Hey guys! Welcome back to my blog! Before I begin, I’d like to state my new plan with this blog. It has been hard to keep up with writing every week and finding a new topic, so I will be posting when I find a topic that I think I should talk about. So Embracing my Superpower will no longer be a weekly thing, at least for the time being, and please do not ask why. It is my decision, and I shouldn’t have to explain it to people.
For this post, I will be using a post from one of my favorite autism activists, @neurodivergent_lou on Instagram. She’s great! I’d like to first thank everyone for all of your patience with my frequent hiatuses nowadays. I want to focus on things other than my blog including my job, and my personal growth outside of autism! I literally hardly have any energy to write anymore, which is sad because it’s something I love, but you know, adulting lol! Autistic people/people with autism usually describe perfectionism as wanting to build relationships with others and pleasing other people as well. Even at young ages, we face negativity from society because of autistic traits, which may cause us to feel like we aren’t good enough, which will cause us to knit pick everything we do and want to be the best at it all the time. Forming relationships with NT’s is one of the main reasons why we strive for perfection in everything we do. People with autism/autistic people don’t have an easy time with communication, and friendship so that may mean we may try to excel in certain areas to fit in, and be liked, and we of course, want to gain people in our lives because of this. Autistic traits can also be similar to perfectionism, which I learned from this passage in her post. “Although a drive for perfectionism can come from a desire to please and build relationships with others, it can also come from an internal motivation. Autistic traits can also be very closely related to the traits which drive perfectionism such as attention to detail, a need for certainty and black and white thinking”. I definitely relate to all of this a lot, and it makes sense on how perfectionism, and black and white thinking go together. With black and white thinking (week 21), you can sometimes have thoughts of either you have to get everything right on a test, or you fail, which also links to perfectionism. Autistic traits have to do a lot with our want and need for perfectionism, including detail orientation, needing order, needing rules, hyper focusing, wanting certainty, and having hard wiring! So that’s it for this post. Thank you so much for reading! My other links I usually post are inactive, so make sure to follow @embracingmysuperpower on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/p/CZFIu8uMq1Y/?utm_medium=copy_link
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