People who know me irl and know about my Twitter always make jokes about me being "Twitter famous" (I disagree lol) because I have 12k followers.
But the secret is the more people see my tweets, the more anxious I get I'll embarrass myself. 😂
I have social anxiety. 🥲
I made this account to vent to the void. I happened to find the autistic community & learned about neurodiversity & such. Shortly after I learned nonbinary people exist and *that* flipped my life upsidown. 😅
But I never thought I'd have more than like 200 followers max.
Not that I don't appreciate it.
I legitimately don't think I would be on the career path I'm on now if I hadn't found the neurodiversity community through Twitter. And I *really* like what I'm studying now.
I don't know that I'd be where I am with my gender identity either.
I can never get into old black and white tv shows.
Mostly it's because I can find things like that difficult to enjoy because of things like the misogyny.
But also I legitimately think I have a difficult time telling characters apart without color.
I know many autistic people struggle with recognizing faces.
I don't have much trouble with it in person. I have a little bit - like I used to get kids at summer camp mixed up if they had the same hair color and cut.
But generally I don't have too much trouble recognizing people.
I do know that I am primarily informed by broader details. I can't remember people's facial features unless I intentionally study them, but I do remember things like hair color and cut, skin color, face shape
Currently reading a dissertation titled - Building the Neurodiversity Bridge: A Grounded Theory Examination of Popular Culture Perseverations in Art Therapy with
Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Soooo I thought some of y'all might be interested in that. Good so far.
Author is Jessica Woolhiser Stallings.
Based on what I've read so far in the paper it sounds like she's an ex-behavioral therapist who now practices from a neurodiversity framework.
The paper is basically about incorporating special interests into Art Therapy.
I'll post some of my favorite quotes from it as I read through it.
I'm not 100% but I believe this is the same person if y'all want to see her site -
One of the hardest things about growing up as an autistic kid for me was that I couldn't read faces and tones well and constantly thought people were angry at me when they weren't. It made me grow up terrified constantly of doing anything wrong.
Also, adults telling a kid "don't do that" without any explanation or context as to why gives me a lot of anxiety. Growing up my brain filled in that doing so would make me bad. It was just a social rule I had to follow.
Problem is, just about anyone can make up these rules
I would get very scared about getting any kind of reaction at all because it was usually very overwhelming. If it seemed negative, my brain read it as me being in huge trouble and a bad person. If it seemed positive, it was overwhelming. Slightly raised voices sound like yelling
Heard back from the surgeon who canceled my surgery. I don't get even a penny of my money back.
I wasn't expecting they would b/c basically they're blaming me for it being canceled because they wrote down that I wanted it totally flat even though I corrected them on that more than once during my consultation
Basically they're saying it's my fault for not being clear enough
But I saw they wrote down flat so I corrected it more than once to more than one person & the woman I saw after the surgeon SAID she'd tell the surgeon and get that fixed on the notes.
So it's my fault because I trusted them to get that fixed before my surgery.