New kink unlocked.

If you somehow manage to put that shit on me, you better kill me afterwards. Because if I take it off, you're going to deal with an overloaded velocirap human that's going to show you the meaning of overcharged anger.

this may actually be better than a singular one, as that is now somewhat consistent

Who hurt you

There's no way this is an autistic only trait right? You're telling me people just go around dealing with those things?

It's that or the shirt with a syrup spot that's always at least a little sticky no matter how many times you wash it (and somehow never in the same exact place so don't bother trying to get used to it). Rather back-stroke my way through a mile of tangled concertina wire.

Not kink-shaming, but I think this transcends anything short of genuine torture.

Which way is the rear? I tell that by the tag. (Yes, I add tags to clothing that doesn't have them, except socks)

It's kinda concerning how people often are taking normal reactions/behaviors and labeling them as autistic or ADHD.

I read your comment, thought "Am I dealing with one?" and had to reach into my shirt to check if it had one or not. It turns out it does! So... I guess so. I'm irregular in other ways, though, so I might not be a good point of comparison.

The only time I think about them is if I’m dressing in the dark and need to orient a t-shirt

There is an issue in autistic individuals with textures. And it's an issue you can't really understand if you don't suffer it. Yeah, I dress by texture rather than fashion. And those tags are hellish to me and many other autistic people in ways that only them understand.

It's kinda concerning and pretty annoying when some people start with the "this is a normal reaction, not an autistic thing".

I've never not ripped one off.

Everyone pisses, but if you did it 50 times a day you’d go to a doctor.

Say it louder for the people in the back.

One can usually tell by the cut of the material. For example, on tshirts, look at where the shoulder seam meets the neck, it will usually be to the back of center.

Everyone pisses, but if you did it 50 times a day you’d go to a doctor.

She's wearing it inside out.

ironically I often forget to eat and get trapped in binge/fast cycles unless I painstakingly log every single thing I eat.

I'm not sure if it applies to autism to the same degree, but that's actually one of the main problems with ADHD:

Most of our symptoms are things that neurotypicals struggle with too, but taken to 11 because of congenital differences in neurochemistry including but in no way limited to chronic dopamine deficiency.

Same with OCD

one shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind the creator's face...

what dreams of chronic and sustained cruelty?

twitching just looking at this

Is It just be that loathes the word “autist”? Gives me real “Oriental” or “the blacks” vibes

If you take a single trait, it's almost never autistic or whatever only. But it can be a common one among autistic people.

But there are people who don't care about tags and let them in their clothes.

I've only ever heard the term(?) used by people with whatever aspergers is being called these days. They used it to refer primarily to themselves. It's only 3 people though.

I think the little dangling threads really put this over the top for me.

I feel delightfully squirmy, but not in the fun way.

There's a difference between "that's a bit annoying" and "I literally can't think of anything else and I must tear off the tag even if I destroy the shirt and I mean RIGHT now or I'm getting naked"

Scratchier, Daddy.

I feel delightfully squirmy, but not in the fun way.

I think "delightfully" is a direct opposite to "not in the fun way"

Depends if you can stand to wear a wool turtleneck (over another shirt that keeps the wool only touching your neck).

I can’t stand any turtleneck, personally, for exactly the same reason I can’t do tags. It’s there touching me, and it feels wrong but won’t go away, and the wrongness bothers me. Even super fluffy soft fabrics are wrong on my neck.

Much obliged.

You try having ADHD and going 24 hours without food.

That is literally so easy, I regularly do it by accident because I hyperfocus on some nonsense.

I leave those on too, isunless they're the variety that's more stale than usual. Those bastards itch

In my experience living with an autistic husband and having working with many autistic people, they don’t mind the word at all and use it themselves.

Took me fourteen hours to fix a problem yesterday. I bet it would have taken 4 if I had eaten something during the troubleshooting

Yes but is that worth the utter and complete agony of stopping what you're doing and then starting again 10 minutes later? /s

You can find all sorts of gore on the Interwebs. This one... This one terrifies me.

Im not autistic, but that looks awful lol

(Yes, I add tags to clothing that doesn’t have them, except socks)

You monster.

...

but you're right. My shirts that have the tag printed on are nearly impossible to put on without at least one 'oops it's backwards' event a week.

As an autistic person with several autistic family members, friends, and associates, I’ve never met someone who used it or liked it

Perhaps it’s a US vs UK thing? I’ve only seen US and Canadian people use it, in the same way that I’ve only seen US people use the term “blacks“ when referring to black people

It has that connotation to me. And the fact that it’s the term of choice to use as an insult in places like 4chan and other edgelord spaces doesn’t help

Seems like it’s one of those things like “autistic person be ”person with autism“ where there’s no consensus within the community

Infuriating since annoyances are equated with real suffering. I always try to explain that yes, there are things which NT can experience but they have a scale from 0 to 100 and ND scale can be wildly off like > 4000% which can cause a whole range of psychological as well as physical issues.

Just touching certain types of bread sends a shiver through my spine

Its coming off or skin's coming off.

Can't even put it on the right direction, sheesh.

I’d be screaming the safe word just by bringing this thing into the room.

Whoever thought of this can fuck all the way off!

I am in the “i dont have autism, i am autism” camp because i consider stereotypical autistic behavior to be “autisms”.

When neurotypicals start saying “they or everyone also have a little autism” what i understand is they have 1 or 2 autisms but besides those scenarios they are completely within classic norms. The difference then with someone like me is there is no situation in my life where i am not actively experiencing one or more autisms. I have never known anything else and i therefore developed my identity with autism as a core part of who i am.

This said, i would so much prefer that everyone used the term neurodivergent instead and left the term autism for professional medical diagnosis only. Its so much more inclusive, and vague enough people don’t stereotype it in assuming rainman/savantism.