Autistics and What to Keep or Cure

Good stuff to protect and keep

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Stimming

Extensive Reciprocity 

Sensory Overflows 

Bluntness 

Internal Life 

Literality 

Focus and Intensity 

Pattern-spotting 

Enhanced Memory 

Crunchy Humour 

Independent Views

Persistence 

Natural Love 

All-in Acceptance 

Thirst for Justice

..... all the things that actually flow from being Autistic for many of us. 

Stuff to MAYBE modulate and alter

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Dyspraxia 

Speech Impediments 

Movement limitations

Muscle Weaknesses 

Narrow Dietary Palette 

..... all the things that may come WITH being Autistic that can get in the way of some life avenues, perhaps.

Bad stuff to limit or change

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Anxiety 

Overthinking

OCD 

Trichotillomania 

Choking 

Syncope

Poverty 

Self-doubt

Hopelessness 

Loneliness 

Singleness

Masking

Head-slamming

Ableism 

Negative Self-talk

Joblessness

Suicidal Ideation

Incontinency 

..... all the things that come from the stressors, anxieties, demands, impacts, and mis-nurturing society places on so many Autistics.

My Rule of Thumb 

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If I was born with it, or born to be like that, it is like my ships hull, and I will protect it at all costs.

If it was added later on, an accretion, it's like a barnacle slowing me down... it can stay or go - but as I please, as it is not part of me.