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@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic … the facility was good about keeping the lights dim, but there was an abundance of visual and auditory stimulation (including internal gossip)…

…the only way to get through pre- and post-op was to keep my eyes closed to try to minimize the stimulus…

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@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic …i've read multiple people's accounts of their overstimulation in medical settings, but never thought mine would turn out like this…

P.S. with three active cats at home, who like to jump and walk all over me, this is going to be a very interesting recovery

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@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic #AustisticPrideDay from #StichApp, one of my favorite Apple Arcade games

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stitch/id1581052096

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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 907 , Wednesday 22/04/2026

Wednesday started at around 7am.

Got my breakfast then had to take Mrs S for a blood test before dropping her off at work.

Straight to the gym after that & progress was made.

Did my chores when I got home then hit the PS5 this afternoon.

Met Mrs S at around 17:30 at B&Q, we have decided to paint her study rather than put wallpaper up so we returned the rolls I bought last month & got 5 litres of paint. Crucially I didn’t think to put it in a bag or anything.

We decided to go out for tea & ended up at one of our favourite eateries out on the edge of the moors, it was a lovely drive but very twisty & turny & bumpy!

Had a nice meal, bavette steak & chips with a side salad for me, very nice although the steak wasn’t very warm.

We had a nice trip home & got back just after 8pm.
We went to get the paint out, only to find it had tipped & spilt!

There was paint all over the boot, it was everywhere!

Mrs S took on her rabbit in the headlights mode so yours truly spent the next hour & a half cleaning the car. There is still paint on the upholstery but I’m hoping that our little vax will sort that out tomorrow, if not then we will have some nice cream highlights on the back seat!

Final Thoughts.

Sometimes the smallest oversight can ruin a day!

Also my right knee was really not happy coming up the stairs when I finally made it up for a shower & bed. I do wonder if I caused more damage than I thought when my thigh went twang the other week.

Oh well tomorrow is another day, & to be perfectly honest not one I’m looking forward to, I sense much frustration in my immediate future.

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

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@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic and this is why i regularly mute entire chat threads https://chirp.zadzmo.org/@aaron/statuses/01JY1PZ1BSRJPMNANTFEYPQQ4S

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@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic need the #neurodivergent version of this…
https://mas.to/@skeletor/114858218729800169

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@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic

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@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic i know unlikely, but maybe if she wins, Netflix will reconsider cancellation…
https://mastodon.social/@hollywoodreporter/114858199530257184

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Scary day and night

Part of me doesn't want to complain because it's probably nothing but I think I need to at least get this off my chest. It's going to be a rough day.

In the past 24 hours people have come to my door twice. This is unprecedented in the 2 decades I've lived here. It's a basement suite with its own entrance hidden from street view because you have to go down stairs first. The number of times I've had people come to my door unexpectedly averages less than once a year, often years in between.

Yesterday two people came to the door. I saw them because I have a window that looks out to the outside stairway, but the blinds hide anything but silhouettes. They knocked lightly, but these days I just wait for them to go away because its usually missionaries or something. They stayed for a couple of minutes before leaving. When I checked outside later, my screen door was slightly open. It made me nervous, but no big deal.

Then last night at 3am I woke up to what I thought was knocking at my front door. Hard to tell because I was asleep and I listen to music while I sleep. It could have been knocking on the neighbor's side door since that is not far from my bedroom window, or something else. Still, I was alarmed enough that I had to get up. I could see through the window that the light outside my door was on, it has a motion sensor. 99.9% of the time this means a cat, because they like to hang around my place for some reason. But I didn't see any people, The light went out about 10 minutes later which means that it probably came on about the same time as I heard the noise. I was so nervous I stayed awake for a coupe of hours before I could go back to bed. The whole time the light didn't come back on, making it less likely that it was a cat. And when I did go back to bed I didn't listen to music just in case.

So I was in bed for about three hours, not sure how much of that I was able to sleep. When I woke up, I checked my front door and this time my screen door was wide open (I had made sure to close it before). So someone was there. But whether that was when I heard the noise or possibly when I was asleep and didn't notice, I can't be sure.

So now I'm paranoid, hypervigiliant. I don't know who they were, what they want, or if they will come back. Nothing by my door is stolen, shovels and my locked up bike. I've tried to get on with my day, but I decided that I can't have a bath because they might come back then, and next to being asleep, that's like the next most vulnerable time for me. Which sucks because it's not only part of my morning routine, but it's my main way of relaxing, resetting for the new day. I have often told people that it is my equivalent of other people needing their morning coffee, because without it I'm just tired and cranky. But this time I'm tense and don't know what to do with myself. It's hard to distract myself from all the intrusive thoughts of worst case scenarios. I can't stop looking out the window.

Anyway, that's probably enough for now. This day already sucks.

#ActuallyAutistic @autistics

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@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thinkingautismguide.com/2025/07/can-we-talk-about-the-term-low-support-needs.html

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Religion, explained:
(evolution as religion)
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It’s not the afterlife, it’s the next life, the next generation
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it’s not your soul, it’s your genes you need to be protecting, and not the way the warriors think, the way you would protect your soul is the way you protect your genes, by getting right with the world.
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This is what the prophets have been trying to tell you, when you abuse, you harm your GENES and so we are punished in the next life, meaning the next generation.
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“Soul,” in this sense, is a better definition for genes than the popular version. This is life as religion here, in theory, how things may have been understood in the deeper past, before we became the warriors and lost the sense of things.
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(Preach, you silly white fool. It’s Tuesday, FFS. 🙄😜)
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#actuallyautistic
#ActualllyAutistic
#AutisticScience
#AutisticPhilosophy
#Philosophy

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@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic sharing without comment since none is needed…
https://mas.to/@skeletor/114722415882458231

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@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic reasonates
https://mastodon.social/@HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2/114968553320372440

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@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic so be autistic?
https://mas.to/@PicardTips/114842265980520328

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@autistics #ActuallyAutistic started off my day cutting off ties with work’s disability affinity group since they're nothing more than an arm of the administration...

…and now trying to deal with the standard neurotypical performative nonsense and it drives me to screaming...

…”I FUCKIING HATE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU”…

…and this is why i need to be fully remote, since if i were in-office i would either need to repress this, or get fired for saying it out loud…

…and no, i’m not ok

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@autistics #ActuallyAutistic for a change the disabled group at work posted something relevant and without it having to come from me directly…

https://autismspectrumnews.org/youve-never-seen-an-untraumatized-autistic-adult-neither-have-i/

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@autistics #ActuallyAutistic ever notice that people who assume productivity is tied to being in meetings are the worst people in general?

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I often wonder if #ActuallyAutistic folk are more vulnerable to childhood trauma due to how they interpret punishment.

So if a parent shouts at a neurotypical kid, its probably very upsetting and scary. But for a lot of ND kids, you can probably multiply that by a factor of 10. And I wonder if that makes us more vulnerable to being traumatised than others?

Obviously, the solution here is gentle(r) parenting styles, but none the less. #autism

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@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic has this ever worked for anyone?
https://mas.to/@skeletor/114739157508602844

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Individuals with ASD who are more adept at hiding externally visible behaviors (due to social pressure to conform) will often have developed mechanisms for presenting more neurotypically, but their experience of it doesn't change. For example, I can shake someone's hand, look them in the eyes, and make some small-talk at a conference, but I'm dying inside the whole time—it's so uncomfortable. I don't like strangers touching me. I don't like touching people I don't have a close relationship to. But a lifetime of having to "pass" for interviews, events, etc. has made me "able" to (perhaps convincingly).

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@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic thank you for the varied feedback

it’s clear i’m experiencing some residual trauma based on past and on-going dynamics

always very glad i can count on the community to help with stuff like this
https://mastodon.social/@filmfreak75/114864122629197970

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