NeurobeautifulAutistics never “overreact.” If you see us react strongly to something, it usually means that we do feel that strongly about it.
A child who sounds like they’re plummeting to the depths of despair? They may literally feel that way.
A teenager who won’t budge when ordered to do something? They may literally be paralyzed …
It can be hard to recognize something as a “special interest” – a passion so strong that it counts as an autistic symptom – if the interest itself doesn’t have a precise label, or if you’ve never learned the label.
Two of my special interests are like that: Phenomenology and storybookishness.
I was surprised when …
Someone who knows me very well says that he imagines the inside of my brain like the interior of a castle.
Stained glass windows stretch all the way up the walls of its grandest room, spilling colorful light onto rows of desks where scribes sit typing. What they write gets sent up pneumatic tubes, to …
I empathize very strongly whenever I hear the sound of a crying child, especially a wailing baby. It seems to me like a very reasonable reaction to the frequent frustrations of daily life, and it feels like they’re speaking on my behalf with sounds that aren’t socially acceptable for me to make.
I believe that …