Welcome! I look forward to growing this community is a healthy fashion. Please review the sidebar.

If you’re visiting from another instance, use the following link format to be able to subscribe: https://[your.instance]/c/autism@lemmy.world

    • BOMBS@lemmy.worldOPM
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      There are other communities. You can look at our sidebar for relevant communities that we have found.

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      thank you! We’re doing it collectively. I’m looking forward to our further growth.

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        r/Aspiememes and r/Autism were both places that I really felt that others understood who I was and how I experienced life. it’s great that people are making their way over here!!

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          Just discovered that my comment gets deleted as I type it if my phone switches screen layout, so let’s try this again: This has been my exact experience. I went from my kids jokingly saying “Yeah, I think Dad’s just autistic” to me finding the r/autism subreddit and relating way to hard with folks there, to discovering self-assessment RBQ-2, AQ, RAADS-R, SQ, EQ, and CAT-Q tests that all spelled things out plain as day, to my kids being like “Yeah, Dad. We were weren’t joking. We meant that you are actually, literally autistic”.

          I understand myself better because of r/autism, and I’ve learned to have more patience and understanding for myself. I’ve found my people.

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    I’m so relieved to find this! I’m going to miss r/autism, but I really look forward to making new friends here! Reddit has been something of a coping mechanism and self regulating tool for so long, it’s comforting to know that I have a new home here.

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    This is exciting! I’ve only ever lurked on autism forums before but I really like the friendly vibe here. Looking forward to seeing this place grow. 👍

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    When I view/c/autism I only see posts that are older than 15 days old. I can see newer posts when viewing “all”. The same bug occurs whether I am in an app or using a browser. Does anyone know who to contact about this? Or is something wrong with my settings? Example

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        I don’t know. I haven’t been on lemmy for very long. I was viewing a post on another instance and wanted to comment, but needed to switch to my lemmy.world instance. I didn’t see the post, so I went to the community page. That’s when I noticed the bug. I know that some other communities that I’ve clicked on haven’t had this problem. But some have the same error. I know that I was looking at another community to decide if I wanted to subscribe and all of the most were a month old or older. I just assumed that the community wasn’t active anymore or that a mod had deleted posts. I’ll check out the support page you linked. Thank you.

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      All neurotypes are welcome, so everything counts! While this community might not be specific to ADHD, there is a lot of overlap between autism and ADHD. Enough so that the co-occurence is often written as AuDHD.

      There are no rules that say users can’t make andy ADHD posts and due to the co-occurrence, other users might find the post relevant, so go for it. If it gets “too much,” we can address is in a mutually beneficial fashion once it comes up. For now, have fun.

      I made a post just for you: https://lemmy.world/post/31269?scrollToComments=true