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So Coor Down, in cooperation with several other disability organisations, launched a new ad campaign for World Down Syndrome Day 2025.

youtube.com/watch?v=xRIQ80rJKA

I just want to take a moment to say that it's fucking brilliant. The ad starts with a person with Down syndrome, then is followed by a wheelchair user, a little person, a Deaf person, a blind person, and a prosthesis user, and at the end of the ad, the line-up includes what appears to be a Black autistic person (they're wearing headphones, presumably for sensory reasons) and someone wearing glasses.

Audhd, Water, Bathing, Life

Sometimes I forget that most people don't have serious anxiety about the sensory overload of having a shower. I spent years trying to find exactly the right smells and products to make things less overwhelming, and less allergic and then would not change them for years, and then had a meltdown when I couldn't get them anymore. Same with laundry products. I think that's been a thing I've done for years. Find the thing that makes me look and feel the most "normal" when perceived by others and then never change it. I think that was even the case with my gender for years.

Do I have issues with this? No because I have A,B&C. - but if I didn't I'd be a ball of human in the closet in tears.

Good lord I hate being wet and the feeling of water evaporating on my skin, but simultaneously, I love to swim, I just hate getting out. I would stay in until I was a hypothermic grape just to not have to get out and feel my wet hair and skin.

These days i couple my shower anxiety with mecfs exhaustion and it feels like a serious internal battle most of the time, but I managed to have one today. It took three hours to get the volition, but I'm clean and uncomfortable. I would blow dry my hair if I could take the sound.

#audhd #autism #sensoryOverload @actuallyautistic

What are your optimized routines?

lemmy.world/post/27094322

lemmy.worldWhat are your optimized routines? - Lemmy.WorldI’ve got my shower routine down to a science and I do it exactly the same way every time, to minimize the time I spend there (I love being in the shower once I’m there, but I also feel guilty about water waste). This is what I do: -Get the water to temperature against the wall and then get under the stream fully, getting my hair as wet as possible -Turn the shower off and shampoo my hair. I wash my outer ears, neck, and face with the shampoo suds -Turn the water back on, rinse everything fully, get my shower mitt wet, then turn the water off again, and squeeze as much water as possible out of my hair -Adjust the shower head down, so it doesn’t hit above my neck, then soap up my shower mitt and wash my arms, armpits, chest, stomach, back, and legs -Turn the water back on to rinse my body off and use the mitt under the water to wash my feet, and rinse the mitt out before turning the water off again -Squeeze the mitt out and hang it up, then soap up my hands and wash my bellybutton and crotch, turn the water on again to rinse, and soap up to wash my ass with the water running -Turn the water off and apply baby oil to my arms, neck, chest, back, and legs, then turn the water on again to wash my hands, before shutting it off for good -Squeeze my hair out once more, and then get my towel to dry my hair first (on the tag side) -Get out of the shower, and dry my body off with the other side of the towel, feet and groin last -Brush my hair out with my head hanging down above the shower floor and then towel dry it again over the shower -Hang the towel up and use a qtip or two if needed -Clean the shower floor and drain of hair. Do you folks have any very specific routines that you’ve developed?
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I don't know about you guys but when I was a kid I was just genuinely completely disinterested in my peers, I was very much living up to the 'self-absorbed' etymology of the word autism, and still do in some ways though I've managed to train myself to be a bit more caring and interested in other people now. I don't wanna pretend I was never selfish and annoying I just think I shouldn't be pathologized and persecuted for it lol

I feel like there's a strong urge among neurodiversity advocates to reinterpret every autistic symptom to be really prosocial in order to make us more palatable. Like "Infodumping is about bonding", maybe sometimes it is. Sometimes it also happens because we're simply more fixated on some topic than on other people in that moment. Sometimes we're just airing out thoughts and honestly just don't think so much of the recipient, and don't think so much of the social content of what we say.
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