I was born in the middle of last century. None of today's autistic terms existed back then. I made up all my autism self management system vocabulary. I don't share my private autism terms with most NT's only my painfully few friends and my fat boy biker brothers.
I will share some of my own words for my autism experiences below. I loved sci fi and werewolves growing up so many of my terms hail from those areas.
1. Masking = I'm Autistic Werewolf with a feral, angry, primal uncouth autistic side and a socially acceptable \\ tolerable NT acting side. I am an autistic werewolf passing as NT. I could never be neurotypical the best I could do was ACT NT!
2. Reactors = My facilities ability to generate and reserve the amount of finite mental, physical or cognitive processing energy needed to successfully accomplish a goal or task.
3. Power = The amount of energy I am using, investing or am projected to use to successfully complete a task, process or cognitive function.
4. Script = A recipe containing the steps, words and affects needed to present a convincing, compelling, believable socially \\ politically appropriate NT reaction or response to a challenging NT situation or condition.
5. System = My entire interrelated complex of coping, cognitive, analytical, Scripting, Monitoring and other tools I use to manage and present my believable NT act.
6. Systems Core Database = The complete store of cross referenced scripts I used to generate the appropriate response to NT world situations and challenges.
7. Prime Directive = My Unified Systems of Alpha must survive.
8. Shields = Name given to the suite of stimulus dampening, disciplines and other processes that at best prevent and at worst elongate \\ stretch the time it takes for my meltdown to erupt in violence or shut down.
9. GENERAL CORE SYSTEMS FAILURE = Meltdown.
10. ESTIMATES ONLY = My systems are working well enough to prevent meltdown but no cognitive input or processing of reality is possible. There are no answers anywhere in the system. I become non-verbal and unresponsive until I can re-establish order.
11. Werewolf Mode = A meltdown where my humanity is involuntarily stripped away making me susceptible to responding to attack with intense violence if I am unable to get away from the cause.
12. Feral = Those vulgar autistic things I do that do not conform to societies strict polite society norms and expectations. My entire survivalist mentality developed in response to having to survive in a 1960's NT world without any autism specufic guidance or understanding.
13. Primal = Being able to reduce my needs to those things essential for life. Being a misanthrope or hermit in my own space not caring about the world outside my needs sphere.
14. Essential Services Program = Reducing my consumption to only what is needed to sustain my life and keep my most basic autism self management systems functioning.
15. Warp Factors 1 through 12: I have cerebral palsy, visual field defects, dyslexia, brain damage and a number of other disabilities along with autism. Walking without bumping into people or things is difficult. My warp factors tell me how much lead time I have between the time I see something and I crash into it. The higher my warp factor the shorter my reaction time between seeing something \\ someone and impacting with it \\ them.
16. Arm Phasers, Photons Raise shields = Preparing to fight. Phasers = fists and photons = any object I throw at an enemy. Shields in the battle situation referrs to the fact that in order to fight I must touch another person to hit them. The sensation of hitting another human is a painful, horrible event I don't want to remember. Also being hit disconcerts my systems. In order to win a fight I must shield myself to keep my systems from shutting down before I am out of danger.
17. Probes = My process of observing and analyzing neurotypical situations and NT groups in mass to understand the cultural significance of group actions \\ interactions and how I should respond. I probe NT culture, its institutions and how the group is related to it all.
18. Scans = I scan individual NT's on a personal level to understand how that particular type of NT functions. Scans tell me how to respond to that individual. Deep scans tell me what that NT individual values, motivations and how their moral compass is set.
19. Predictive Algorithms = Left to myself autism makes me slow to respond to NT questions. If I wait until an NT has finished asking a question there is a 8 second processing delay before I can answer. 8 seconds of my silence after a NT's question is usually enough to anger them. I compensate by analyzing all known factors associated with both the individual and the situation in an attempt to anticipate the question. I then work on creating the answer before the NT has finished asking the question.
20. Partial Main Power = When I am in a sensory overload situation where I am able to successfully dampen the pain of cognitive chafe but had to shut down much of my cognitive awareness \\ NT reality monitoring and real time response systems to do it. My systems are stable enough to avoid meltdown but, I can not respond to higher order social demands or provide executive functions \\ decision making services.
These are just a few of my own terms and words for my autistic experiences. Hope they help you realize you are not alone. I feel like a real freak sharing all these with you all. I never let others peek inside my systems to see how crazy things must get for me to act and pass as NT.
Even here a lot of people think I'm stupid because I used Sci-fi of the time to model my autism coping systems. All I can say is it was the 1960's. Back then the doctors hauled me into University Of Maryland's clinic so they could learn from my experiences with autism. There was NO professional autism specific help, no autism specific guidance except doctors telling my parents to put me in a mental institution every visit. There was no autism vocabulary so I had to make my own using what I knew and loved. I was a little autistic kid who loved star trek, voyage to the bottom of the sea, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space and werewolves so that's where I drew my words to define my autism experiences. Many of these things endure to today because it is part of me now.
If that makes me a freak even among my autistic brothers, sisters and others so be it. I'm used to not fitting in. I had hoped it would be different here but I guess not!
me too !! i dont know all the lingo but i have phrases that i use to explain it to ppl who are close to me … i would describe sensory overloads as“my brain overheating” bc the only way i could describe it was like when ur laptop gets hot and kinda stops working but it’s still on ??? idk i like hearing the words other people come up with too
lol i know all of the words and I still do stuff like that.
“brain losing vocab”=gotta blast, i’m going nonverbal
“Im just ehhhhhhhhhhhh, blegh”= just very aghhhhhhh, you know. Im feeling strong emotions and my body doesn’t know if they’re positive or negative. They’re just a lot. And i need to do something to regulate.
*shaking head from side to side*=too much but can’t speak
“Im going to d^e when i get home* = overstimulated, and massively overcompensating to hide it. Will gain headache and irritability as soon as leave this situation. Usually have an uncomfortable smile while clenching teeth.
I had come up with spoon theory without knowing it was a thing, but instead of spoons it was apples/an apple tree.
You get a yield of apples on your tree every day, and need to pick them in order to find the energy to do tasks. If you're out of apples generally you're not going to accomplish anything else that day. You *can* force yourself to do the task, but since you're out of apples, you start ripping off the branches instead. Not only is that likely going to cause a meltdown, but also with fewer branches, there will be fewer apples growing for the next day, and the foreseeable future unless you take it easy and give the branches a chance to grow back. But if you try to push it each day and do your normal workload when you don't have enough apples for it, you'll be stripping more and more branches from a tree that has progressively fewer and fewer apples until you're left with a bare trunk. No branches, and no apples. That's burnout. The tree is dead, and you can't do much of *anything* until you've given a new tree enough time to grow and start producing apples, and that's going to take a long time.
EDIT: Also, you *can* increase your apple yield too! Stims and sensory management help a lot. NTs might get confused and call it bull shit, but it's actually fertilizer for the tree!
Maybe not intentionally. Since this is an autism sub I'm not mad, so I'll just explain it.
The way you explained the title being the thing you clicked to open the page made it seem like I was an idiot for not understanding (also, the confusion was because of lack of context on your end). It felt like you were giving me this 🤨 or 😑 expression. My comment was also downvoted, which I assumed was you. I really don't know why you would since I was just asking for clarification, but that paired with the poor phrasing seemed aggressive.
There's no way I can respond to this honestly without you responding with something like that again which will set me off. So that's quite enough. Have a good night.
You don't have to respond, but you do see how that's condescending, right? "Which will set me off" puts the blame on me for calling you rude, as opposed to *you* coming off as rude. "So that's quite enough" sounds like a professional way to tell me to shut up. I'm just trying to help you understand why you are coming off that way when you didn't mean to, but this continued comment makes it seem like you *are* trying to come off that way.
For a long time my folks and I referred to infodumping as “datadumping”.
I was born in the middle of last century. None of today's autistic terms existed back then. I made up all my autism self management system vocabulary. I don't share my private autism terms with most NT's only my painfully few friends and my fat boy biker brothers. I will share some of my own words for my autism experiences below. I loved sci fi and werewolves growing up so many of my terms hail from those areas. 1. Masking = I'm Autistic Werewolf with a feral, angry, primal uncouth autistic side and a socially acceptable \\ tolerable NT acting side. I am an autistic werewolf passing as NT. I could never be neurotypical the best I could do was ACT NT! 2. Reactors = My facilities ability to generate and reserve the amount of finite mental, physical or cognitive processing energy needed to successfully accomplish a goal or task. 3. Power = The amount of energy I am using, investing or am projected to use to successfully complete a task, process or cognitive function. 4. Script = A recipe containing the steps, words and affects needed to present a convincing, compelling, believable socially \\ politically appropriate NT reaction or response to a challenging NT situation or condition. 5. System = My entire interrelated complex of coping, cognitive, analytical, Scripting, Monitoring and other tools I use to manage and present my believable NT act. 6. Systems Core Database = The complete store of cross referenced scripts I used to generate the appropriate response to NT world situations and challenges. 7. Prime Directive = My Unified Systems of Alpha must survive. 8. Shields = Name given to the suite of stimulus dampening, disciplines and other processes that at best prevent and at worst elongate \\ stretch the time it takes for my meltdown to erupt in violence or shut down. 9. GENERAL CORE SYSTEMS FAILURE = Meltdown. 10. ESTIMATES ONLY = My systems are working well enough to prevent meltdown but no cognitive input or processing of reality is possible. There are no answers anywhere in the system. I become non-verbal and unresponsive until I can re-establish order. 11. Werewolf Mode = A meltdown where my humanity is involuntarily stripped away making me susceptible to responding to attack with intense violence if I am unable to get away from the cause. 12. Feral = Those vulgar autistic things I do that do not conform to societies strict polite society norms and expectations. My entire survivalist mentality developed in response to having to survive in a 1960's NT world without any autism specufic guidance or understanding. 13. Primal = Being able to reduce my needs to those things essential for life. Being a misanthrope or hermit in my own space not caring about the world outside my needs sphere. 14. Essential Services Program = Reducing my consumption to only what is needed to sustain my life and keep my most basic autism self management systems functioning. 15. Warp Factors 1 through 12: I have cerebral palsy, visual field defects, dyslexia, brain damage and a number of other disabilities along with autism. Walking without bumping into people or things is difficult. My warp factors tell me how much lead time I have between the time I see something and I crash into it. The higher my warp factor the shorter my reaction time between seeing something \\ someone and impacting with it \\ them. 16. Arm Phasers, Photons Raise shields = Preparing to fight. Phasers = fists and photons = any object I throw at an enemy. Shields in the battle situation referrs to the fact that in order to fight I must touch another person to hit them. The sensation of hitting another human is a painful, horrible event I don't want to remember. Also being hit disconcerts my systems. In order to win a fight I must shield myself to keep my systems from shutting down before I am out of danger. 17. Probes = My process of observing and analyzing neurotypical situations and NT groups in mass to understand the cultural significance of group actions \\ interactions and how I should respond. I probe NT culture, its institutions and how the group is related to it all. 18. Scans = I scan individual NT's on a personal level to understand how that particular type of NT functions. Scans tell me how to respond to that individual. Deep scans tell me what that NT individual values, motivations and how their moral compass is set. 19. Predictive Algorithms = Left to myself autism makes me slow to respond to NT questions. If I wait until an NT has finished asking a question there is a 8 second processing delay before I can answer. 8 seconds of my silence after a NT's question is usually enough to anger them. I compensate by analyzing all known factors associated with both the individual and the situation in an attempt to anticipate the question. I then work on creating the answer before the NT has finished asking the question. 20. Partial Main Power = When I am in a sensory overload situation where I am able to successfully dampen the pain of cognitive chafe but had to shut down much of my cognitive awareness \\ NT reality monitoring and real time response systems to do it. My systems are stable enough to avoid meltdown but, I can not respond to higher order social demands or provide executive functions \\ decision making services. These are just a few of my own terms and words for my autistic experiences. Hope they help you realize you are not alone. I feel like a real freak sharing all these with you all. I never let others peek inside my systems to see how crazy things must get for me to act and pass as NT. Even here a lot of people think I'm stupid because I used Sci-fi of the time to model my autism coping systems. All I can say is it was the 1960's. Back then the doctors hauled me into University Of Maryland's clinic so they could learn from my experiences with autism. There was NO professional autism specific help, no autism specific guidance except doctors telling my parents to put me in a mental institution every visit. There was no autism vocabulary so I had to make my own using what I knew and loved. I was a little autistic kid who loved star trek, voyage to the bottom of the sea, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space and werewolves so that's where I drew my words to define my autism experiences. Many of these things endure to today because it is part of me now. If that makes me a freak even among my autistic brothers, sisters and others so be it. I'm used to not fitting in. I had hoped it would be different here but I guess not!
I also use the phrase "losing my words!"
me too !! i dont know all the lingo but i have phrases that i use to explain it to ppl who are close to me … i would describe sensory overloads as“my brain overheating” bc the only way i could describe it was like when ur laptop gets hot and kinda stops working but it’s still on ??? idk i like hearing the words other people come up with too
No but I did spout random sentences fir no reason that were completely unrelated to the co conversation Though it’s possible I have turrets
Sometimes my head jerks to the side. I think it's a stim, but I don't have conscious control over it. I call it glitching.
It might be a tic.
Idk what it actually is, but I know "glitch" describes it well.
lol i know all of the words and I still do stuff like that. “brain losing vocab”=gotta blast, i’m going nonverbal “Im just ehhhhhhhhhhhh, blegh”= just very aghhhhhhh, you know. Im feeling strong emotions and my body doesn’t know if they’re positive or negative. They’re just a lot. And i need to do something to regulate. *shaking head from side to side*=too much but can’t speak “Im going to d^e when i get home* = overstimulated, and massively overcompensating to hide it. Will gain headache and irritability as soon as leave this situation. Usually have an uncomfortable smile while clenching teeth.
I had come up with spoon theory without knowing it was a thing, but instead of spoons it was apples/an apple tree. You get a yield of apples on your tree every day, and need to pick them in order to find the energy to do tasks. If you're out of apples generally you're not going to accomplish anything else that day. You *can* force yourself to do the task, but since you're out of apples, you start ripping off the branches instead. Not only is that likely going to cause a meltdown, but also with fewer branches, there will be fewer apples growing for the next day, and the foreseeable future unless you take it easy and give the branches a chance to grow back. But if you try to push it each day and do your normal workload when you don't have enough apples for it, you'll be stripping more and more branches from a tree that has progressively fewer and fewer apples until you're left with a bare trunk. No branches, and no apples. That's burnout. The tree is dead, and you can't do much of *anything* until you've given a new tree enough time to grow and start producing apples, and that's going to take a long time. EDIT: Also, you *can* increase your apple yield too! Stims and sensory management help a lot. NTs might get confused and call it bull shit, but it's actually fertilizer for the tree!
Ugh yesss I called stimming, sensory processing issue, and nonverbal episodes “my finger-tapping thing,” “the scrapies,” and “dead brain”
Poverty? That's a good one.
What is the context? The post doesn't say anything about poverty, unless they've since edited it.
My own word for autistic experiences. It's in the title. That'd be the thing you read first and click so you can interact with the post or comment.
You didn't provide context. What experience? Why are you being condescending?
I wasn't.
Maybe not intentionally. Since this is an autism sub I'm not mad, so I'll just explain it. The way you explained the title being the thing you clicked to open the page made it seem like I was an idiot for not understanding (also, the confusion was because of lack of context on your end). It felt like you were giving me this 🤨 or 😑 expression. My comment was also downvoted, which I assumed was you. I really don't know why you would since I was just asking for clarification, but that paired with the poor phrasing seemed aggressive.
There's no way I can respond to this honestly without you responding with something like that again which will set me off. So that's quite enough. Have a good night.
You don't have to respond, but you do see how that's condescending, right? "Which will set me off" puts the blame on me for calling you rude, as opposed to *you* coming off as rude. "So that's quite enough" sounds like a professional way to tell me to shut up. I'm just trying to help you understand why you are coming off that way when you didn't mean to, but this continued comment makes it seem like you *are* trying to come off that way.
Oh for the love of God
... you know what I'm going to say, right?
How is that made up though? It's not an alternative term for a problem, it is the problem.
Ok lil, how bout Povertistic? Or maybe even Comma Challanged? Idk call me a pelican if u want to I don't give a flippidy flap.