Autistic women assemble!

[Nepmarthiturn]

...only if and when you're not feeling antisocial and want the entire world to +%$¥ off, or course. 😉😆

A few of us were talking on another thread and thought it would be nice to have a support/ chat thread on here to share interests/ challenges/ parenting issues or whatever we feel like. A little community of autistic women on here that we can dip in and out of but will be supportive and friendly and people who actually get it.

Might also be a nice counterbalance to all of the horrific posts about autism that we find here so regularly!!

P.S. Have deliberately posted this in chat rather than in the ND Mumsnetters topic because it will hopefully reach more people who would like to join in. I didn't even realise that section existed for a long time and often miss threads there as they don't show in active and expect I'm not alone in that. However, in posting this here, we will be relying on the people with obnoxious and ignorant views about autism who so regularly post on Mumsnet, to demonstrate to us their allegedly superior empathy (ha!) and please just leave this thread alone: it's not for you. Many thanks!!

It is awful.

I had to be in hospital as I had C sections and both times I ended up downing water straight after the birth so I could do the requisite amount of wee to be allowed to leave as soon as physically possible, sacrificing the morphine supply to come home still in extreme pain just to escape the absolute sensory hell of it.

Loving the cat and beach photos.

@Exibstudent some pics of my sons extensive Harey Potter lego collection - his special interest

Oh wow, must not show my son this or I'll go bankrupt! We are doing the Chamber of Secrets one.

I have Linney as well.

Nearly had a heart attack when I saw the price of the whole Hogwarts castle!!

Thank you! Mostly from back before I had children and could afford regular holidays. 🤣

@Queenelsarules that is some nice Lego!

My son really wants the whole castle and the diagon alley set. We discussed how he could get a job in the lego shop when he was an adult and get a staff discount!! That's his life goal eight now, when he's not planning to be a YouTuber!!

@Queenelsarules this is a brilliant life ambition. I wish I'd had the foresight to think of that!! I wonder if they'd give me a job just for an hour per week. 🤣

I remember having the lego castle and pirate ship as a child but they can't have cost anything like what they do for the big sets now in equivalent terms or my parents would never have got them for us. It is bonkers how much they cost now!

My son is also currently building the international space station kit and very proud that it says on the box that it's for 16 years old and he is 6. 😆

Wow, I need to be there!😍

Oh lovely. What do you make?

im on this thread already but I have name changed for this post as I always assume when I post about my dog or my photos of Scotland that it’s obvious who I am!

anyway, beach + dog photo, and my lovely wee cat too.

Oops, I forgot to quote the photos!

@Afonavon me toooooo! Dying to go back to some of these places.

@CollieDug what beautiful animals and also what a beach, want to come and barge in with my camera. 🤣

Here after much deliberation- would be great to have a group!

I make my own clothing. Most recently I made this oversized soft jersey top.

Welcome @cravingmilkshake ! 😊

Oh wow. I am always so impressed by people with practical skills who can make things that would take me around 10bn years to do like the hypothetical monkeys left in a room to come up with Shakespeare. 🫣😆

This looks great!

👋🏻

Do you know me??? If so, any clues who you are??

Yep Dug we know each other IRL (via MN) — I spent a few years near where you live. No idea which other username is you, though, so your MN identity is still safe

ha! Burgers!

@Nepmarthiturn It is a very useful skill to have when most highstreet clothing makes you itch or just feels wrong!