A gifted autistic person pretending to be a good person.
(I do my best but I don't always succeed)
#gifted #giftedness #autism #autistic #actuallyautistic
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@autistics #ActuallyAutistic and now for something slightly more uplifting…
https://mas.to/@skeletor/115265541124949704
When RFK Jr. "investigates" autism, be aware that he is deliberately and knowingly engaging in eugenics.
He's literally looking for ways to eliminate people like me from the human race.
I'm autistic.
So when you ask "what causes you?", you're positioning me as something that needs to be investigated. Something that needs to be "cured", which is to say, eliminated. Because I think in a different pattern than some folk do.
When someone says, "X causes autism, so avoid X", they're saying, "or your kid might have (gasp) *autism* too!"
This is eugenics. It's Nazi stuff. Not an exaggeration. A "science" under the Nazis.
We are not broken. We do not need fixing. We just think differently. But we have always been around. That dude that wrote an eleven-volume handwritten guide to every herb in one county in England, or wherever it was? Telling me he wasn't one of my people? GTF.
We are and always have been productive and innovative members of society. If anything, we should be seen as an advantage to the species: diversity of thought is *better* thought. Not ours or yours better - but ours and yours are.
We aren't a threat, we're not (for the most part) needing round-the-clock specialist care - but be human, will you? If someone needs that, maybe give it to them? Because they're people?
Didn't we fight a big war about this a few years back? Something about a guy with a bad moustache who didn't like the disabled people in his society? Among his many targets?
Seems to me his central thesis was "I will decide who's people and who isn't people."
And that some of us are saying, "How about maybe not? How about all the people matter, and we try to keep ourselves alive all together?"
I cannot personally imagine how anyone decides his plan is better. Or more moral.
But I'll be over here on Team Everybody Else.
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I've done the thing I've never thought I'd do - made an appointment to be officially assessed for Autism and ADHD. I know I'm autistic, but I'm less sure about ADHD, and want to see if ADHD medication might help me. I hate the idea of being officially diagnosed for ADHD but not Autism, not sure how rational that is.
Also, there are times when I have to tell someone that I'm autistic and I dislike having to negotiate the whole "but are you officially diagnosed" thing.
I'm conflicted about this as I believe that autistic self diagnosis is completely valid. I also wonder how the person assessing me will deal with the fact that I'm self diagnosed.
The place I'm going to (the Neurodiversity Center in Cape Town) has a good reputation for dealing with neurodivergent adults. So I hope I don't regret doing this. It's expensive too.
Must admit that part of what motivates me is just wanting to be *seen* for who I am.
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic what do you call it when you receive seemingly good news but are unable to appreciate it since you're waiting for the universe to give you a wedgie to balance everything out?
Me feeling #AuDHD overwhelm: I need a break. I need to sit in peace and quiet for a while.
Me sitting in peace and quiet: This is tedious, isn't it. I need to watch TV / surf the internet / do something.
Me "doing something": Why isn't the overwhelm going away?
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic read the whole 🧵 -- it's worth it https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/115253863448085711
Realised something about my autistic self earlier and wondering if other people are the same.
If you're autistic (self diagnosis is valid!), when you have a list (not necessarily written down - even a loose list in your head) of things you plan on getting done, and one of the things doesn't go as planned and you can't get it done, are you able to skip past that one and get the other things done?
(Edit: this might be ADHD, I have that too, I dunno XD)
Options: (choose one)
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I've decided to call my attempts at cleaning... the roomba method.
I wander about in a seemingly random manner, cleaning random spots poorly, until I run out of power or I get stuck (distracted).
At the end of this roomba session, things are a little cleaner... but not actually clean and I'm either exhausted or happy with something shiny and interesting.
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic another day, another “incident” over “Did you not see…”
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic first time seeing a “silent disco” … very interesting idea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_disco
https://mastodon.social/@filmfreak75/115381119116274911
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@autistics #ActuallyAutistic another day, another response letter sent to a regulatory agency in which no one bothered to notice that every page of a 4 page letter was on logoed letterhead
second sheet these people have never heard of, and no matter how many times i bring it up, they persist
who cares that we look like unprofesisonal morons,
the executive who signed it will never be blamed, it'll be the admin's fault
the admin who never saw the letter until it was time to file it away
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Hello!
I'm Cassian, I'm nonbinary (they/them) and I live in Wales. I mostly post about TV I'm watching, surveys I'm interested in, being neurodivergent, environment stuff, things I'm making, and spontaneous grumpy rants of little consequence.
I do the @gendercensus annually.
I first tried the Fediverse over 10 years ago, but didn't really get ensconced until the first wave of Mastodon in 2016.
#introduction #introductions #ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #neurodivergent #disabled #disability #environment #Wales #knitting #sewing #3DPrinting #recycling #upcycling #nonbinary
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I made another TikTok video.
All opinions about autism can be true at the same time. We need to bring love and respect back to the discussion about autism.
I tried to put all of what I said in the alt text but the whole video is over the character limit. I tried.
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@autistics #ActuallyAutistic could have used this yesterday…
https://mas.to/@skeletor/115271237603242332
Where can I find the #ActuallyAutistic group now that gup.pe is gone?
I've talked about this before but I find myself thinking about this again, so. My brand of autism comes with busted episodic memory. My history is a random collection of snippets of memories. Not really even events themselves but kind of snapshots of certain moments, including the emotion.
Things I don't recollect within a certain time fade out of existence. First they blur into other similar memories, then they vanish completely. Everything else is a story I've been told (of when I was younger) or have crafted into a neat timeline (of times I wasn't a child any longer).
No wonder I've kept a diary since I was in high school. It's a blast reading through them as it's a window to times I don't remember at all (ok, I do have snapshots of certain events). At times it feels like reading about someone else's life.
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic so everyday life?
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Well before sushi was common in the western world, I read a book on proper sushi restaurant etiquette. I learned why not to ask the chef for the bill, why not to tip and how to eat various types of sushi.
The authors mentioned that the Japanese were very forgiving of manners in westerners, who are simply unable to understand the intricacies of Japanese society
To all allists who are even mildly aware that autism is a different way of being, thanks for trying.
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 769 , Friday 05/12/2025
Friday started at a much more reasonable time of 07:30 which would have been a blessing if I had managed to get anything like a decent nights sleep. But the night was disturbed both by an utter inability to fall asleep & the cries of one of the children next door which went on for ages in the early hours of the morning.
The morning was spent perusing various tasks with my head all over the place.
I have finally got confirmation that we will have a new boiler fitted next Wednesday, so I can rest easy until Wednesday morning when hopefully I won’t have to chase this on the day!
Mrs S has been beavering away thru her mums paperwork to track down the critical papers necessary for the current circumstances.
This afternoon we chilled out & caught up on some of TV shows & treated ourselves to our usual Friday takeaway despite the cold!
Final Thoughts.
I am tired to my bones, but I think that things have moved forward satisfactorily today & I hope that that will allow me to sleep tonight!
Another busy day tomorrow, we’re off on a mission to start brining some order to my MiLs house now that she is gone. We’re also planning a last pre-Christmas trip to Costco™ & possibly get some other shopping in on our way home.
It will be nice to be in a house with the heating on, if only for a short while!
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
I joined infosec and IT groups, shut down Twitter, Bluesky, LinkedIn, and all that shit. I'm stuck with Mastodon, Reddit, and Github, and I still have to constantly dodge shitty people who only talk about politics.
Obviously the problem is not social media but human stupidity.
I'm narrowing the spectrum of people I follow, filtering and blocking unbearable topics.
As expected, I use compartmentalization and have accounts to read stealthily and without interacting.
I think I'll end up leaving Mastodon too. Maybe it's just another silly utopia.
#actuallyautistic #mastodon #socialmedia #socialnetworks #politics