Emma Rose
@emmarose90.bsky.social
Australian 🦘 Autistic. Thinker 🧠 Aspiring writer 🖋️ Dog lover. 🐶 🌈❤️
Any favorite autism books? Have you read Girl Unmasked? That's my favorite.
May 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Any favorite autism books? Have you read Girl Unmasked? That's my favorite.
I devoured books as a kid! As a teenager struggled more with the concentration and energy side of it and have never been able to really re-engage the hobby and grieved it honestly - until last year when I finally got put on ADHD meds! Now I'm reading again and it's amazing!!
May 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I devoured books as a kid! As a teenager struggled more with the concentration and energy side of it and have never been able to really re-engage the hobby and grieved it honestly - until last year when I finally got put on ADHD meds! Now I'm reading again and it's amazing!!
I detest that when I struggle with burn out, depression etc everyone else's goal for me seems to be "how can we get you back to work". Like can I find a way to actually want to be alive before we talk about work or is that all my life is worth 🤷♀️
March 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I detest that when I struggle with burn out, depression etc everyone else's goal for me seems to be "how can we get you back to work". Like can I find a way to actually want to be alive before we talk about work or is that all my life is worth 🤷♀️
I feel you! If I was able to work more than I can and have financial security I would. I had to reduce to a shift a week. If people don't think we'd prefer to be well and able to support ourselves and even thrive, they are truly ignorant. Little me had aspirations I'll never get close to 😔
March 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I feel you! If I was able to work more than I can and have financial security I would. I had to reduce to a shift a week. If people don't think we'd prefer to be well and able to support ourselves and even thrive, they are truly ignorant. Little me had aspirations I'll never get close to 😔
When I actually allowed myself to feel anger towards that source instead of just myself, I realized I made room within myself for some respect, not gonna say love yet but just for something other than the loathing and disgust I've been living with for myself.
March 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
When I actually allowed myself to feel anger towards that source instead of just myself, I realized I made room within myself for some respect, not gonna say love yet but just for something other than the loathing and disgust I've been living with for myself.
when people do me wrong. I guess it's a trauma thing. I always hold people up high, even when they hurt me, I've directed it all inwards and done myself so damage that I nearly OD'd last week. But it's okay to be mad at the people who hurt you. It's got to be healthier than self hatred.
March 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
when people do me wrong. I guess it's a trauma thing. I always hold people up high, even when they hurt me, I've directed it all inwards and done myself so damage that I nearly OD'd last week. But it's okay to be mad at the people who hurt you. It's got to be healthier than self hatred.
It's been my default to blame myself whenever something goes wrong. I people please, apologize and pretend I was the one at fault and grovel. Today I realized how sad it is that it's easier for me to be angry at myself than someone who did the wrong thing and hurt me. That I can actually be mad 2/
March 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
It's been my default to blame myself whenever something goes wrong. I people please, apologize and pretend I was the one at fault and grovel. Today I realized how sad it is that it's easier for me to be angry at myself than someone who did the wrong thing and hurt me. That I can actually be mad 2/
Yeah as of yet none of the pills they've tried me on have helped (and have made it worse!) so feels like they're just throwing mud and hoping something eventually sticks 😭
March 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Yeah as of yet none of the pills they've tried me on have helped (and have made it worse!) so feels like they're just throwing mud and hoping something eventually sticks 😭
😔 unfortunately. I hate that I'm basically just told to accept it. When it gives you those thoughts for a week or so every month it feels terminal honestly. Just waiting for the month that beats me 🤷♀️
March 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
😔 unfortunately. I hate that I'm basically just told to accept it. When it gives you those thoughts for a week or so every month it feels terminal honestly. Just waiting for the month that beats me 🤷♀️
Hope you're as safe as you can be matt.
March 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Hope you're as safe as you can be matt.
Ugh very true, the photo op is all that matters to so many.
March 7, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Ugh very true, the photo op is all that matters to so many.
Oh yes. I have PMDD and was told it was quite normal for women to feel suicidal during PMS every month 🙃 until I was over 30 and someone was finally like every month? No that's NOT normal PMS. Women's health has come a ways but still a long way to go!
March 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Oh yes. I have PMDD and was told it was quite normal for women to feel suicidal during PMS every month 🙃 until I was over 30 and someone was finally like every month? No that's NOT normal PMS. Women's health has come a ways but still a long way to go!
This is why I get so frustrated with the teachers who are like well they should have written plans (IEP etc). So many kids go undiagnosed with health conditions. I wasn't diagnosed autistic/ADHD until my 30s. Traumatized by school because our voices don't matter if we don't have the documents 🤷♀️
March 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This is why I get so frustrated with the teachers who are like well they should have written plans (IEP etc). So many kids go undiagnosed with health conditions. I wasn't diagnosed autistic/ADHD until my 30s. Traumatized by school because our voices don't matter if we don't have the documents 🤷♀️
Isn't it sad how little we're taught about our own bodies?
March 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Isn't it sad how little we're taught about our own bodies?
Terrifying numbers there. UK-specific stats? Though I'm sure it's very similar here in Oz.
March 6, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Terrifying numbers there. UK-specific stats? Though I'm sure it's very similar here in Oz.
I think it's so sad because there are people who still struggle to talk about any digestive struggles and don't get diagnosed or not until it's very serious. So expecting that if a child has a health issue they'll be diagnosed and have the paperwork is just incredibly ignorant right!?
March 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I think it's so sad because there are people who still struggle to talk about any digestive struggles and don't get diagnosed or not until it's very serious. So expecting that if a child has a health issue they'll be diagnosed and have the paperwork is just incredibly ignorant right!?
This is what I always say too. Teachers on reddit are vicious. Some children won't even know they have any digestive issues so how can they disclose 🤷♀️ How is allowing kids to go to the bathroom up for debate? It's just completely mind-blowing.
March 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
This is what I always say too. Teachers on reddit are vicious. Some children won't even know they have any digestive issues so how can they disclose 🤷♀️ How is allowing kids to go to the bathroom up for debate? It's just completely mind-blowing.
System is broken honestly when that's the way it works. End of the day, it's the individual who pays with their whole quality of life, side effects of medications we never needed so physical and mental health and financial costs for the systems inability to diagnose autism earlier. Change is needed.
March 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
System is broken honestly when that's the way it works. End of the day, it's the individual who pays with their whole quality of life, side effects of medications we never needed so physical and mental health and financial costs for the systems inability to diagnose autism earlier. Change is needed.
Other side to this is I've been in the mental health system since I was 13, over 20 years. My folks spent 10s of thousands for me to get misdiagnosed and wrongly treated repeatedly. It's kinda fucked that people are then expected to shell out even more money to correct the mistakes made by others.
March 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Other side to this is I've been in the mental health system since I was 13, over 20 years. My folks spent 10s of thousands for me to get misdiagnosed and wrongly treated repeatedly. It's kinda fucked that people are then expected to shell out even more money to correct the mistakes made by others.
Totally agree. I was extremely lucky to get access to a free assessment by pure chance. The people in my mental health team happened to know a team that it seems very few get access to. I never begrudge anyone who self ids.
Also your name is ace 😂😂
Also your name is ace 😂😂
March 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Totally agree. I was extremely lucky to get access to a free assessment by pure chance. The people in my mental health team happened to know a team that it seems very few get access to. I never begrudge anyone who self ids.
Also your name is ace 😂😂
Also your name is ace 😂😂