Autistic and also Happy
@happyautist.bsky.social
40s, late diagnosed AuDHD ♾️
Trying to be positive and look on the bright side of everything
Trying to be positive and look on the bright side of everything
I also often feel like I'm relating best by sharing a similar story or what something reminds me of.
I’m autistic and I love it when people not only listen, but bring out a similar story/situation about themselves. Not only does it help me bond with others who are autistic, but it also makes me feel understood even if it's just a little bit and a little less alone.
November 15, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I also often feel like I'm relating best by sharing a similar story or what something reminds me of.
Excellent way of putting this:
I'm calling this group of hypotheses "model trains cause autism," statistical connections that really just boil down to "autistic parents have autistic kids"
November 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Excellent way of putting this:
I'm #AuDHD. I've been going to the dentist regularly because every appt they schedule the next one. Had to cancel due to a conflict &they said, "call us when you're free that day to see if we have a cancellation!" I think I'm never getting teeth cleaned again...I don't have that executive function.
November 14, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I'm #AuDHD. I've been going to the dentist regularly because every appt they schedule the next one. Had to cancel due to a conflict &they said, "call us when you're free that day to see if we have a cancellation!" I think I'm never getting teeth cleaned again...I don't have that executive function.
Reposted by Autistic and also Happy
Hey #autistic and #ADHD and #AuDHD friends: what do you wish your boss/coworkers understood better about #neurodiversity? I'm giving a talk to dozens of employers and have the opportunity to educate them on making workplaces safer and more welcome to ND people. Please comment/repost widely?
November 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Hey #autistic and #ADHD and #AuDHD friends: what do you wish your boss/coworkers understood better about #neurodiversity? I'm giving a talk to dozens of employers and have the opportunity to educate them on making workplaces safer and more welcome to ND people. Please comment/repost widely?
Reposted by Autistic and also Happy
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
I just realized something about my #autistic self.
I'm so terrified of not being perceived as "getting the joke" that I start laughing every time someone makes a laugh-adjacent sound so I am "sharing the joke" but - sometimes I misperceive and find myself laughing uproariously while someone coughs.
I'm so terrified of not being perceived as "getting the joke" that I start laughing every time someone makes a laugh-adjacent sound so I am "sharing the joke" but - sometimes I misperceive and find myself laughing uproariously while someone coughs.
November 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I just realized something about my #autistic self.
I'm so terrified of not being perceived as "getting the joke" that I start laughing every time someone makes a laugh-adjacent sound so I am "sharing the joke" but - sometimes I misperceive and find myself laughing uproariously while someone coughs.
I'm so terrified of not being perceived as "getting the joke" that I start laughing every time someone makes a laugh-adjacent sound so I am "sharing the joke" but - sometimes I misperceive and find myself laughing uproariously while someone coughs.
Hey #autistic and #ADHD and #AuDHD friends: what do you wish your boss/coworkers understood better about #neurodiversity? I'm giving a talk to dozens of employers and have the opportunity to educate them on making workplaces safer and more welcome to ND people. Please comment/repost widely?
November 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Hey #autistic and #ADHD and #AuDHD friends: what do you wish your boss/coworkers understood better about #neurodiversity? I'm giving a talk to dozens of employers and have the opportunity to educate them on making workplaces safer and more welcome to ND people. Please comment/repost widely?
I do this too! 🥰
Things I like about being autistic:
1) playing a song over and over
2) playing a song over and over
3) playing a song over and over
Forgot to mention, playing a song over and over. It just feels so right and warm inside to do this.
1) playing a song over and over
2) playing a song over and over
3) playing a song over and over
Forgot to mention, playing a song over and over. It just feels so right and warm inside to do this.
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I do this too! 🥰
Reposted by Autistic and also Happy
I’m just a neurodivergent girl existing in a neuro-normative world.
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I’m just a neurodivergent girl existing in a neuro-normative world.
("What's something you wish you knew about #autism when you were first diagnosed?")
That the spectrum is as wide as it is. That my autistic doesn't have to - and won't ever - exactly match someone else's, and it doesn't make either of ours less valid or less autistic.
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
("What's something you wish you knew about #autism when you were first diagnosed?")
Parenting is the hardest, most exhausting and demanding and brutal commitment anyone ever makes.
That's it, that's the post. There's no rainbow, there's no silver lining.
That's it, that's the post. There's no rainbow, there's no silver lining.
November 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Parenting is the hardest, most exhausting and demanding and brutal commitment anyone ever makes.
That's it, that's the post. There's no rainbow, there's no silver lining.
That's it, that's the post. There's no rainbow, there's no silver lining.
Ok but why did ducks have to see be and me be so clearly that it made me cry
(Still a good duck)
(Still a good duck)
The Autism Spectrum (explained by ducks)
YouTube video by diplomaduck
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Ok but why did ducks have to see be and me be so clearly that it made me cry
(Still a good duck)
(Still a good duck)
Reposted by Autistic and also Happy
10/10 take. No notes.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
10/10 take. No notes.
Reposted by Autistic and also Happy
Quiet minute listening to the sea, in case anyone else needs it.
November 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Quiet minute listening to the sea, in case anyone else needs it.
Reposted by Autistic and also Happy
Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
Reposted by Autistic and also Happy
Murderbot is life. PLATFORM DECAY by @marthawells.com is up next in the series. Look for this treasure May 5 as our favorite SecUnit hilariously learns how to cope with emotions while, as always, rescuing and protecting hapless humans. @macmillanlib.bsky.social #ewgc
November 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Murderbot is life. PLATFORM DECAY by @marthawells.com is up next in the series. Look for this treasure May 5 as our favorite SecUnit hilariously learns how to cope with emotions while, as always, rescuing and protecting hapless humans. @macmillanlib.bsky.social #ewgc
Memes are for sure my love language!
Autistic ways of saying “I love you” (that you might miss):
- “I researched your problem. Here are your options”
- “I made a spreadsheet/ list/ plan to help you”
- being ourselves around you (infodumping, not masking etc)
- “Here’s a meme that I think you’d like”
#AutismAwareness
- “I researched your problem. Here are your options”
- “I made a spreadsheet/ list/ plan to help you”
- being ourselves around you (infodumping, not masking etc)
- “Here’s a meme that I think you’d like”
#AutismAwareness
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Memes are for sure my love language!
Today's #Autistic joys:
Spending time with a true friend I never have to mask with
Feeling cared about by coworkers
Helping my daughter when she needed me
Warm purring cat on my lap
Spending time with a true friend I never have to mask with
Feeling cared about by coworkers
Helping my daughter when she needed me
Warm purring cat on my lap
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Today's #Autistic joys:
Spending time with a true friend I never have to mask with
Feeling cared about by coworkers
Helping my daughter when she needed me
Warm purring cat on my lap
Spending time with a true friend I never have to mask with
Feeling cared about by coworkers
Helping my daughter when she needed me
Warm purring cat on my lap
Reposted by Autistic and also Happy
November 4, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Reposted by Autistic and also Happy
💯 💪🏻 #ProudlyAutistic
Finding out you’re autistic isn’t a personality update.
It has potential for a full nervous-system rewrite.
Your past starts making sense in real time.
Your future suddenly feels negotiable.
And you finally stop apologising for being built differently.
And this makes HUGE changes to YOU.
It has potential for a full nervous-system rewrite.
Your past starts making sense in real time.
Your future suddenly feels negotiable.
And you finally stop apologising for being built differently.
And this makes HUGE changes to YOU.
November 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
💯 💪🏻 #ProudlyAutistic
Reposted by Autistic and also Happy
How do I get my Crastinators license?
I feel like I have it in me to go pro.
I feel like I have it in me to go pro.
November 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
How do I get my Crastinators license?
I feel like I have it in me to go pro.
I feel like I have it in me to go pro.
Reposted by Autistic and also Happy
#AutChat is a tag for autistic people & "autistic cousins" (people with similar experiences due to hydrocephalus, cerebral palsy, ADHD, etc).
We welcome autistic/similar people whether formally diagnosed, self-diagnosed, or questioning/wondering if they are autistic/similar.
We welcome autistic/similar people whether formally diagnosed, self-diagnosed, or questioning/wondering if they are autistic/similar.
November 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
#AutChat is a tag for autistic people & "autistic cousins" (people with similar experiences due to hydrocephalus, cerebral palsy, ADHD, etc).
We welcome autistic/similar people whether formally diagnosed, self-diagnosed, or questioning/wondering if they are autistic/similar.
We welcome autistic/similar people whether formally diagnosed, self-diagnosed, or questioning/wondering if they are autistic/similar.
A2:
I'd say that a pro of me not having one is not being on RFK Jr's hit list, formally.
And, I'm autistic whether I'm diagnosed or not. Diagnosis doesn't alter who I am.
That said, diagnosing myself was affirming.
#AutChat
I'd say that a pro of me not having one is not being on RFK Jr's hit list, formally.
And, I'm autistic whether I'm diagnosed or not. Diagnosis doesn't alter who I am.
That said, diagnosing myself was affirming.
#AutChat
Q2: If you have a formal diagnosis, has it helped you? How?
If you don’t have a formal diagnosis, are there pros for you of not having one? #AutChat
If you don’t have a formal diagnosis, are there pros for you of not having one? #AutChat
November 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
A2:
I'd say that a pro of me not having one is not being on RFK Jr's hit list, formally.
And, I'm autistic whether I'm diagnosed or not. Diagnosis doesn't alter who I am.
That said, diagnosing myself was affirming.
#AutChat
I'd say that a pro of me not having one is not being on RFK Jr's hit list, formally.
And, I'm autistic whether I'm diagnosed or not. Diagnosis doesn't alter who I am.
That said, diagnosing myself was affirming.
#AutChat
A1: oh this is bitter for me. I tried to get an autism diagnosis but the Dr told me "it's basically impossible to diagnose autism for women over 40" before we even really started, so. No diagnosis.
And not going to try again.
And not going to try again.
Q1: Do you have a formal diagnosis? If so, what led you to get one? (Or was it a surprise?)
If you don’t have a formal diagnosis, have you considered getting one? Why or why not? #AutChat
If you don’t have a formal diagnosis, have you considered getting one? Why or why not? #AutChat
November 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
A1: oh this is bitter for me. I tried to get an autism diagnosis but the Dr told me "it's basically impossible to diagnose autism for women over 40" before we even really started, so. No diagnosis.
And not going to try again.
And not going to try again.