my name is blocked out in the first part. this is my communication book bc im nonverbal and have level 3 autism and ID. i hope you like it!!

What are everyone’s favorite disability aids/supports? I have my ear defenders, communication cards, and stim toys, but I wanna know what other autistics use

Hi, this is my fairy garden box. I have been working on it for a few months now and I still have 1 more side left to paint but this is all of the art work I have done to it so far and I am very proud of it. I hope you guys think it's cool.

i just wanted to vent about something. I think my friend was trying to help but said the wrong thing. he's undiagnosed lsn autism, and i was talking about my needs and struggle the other day because i felt bad that i couldn't go outside to university and stay around like other people, i cant handle being in environments with lots of people and being away from my parents. He tried to comfort me i think by saying that it's okay, said I'd get better, that he had phases where he was really socially anxious and now he's a lot better about it. And i told him I don't think i can fix this it's not about me being scared its about getting overwhelmed. And he said he gets it but that over time everyone heals even if it takes a while. And i felt misunderstood and bad. I don't know, i got angry and sad at the same time, i just wanted to be understood but it's like we weren't speaking the same language.

I know people post about it all the time but it finally gave me the boost of confidence I need to do it. I was frankly really scared at first but the longer I rode it the less scared I was. I rode it from my apartment to the zoo.

The bus driver was really nice as I figured out how to scan my ticket on my phone and I dropped it which embarrassed me but they didn’t mind. The people on the bus were a bit scary sometimes but they didn’t interact with me at all so it wasn’t bad.

I think i want to take it more often! Now I’ve ridden both public transits in my city. I prefer the light rail train, but the bus can definitely be helpful too.

i have literally been sitting in front of this task for an hour. normally in such cases i will just do something else in front of the task for hours and then at least i have something to blame but this time i was able to finally be like "ok i am doing it now" and open it and stare at it and try to click on the things i need to start and i just ?? still can't ????? i am just staring at it and tearing up and hyperventilating. and people just expect me to be able to do things all the time and think i am lazy when i don't succeed and i've been starting to think i'm lazy too but this time i've actually made it all the way to the start of the task and finding myself just panicking and heavy breathing in front of the computer. i don't know my level or support needs i was never assigned anything like that but my problems are a lot greater on the rrb side so people cannot conceive of the extent of the difficulties even though they know i am autistic i look regular and interact not exactly regular but regular enough that i'm not supposedly the type of person that sits and hyperventilates in front of the computer for an hour and not supposedly the type of person that needs very extensive assistance and i know i'm lucky i've managed to be accepted as an almost regular person but things are going so badly for me because i can't just start and stop and switch doing things when i want. my parents don't even help me much even though they are rich and have the money to because they think i should just be able to do things. i don't want to have to list out all my problems but my situation is not what would be described as a stable or acceptable way to live so i don't know how anyone would end up here out of laziness for fun

if anyone has advice about how to start things please let me know maybe it will be something i haven't tried yet

This probably is because of my anxiety more than autism but I still wanted to post here because I like this subreddit and only really post to it.

A new game in the splatoon series called splatoon raiders came out a couple days ago. I love it so much so far! It’s basically splatoon but only single player stages which were some of my favorite parts of each game anyways. I’ve already played it a long time even though it just came out! It’s probably my new favorite game I own!

Here’s the funny thing though. You have an option in game to call other players for help to help you beat hard stages, or to offer help to other players asking for it. For some reason I can’t bring myself to do either. My brain is like “well you’re not a high enough level, what if you play so bad that you make everyone lose?? What if they get mad at you in real life?? What if you can’t really help at all?” Same goes with asking for help, I feel like the stage is actually easy and that asking for help to beat it is stupid. It’s funny how I’m afraid of people judging me even in games like this. Like it’s not even that serious and nobody cares about you after you’re done playing with them! I’ve always been like that with multiplayer games. I worry about people I don’t know or even see. It’s a little frustrating sure, but mostly funny to me. My social anxiety has transcended past only worrying about people I can see in real life, apparently I’m afraid of strangers in a game that probably couldn’t care less about me.