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Lovely!

It's just a huge site. You can block/ignore rude people.

I've heard of people doing this when they see furries, but I assume you're not walking around in a fursuit

Sounds like you're disassociating.

I'm converting Catholic (not officially yet) and that is dumb. But I think a lot of Christians just automatically hate anything related to the LGBTQ+ specifically because it's LGBTQ+.

You know you have sensory processing issues when even listening to music in your room at a reasonable volume sends you into an overload

Yikes on bikes

I'm not formally diagnosed, but I'm fairly certain after talking to my professionals that I am autistic

Yep, I wouldn't want it any other way

Like how?

If you have ADHD you're neurodivergent. As for the rest, uhhh..... please share all of this with your mental health professionals. ADHD can come with trouble regulating emotions and intense anger can be one of those. I used to have anger issues as a kid. Not proud of some of my actions. But it sounds like you have more than that going on, too.

Bowsette by Chalkeaters

That is definitely an awkward situation. They may just need some time to get over the feelings of awkwardness and embarrassment. I know when I rejected a friend I felt incredibly awkward about it for a couple weeks. Hopefully that's all it is.

Yesterday at work a customer got onto one of my cashiers for not making eye contact, she was pretty insistent and went on for a couple minutes. Struck me as odd. I'm likely autistic and struggle with eye contact, and no one has ever commented on my lack of eye contact in all the time I've worked here.

I would, but it's probably going to remain an online-persona-only identity for me. I'm out as asexual and lesbian, I don't think I could explain the grey area of aromanticism to people without a huge hassle

Yep, aro, ADHD, avoidant personality disorder, sensory processing disorder

Certainly. I'm personally fine with calling myself queer, but the general etiquette I think is to not refer to specific others that way unless you know they're fine with it.

I don't see why it wouldn't be. I'm diagnosed ADHD, but only "suspected" autistic. Being able to get a diagnosis is a privilege, and even my ADHD diagnosis wasn't really done properly.

That's the worst. I remember doing homework in the kitchen and my (also ADHD) sister either goofing off with her schoolwork in the next room or playing co-op video games VERY loudly and being unable to concentrate because of it.

The more I actually look into autism, the more things kinda make sense. I've always been socially weird. And then add onto that having intense interests and things like hand or arm flapping, swaying back and forth for no reason, picking at things (nails, hair, objects with peeling paint or similar stuff), and like..... bro. I also have sensory stuff, but it is on the more mild sorta side. The only times it has ever been very intense has been connected to my anxiety disorders.

Diagnosed ADHD, suspect dyscalculia which is similar to dyslexia Possibly level 1 ASD? I have always been very socially awkward. But it could also be explained by my mental illnesses.

I recently found the term "pupgender" and the description was "a gender that feels like the qualities of a puppy". So I guess it's not so much "my gender IS a puppy" as it is "my gender FEELS LIKE a puppy". I don't really identify as having a xenogender, but I think the pupgender flag is super cute hehe

My tics usually involve my eyebrow or eyelid twitching rapidly for several minutes.

Mildly. Not enough to be diagnosed with a serious disorder. Have a few facial tics. I remember them showing up maybe once a month when I was a kid, rarely as an adult. Apparently this is termed "provisional tic disorder". Tics are involuntary movements that you can't really control. OCD is about compulsions that you feel like you have to do.