#MyAutisticTruth: I’m just discovering I’m autistic at 45 & wondering where to get my t-shirt that says: No, I’m not angry at you, lazy, needy, or difficult. I’m just autistic and desperately trying to hide the fact that I’ve been white knuckling this whole being human thing. 🤔

@CrowsFault I serve a community of addicts as part of an organization with Hope in the name… this could literally be our battle cry… could I quote you, please? If so, how should I attribute?

@hannaweeen I’ve been disconnected from myself for most of my life. As I’ve started to reconnect I started noticing how soothing routines and repetitive behaviors are and how agitated I feel by interruptions to them. Then @d_l_mayfield shared a masking test & I was floored by my high score.

@NeuroPoetica I don’t mind if my food touches… and I sometimes even make it happen on purpose.

RT @JonTyson: My talk today, in one image. Obviously done in the context of church community.

@ashleyann_atx Is this what’s been happening to me?!? I’m having all these memories surface and grieving all these things from my life that I had no idea I was still sad about… and not just a little sad but SO SAD 🥺😭

RT @NkasiStoll: Getting a #AuDHD diagnosis as a Black woman is so lonely ☹️ Aside from the amazing @adhdbabes most of the support or resou…

@BrianHohmeier

@spacedoutsmiles @ItsEmilyKaty I’d love to hear more about this, Jamie. Could you please give a specific example of what a typical day might look like?

@ItsEmilyKaty Puzzles are particularly dangerous as I will obsess about them until they are done. If I force myself to sleep I’ll dream about working on the puzzle and feel like I got no rest. Last Christmas my sister and I completed 5 1K piece puzzles in 4 days 🤪 my brain can’t stop 😳

@autchatmod #autchat Q1 Long before I started to suspect that I’m autistic I used to say that I seemed unusually susceptible to laws of inertia. I don’t know if it’s the autism/ADHD combo but I only seem to have high gear and park and no inbetween settings.

@WillPowerGB HA! Now I just need to borrow a dog 🤔

@Seasonal_Bitch Closest thing I’ve found is this professor at Princeton interviewed on this podcast. I wrote to her but haven’t heard back. Maybe someone on Twitter will know more.

@bethfelkerjones Reading right now 🤯💔😭🥰

@Seasonal_Bitch Ignatian Spirituality as a way to experience formational healing particularly in individuals who’re impacted by trauma, addiction, and incarceration. My whole body vibrates with joy (almost as if my blood is carbonated) whenever I think about dedicating my life to this work.

I’ve already used up 3 of 5 suggestions I’m aloud to make this month for book purchases for the @columbuslibrary. @d_l_mayfield @shannanwrites & @mcfwarren all have new books and the world would be a better place if more people read them 📚 ask your libraries buy copies too!

RT @sensorystories_: So, if someone tells you they're autistic and you're shocked because they don't look or sound any different from every…

@JenniferAGLayte @jmariemorgan @PilgrimageOSF I think we can also fail to listen to what our bodies are telling us when we dismiss our pain or sickness as spiritual warfare without getting curious about why we might be experiencing it. Maybe we are pushing ourselves beyond our capacity and need to slow down?