✨ Autistic Adults Needed – Survey on Late Diagnosis + Mental Health ✨

Hi guys! I’m an autistic adult and I’m currently working on a deeply personal research project about the emotional and psychological impact of late autism diagnosis (whether official or self-diagnosed) — especially how it affects self-identity, mental health, and healing.

If you were diagnosed with autism at age 18 or later, I’d love to include your voice in this project. The survey is anonymous and includes optional open-ended questions to share your story (which many have said felt cathartic or validating to answer).

This is part of a data analytics class project exploring real patterns in mental health outcomes for late diagnosed autistic adults. I’m hoping to bring visibility to the cost of not knowing — and the healing that can begin after we do.

https://forms.gle/o5LwxFve2FFez73W9

Please reblog to help this reach more people! Every voice matters so much and deserves to be heard! Thank you!

redstonedust:

hey babe im gonna be home late tonight do you mind picking up dinner. yeah sorry the king has us working over time, some fuckin egghead sat on the wall and had a GREAT fall. we’ve got all the men working on this but idk if we’re gonna be able to put him back together again. yeah we’ve tried the horses. ok bye love you.

redstonedust:

whenever i order food i get nervous that the doorbell will annoy my roommates so i turn it off temporarily and tell the delivery person to just knock. but then i get nervous i might not hear the knocking so i go sit by the front door a few minutes early to make sure i hear it. but then i get nervous that if i open the door too quickly the delivery driver will think it’s weird that i was waiting there so i wait an additional 10-15 seconds before opening it and feign that i just came down the stairs. i am built normal and socially average.

homunculus-argument:

The inconvenient thing about life is that half of it is all about listening to your body and letting yourself rest, and the other half is accepting that life will be uncomfortable and inconvenient sometimes and you’ve just go to make yourself push through your brain going Do Not Want and get the discomfort out of the way, and you never know which one it is.

freedom-and-books:

night-dark-woods:

thislovelymaelstrom:

apicturewithasmile:

“I’m much happier at 53 than I was at 23.” (x)

i love you guillermo del totoro

[ID: Four gifs of Guillermo del Toro in an interview. He says, “I think the sublime confusion is from 19 to 29. You think you are late for everything, you’re a has-been, nothing is happening, there’s no opportunity for you, the world is closed, everything is a disaster, you wanna die. And then you’re 30.” /end ID]

He once gave a class in Guadalajara and said “Ustedes los jóvenes están en la edad exacta de la desesperación. Yo nunca me sentí más acabado y viejo que a los veintitantos. Decía ‘ya me pasó la vida y no hice nada’. Pero estoy aquí para decirles que no: tienen un chingo de tiempo”

Which translates to “You young people are in the exact age of desperation. I never felt more done and old than in my twenties. I’d say ‘life has passed me by and i did nothing’. But i’m here to tell you that’s not true: you have a lot of fucking time”

Reblogged from ruinedchildhood

butch-eevee2:

As an autistic person, you can literally tell someone “I mean this genuinely and literally and this is all genuinely good faith. I mean this all completely neutrally, I’m not implying anything else and this is all extremely literal and good faith” and someone will still misconstrue you in ways you never thought was possible.