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Really cool acronym for AUTISTIC

Ausomely Autistic

I thought you might like this acronym, very accurate:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CF5v8-ihiZb/?utm_medium=share_sheet

  • in reply to Dawn

    Hi Dawn, I’ve had a brain worm running in my head all day. 
    The GaGa has got it right, i know the Song isn’t about autism, but the sentiment is the same. Be who you are.

    A good T shirt would read… 

    I’m on the right track baby. 
    I was born this way!

  • in reply to Dawn

    Thanks for your reply. It’s good to know that you don’t feel self conscious. I want to wear autistic pride t-shirts but I don’t feel confident or safe enough for everyone to know yet.

    I don’t want to conform, we as a society should embrace difference instead.

  • in reply to Dawn

    I have thought about it.Slight smile

  • in reply to Martin

    Oh yeah!  I like that one.  You going to get that printed?

  • in reply to Ausomely Autistic

    I guess we all need to deal with that one in our own way and much depends on our circumstance; who we've got around us and whether their attitude is positive, are our colleagues supportive etc?

    I have another colleague who is 'loud and proud' (her words) about her diagnosis because she wants the young people we work with, some of whom are on the spectrum themselves, to see that they can achieve and have successful lives too.  I'm with her on that.

    Anyway, my dress sense has always been a bit quirky and I've never cared.  I've never really felt a need to fit in anyway and I wear what I like. It's only intended to please me. I accept others as they are and hope they'll repay the complement and accept me.  So, no. Personally, I don't feel self-conscious. 

  • This a bit of a nitpick but it's an acrostic not an acronym. Slight smile

  • I would buy a 'T' shirt that said "AUTIST IN RESIDENCE".

  • in reply to Dawn

    I might research Autistic Pride t-shirts online. Do you feel self conscious when wearing the t-shirts? I am really proud that I am autistic but I am not comfortable yet to disclose that to everyone I meet.

  • in reply to Ausomely Autistic

    I found some really cool "Autistic Pride" fabric on the internet and made a top ahead of my assessment - well, by that time you just know. I wore it the day after.

  • in reply to Dawn

    I am glad you like the acronyms, it is really important that you develop a positive autistic identity. I want to get some autism t-shirts too but I don’t know if I would feel comfortable wearing them until I am formally diagnosed.

  • in reply to Dawn

    Large print:

    don't worry you won't catch it

    it's to late for you already

    small print: 

    you need to be born like it

  • I like that. I'm collecting quite a few T shirts with autistic identity affirming statements. I love the Purple Ella one: "My neurons rock". Also the one which says: "Why fit in when you were born to stand out?". 

    I am rather wondering whether the T shirt which reads "Kiss my Aspergers" might be going a bit far, but I do have one which reads: "I don't suffer from Asperger's. I enjoy every minute".

  • in reply to Mariusz

    I like that acronym too.

  • that one sounds like one sentence