RATE THIS CHAIR?! | Autism Memes

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Autistic person reacts to Autism, ADHD, neurodivergent & INFJ (apparently) Memes!

💛 I posted another Actually Autistic TikToks reaction last week 💛:

💛 If you need more memes, here's the playlist 💛 :

00:00 Real autistic people yay
00:20 That funny feeling
00:50 Medieval Autism
02:07 RATE THIS CHAIR
03:39 My Worksona
04:35 Autistics Don't feel Pain
06:42 Autistic = INFJ??
07:54 INFJ Beasts
08:21 Trying to act surprised by your diagnosis
09:10 Quitting on Day one
09:46 Don't focus on yogurt
11:48 Microwaves shouldn't beep
13:09 being infantilised again
13:49 The best depiction of masking
16:02 I don't vibe with this spoon

💛 Videos I mentioned/are relevant 💛:

Could you actually have Dyspraxia (DCD)?:

13 Signs of Autistic Masking:

Autistic Burnout:

AUTISTICS, CHOOSE YOUR FORK! | Autism Memes:

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*Books I'd Recommend about Autism:

Different not Less by Chloe Hayden (read if you want to cry):

Aspergirls by Rudy Simone:

*Unmasking Autism by Devon Price:

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[imautisticnowwhat]

Do I need to add a trigger warning for those yogurt clips? 😂😂 *shudders*

And does autistic = INFJ?? If only it were that simple 😂

If you missed last week's TikTok reaction (we talk about faking autism, parents filming their children's meltdowns, and the struggle of choosing from menus):

And if you haven't chosen your fork yet...:

Thank you for being here! These meme videos are soooo much fun to make, so I hope you enjoy watching them! 💛💛💛

[sammjaisais]

Something I appreciate about my dad being (most likely) neurodivergent is that, even as a doctor, he ALWAYS asks "Did that hurt?" whenever he sees a patient. I could either scream in pain or not move because it hurts so much, and he'll still ask if it hurt. And he'll take my answer seriously.

[dorsk]

I remember getting INTP and the description was so eerily accurate, down to wearing old beaten-up sneakers. Turns out I'm not some "mental architect genius loner inventor", I'm an autistic dude on the edge of burnout spending hours in a maladaptive fantasy world where I can organize everything into clear categories and practice social interactions in the safety of my imagination.

[bobbie]

I am sure there were so many autistic people in medieval times that were treated horribly, but I saw a tweet about how sweet it must've been to be an autistic nun, having a set schedule, same food every day, and mainly focus on doing one thing all the time (whether it's cooking those meals or cleaning - but not having to cook - or making lace for the monastery to sell or whatever)

[jessec]

I absolutely would have been burned as a witch.

[princesspiranha]

My washingmachine makes a cute little melody when it's done! It makes me unreasonably happy, it sounds so friendly. I also found out (thanks to a game show!) that the melody is actually from the opera 'Die Forelle' by Schubert. :) I find the idea that my washingmachine will perform a little opera for me when it's done incredibly cute

I wish more electronics would sing to us, so much better than the aggresive loud BEEP BEEP BEEPs 😂

[kathymarshall]

The two haunted houses meme really hits! I’ve barely been diagnosed a month and the amount of times I’ve had to remind people that autism isn’t an intellectual disability (though ID can be Co-morbid, of course) but is actually a neuro-developmental disability is absolutely unreal 🙄😠

[finx]

Talking about how autistic people response to pain gets underplayed in the doctor's office reminds me of how I've been treated when I'm having an allergic reaction. I'm moderately allergic to tree nuts (I've never had to be hospitalized but it would probably get to that point if i let it.) I was on break at work once, eating a salad that shouldn't have had any nuts in it, but my mouth started getting tingly and really itchy and my chest tightened. I assumed there must've been some kind of cross contamination and I went to tell my boss and explained that I needed to leave to get medicine because I didn't have any on me. I didn't wanna make a big scene but apparently i was TOO calm because she snapped at me to hurry up because my break was almost over. It's like she didn't believe or listen to me because I wasn't being emotional enough. But I did get medicine and am okay now :)

[PhantomHouseplant]

As someone who had to sit in those chairs... HATED THEM! Sensory hell. They were cold, static shocks from the exposed bolts, your thighs would stick to them in the summer, your hair would get stuck in the bolts on the back too!

[sammjaisais]

It shocks me, as a neurodivergent person starting my life in the medical field, as an intern working up to 80 hours a week with no pay because I'm technically still studying, to hear that an actual full-time job is 40 hours a week, not 80. Like, I know that it shouldn't be legal to male someone work for 80 hours a week, but DAMN. No wonder I've been so fricking tired these past few weeks. Wtf.

[justlisten]

"I don't wanna be your washing machine" - one of the most beautiful things someone I don't even know personally has ever said to me!

[FaolanHart]

I was diagnosed when I was very young.
But honestly the INFJ thing has been so helpful to me in helping me process & find out how best to use my oddities.
I'm not special, I'm just weird. But weird is ok. I often feel alien. But sometimes you need a weird alien outlook to make sense of things & help people out.

[WelcomingFrown]

INTP here, i have taken the test multiple times throughout the last couple years to the same result, last year i started looking into autism and adhd and am convinced that there is some kind of correlation between certain personalities like INTP, INFJ AND INFP (Infp is what my sibling's personality is and self diagnoses as autistic) and disorders like autism and adhd. So many people relate heavily to these personalities and its very entertaining to watch videos of ppl doing 'INTP stuff' only to spot a whole truckload of autistic or adhd traits at the same time...that was my ted talk, thanks for reading. Hopefully i can try get a diagnosis soon of atleast something to explain my life-long differences to 'normal people'.

[blakedawson]

My weird autism spoon thing is that I really love circle spoons. Any spoon where the scoop isn't an oval but a nice perfect circle just really makes my lizard brain feel like it's chillin on a hot rock.

[kaisoep]

I swear it is the strangest thing to me that no one ever thought I could be autistic until I was an adult because I'm so fricking autistic and everything I do or say or am screams autism and it did when I was a kid too. How did it take 19years for me to get diagnosed??! At least I've got my diagnosis now :-)

[duikmans]

I'm an INTJ-T. I love how the description says "At times, Architects may wonder whether dealing with other people is even worth the frustration".

During job interviews/assessments, I was, of course, always masking and kept the mask on when taking the personality tests. It was on one of these occasions that I had the feeling that I wouldn't get the job anyway, and decided there and then that I would do the last test unmasked. It was the Myers-Briggs. But (and here it gets slightly surrealistic) the lady from the agency thought that I had manipulated the Myers-Briggs as the result didn't correlate with that of the other tests...

[loveeevee]

I tried the whole "be in the present" and "focus on your senses" thing. Absolute worst feeling I have subjected myself to. Now I can feel that it's too hot and be hyper-aware of everything my body is doing and every single minorly uncomfortable sensory input all at the same time! And once I'm aware, it is very difficult to stop. It was the only thing a therapist tried to teach me that was not just unhelpful but also actively harmful!

[jimwilliams]

Oh that first one! I got it immediately. It’s why I say that identifying my triggers is a bit like playing whack a mole. So much to choose from when you are heritably hypervigilant.

When I first heard about PDA, the vlogger was talking about being unable to not say no, and I had this panic attack: I was overwhelmed with the sense that saying “no” was incredibly dangerous. I spent the day trying to track down the triggering memory, and finally found it: a conversation in a hallway with my primary school principal, in which he told me he didn’t like it when people didn’t do what he told them to, and then darkly intimated that if I continued to do so, he would hurt me badly, Mafia style — put me in the hospital. It took about two days for me to realize that, while he did say the first part, the second part was not real, it was how my persistent fear response heard it, and I had felt I was in mortal danger since I would not be able to do what he told me. So that’s how I stored the memory. The joys of an overly helpful amygdala.

[digiscream]

OK, back for a third comment...

*Mindfulness* : Relax into your life by being present in the moment, by experiencing everything around you with all of your senses.
*Autistic* : No, that's the problem. Also, I can feel my toenails too much now. Is that normal?

[mendicantcrow]

Omg! I had a former friend who loved Meyrs Briggs. She found out I was on the line between INFP and INFJ, and became obsessed with trying to research my personality type to fix our friendship. When what I really needed was just some space for my (likely) autistic brain to recover from her high-intensity super-extroverted visits. A therapist helped me communicate what I needed, and unfortunately that friendship did end. Interesting though that this friend was kinda but not quite on to something. I remember just wishing she'd talk to me or listen to me about what I need instead of trying to research who she felt I was.