[-] VanHalbgott@lemmy.autism.place 1 points 17 hours ago

I have, and one staff basically said I couldn’t do anything about it and that I had no choice.

I suspect it was that they wanted to occupy me because they think movies are therapy.

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Also, am I the only autistic here who hates watching movies and television?

They always abuse my senses, yet everyone loves them and doesn’t care how I feel about it and they seem not to care about my autism either because they play painful movies all the time and without acknowledging my needs.

I suspect they think watching movies all day every day is supposed to be therapy for me but I try to watch movies on my own and they all abuse my senses and then they play those exact same movies I watch because therapy.

Rarely do I watch movies anymore because of my senses being assaulted and my needs as an autistic person are constantly neglected by either people who like entertainment or people who think entertainment is also therapy.

At the very least, my dad is a moviegoer and he understands better than any human authority figure I know that I cannot handle movies no matter what I or someone put on.

And then people attack my autism as well.

Or they coax me into recognizing my actions against my will when my autism makes me different than anyone anywhere in the world.

Because it’s not about living with a neurological difference, it’s about being forced to behave normally when there’s no such thing as normal for people everywhere I go.

Sorry, I went on a tangent, but you understand.

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My current browser is DuckDuckGo because I like to use it to protect my privacy on the Web.

I heard word about Vivaldi being a popular browser for Fediverse users but I never tried it.

I’m not sure which one is necessarily better.

I don’t blame you either.

I think most of the discrimination I get comes from my teachers from elementary school who would stigmatize their special needs students and do things like scream at them or make them watch them throw away their favorite foods like cake because they claim they don’t cooperate with them even though they’re all different people in same classroom.

And while my life has been problematic already, other people still get under my skin.

I once ruminated about missing earbuds in a treatment facility unit and a staff there set me off so badly another one snapped at me for it.

Years later, I would try an autism program that despite touting autistic adults working jobs while living in apartments, they still treat me no different than anyone else because they have no idea why I behave the way I do there.

I’ve done some outlandish things in my life and people still have no idea how my autism works even though I’ve been a special needs person neglected by the public all the whole time.

And my parents still think I can just improve and they took me back home with them because I eventually did the right thing and called a crisis center because the program I was in put my life in danger and people still scolded me for it because I mishandled it.

I have what everyone calls ‘high-functioning autism’ but my life is perpetually broken.

And because people claim to be helpful all the time, I’m told to accept that or no one will.

There are so many people I reject because of it and seemingly no one believes I’m different because everyone wants me to change so I can be good in their image and be a successful person in general like the others.

It just seems like everyone has a lack of empathy or knowledge of how autism works instead of philosophy, discipline, and generally no respect for how so many of us work.

And that’s exactly how I sought help twice in the first place and I’m still not happy about all the people in my life whatever I or they do.

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I’ve been stigmatized by many people throughout my life because I involuntarily do things they often criticize me for because they think I’m doing it all on purpose but I’m not.

People stigmatize me because they aren’t very accepting of me or they blame me for my actions claiming I should be responsible for them or they treat me like a regular person who they think tolerates what they call discipline even though they don’t understand.

What do I think? At the end of the day, it’s all about what you believe in: nobody’s wrong about anything, everyone could’ve handled it better even if they’re doing the best they can, and personally I think other people don’t define who you are whether they know you or not because it’s hard to tell anymore what is right or wrong…at least that’s what I’m told.

Even arguing with my parents produces stigmatic responses because I did something unusual in front of them: everyone I run into does that, and I didn’t even do it on purpose.

But they do tell me some good advice though, and while they’re not perfect they’re not bad.

I bring this up because I argued with my father at home before we calmed down and apologized to each other and made up for it.

No other person has that deep a relationship besides some friends and families I know from another place, and while religion is unpopular on Lemmy I follow Christianity which gives my life a purpose and a better meaning than just personal success like everyone else.

No one’s perfect, but everyone’s fine that way.

Who else faces autism stigma daily like me?

The weirds sounds, loud music, and dark atmosphere. Good luck watching it at night.

I really like the way you described Mastodon compared to all the other platforms.

Keep up the good work.

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Matrix means less memes, trolls, and internet stuff and more civil discussions with humans.

You’d like Fediverse apps instead of all the more mainstream apps the world is using.

I left Facebook and Reddit because other people in my life are the real monsters.

Mastodon and Lemmy are nicer communities depending on what instance you go to.

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I'll go first...

My favorite Fediverse platforms as of 2024

  1. Mastodon - my main social feed platform that first introduced me to the Fediverse in general.

  2. Lemmy - my second main social feed platform that originally substituted Reddit from years ago.

  3. Matrix protocol - communication platform I use to connect with users on the Lemmy instance I'm on

  4. Peertube - would love to get an account going and use it more often but still don't know how but there's FediVideo.

  5. Bookwyrm - Goodreads alternative that I signed up for that could use more work for a genuine reading tracker.

BONUS: my least favorite Fediverse platform lately

WordPress - because I used to run art blogs on there before I heard word about drama about the CEO of the corporation so I basically had to put out my last existing art blog...RIP.

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Yo tener practicar este idioma en mi computadora y habla muy bien.

¿Tener otros con mi practicar el idioma?

Porque yo muy encantado si aprender es.

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For those who don’t know, click here: https://dreamcastlive.net/dreampi-tutorial/

This is how I connected for PSO.

I’ve mostly hunted on Ragol years ago when lately I decided to start over to avoid playing the Ultimate difficulty at level 74 to 75.

Click here to see any games online now: https://dreamcastlive.net/games/

I also appeared on the DreamcasticChannel a couple of times myself years ago on YouTube:

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[-] VanHalbgott@lemmy.autism.place 6 points 1 month ago

Probably spoilers, my bad.

[-] VanHalbgott@lemmy.autism.place 8 points 1 month ago

Thanks. Yeah, I’m a physical collector.

[-] VanHalbgott@lemmy.autism.place 13 points 1 month ago

Thanks! I like my Dreamcast a lot.

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