if I've loaded up a sentence beforehand, or if I'm in arguing mode, or if I'm intoxicated with alcohol I can monologue/speak much more fluently, and they're ordered in increasing order of fluency

only alcohol makes me normally-verbal, because it blocks cognitive distractions

27 years of gentle, perfectionistic, overly polite, submissive, shy female autism wasn't enough to get diagnosed, despite being severely functionally disabled.

Only when I got angry and pushy, they saw my autism.

& that’s it

That’s all the SPINS I can think of 😮‍💨

A lot of my clients express frustration or regret that they have moved through different intense interests through their life, “I’ve never been able to stick with just one thing”

My sweet babies, this is what being adventurous looks like for us 🫶🏻

I feel represented by this thread, thanks

🥺💔 don't ask, Mr Riker sir ... they turned it into something... unnatural

wow this is my exact Specsavers experience

I'm so confused when I see other people talk about their successful healthcare experiences. I've literally never had one. Nobody listens to me except the Autistic crisis team, and they have no power to give me healthcare.

I live in my bedroom, I can't shower myself because it's too complicated, I can't travel alone unless it's a short walk.

I'm just waiting for death, I literally have no reason to exist because I'm too disabled to do anything, I've never had a job, and I have no qualifications.

and then they have the audacity of offering me "routine health screenings", which I cannot access without a carer anyway;

why would the NHS care about me getting cancer but not me dying of unsupported-and-persecuted autism?

why would I use your service ever again? you abused me! 😭

why would I turn to the NHS for mental health support when the NHS is the reason that I'm unwell in the first place?

I have a "punctuation laugh" where I laugh after someone has finished speaking. It's my way of showing an attempt to participate in the conversation even if I don't get it. And it's involuntary. It's like a release of "listening energy".

I have a "punctuation laugh" where I laugh after someone has finished speaking. It's my way of showing an attempt to participate in the conversation even if I don't get it. And it's involuntary. It's like a release of "listening energy".