There’s no way this is an autistic only trait right? You’re telling me people just go around dealing with those things?
It makes me shudder
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garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
It’s kinda concerning how people often are taking normal reactions/behaviors and labeling them as autistic or ADHD.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Everyone pisses, but if you did it 50 times a day you’d go to a doctor.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I’m not sure if it applies to autism to the same degree, but that’s actually one of the main problems with ADHD:
Most of our symptoms are things that neurotypicals struggle with too, but taken to 11 because of congenital differences in neurochemistry including but in no way limited to chronic dopamine deficiency.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 2 months ago
There is an issue in autistic individuals with textures. And it’s an issue you can’t really understand if you don’t suffer it. Yeah, I dress by texture rather than fashion. And those tags are hellish to me and many other autistic people in ways that only them understand.
It’s kinda concerning and pretty annoying when some people start with the “this is a normal reaction, not an autistic thing”.
starik@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
You try having ADHD and going 24 hours without food. All you can think about is eating. It’s very distracting. It’s an ADHD thing 🤷♀️
Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 months ago
Same with OCD
stray@pawb.social 2 months ago
Coughing can’t possibly be a symptom of any illness because I sometimes cough without being sick.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s a difference between “that’s a bit annoying” and “I literally can’t think of anything else and I must tear off the tag even if I destroy the shirt and I mean RIGHT now or I’m getting naked”
troot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
If you take a single trait, it’s almost never autistic or whatever only. But it can be a common one among autistic people.
But there are people who don’t care about tags and let them in their clothes.
ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I read your comment, thought “Am I dealing with one?” and had to reach into my shirt to check if it had one or not. It turns out it does! So… I guess so. I’m irregular in other ways, though, so I might not be a good point of comparison.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Autist here:
I either buy shirts that don’t have them, or use a seam ripper to take them off, when I get them.
Yeah, they’re so annoying that I have a whole pre-planned way of handling this, lol.
TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I confirm i have one, well two, but i can’t tell exactly. The annoying ones are usually long. Also you better not start thinking about these little things because it’s like virus.
No really don’t even start to think about it.
guy@piefed.social 2 months ago
I leave those on too, isunless they’re the variety that’s more stale than usual. Those bastards itch
Theatomictruth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The only time I think about them is if I’m dressing in the dark and need to orient a t-shirt
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I’ve never not ripped one off. Reee, I guess.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Its annoying to normies.
It causes more or less significant to extreme mental and physical anguish to many autists.
Many autists have basically heightened levels of awareness with one or many of their physical senses, as compared to non autists.
Like, I frequently notice minor visual details in the world around me, that most other people completely miss, tell me I’m lying when I say I saw them, then they go check and are angry that I was right.
Same thing with heightened sensitivity to bright light, as well as extreme repulsion from certain color palettes.
Or, same kind of thing with sounds. Myself, a lot of other autistic people get extremely irritated by low intensity, but perisistent sounds that are either very high or very low frequency … that most people don’t notice untill you tell them to stop and focus, then, they can hear them.
But for autists it is… sometimes literally so annoying it will drive you mad. It causes actual pain from how stressed it makes you.
Its why autists and noise canceling headphones are a thing.
Most ‘ASMR’ videos?
I’d rather run into brick wall at 20 mph.
ASMR is a thing, but, as a genre of content, its largely a bunch of idiots making the most annoying and aggravating sounds possible, and acting like its soothing.
tl:dr; yeah, its not an autistic only thing, but something like this is fucking kryptonite to autists.
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have sound sensitivity as well, but actually love asmr when it’s done correctly. But you’re right, the majority of it is garbage.
Thanks! I was curious because I have other traits that have been labelled as neurodivergent by my therapists but I’m not diagnosed or anything so I never know if something is “normal” or not.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think the little dangling threads really put this over the top for me.
I feel delightfully squirmy, but not in the fun way.
meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I feel delightfully squirmy, but not in the fun way.
I think “delightfully” is a direct opposite to “not in the fun way”
SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
this may actually be better than a singular one, as that is now somewhat consistent
CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 2 months ago
Depends if you can stand to wear a wool turtleneck (over another shirt that keeps the wool only touching your neck).
I can’t stand any turtleneck, personally, for exactly the same reason I can’t do tags. It’s there touching me, and it feels wrong but won’t go away, and the wrongness bothers me. Even super fluffy soft fabrics are wrong on my neck.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 months ago
She’s wearing it inside out.
dumbass@piefed.social 2 months ago
New kink unlocked.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I would literally kill someone if they tried to force me to wear that, or die trying.
laranis@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
You can find all sorts of gore on the Interwebs. This one… This one terrifies me.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you approached me with this thing I’d bite off your fingers.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 2 months ago
If you somehow manage to put that shit on me, you better kill me afterwards. Because if I take it off, you’re going to deal with an overloaded
velociraphuman that’s going to show you the meaning of overcharged anger.Holyginz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Im not autistic, but that looks awful lol
RelativePlatypus@piefed.world 2 months ago
Who hurt you
oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
So I’m a little lost. Are those supposed to be empty wrappers or containers of something?
Anything specific, or just vague plastic aluminum-y things? I’m just so confused here. I get the sensory part, but based on the reactions here is gotta be something more specific.
ickplant@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You got it - clothing tags and random itchy threads.
oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I didn’t even notice the threads.
Now I’m really uncomfy, thanks.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Not even autistic and I already fear it.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I’m amazed at the reaction here, I’m not sure the last time I even noticed one of these while wearing a shirt.
wabasso@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It’s interesting to me that people like you exist (even though I’m assuming you’re in the vast majority). It’s like how it sounds made up to me that there are these supposed “extroverts” that gain energy from talking to people.
paul@lemmy.org 2 months ago
They…WHAT?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Whoever thought of this can fuck all the way off!
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Scratchier, Daddy.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 months ago
Which way is the rear? I tell that by the tag. (Yes, I add tags to clothing that doesn’t have them, except socks)
The_Hideous_Orgalorg@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
One can usually tell by the cut of the material. For example, on tshirts, look at where the shoulder seam meets the neck, it will usually be to the back of center.
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 2 months ago
(Yes, I add tags to clothing that doesn’t have them, except socks)
You monster.
…
but you’re right. My shirts that have the tag printed on are nearly impossible to put on without at least one ‘oops it’s backwards’ event a week.
stray@pawb.social 2 months ago
My T-shirts all have the tag at the bottom of the left seam.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s that or the shirt with a syrup spot that’s always at least a little sticky no matter how many times you wash it (and somehow never in the same exact place so don’t bother trying to get used to it). Rather back-stroke my way through a mile of tangled concertina wire.
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
You monster.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is painful to look at. I would start to fix it by braiding the strings together.
pewpew@feddit.it 2 months ago
Just touching certain types of bread sends a shiver through my spine
SaraTonin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is It just be that loathes the word “autist”? Gives me real “Oriental” or “the blacks” vibes
ickplant@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In my experience living with an autistic husband and having working with many autistic people, they don’t mind the word at all and use it themselves.
SaraTonin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As an autistic person with several autistic family members, friends, and associates, I’ve never met someone who used it or liked it
Perhaps it’s a US vs UK thing? I’ve only seen US and Canadian people use it, in the same way that I’ve only seen US people use the term “blacks“ when referring to black people
It has that connotation to me. And the fact that it’s the term of choice to use as an insult in places like 4chan and other edgelord spaces doesn’t help
Seems like it’s one of those things like “autistic person be ”person with autism“ where there’s no consensus within the community
Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’ve only ever heard the term(?) used by people with whatever aspergers is being called these days. They used it to refer primarily to themselves. It’s only 3 people though.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Aspergers has basically been rolled into Autism Spectrum Disorder.
More technically, its a more specific sort of set of behaviors/mannerisms/ways of thinking and acting, but, they all fall into the new category of ASD.
ASD is… a spectrum, of things that are different from the norm, Aspergers is basically a subset within that set, though many other subsets are possible and exist, in different instensities.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
No, I describe myself as an autist all the time.
I am an autistic. I am an autist.
Its a word that describes what I am.
If you get bad vibes from it, you have some insrcurities you need to handle.
SaraTonin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Say it was Black instead. Can you not see how describing someone as “a black” could be dehumanising?
I am autistic. I am an autist.
I am schizophrenic. I am a schizoid.
I have Down’s Syndrome. I am a Down’s.
Or just disability in general.
I am blind. I am a blindist.
I am deaf. I am a deafist.
Or even just other self-describing words.
I am old. I am an oldist.
I am tall. I am a tallist.
I have zero insecurities about being autistic. I also dislike coy phrases like “on the spectrum”, which have the implication that there’s something wrong with saying that someone is autistic. Like it’s something to be ashamed of. It’s fine. I am autistic. You can say I’m autistic. That’s cool.
But that doesn’t mean that I should accept a term just because that’s what 4chan, WallStreetBets, and Gab popularised by using to put us down either by using it ironically or just by straight-up using it as an insult. You can make an argument for reclamation, perhaps, but I don’t think we’re there.
And, and perhaps this is just me, but isn’t it a horrible word? Phonetically?
As I’ve said, there seems to be no consensus in the autism community and one dividing line appears to be America vs. the UK
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I hope the clasp at the back snags at the hair on the nape of my neck as well
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
twitching just looking at this
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I can feel this and it’s making me squirm. TIHI.
Goatboy@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Its coming off or skin’s coming off.
probablymissing@lemmy.world 2 months ago
one shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind the creator’s face…
what dreams of chronic and sustained cruelty?
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can’t even put it on the right direction, sheesh.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not kink-shaming, but I think this transcends anything short of genuine torture.