Content Warning: what a fuckin’ blowhard 🙄😀
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I’m not trying to claim the Prophet, blessed be his name and all that, but I often feel my mission is at least parallel, he had his visions and developed his philosophy and then sent letters to the world leaders, asking if they would “submit to God,” and I don’t know who to send the letters to, and I’d ask something like if they would begin the journey back to reality, and that seems the same.
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Like we both see a world gone wrong, like we think we know how and why.
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It’s complicated, I think religion is Allism, but it does seem to provide a lot of jobs for . . . aspies, this is not a conversation where I’ll use my self-slur, aspie is enough, again, I may make a general statement that prophets in general are #ND , but I don’t presume to know anything about Islam or its main guy.
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It’s just I would like to challenge to world to change its ways and submit also, to reality, perhaps it is the submission I liked. Of course, submission to reality and submission to God can be opposite things, but then there’s the modern sense that reality adds up to God, so you can read his challenge that way, as long as you stop after the letters. Of course after that, things don’t go the way I would have hoped, and I’m certain war is Allism, and also that it has fewer jobs for the #ND .
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These are the proportions in historical times, one person has a big idea and a bunch of them go to war about it, happens to all of ‘em. But despite inhabiting very different spheres of thought, I think the submission is the insight, the critical bit, FGS, find your place and accept it, stop fighting the world, you’re winning the fight and hurting everybody.
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#Philosophy #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Religion @autistics
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 893 , Wednesday 08/04/2026
Wednesday has been a very mixed day.
Up just after 5am after a really rubbish night where I could not get warm or find a spot that was vaguely comfortable!
I lay in bed until Mrs S got up at around 6am, then made us breakfast.
I did what chores I could that didn’t involve too much stretching or bending.
The biggest news of the day is that I have joined a gym - our local leisure centre was doing a ‘Get healthy’ promotion which one could get by going on a guided tour - it’s a really good deal, at just over £3 a week. The facilities aren’t the best you have ever seen but they are not the worst either & to be honest I don’t need all the fancy kit - all I need is a treadmill, bike & eventually the use of the onsite swimming pools.
The guy who showed us around was really friendly & he was super supportive of me needing one on one sessions - at least for the first few.
So just waiting on a date for my induction session.
Spent the afternoon de-stressing & messing with the configuration of my linux MBP - which I have christened ‘Janus’.
Final Thoughts.
I’m quite pleased with myself for facing my various demons & getting the gym membership sorted, now all I have to do is attend!
My leg is feeling much better tonight, hopefully I’ll be back to normal by the w/e!
I discovered that my favourite Mastodon Tooting platfor is Mona on my ipad - it allows me to do everything I want to with the minimum of fuss & configuration.
That said I have now got a Mastodon client on my Linux box, but none of my text shortcuts are setup there so it will be a while before I use it for more than browsing.
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 Neurodivergent students are being falsely accused of using AI | Antonia Shipley for Nouse
https://nouse.co.uk/articles/2026/03/16/neurodivergent-students-are-being-falsely-accused-of-using-ai/
The survey for my partner's PhD research on #AutisticInertia has already done quite well, although there have been no new responses in the last couple of weeks.
It closes at the end of tomorrow (31st March), so if you would like to contribute your experiences to this research, here's your chance; click the link to get started! https://www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_bJl0HjTghBcg71Y
(The "do it now principle" sometimes works for some of us who experience inertia...)
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 910 , Saturday 25/04/2026
Well what to say about today ….
Sadly nothing edifying or indeed interesting.
It has been a sunny day though!
Final Thoughts.
Just another day in paradise.
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 i bring up the issue of double empathy being treated as solely our problem to fix all the time and for that i’m considered the asshole…
…which is why i say #EnoughIsEnough
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic riddle me this:
work insists on in-person 4 hour retreats twice a year, often around the time i'm out of the office
my accommodations include a provision that i cannot be onsite for more than 2 hours at a pop
as such i need to be remote and can only participate in 30-45 minutes of the 4 hours
so why not have the retreat while i'm out of the office as opposed to making me more of an outisder than i already am
because the inherent othering is the point
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 886 , Wednesday 01/04/2026
Wednesday started around the usual time, just after 7am.
The weather has been all over the place, it was nice & sunny first thing but fairly dull & grey for most of the rest of the day!
Breakfast was followed by the usual chores during which I noticed that the washing machine was leaking from the water inlet. This prompted an impromptu repair - I replaced the seal & that seems to have done the trick.
I also tidied up the box room as we were due to have the decorator come round & give us a price for papering & painting.
I also did a few other small jobs around the house.
After a busy but productive morning I had a relaxed afternoon with Mrs S catching up on a few of her shows.
I made our 2nd Cona coffee - this one was not quite as perfect as yesterday’s, it seems timing is important. Still a bloody good cup of coffee though!
With a perfect sense of timing the coffee grinder I ordered (just a cheap burr one) turned up just as I was washing up the Cona kit. Hey ho, will be able to try our usual Lavazza beans.
Ted, the decorator rocked up Around 7pm & he seems a nice chap who knows his stuff, so now we await a price.
Final Thoughts.
I good, productive day, but my back has decided to hate me again so another rest day tomorrow is in order I think.
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
Conversion therapy is literal nazi science, and we should also be calling it that. Lovaas' ABA framework was the framework Rekers built on, with Lovaas' help, applying the ableist torture schema to a presumed-queer toddler. LGBT and autistic conversion therapy come from the same nazi source. Lovaas was LITERALLY a card-carrying Nazi, arrested for it. He was in Quisling's political party.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09526951251324102
#QueerHistory #DisabilityHistory #history #ABA #ConversionTherapy #ActuallyAutistic @autistics
Stop talking. They don’t know who you are, so they’ll only hurt you.
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#ActuallyAutistic
#ND
#AuDHD
@autistics
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic i swear i am not making this up, but the neurotypicals in my dept are now doing the “praise dear leader with the fragile ego” thing…
...now our unit head (my former direct supervisor) is a passive aggressive narcissist with a fragile ego, but…
…seriously?
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 887 , Thursday 02/04/2026
Thursday started relatively late at around 07:30 which was a nice change.
Mostly rested my back today but there were a few highlights to the day.
Finished fixing the cracked casing on my SteelSeries 9 headphones - hopefully the glue will hold & the fix will be permanent - it was a fiddly repair & I’m not at all sure that much glue was applied in the end.
I also put our new grinder to the test & although it is a cheap one it seems to do the trick - I may invest in a better model when we have the spondoolies to splash on such things. The resulting coffee made in the Cona was really nice!
I have also started the process of putting linux on my 2019 macbook pro, it’s t2 chip can cause complications but nothing a little research can’t get around I hope.
First steps are getting MacOs up to date & then clearing as much space as possible for the Linux image.
I have decided to go with a dual boot config using Ubuntu as this seems to be the least fraught path available.
Final Thoughts.
Not a bad day at all, my back is still giving me grief though!
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
Post 12 in my #autism Awareness Series, on autism working as a catalyst for other conditions:
https://dev.to/raphink/autism-as-a-catalyst-322e
Post 13 in my #autism awareness series, on "I don't know":
https://dev.to/raphink/i-dont-know-the-invisible-crisis-3383
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic as part of my “background noise" during the work day, i watch classic TV show intro mixes on YouTube
for some reason this morning i keep fixating on the awkward running of two of the leads in the Matt Houston intro, specifically of Pamela Hensley and Lincoln Kilpatrick
the show: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083447/
the intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLvl4TUTVHg
Honestly I have wasted my life trying to explain the simplest causality and science to them. They’re just too far gone, I mean historically and prehistorically, they seem to have arrived already too far gone. They continue on their divergent trajectory, but it doesn’t look like anything ever could have stopped them, even at the start.
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I see their life cycle, such as it is, I don’t mean it’s functional, but how do you change a life cycle? It’s like asking a caterpillar not to pupate. The first caterpillar that ever did likely didn’t think it had a choice about it.
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I might try my failed life experiment again if I had time and was a billionaire, except this time I’d lose the mother and pack my kids off to Mars to do it. Still, the first failure kind of suggests that wouldn’t work either.
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I know, NT psych even has reasons it wouldn’t work, repression and whatnot, but there’s hints that even without repressed abuse and attitude transmission, that a normal child may be sort of automatically abused and bitter, the way my kid speaks and knowing who I am and what I did, it’s like they can’t imaging a gentle father and couldn’t see one right in front of them. They know my unimpeachable history, they lived with me, but they’re sure I secretly wanted to hurt them regardless. The actual literal abscence of a crime carries no weight, they think they KNOW there had to be malice, this looks like paranoia to me, I can’t put a dent in it.
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And everything I ever felt thought said and did got erased by it.
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#ActuallyAutistic #ND #Philosophy #Anthropology @autistics
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic article from a faculty member at the university i work at…
…the below section heading is truly what all accommodation fights boil down to…
"Requesting accommodations is disabling because HR staff who knows little about me, my disability or my job decides if the costs of my accommodations are worth the value that I bring to the institution. "
https://themindhears.org/2026/04/02/the-accommodations-process-is-disabling/
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 888 , Friday 03/04/2026
Oh Day 888 - I’m not at all sure why it is significant. 😆
Friday started stupidly early at around 06:00, I’m not sure what woke me but the noise of the kids next door meant that I gave up trying to sleep & read until Mrs S got up at 7am.
I made us breakfast then after we had watched an episode of ‘Father Brown’ I sorted my chores & then worked on the MacBook conversion to its dual boot config.
Sadly I got a bit enthusiastic in clearing up space & ended up having to reinstall MacOS … good thing there are a couple of backups if I ever need them.
Mrs S spent the morning at her mum eating away at the seemingly endless task of sorting thru 50 plus years of stuff. There was a bit of a find though, in the shape of a box of photos & documents tracing her immediate family back to 1883.
She spent this evening happily going thru them.
We continued our ‘For all Mankind’ fest this afternoon & this evening, & had pizza for tea.
Final Thoughts.
A cup of Cona coffee is becoming a nice afternoon tradition now, not the fastest way to make coffee but there is something pleasing about the process & the slightly magical way that the water passes up thru the coffee grinds & then the coffee pours back down after it has brewed.
Not a bad day all in all - I need to get fighting the door demos after Easter but I’m happy to leave it until then.
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
RE: https://mastodon.social/@filmfreak75/116518714951188078
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic Miss Team just tried to pull rank on me over a business critical meeting i'm scheduling since it may conflict with her performative nonsense that has not been announced yet
by the way, she has no authority over me in any way shape or form and has no context for the business critical meeting
but, but, doing performative crap is always more important than doing actual work
One mentality that really bothers me, is an uncritical assumption of how behavior is received by others, or at least whether it's effecive.
Often not even the question of "do I find this appealing/pleasant" and especially not "why would others react positively".
Only "confirmation bias" rationalisations on a kitchen sink (evolutionary) psychology level.
One big example is how people "behave like a wannabe influencer" on social media.
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@GreenRoc
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I live in your nightmare, it’s a building that specifically invites pets, there’s a common dogwash room. Just down the hall from me is a young dog, I don’t know breeds, lovely midnight grey coloured terrier of some sort, not a foot high, but he has a voice like a gun, you can hear him a mile away and every time he goes outside he barks hello at every door along the hallway.
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You’d want to kill me, I’m alone and lonely - so I say hello back, just say it in my living room, I figure dogs have great ears, he hears me. Though with his voice you think he might make himsef deaf. I mean people are always shushing him, telling him to shut up, to him, we’re all talking to him, I guess. I don’t think I’m making it worse.
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lovely dog, love him, and he loves everyone, but a little verbose. 😀💜 My issues aren’t as bad as some, but face to face, in person, when that dog barks, I jump out of my skin. 😬
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#ActuallyAutistic #SensoryNightmares #ND @autistics
We are already in your Location:
Why Location Owners need to have more Autistic Awareness
In our FAQ there's a script for requesting permission from private locations to document them and upload them to prepped.to, so that autistic folks can upload sensory info about them not only in text (which doesn’t require permission) but also in images and videos, so that others can consult richer info before going there.
Some locations consent right off, some ask for clarifications, and some just don't respond at all. But the most bewildering response you get when asking is the following:
“That's a great initiative, but I'd rather not have my business there, because I'm afraid that if autistic people started showing up here, I wouldn't know how to properly accommodate them.”
As part of a vibrant autistic community I find this reply both hilarious and infuriating. Let's start with the latter: It isn’t okay to knowingly choose not to make your location accessible to disabled people. While location owners may have other reasons, not to mention excuses, for not making their location wheelchair accessible, they would never say: “I don’t want to make it wheelchair accessible, because that would make people in wheelchairs come here.” And if they did, that would be breaking disability-rights and discrimination laws in many countries.
But somehow, when it’s about autism, some location owners feel comfortable saying just that. “Even though making my location accessible to autistic people by informing them of conditions and service in advance costs me nothing and is facilitated by the autistic community itself for free, I rather not let them document here, because I don’t want them to come to my business.” This is just plain discrimination trying to present as genuine concern.
But it’s also hilarious because current assessments are that 3% of humanity are autistic, so your location already has autistic visitors, whether you, or even they, know it or not. Some of us are easy to spot: We might be the potential customer who walks in, realizes that the conditions inside are untenable, be it because of the lighting, the sound, ambient perfume or smoke, or how crowded it is. In this case, we may dally for a couple of seconds, then walk right back out again. Lost business right there. We might be the one who gets in and stands around looking lost, not sure what to do next. When staff approaches us to offer service, we might flinch, freeze or stutter. We may be the queerdo in pink leopard pattern and gold, or the goth in full black and white makeup. We might be the one constantly holding a bottle or stimming with a fidget toy. Or you may not notice the most gifted and avid maskers of us at all.
But we are already all around you. We are your visitors, your clients, your employees, your neighbors, your colleagues, the person next to you on public transport and behind you in line at the store. We might even be part of your family or friend circle. And you might even be one of us without realizing it yet.
This is another reason why Autistic Awareness Month is important, and Autistic Acceptance, Accommodation and Appreciation are still far off. People need to realize that we are already here, there and everywhere.
If you have a hundred clients, in all likelihood, three of them are autistic. This is why, if you help autistic folks prepare before visiting your business, you will just have more successful visits and more clients, and fewer instances of people feeling lost or overwhelmed in your business.
Sticking your head in the sand about it isn’t going to help you, your business or your clients.
We invite businesses and location owners around the world to allow and encourage autistic clients to document the sensory conditions, navigation and service instructions in your location for the autistic community to prep with before visiting, for smooth and successful visits.
Your location hasn’t been documented yet, and you want it to be? Email us at contact[at]aut2aut.org, and we will make it happen.
And if you want to be extra helpful, you can become a business prepped.to supporter for as little as 10 Euros a month. To thank you for your support, we will add a badge to your entry, so everyone getting informed on prepped.to before visiting your location knows how much you care.
Links:
FAQ: https://prepped.to/faq
Blogpost: https://prepped.to/blog/we-are-already-in-your-location-why-location-owners-need-to-have-more-autistic-awareness
April Autistic Adult Awareness campaign: https://gofund.me/758a99cb0
#ActuallyAutistic
@autistics
#AutismAcceptanceMonth
#autismawareness
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 889 , Saturday 04/04/2026
Saturday started at just after 7am.
Breakfast was followed by chores & then I got lost down the rabbit hole that is getting a fully specked version of Ubuntu onto the MacBook. I am caught in a catch 22 situation that I need a working wifi to fix an incompatibility with the internal wifi. The silly Ubuntu installer wont recognise a LAN connection so an external wifi dongle has been ordered.
The rest of the setup works fine, the dual boot works 9 times out of 10, although some of its added options are not for the fearful!
Hopefully once the wifi is sorted the rest will fall into place.
Final Thoughts.
Autistic hyper focus ruled today, although I was not as bad as I can be, I did at least surface for food & to respond to Mrs S when she spoke to me.
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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To my english-speaking followers 💕
Dear followers,
thank you so much for being interested in my posts. 🙏🏻
This is my second time in the fediverse.
First time around, I came as a seeker, looking for information, help, anything related to autism to help me understand what this new revelation was supposed to mean to me and my life.
After a while, I had to leave because it became too much. I couldn't cope with all this wonderful interaction, it was just too much.
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