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@autistics #ActuallyAutistic it’s been 5 minutes and they’re still going…
…if you two really need to show who has the bigger pretentious boner, get a fucking room
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@autistics #ActuallyAutistic curious if any of us have been accused of having oppositional defiant disorder for simply standing up for ourselves in conflict rife situations?
asking as i just learned this is a perception of me by the leadership of the disabled group at work.
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My Assessment of U.S.-based Left-Wing Media Podcasts
I’ve been listening to left-wing podcasts since the 2024 election and this is how I feel about them:
1. Pod Save America: Regurgitation of MSNOW talking points, venting. Conditioning for eventual resignment of situation, not solution-oriented.
2. The Bulwark/Bulwark Takes: Conditioning for eventual resignment. Not solution-oriented at all. Listening to this makes me feel hopeless. Increasing regurgitation of MSNOW talking points.
3. The Rachel Maddow Show: On the days she’s actually on there and not substituted by someone else or not plugging her projects, she’s solution-oriented and calling for action. She’s actually the only solution-oriented host on MSNOW. All the rest are telling you to be afraid and worry. She’s relaying news about the growing resistance.
4. Countdown With Keith Olbermann: Highly solution-oriented. 2/3rds of his podcast is scathing but the final third focuses on sports or his rich personal life as a media veteran. (I’ve been a fan of Keith’s since he told then-president George Bush Jr. to “shut the hell up” back in 2008.)
5. Thom Hartmann Show: Thom used to be on Russia Today until their U.S. branch got kicked out of the country. Thom got wise and bailed ship when he saw the writing on the wall. Now he’s affiliated with the left, but sometimes offers good advice for resistance. The call-ins are interesting but too rushed. The AI slop filler music his wife makes for the show is so embarrassingly bad, it makes the show unlistenable at times.
6. The Thinking Atheist with Seth Andrews: Seth’s been increasingly political on his shows and his occasional speeches and monologues are often inspiring.
7. The David Pakman Show: If you can get past the self-serving snark, sometimes his analyses are insightful. No real call to action, but good for hearing different angles of corporate & government-pushed media narratives.
8. Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan González. Amy’s a long-time respected independent journalist and she often covers the stories corporate media won’t. She also covers protests on-the-ground that corporate media won’t. (She’s one of my role models.)
9. MSNOW podcasts (The Last Word, The Beat, All In, The 11th Hour, etc…) Corporate sponsor-filtered left-leaning talking points. Guests are either retired generals, writers for corporate-sponsored major publication companies, legislators or campaign spokespeople/advisors. All guests are given the same media training, starting their interview answers with “Look… “ , sprinkling a dozen mentions of “the American people” and ending with “At the end of the day…” They tend to focus on the Government stance and sensationalism, normalizing the current regime via high repetition.
🙏🙏🙏 Feel free to disagree! These are just my personal impressions but my perspective is just one of billions. If there are podcasts you recommend, do feel free to share them in Comments! I’d love to know alternatives! 🙏☺️ (NOTE: I personally want to listen to solution-oriented podcasters that give the public ideas on how to make change, not just a retelling of news narratives with reactions. Kinda tired of reactions at this juncture. Also, no rage-baiting podcasts, please. I understand the need for them, but my cortisol levels are dangerously high enough. Need something more thought-out and rational. And I can’t handle ad-libbers who say “like…” every other word. It throws my old regimented Autistic brain off too much. 😅🙏 I’m picky but that’s just me. I’m formally trained a bit in broadcasting and that background is where my standards come from. Thanks in advance? 🙏)
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 794 , Tuesday 30/12/2025
Tuesday has been a much quieter day.
A day of doing very little & relaxing.
Final Thoughts.
Oooh last day of the year tomorrow - where the heck did the rest of the year go!
These modern years, they must make the days shorter or something - it’ll be the whole AI thing!
Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic few years ago i had bronchitis for 6 weeks and no matter how many times i tried signaling (and outright saying) i was sick, never sunk in with my bosses...
...and i did work through all but 1 day of the 6 weeks to the point my general practice doctor yelled at me for doing so
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYACRCsMa6r/
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 796 , Thursday 01/01/2026
We got up late, ate, drank & made merry!
Final Thoughts.
Happy New Year my friends!
Let us be kind to each other & support each other thru 2026!
Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves
this might explain a lot of my "inappropriate" reactions to emotionally charged situations. it really doesn't help being autistic. i *already* have a difficult time regulating my emotions (hence the early bpd diagnosis).
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 797 , Friday 02/01/2026
Up at around 7am this morning as Mrs S was back at work for the day.
After the chores were done I was going to read my new book - Dan Brown’s ‘Origin’
But ADHD leapt to the fore & I ended up messing about with the SwitchBot ™ hub which has been being contrary over the last couple of days!
We had herby ham & cheese sarnies for lunch.
Settled down with my book after lunch for an hour then spent an hour or so on the PS5.
Pizza for tea then a couple of Mrs S’s tv shows.
Final Thoughts.
Back to normality. *sigh*
Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves
"Missing Brain Receptor May Hold the Key to Autism"
WTF, NeuroscienceNews? Missing? It says in the fucking summary that it's reduced, not missing, and why do you consistently paint it as some defective form of a normal brain? We aren't the same as you. It's not "missing" OR "reduced". It's just different from you, you assholes! You left out the phrase "relative to".
Heaven forbid people be different from each other! That might lead to...diversity! Scandalous!
What AuDHD preferences, coping strategies and military methods have in common
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@autistics #ActuallyAutistic funny how when we do this “we're not team players”, but for the "socially acceptable" it's "taking care of one self”
@autistics So I've been reading Devon's Unmasking Autism. I find myself unsettled:
1. Devon is insistent on one or two qualities shared among all autistics. He emphasizes repeatedly that we are all bottom up thinkers. He seems to say that this is not just universal among autistics but that it shows up pervasively in all of our experiences.
2. He notes overlapping conditions but seems to present little to no information about the lived experience of being autistic while also being X for various values of X.
3. I *do* appreciate exploring LGBTQ+, black, and brown experiences. Eating disorders however, in my incomplete reading thus far, seem to have limited exploration.
4. Late-diagnosed experience is explored a little but so far not deeply.
5. Much of his writing seems anecdotal and based on his own experiences while sometimes tangentially and occasionally deeply exploring others' experiences.
6. I see his work cited repeatedly in the community.
Objectively, I find (5) concerning exactly because most of this work is literally not objective. I realize making such a work requires advancing the science significantly. Subjectively, I am concerned because I see this work lauded somewhat frequently.
To my other points, I find myself excluded from his work in a number of ways. In particular, I am most disconcerted by:
A. The absence of a deep exploration of #actuallyaudhd. This presentation occurs significantly in the #actuallyautistic community. With his work so focused on the autistic experience with little exploration of what it's like to live as a significant subtype? I literally am gaslighting myself as I read his book. Am I really autistic? Devon's definitions don't apply to me easily.
B. Arguably a subset of A. Am I a "bottom up thinker"? Maybe? I wouldn't use those words.
I am, instead, this:
- A *pattern matcher*. Given many disparate data points, far and near, not even in the same domain, I tend see systems—sometimes fractally. It causes me to rightly predict outcomes most others don't see as early, Examples: a) I predicted COVID's explosive growth and risk a couple of months before the media told the public (not self-aggrandizing here but literal example), b) I predict the outcome of most every book and television program I take in. Re: b) it is the rare storyteller who gets by me without a deus ex machina (and I deeply appreciate those precious remarkable works that do surprise... but I digress)
- late diagnosed ADHD-C and later diagnosed autistic with C-PTSD who has had BED most of his life
I not only don't feel seen in this book but find myself literally gaslit reading it. If I don't match his definition, and was diagnosed autistic, is my diagnosis therefore wrong? Without an exploration of AuDHD, I am left feeling unmoored by his work. I find myself looking for patterns in my behavior that match his definition and don't. Selection and confirmation bias makes this even more dysphoric!
Last week, I tried a new food item. I found it a pain in the ass to eat. Oh, was it tasty? Yes, it was, but it did not lend itself to be eaten with a spoon or a fork on the couch.
I figured I'm probably not the only autistic individual which ranks food items by how convenient they are to eat. 😂
Like when I go to a restaurant, I sometimes order a veggie burger or some sandwich. They are tasty too, but they tend to disintegrate and drop bits and pieces when I eat them. I like my eating to be less disordered than this. So it is not that I never order these, but more a "do I really want to experience disordered eating right now" kind of thing.
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 805 , Saturday 10/01/2026
Saturday started about 07:30 & was pretty unremarkable.
What snow there is has frozen into a crust - if we get more overnight / tomorrow it’s gonna be fun!
Final Thoughts.
Not a bad day.
Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 796 , Thursday 01/01/2026
New Years Day started very late at around 08:45.
It’s been a quiet day, we binge watched ‘Trigger Point’ season 3 - good solid drama, shame about the green screen car scenes! 😆
I made us a cheat stew for tea - a few too many buffet meals over the last week, I fancied something different!
Final Thoughts.
A nice start to the year!
Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic been trying this for awhile now, but as one would expect, i'm still viewed as a hostile asshole regardless
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 798 , Saturday 03/01/2026
TL;DR Yay for the chores getting done & putting up the mirror. Oooops USA kidnaps leader of another country. Green Party here I come!
Saturday started surprisingly late at around 07:30.
After breakfast Mrs S went shopping & I finished the daily chores & then in an unusual burst of energy I cleaned the coffee machine, put up a full length mirror in my room (one rescued from my late MiLs ) & hoovered the lounge.
It felt good to have achieved these small goals!
Then I made the mistake of catching up on my TL ... Oh Nuggan’s holey nuts!
The orange oaf has invaded Venezuela & kidnapped their President (not a nice guy but still!) & their 1st lady!
Subsequently the UK's pitiful excuse for a PM stated: "The UK has long supported a transition of power in Venezuela. We regarded Maduro as an illegitimate President and we shed no tears about the end of his regime."
I don't usually get political here but WTAF!?!
Not surprisingly these events took the gloss off my day.
Final Thoughts.
I feel terribly sorry for the people of Venezuela, they have had to put up with a corrupt dictator as a leader & have now been plunged into a war that they cannot win with a wanna be dictator. I hope that, when the dust settles in the months possibly years to come they do manage to return to a form of government that more concerned with the welfare of its people than the wealth of its resources!
I'm done with Labour, they are led by a man with no more morals than BJ & have utterly forsaken their grass roots supporters in so many ways.
Old Zack Polanski seems like an upstanding kinda guy & let's face it the Greens are far more in tune with my ideological standpoint than any of the other parties. (With the exception of the SDP, but Ed Davey needs to stop acting the fool because I just can't take him seriously!)
Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves
it’s like finding out you’re in a werewolf family, you grow up normal and civilized, and in adulthood you learn that your family was attacked, infected and destroyed by some pathogen. It got my siblings, and some of my children, making snarling, unthinking beasts of them and if I thought there was a cure I would surely seek it for them, equal and opposite
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#ND #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD @autistics
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@autistics #ActuallyAutistic the perfect poster for the #EnoughIsEnough movement...
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Why I don't think that most men are monsters, SA, feminism, intersectionality
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 902 , Friday 17/04/2026
Friday started at crack of sparrows fart - aka 06:00, this was because I had to give Mrs S a lift into work so I could have the car to get me to the gym for my 1st session
The gym session was great, Lee the trainer was really helpful & understanding.
I also met 2 guys I used to work with decades ago when I was still living with my parents on the other side of the hills! I have not seen them in 25 years or more & to find out that they have been living in the valley is amazing!
We had a great time reminiscing & the hour passed really quickly.
Lee reckons that I should aim for 2 or 3 sessions a week so I will have to try & work that into my routine!
While it was a good session there were lots of folk there & I was a little overwhelmed so I spent this afternoon decompressing by fly ing around the milky way.
Pizza for tea with one of Mrs S’s cop shows & then an ep of ‘All Creatures Great & Small’ to end the evening with.
Final Thoughts.
While it was brilliant to see Neil & Bill again after all these years the prospect of regularly interacting with them is daunting bordering on outright anxiety. I feel that I will be judged & found very wanting.
Time will tell.
I am going to try & get to the gym at least 3 times a week, maybe even get down every day since I have full membership … we shall see.
The exercises Lee had me do seem to have fixed my leg! I need to see if it plays up tonight but certainly at the moment is seems like an almost magical cure.
The downside is that obviously my excuses for not doing the garden have now evaporated!
I was travelling in search of a new ship in Elite, but having done some reading rather than going for the Alliance Challenger, the Krait Phantom seems the better ship - if only for the fabulous name! (Although I am disappointed that it lacks the coffee machine that it’s variant the Krait MkII has apparently! 😆 )
Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 806 , Sunday 11/01/2026
Sunday started around 8am after a decent lie in.
I made breakfast for me & Mrs S then did my chores.
Got about an hour on the PS5 romping around in KCD2 - I’ve finally found my characters dog ‘Mutt’ so next is to reclaim my horse.
Mrs S wanted to binge watch the latest series (s3) of ‘Blue Lights’ this afternoon & evening.
Final Thoughts.
Ugh, reality bites, I will have to get my ass into gear this coming week, people to do & things to see!
Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves