Do you know how autistic kids experience the world? [I Have Autism And Im Sick Of People Thinking Im Stupid]

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Okay we are in special school, that brands us as thick to start off with, and we know we don't always cope with the world in the best way, we do try, and we do have problems with a lot of adults who assume we are stupid or bad, you know sometimes people talking AT us is like hearing a foreign language we get overloaded, we just cannot process everything coming at us, and getting angry and yelling at us stresses us more and lowers the chances of us understanding. We are not the smartest kinds in school but we aren't stupid either, for a long time we let other people convince us we were stupid. That's stopped now, we won't take it any more. With a bit of humanity from others we cope most of the time.

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brunoandsammy · C

@tim. Some loud noises especially people yelling or shouting at us, sirens would freak us when we were younger, but we visited a fire station and were shown all round it and the fire engines after that we were okay and didn't freak out anymore. We love football but find going to matches very intense, we also learned makaton signing when we were little because of sound overloading us. For us now touch is where we have the most issues,like clothes, sex, things we don't like to,touch, foods sometimes.