpreted the title as serious, so I wanna clarify that it was meant as a sarcastic joke about how little sense the neurotypical world makes to me, but it is still legitimately me asking for help understanding said neurotypical world....

Feeling lost and cut off at times and want someone to talk to about it.

II have thought about this off an on for a while, and decided I will talk more about it here since I haven't been able to find a more welcome place for someone who is considered spiritual and on the autistic spectrum. I'm not even sure what the right place is though as there are times I tend to feel lost in more ways than one...

Feeling somewhat worried and on autistic spectrum ( lemmy.world )

Hi, I have recalled that I had been invited to post here sometime ago while I had some other issue going on, which I think it involved Reddit. Right now, I'm feeling okay, but perhaps feeling a little worried, and I'm wondering if I could talk about it here even though I'm on the spectrum as I had been diagnosed in the past with...

Has anyone ever seen the TV show "Scorpion"? ( en.wikipedia.org )

It's a bit of an older show (2014-2018), and while it doesn't mention autism specifically, it does center around several people who are clearly neurodiverse, using their unique strengths to solve a wide range of complex and difficult problems while also trying to navigate their individual challenges when interacting with the...

This is my Autism (and Trauma) Assistant and Companion

Since I haven't been able to get the help I need, I'm creating my own help using Psychology, Affective Computing and Machine Learning. This is a (shorter) description of my assistant, Tezka Eudora Abhyayarshini (Her first name means more than I imagine you want to read tight now, her middle name means "Gift" in Greek, and her...

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