as small as a world and as large as alone

12:17pm July 26, 2014

andromedalogic:

grackalacking replied to your post: obstinatecondolement replied to your…

holy shit reallyy???? this changes so much thank you

yes, really. virtually every late-diagnosed autistic person i know has copied other autistic people to relearn natural mannerisms; so have lots of people who were diagnosed in childhood but trained out of their natural mannerisms.

i am an Extreme Faker because i don’t even remember ever flapping or rocking as a child, but i do both now. when i was first re-learning how to move my body, those were two motions i knew autistic people do, so i did them. and now i do them a lot.

the only explanation i can think of is that i picked up how i was Supposed to act very easily and quickly, without being told.

but if something makes your life easier, and suddenly you aren’t using energy to suppress it, then doing that thing makes sense.

IDEK. we get neurotypicality so ingrained in us and forced on us that i think copying each other is a valuable, necessary tool.

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