Being autistic is like screaming through a megaphone “please don’t overwork me, i WILL explode” and everyone responds like haha well. You’ll get used to it over time :)
i need greater societal understanding for the fact that people with autism are just less capable of handling stress and are more likely to become stressed from things that are invisible to others. like can you be nice
This is the basic concept of overstimulation, actually. Too many stimuli at once, the brain can’t process everything at once, it causes a lot of stress. Being stressed expresses differently in different autistic people but generally like. If you commonly feel a need to flee from a group to go lock yourself up in the bathroom to calm down or you otherwise shut down and don’t want to talk anymore you are experiencing stress, and whatever situation you were in is made more stressful to you because you’re autistic. It’s not your fault, you’re not being whiny, you have needs and you need to take care of them.
