Tabitha Isobel

no one tells you that being autistic can be expensive 🤍

not in a dramatic way
not in a “feel sorry for me” way 😅

just in a quiet, everyday way

paying extra to feel okay

to feel safe

to function in a world that wasn’t built for your nervous system

headphones so things aren’t painfully loud

takeaway when your body won’t let you cook

taxis because public transport is too much

buying the same “safe” things over and over

losing money when your capacity suddenly disappears

it adds up even if no one sees it

and that’s not even talking about how hard it can be
to get a job
to keep a job
to work consistently in a system that doesn’t accommodate you

so you’re navigating higher costs
with less stability
at the same time

and from the outside it can look like
“high maintenance”
“bad with money”
“too sensitive”

but it’s not that

it’s adaptation
it’s support
it’s doing what you need to survive in your body

and maybe if you’ve ever felt guilty for the way you spend money

or like you’re “too much” for needing these things

you’re not

you were just never given the language for it
and the space to need what you need without shame

i see you 🤍

What’s something you couldn’t live without?

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Ps. all my accommodations I keep linked in my bio :)
I hope you find them helpful too 🤍

I get asked a lot how I knew my panic attacks weren’t actually panic attacks

and honestly… I didn’t at the time

I just knew something didn’t fully make sense

it wasn’t fear
it was too much

figuring that out changed everything for me

I stopped blaming myself
I started understanding myself

and I realised I wasn’t broken
I just didn’t have the right language yet

so I made something I really wish I had back then 🤍

if anxiety has never fully explained your life…
this might help you too 🫂🤍