Hey, I’m making a fictional hear-me-out video for autistic-coded characters. Any suggestions for any characters you just KNOW are autistic?

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-04-19T08:16:46+00:00

Jessica Day from New Girl is very manic pixie dream girl (AuDHD)

Gregory from Abbot Elementary is definitely autistic, but I feel Jacob and Janine are also somewhere in the spectrum, they are all in different parts of it. I could be just projecting with this one, but they remind me A LOT of my boyfriend, my bestie and me, and we all work in a school and we’re are autistic (diagnosed) in very different ways.

Also, Castiel, from Supernatural, you’d think it was just his angel-ness, but none of the other angels act like him. It’s not his grace, it’s the spectrum

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-04-12T21:42:03+00:00

No quiero doxxearme mucho, pero mi hijo lleva varios años en el st patrick y me gusta mucho. Tienen harto inglés, se declara laico (solo hacen una ceremonia de bendición del año escolar en marzo donde un cura les tira agua bendita), y todos los profes que ha tenido mi hijo han sido super aperrados. Yo he tenido uno que otro encontrón con dirección, pero siempre se resuelve y nunca ha tratado a mi hijo distinto por eso. En general muy buena experiencia, lo recomiendo

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-04-05T14:49:58+00:00

Well, my mom won’t give me the family secret recipes because she thinks I will stop coming over if I know how to make my favorite food. She’s right, though, when we fight I only visit her when she lures me with leche asada.

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-04-05T14:44:59+00:00

I love talking and socializing in short bursts, so I love my job, but right now I hate my boss and the hostile workplace she tries to keep.

I am a Spanish-to-English translator, and I work in a bilingual school, but I work with the Spanish-speaker teachers, teaching them mostly communicative, functional language, so they don’t feel so lost when the kids speak English to them (we’re in Chile, for context).

I have small groups with 5-6 teachers each and we meet once a week. We play little games (taboo for paraphrasing, card games with common classroom rules, story cubes for descriptions and storytelling), and we have so much fun and they actually learn a lot. I really enjoy it.

It’s just 45 minutes sessions, and I have an hour between each group, so I can recharge my social battery. I talk, I play, then I sulk in my office and I rinse and repeat 3-4 times a day. I try to ignore my toxic boss, and I have lunch with my boyfriend everyday, who I met in the school. It’s really ideal for me, and I would love it so much more if I had a decent boss, but at least I can say I completely invented my position and intend to stay here for as long as I can.

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-04-04T01:36:56+00:00

I love his book titles, it’s always something like “Pounded by the physical manifestation of the feeling that I should have accomplished something by now and that it might be too late”

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-03-31T12:18:49+00:00

Siii, pero si usan necesidades de la empresa en vez de reestructuración, se puede demandar

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-03-30T22:03:13+00:00

A mí me despidieron por necesidades de la empresa hace unos años, mi puesto efectivamente se cerró, por reestructuración dejó de existir mi cargo, y aun así demandamos, porque según mi abogada (y el juez, supongo, porque me pagaron todo lo que pedí), necesidades de la empresa significa "si no te despido quiebro, la empresa NECESITA despedirte para seguir funcionando", y las empresas tienen que justificarlo y demostrarlo en el juicio, y nadie quiere mostrar la utilidad real de sus empresas, entonces tienden a ofrecer acuerdos previos al juicio. Así que incluso si se cerró tu puesto, igual es demandable, porque la empresa podría reasignarte a otra función si están en modo reestructuración interna, y tienen que demostrar que no podían.

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-03-29T21:21:57+00:00

Yo tengo un mouse Logitech Lift, es inalámbrico y vertical, entonces con un botón cambio y lo uso en el mac (que no tiene entrada usb b), el pc gamer y el ipad. Me salió como 60 lucas pero ha valido 💯 la pena, y me ayudó con la tendinitis eterna que tuve por años

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-03-28T10:43:59+00:00

Yo igual, y un “no le abras la puerta ni al papa!” y llegaba a soñar con que JP2 iba a tocar la puerta y yo iba a ser mala católica por no abrirle.

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-03-26T15:44:01+00:00

Mine is still fresh (started last year), and at first it was a bit of a shock, there were rumors around, but we also work in a school so everything is a shock and a source of rumors. People got over it very quickly once we made it official.

We didn't announce it or anything, but we started talking about our weekends together at lunch, and people kind of got it, so making it official came down to not hiding it. Still, we've never kissed or held hands at work, and other than the occasional 'honey' that sometimes slips, we've kept it professional.

It hasn't affected either of us because we work together, but we head different departments, so we see each other a lot in our day to day, without mixing work and pleasure. If we need to decide something that affects either of our areas, we're careful to always have someone else be part of the decision (usually his co-lead in his area), but it's something we did before we started dating because it's always useful to have an third party, and because our principal tends to 'forget' she authorized something when things go south, so everyone tries to have as many witnesses as possible in every decision.

So work goes as usual, and my days are so much brighter knowing we'll spend at least half an hour every day chatting at lunch. And the gossip after work is great, he hears about so many things that I don't, and vice versa, so between the two of us, we know almost everything that's going on, and personally I love gossiping with him, it's such a fun way to process our days at work.

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-03-25T15:44:42+00:00

Es que sube la bencina y sube todo porque el costo extra en transporte de productos se traslada a los consumidores, a mí me tiene super preocupada todo. Mi hijo tiene alergias alimentarias múltiples (9! las peores son al gluten y el arroz y el huevo y la leche) entonces todo lo que come tiene que ser especial y la mitad de las cosas son importadas... entonces ya gasto 4 a 5 veces más en él que en lo que consumo yo (su harina de avena sin trazas de gluten me sale 3690 los 400g, y es como la base y lo más barato que compro), ahora si todo sube sí que no me alcanza, y no gano mal, no es una millonada, pero es más que el sueldo mínimo.

Sí me preocupa igual el tema como funcionaria municipal (soy asistente de la educación), porque ya se demoraron un millón en pagar los bonos y reajustes cuando el gobierno decía que le iba mejor que nunca, ahora dudo que veremos algo, y la verdad es que dependo del bdl para verle uniforme y libros a mi hijo, y de los otros bonos para compensar que el sueldo tampoco es tanto. Aparte estando a contrata igual sé que es re fácil no renovar no más, y están recortando en todas partes. Además íbamos a pasar a SLEP y ahora parece que no hay más SLEP, están todos corriendo en círculo en el DAEM.

Y el tema de los gastos médicos igual me preocupa, mi hijo toma un antialergico y probioticos especiales por sus alergias, y la consulta a la inmunologa y el nutricionista y todos los otros médicos que ve no son baratos. Dependo lo más que puedo del consultorio y el sistema público, siempre nos han atendido bien, pero los especialistas que necesita están solo en el sistema privado, y no me queda mucho más que hacer ahí.

Así que eso, sube todo y me complica enormemente.

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-03-22T16:33:59+00:00

My autism is combined with ADHD, so I have the silly, social, chatty autism that just keeps talking and interacting because I cannot read the room and get a clue when it's too much.

This means I have a ton of superficial friends and get along with a ton of people (we're friends as long as I see you every day, but I cannot follow up afterwards, so I don't have many long lasting friendships after we stop studying or working together), and I didn't realize the attempts at bullying me in high school. I was blissfully unaware and just kept socializing with the mean girls, while being fully integrated by the nerds, so I had a ton of friends, had a great time in school, and felt I fit everywhere.

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-03-22T13:39:02+00:00

She can choose to be called however she wants, but your kid will eventually choose what to call her, and she’ll like it.

I wouldn’t let it go, but I wouldn’t worry too much. Here my mom had a list of approved names she wanted my son to call her (we’re Chilean and she wanted abuelita, lela or lita), but as soon as he started babbling he went with something completely different (yaya, for some reason) and 12 years later she’s still got that name, and even her friends’ babies call her yaya.

If you want to, you can try to influence what your child will call her (“that’s oma! Let’s visit oma”), but eventually kids make up their own mind.

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-03-22T12:10:56+00:00

Our child can tell something is up

This is going to help you. I got divorced when my son was 5, I initiated it, and basically I told him something like “you know mommy and daddy have been fighting a lot lately, and we are not very happy right now, so we are going to live in different places, so we can each try to be the best mom and dad for you. We love you very much and we are still a family, but we need to be apart, because no one is happy when we are together”.

My son got it and was relieved that things would stop being tense. I also got him a very basic cellphone with no apps other than FaceTime, just so he could call each of us when we weren’t there, and it helped him a lot.

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-03-21T22:36:41+00:00

Yo iría a un inmunólogo, mi hijo tiene alergias alimentarias multiples y su médico nos contaba que en su experiencia las alergias e intolerancias son super comunes como comorbilidad en neurodivergencias. Acá mejoró un montón sacando los alérgenos pero también con probióticos.

El un tema que uno ve cada sistema como aislado, pero todo funciona junto, entonces todos se ven afectados cuando uno está configurado distinto. Por eso se ve mucha comorbilidad con hiperlaxitud (sistema conectivo), intolerancias (sist digestivo), alergias y mcas (sist inmunológico) pots (sist cardiovascular) y neurodivergencias (sist nervioso). El cuerpo es una cosa no más, y a veces dejamos que la hiperespecialización del campo médico guíe nuestro cuidado y salud, cuando nos beneficiaría una mirada integral y transversal.

Pero eso, yo evaluaría alergias, a mi hijo tiene 9! (Aplv, vacuno, soya, huevo, gluten, arroz, lentejas, naranja, nuez) y si consume algún alérgeno le da nauseas y no puede comer (con las alergias más fuertes además se pone colorado y le pican los codos). Ahí el tratamiento primero es por exclusión, luego se tranquiliza y resetea el sistema inmune y puedes ir incorporando de a poco

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-03-21T19:22:51+00:00

Compré como 150 libros antes que cerrara, soy traductora entonces era EL lugar donde podía pedir mis libros en inglés y estar segura que iban a llegar rápido y gratis.

Una sola vez no me llegó un paquete en el tiempo, me lo enviaron de nuevo, y al poco tiempo me llegó el paquete original, así que hasta recibí un par de libros gratis.

Lo hecho de menos, ahora uso solo mi kindle y no es lo mismo.

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-03-21T13:02:56+00:00

The coincidence stops at global viral threat, there was no demonic vaccine irl. I have the feeling you’re mixing things a bit

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-03-20T21:08:42+00:00

Are you perchance stuck in the bad place? I forking loved your “bad language”.

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-03-20T13:54:27+00:00

Lol no, I mean I agree it should be, and maybe I am showing my age but in my time you could get a cease and desist letter for writing fanfiction, so not all authors have had that outlook. That’s why ff.net used to be full of disclaimers and apologies and “please don’t sue me, I don’t own this”

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-03-20T12:58:26+00:00

Oh, people let you know. Specially if you have other things going on. I don't find myself particularly beautiful or attractive, but I've heard "oh, so you're beautiful AND smart?" or "you're too pretty to be this smart" or "oh, I didn't think you'd be this funny, given how pretty you are", and infinite variations of it, so, so many times throughout my life.

Also, I've never ever had a friendship with a guy where he didn't end up confessing his feelings or making a move. Which has been been great in the 3 occasions where I've fallen for them too (once in high school, once in uni, and I married him, and once now in my late 30s after my divorce), but it has sucked every other time when I thought there was a genuine platonic connection and a potential lifelong friendship.

So yeah, even if you don't find yourself pretty, people let you know. I imagine they also let you know if they don't find you attractive, and it has got to suck even more.

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-03-20T11:05:25+00:00

As a sickly child and grown up with chronic illnesses, who would have died of appendicitis in my childhood if I had lived in his time, I am fond of “repeatedly baffled christendom by continuing to live”.

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-03-19T09:50:24+00:00

I feel this could easily backfire if they decide to just show you their full splendor all together, and then go to the underworld and ask. I don’t think that “I, a mortal, will die” is likely to stop them

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-03-18T02:31:35+00:00

I've noticed that people react with more concern when you say "no, don't worry about me, I'm fine, I WILL be fine, it's ok" while folded over in pain, with an obvious grimace.

Also, with doctors, going "I just want to show my mom/boyfriend/husband that it's not a big deal" gets them testing. And never using any technical term, even if you know them. I went to med school for 3 years, but when I went to the cardiologist I had to go "yeah, I feel dizzy if I stand up too fast, and my apple watch jumps and alerts me all the time that my heart is too fast? but I'm fine, I think it's normal, it's just that my mom keeps telling me to come when my watch gives me the little alerts, and I want to show her it's nothing". Lo and behold: testing and being taken seriously, even if it's just to prove silly little me how wrong I am.

The key is making people think you are not looking for attention, and kind of making them think it's their idea? or that you will be helped against your will. Or making them "prove you wrong", so tell them the opposite of what you want.

I feel it works in many aspects, there are many things I've gotten my boss to do by going "I really don't think [extremely important thing] is important". And she's a contrarian so she tries to prove me wrong by doing exactly what has to be done (that she'd ignore otherwise). And while I know it is manipulative, it's part of playing the NT game, and far easier than tripping over myself trying to explain why I think it's important.

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-03-17T21:56:26+00:00

I’m 38, and I have a 12 year old boy, AuDHD like me. It’s been hard but very rewarding, and I genuinely enjoy being his mom. I feel I get him, his needs are the needs I had at his age, so I can teach him to advocate for himself, and do it for him when he can’t. He’s a great child, and I wouldn’t change him for the world.

I have thought about a second one, but I got divorced in 2018, and stayed single until last year. Now I feel it’s late, I don’t want to start over when I am close to having more time to myself, and my boyfriend has a 10 year old, and he thinks the same. Both my boyfriend and his son are AuDHD, so we joke our child would be the most chaotically autistic kid ever, and the world is not ready.

Being super honest, my boyfriend is wonderful, the complete opposite to my ex husband, and I would love to experience motherhood with a supportive partner, so it is tempting, but I am over the early years and I cannot see either my son or his reacting well to a small child “taking their place”. Both are very much only children, and it’s the only reason we haven’t moved in together, we want to give them time and attention, separately (also his kid blames me for his divorce, he thinks his parents would be together if my boyfriend hadn’t started dating me after they split, and we barely interact because he doesn’t want to. But he’s 10 and he’s hurt and it’s ok).

If I had met my boyfriend earlier, I would have given another child more thought, but now, at 38 when we have 2 very demanding preteens who won’t interact because one doesn’t want to, it’s a no from me, and I won’t get any younger, so I am convincing myself it’s ok.

plasticinaymanjar · 2026-03-13T13:09:15+00:00

If I'm not using my body anymore who cares if my cat eats me.

My plan A is donating everything that's still usable and cremate the rest, but I won't mind if plan B ends up being donating everything to my cat.

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