Marion 🌈🌻<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> <br>Dear fellow autistics, </p><p>for quite some time, the following thoughts were running around in my head. <br>Finally, I found the words to share them with you.</p><p>There are so many things I've learned through you all:<br>- loving <a href="https://beige.party/tags/plushies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plushies</span></a> is ok 😅 - I got myself a very cuddly plushie and ever since I allow myself to cuddle it in my sleep, I can sleep... And when I took it with me on a trip, I was even able to sleep peacefully in a strange hotel bed.</p><p>- <a href="https://beige.party/tags/spoons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spoons</span></a> - I'm still learning to take care of them</p><p>- <a href="https://beige.party/tags/echolalia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>echolalia</span></a> is a wide range of repeating words, songs, snippets of conversations, of songs (earworms!!) - I love singing songs to myself, I love humming, whistling - and I very easily adopt the lilt of the person I'm speaking with... which resulted in some weird situations in the past...</p><p>- being tired is ok. You can't jump hurdles carrying a hundredweight day in, day </p><p>- noise canceling earphones! What a blessing! </p><p>- hyperfocus and a squirrelly brain aren't mutually exclusive</p><p>- I sometimes may have the brain of a squirrel, but it's not the onset of dementia 😂🙏🏻</p><p>- executive function disorder - now I can accept that I'm just no good at doing my tax declaration 😇</p><p>- there are people all over the world who are a lot or just like me - and I’m welcome with you 💜</p><p>- I'm allowed to be brilliant and abysmally stupid at the same time - goodbye imposter syndrome</p><p>And I really learned to appreciate my good fortune. 🙏🏻</p><p>I realize how lucky I am that my system's crash in May only ruined my "battery" but did not affect my "hard disk". On the contrary, due to this now faulty "battery", I no longer have the strength to mask as much as I used to - with some surprisingly beneficial effects in my everyday life. 😃</p><p>I feel <a href="https://beige.party/tags/blessed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blessed</span></a> in countless ways and I’m <a href="https://beige.party/tags/grateful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grateful</span></a> for every single one.</p><p>Thank you all for becoming such an important and meaningful part of my life. <br>💜🙏🏻💜</p>