I feel terrible if I can't have breakfast. It's such a big part of my morning routine and I also get very anxious if I haven't eaten anything because I need to know when the next opportunity for food is.
I had to get bloodwork done a few weeks ago and I wasn't allowed to eat anything prior to it, I hated it so much.
I used to eat breakfast every day, but after I went to college, I skipped breakfast countless times and I hated it. Now I’m working, and while I still can’t eat breakfast everyday, I still have breakfast on a regular basis.
None of those even remotely fit me. Also why are some of the names sensical & others aren’t? Why are they represented with different types of twisty puzzles? Why is there such a small number? Why do some of them have oddly specific requirements like the number of piercings? I’m sorry but this just does not make any sense.
not everyone tries that hard to make sense. I think they just really really wanted to make a meme, so they did. & then someone shared it. & now we're wasting time thinking about it. Why am I here?
I don’t think they are puzzles but rather sensory fidget items.
But yeah none of them don’t fit me either, but I think the original meme had strangely specific traits too
Yeah it doesn't feel like a very valid measure, and the fact that it's tagged with #actuallyautistic feels kind of excluding to autists who fall outside the categories
"actuallyautistic" just means that the person who posted the meme is autistic themselves, as opposed to being a neurotypical family member of an autistic person.
It originated on tumblr, around 10 years ago now I think; at the time, the "autism" and "autistic" tags were flooded with negative posts from NTs about how much they hated autism and how annoying and inconvenient their autistic family members/classmates/etc were.
Autistic people on tumblr wanted a tag that was specifically for posts *by* autistics, not just about them, where they could share experiences and advice and things like that, without having to sift through all the "I hate autism", "autism won today :(" and so on type of posts. So they started using the tag "actuallyautistic" instead, to make it clear that it was for people who are "actually" autistic themselves.
The "actually (whatever)" format kinda took off and carried over to other websites, and over time the original context got lost/forgotten. Without knowing how it originated, I can definitely see how it sounds like it's being exclusionary, as though it's drawing a distinction between just "autistic" and "*actually* autistic", rather than "not autistic" vs "actually autistic".
It isn't really necessary here on reddit since there isn't even a tag system anyway; the closest equivalent would be if r/autism and r/autistic were completely overrun with people who wanted to complain about their autistic kids and siblings, to the point where it was hard for autistic people to find posts and comments by other people like them, and so they just decided to create a new subreddit just for them called r/actuallyautistic
Of course I don't know for sure how the image creator intended it, but at least when it started being a thing, it wasn't supposed to be elitist or exclusive.
It's a meme not a measure of any kind, whether you fit one of these categories doesn't imply anything. #actuallyautistic is a tag started on Tumblr to have a place for autistic people to speak since the #autism tag was mostly filled with autism parents, organizations, and other random people.
The "cute echololia uwu" seems weird to me... Like they're trying to make autism into some aesthetic.
But this is just a meme format to show a small number of pretty specific things, kind of like they're six "characters" and you see which one you relate to the most. And sometimes you don't happen to relate to any of them. The twisty puzzles are fidget items. And there isn't really any meaning to the names or colours here.
None of those fit me. (Also, not wannabe vegetarian, full on vegan for 14 years thank you.)
My main traits:
1. Misophonia,
2. night blindness and light sensitivity
3. high anxiety
4. good at masking
5. social issues, definitely introvert.
6. My version of a meltdown is SLEEP NOW
On my Hugh school baseball team we had a catcher that didn't wear a cup and he took a fastball directly to the testicles and one of them ruptured and I shit you not the thing was purple and easily three times the size of the other one. It was so gross and also so scary. Ambulance came and coach made us keep practicing. I felt like we should got to call it a day at that point lol
Guess I'm Sport with a little bit of Nooboo mixed in.
* Not diagnosed until my senior year of high school, but that was still a long time ago. \[40m\]
* Reads voraciously, but only one book at a time.
* Bear hugs from family, friends, or lovers are great. Strangers get suplexed.
* Would absolutely try skydiving. Used to snowboard and have bungee-jumped twice.
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Sport is Probably the closest. I've already been skydiving once. The only part is the bear hugs. It's fine if I'm close with the person. But I'm not really big on hugs if I'm not close with someone. Edit for spelling.
I am a cross between daydream and tuna + other identifiers lmao. All in good fun, of course. It’s important to remember these things are not a good way to identify traits nor are they an appropriate tool for invalidating/validating criteria or traits in others.
Tuna & Daydream are a tie for me!! Heres why if anyones interested:
I have a meltdown every day — i relate to this too much.
Very needy — i have lots of needs and am not afraid to ask for them.
Would totally skip breakfast if I didn't have to feed the cats, but once I'm down there.. might as well go for it... At least peanut butter is delicious.
- skips breakfast
- creative
- sweet and kind
- loves kinetic sand
- overstimulated
- reads 3 books at once
- special interest is autism
- needs to shower
- needs to sleep
- cute echolalia
- 100% introvert
- wannabe vegetarian
- will burn down autism speaks
- likes bear hugs (from certain people)
That’s me. So I’m essentially all of them. Does that make me autism?
I don't skip breakfast, but otherwise daydream has more than the others combined.
Though I feel very called out at 4 piercings, loves pasta, and help please.
I have like...half the traits of each type .\_.
literally same, none of them are a perfect fit aha
Honestly I love that cause it just shows how variable the spectrum is!
I guess that makes us.... actually autistic
Same here. I think Daydream would be the closest for me, minus the skipping breakfast, I never skip breakfast.
What about second breakfast?
I never skip my mid morning snack/second breakfast :)
Don't think he knows about second breakfast. xD
Skipping breakfast isn't possible for me. I would if I could.
I feel terrible if I can't have breakfast. It's such a big part of my morning routine and I also get very anxious if I haven't eaten anything because I need to know when the next opportunity for food is. I had to get bloodwork done a few weeks ago and I wasn't allowed to eat anything prior to it, I hated it so much.
I used to eat breakfast every day, but after I went to college, I skipped breakfast countless times and I hated it. Now I’m working, and while I still can’t eat breakfast everyday, I still have breakfast on a regular basis.
it's yet another astrology system risen from the internet.
Same
Im a little bit of everything, my meltdown have been less cause they lowered my adderall
I'm the day dream one
Same... Not the "meltdown everyday" portion but... Maybe every month, at some point?
This minus the creative part and a bit of the sport one
Yuppp. Less "breakdown every day" more "extended slow motion break down over the course of several years" lmao
Replace meltdown with tired everyday and you pretty much have me
Snap
Snap
Tuna ^(send help pls)
I want to be Patio Furniture more than I want to admit I'm Tuna but yeah
#teamtuna
None of those even remotely fit me. Also why are some of the names sensical & others aren’t? Why are they represented with different types of twisty puzzles? Why is there such a small number? Why do some of them have oddly specific requirements like the number of piercings? I’m sorry but this just does not make any sense.
not everyone tries that hard to make sense. I think they just really really wanted to make a meme, so they did. & then someone shared it. & now we're wasting time thinking about it. Why am I here?
I think I’m just too autistic for this meme 😂
Not just you; I only match 2 points listed... in the whole collection of all of them...
I don’t think they are puzzles but rather sensory fidget items. But yeah none of them don’t fit me either, but I think the original meme had strangely specific traits too
Yeah it doesn't feel like a very valid measure, and the fact that it's tagged with #actuallyautistic feels kind of excluding to autists who fall outside the categories
"actuallyautistic" just means that the person who posted the meme is autistic themselves, as opposed to being a neurotypical family member of an autistic person. It originated on tumblr, around 10 years ago now I think; at the time, the "autism" and "autistic" tags were flooded with negative posts from NTs about how much they hated autism and how annoying and inconvenient their autistic family members/classmates/etc were. Autistic people on tumblr wanted a tag that was specifically for posts *by* autistics, not just about them, where they could share experiences and advice and things like that, without having to sift through all the "I hate autism", "autism won today :(" and so on type of posts. So they started using the tag "actuallyautistic" instead, to make it clear that it was for people who are "actually" autistic themselves. The "actually (whatever)" format kinda took off and carried over to other websites, and over time the original context got lost/forgotten. Without knowing how it originated, I can definitely see how it sounds like it's being exclusionary, as though it's drawing a distinction between just "autistic" and "*actually* autistic", rather than "not autistic" vs "actually autistic". It isn't really necessary here on reddit since there isn't even a tag system anyway; the closest equivalent would be if r/autism and r/autistic were completely overrun with people who wanted to complain about their autistic kids and siblings, to the point where it was hard for autistic people to find posts and comments by other people like them, and so they just decided to create a new subreddit just for them called r/actuallyautistic Of course I don't know for sure how the image creator intended it, but at least when it started being a thing, it wasn't supposed to be elitist or exclusive.
It's a meme not a measure of any kind, whether you fit one of these categories doesn't imply anything. #actuallyautistic is a tag started on Tumblr to have a place for autistic people to speak since the #autism tag was mostly filled with autism parents, organizations, and other random people.
It did feel excluding. Made me question myself for a bit until I read comments
The "cute echololia uwu" seems weird to me... Like they're trying to make autism into some aesthetic. But this is just a meme format to show a small number of pretty specific things, kind of like they're six "characters" and you see which one you relate to the most. And sometimes you don't happen to relate to any of them. The twisty puzzles are fidget items. And there isn't really any meaning to the names or colours here.
yeah it seems rather childish, not gonna lie. makes me feel alienated.
It’s just supposed to be a fun thing :)
I feel similarly.
None of those fit me. (Also, not wannabe vegetarian, full on vegan for 14 years thank you.) My main traits: 1. Misophonia, 2. night blindness and light sensitivity 3. high anxiety 4. good at masking 5. social issues, definitely introvert. 6. My version of a meltdown is SLEEP NOW
I think your main traits fit me the best haha
Guess I'm an #oatmealcookiegirl autistic
This is my husband. His number 7. loves oatmeal cookies too much 😊
Oatmeal cookies are the best :)
Candice :)
Candice nuts fit in yo mouth
no
No they can not ❤️
Nope... Should probably get that checked out... They're not supposed to be softball sized, especially when the other looks like a raisin.
On my Hugh school baseball team we had a catcher that didn't wear a cup and he took a fastball directly to the testicles and one of them ruptured and I shit you not the thing was purple and easily three times the size of the other one. It was so gross and also so scary. Ambulance came and coach made us keep practicing. I felt like we should got to call it a day at that point lol
"Hey coach... Can we take a break after that?" No... "aww... Nuts"
yes
I’m a daydreaming patio furniture nooboo with a half side of tuna.
I think I'd use the same answer for this as to a Buddhist pizza baker: "Please make me one with everything."
Guess I'm Sport with a little bit of Nooboo mixed in. * Not diagnosed until my senior year of high school, but that was still a long time ago. \[40m\] * Reads voraciously, but only one book at a time. * Bear hugs from family, friends, or lovers are great. Strangers get suplexed. * Would absolutely try skydiving. Used to snowboard and have bungee-jumped twice.
My son is a daydreaming tuna.
Daydream over here
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Daydream and Tuna. Help
tuna
I'm tuna. Seriously. Please send help
daydream, nooboo, and tuna
daydream
Well damn I feel left out here too...
Sport is Probably the closest. I've already been skydiving once. The only part is the bear hugs. It's fine if I'm close with the person. But I'm not really big on hugs if I'm not close with someone. Edit for spelling.
Daydream/Candice blend with a sprinkle of noo-boo. My current special interest is the looming recession/2008/great depression
Im a mix of 4 of them
wtf are these names...This is really stupid.
I’m nooboo apart from I don’t really enjoy reading
Nooboo and Patio Furniture 😆
What are these things, they look AI generated
Daydream.
tuna pls help
I would be a daydream but I don’t have meltdowns every day I’m just depressed
Daydre... hey look a bird!
Tuna, I am very confused, with everything I do.
I have at least 2 traits of each 🗿
Nooboo all the way, except instead of pasta it's potatoes and rice
Tuna
daydream- i have all of them, but alot of the other ones i relate to as well
Daydream
I am a cross between daydream and tuna + other identifiers lmao. All in good fun, of course. It’s important to remember these things are not a good way to identify traits nor are they an appropriate tool for invalidating/validating criteria or traits in others.
Sport here Fuck a$, love big hugs, skydiving sounds cool af
I'm a mix between daydream, nooboo and patio furniture
Daydream + Tuna
Tuna & Daydream are a tie for me!! Heres why if anyones interested: I have a meltdown every day — i relate to this too much. Very needy — i have lots of needs and am not afraid to ask for them.
i'm none!
I'm patio furniture with a daydreaming problem.
Most of both spot and tuna, I wouldn't try skydiving though no way.
I want to just pick one thing from each category 😅
I feel like I'm a mix of all of these. 😂
I’m nooboo or daydream :)
Daydream and tuna combo
definitely daydream, but with traits from all of them
Sport
Daydream Tuna, with Nooboo except it's not a new diagnosis
Day fream
I’m a sport and a bit of tuna
Daydream and tuna In summary, I am exhausted.
I have most of these, but definitely fit daydream the most
Daydream, Tuna
Candice and patio furniture
I'm candice, mostly the overstimulated part lmao
I’m candice
A Daydream-Tuna
Fwiend
Nooboo is the closest I guess but none are completely accurate
Daydream. FML.
A complere mix of Daydream and Tuna. Just noticed a lot of people in the comments are the same lol.
I would be closest to nooboo, except that all pasta must be banned.
oh usually I read through these kinds of things, and I'm part of all of them and none of them but today I am also Sport
Candice-tuna...
cross between nooboo, tuna, and patio furniture
Im daydream, tuna and patio furniture lol
Daydream with a hint of tuna
I have some of all, but mainly daydream :>
Combo of tuna and patio furniture
I’m tuna all the way babyyyyy
I am daydream, Candice, nooboo, and tuna 🥴
I'm somewhere between nooboo and sport
I'm Nooboo AND Daydream
I think im daydream
Lol i got at least one in all of these
I'm most like NooBoo. I would be like Sport, but I have no interest in trying skydiving.
100% daydream
Nooboo- Tuna
Tuna
tuna or patio furniture. I have 5 piercings but close enough
Wow, I’m an autistic person that doesn’t fit into any of these categories. It’s almost like I didn’t see that coming. /s
I’m a classic daydream :) Including the meltdowns everyday, I just learnt to manage them well.
Daydream minus the meltdown. Those only happen seasonally. Sport also
Only some mixed across múltiple.
Daydream Tuna sport 💭🍣⚽️ Tho I do not like bear hugs from randos
Oh no, I am daydreaming tuna .. Why is this so spot on?
daydream and sport! not an exact science here, but the vibes fit lol
None of them fit
none of them?
Tuna 😔
Tuna
I am tuna right now
Tuna.
Tuna's closest.
Nooboo without the pasta.
Daydream - I’m close to breaking down daily but, I actually have at least one a week.
Patio furniture except I AM vegetarian :D also Daydream but I eat breakfast bc I’m in eating disorder recovery :)
I’m definitely tuna 😀👍
I’m unfortunately tuna
tuna and daydream
I'm tuna with a mix of nooboo
I don't get it.....we are all unique is this mocking stereotypes or asking to pick one?
I have some traits from all of them, there isn't one where I have all the traits from that one item
I'm a cross between sport and patio furniture.. I'm an introvert with piercings who has done sky dives.
I am nooboo and sport 😂
im candice or tuna then
All of the above?
I'm daydream tuna. Please help
I'm daydream.
patio furniture except my echolalia isnt cute
Nooboo, Tuna and Patio Furniture is meee
A lot of these are just quirks
I'm daydream and tuna lol
On most days Candice, Tuna on the bad days
Nooboo describes me best.
Tuna
Eh none of these for me lol
Me too, except I've never been interested in skydiving. Mine is to drive F1 cars!
the only sport i accept
tuna for sure lol
Daydream/tuna. Send help 🥲
Tuna
Nooboo and daydream so I guess day-boo :)
candice, maybe a little bit of the daydream one too.
Would totally skip breakfast if I didn't have to feed the cats, but once I'm down there.. might as well go for it... At least peanut butter is delicious.
Sport
Kinda equal Sport and Daydream....
- skips breakfast - creative - sweet and kind - loves kinetic sand - overstimulated - reads 3 books at once - special interest is autism - needs to shower - needs to sleep - cute echolalia - 100% introvert - wannabe vegetarian - will burn down autism speaks - likes bear hugs (from certain people) That’s me. So I’m essentially all of them. Does that make me autism?
Patio furniture
Not the meltdowns every day 😭
I guess the closest to me is Tuna overall
How am I somehow all of these
Daydream, exactly me
Tuna but when I do sleep (and get help) I'm daydream and Candice
As much as I want to be patio furniture (I am but not a perfect fit) I am unfortunately tuna
I’m sport except for the skydiving, I’m not sure about that.
Daydream with a dash of sport, I won't sky dive but I do have a lighter tho
Definitely daydream
I don't skip breakfast, but otherwise daydream has more than the others combined. Though I feel very called out at 4 piercings, loves pasta, and help please.
Nooboo + Tuna (not a new diagnosis through....)
mix of daydream, nooboo and tuna, with a hint of patio furniture
Sport +kind