Pause — Autisticisms

Pause — Autisticisms #2: Cinema & Absurd Rigor

Florent 12/14/2025 No Comments

A short autistic pause to evoke this time a rocambolesque situation linked to my rigidity regarding rules—especially those in movie theaters—which are nevertheless displayed in huge letters with icons on a blue background in the UGC cinemas I go to, just before the film starts. Namely: avoid talking during the film, put your phone in airplane mode. For some people, these rules are apparently mere suggestions. Some of them did not see the scene I’m about to recount coming.

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Pause — Autisticisms #1: Punctuality & Idioms

Florent 11/25/2025 No Comments

Over the years, I’ve collected a whole range of quirks — the kind that never show up in diagnostic manuals, yet quietly shape my everyday life. They’ve become part of how I make sense of my autism, and in a way, they’ve even helped confirm that the diagnosis fits. So here starts this series: small autistic misadventures, sometimes ridiculous, sometimes funny, always distinctly mine. I call them my autisticisms — a word I came up with to name these wonderfully awkward, unmistakably autistic oddities… the ones that make me smile (and occasionally other people too).

Pause — Autisticisms

Pause — Autisticisms #2: Cinema & Absurd Rigor

Pause — Autisticisms #1: Punctuality & Idioms

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