@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic as if we didn't already have enough on our plates…
https://mastodon.social/@SteveThompson/114591783289710785
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@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic anyone else ever experience a colleague saying something like "Let's grab a coffee.”; “I'd love to catch up and hear about your vacation.”; etc. and never do even though they do with everyone else.
and i get the social lubrication implications to these sorts of interactions, but it pisses me off that it’s ok for them to blow me off, but it’s apocalyptic if in their eyes i fail at some equally meaningless overtures.
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My brain's been serving up some real darkness lately.
(And when an #ActuallyAutistic brain latches onto something, it COMMITS 🙃)
So I'm reminding myself that in this world (especially at this time) ✨#Autistic Joy✨ is an act of defiant resistance.
And I'll be damned if I don't remember to stand in awe of all I've weathered, and of our #neurodivergent culture as a whole.
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@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic this is why i’ve been advocating #EnoughIsEnough for awhile now…
…i’m tired of it being on me (exclusively) to meet them where they are…
…when was the last time they even attempted to meet you where you are…
https://mas.to/@PatternChaser/114676197245917944
@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic when the satire is just to real…
https://thedailytism.com/inclusive-workplace-happy-to-offer-any-adjustments-except-ones-you-asked-for/
@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic
https://mas.to/@skeletor/114812823864782423
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@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic had gallbladder surgery today and it was my first since my diagnosis last year…
…I had prior surgeries 3 years and 20 years ago, both prior to diagnosis and unmasking…
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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
@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic #AustisticPrideDay from #StichApp, one of my favorite Apple Arcade games
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stitch/id1581052096
@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic I have had it with these motherfucking [requests to sign kudoboards] [for every] motherfucking [birthday at work]! —Neville Flynn, Snakes on a Plane #ManipulatedMovieQuote
@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic and this is why i regularly mute entire chat threads https://chirp.zadzmo.org/@aaron/statuses/01JY1PZ1BSRJPMNANTFEYPQQ4S
@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic need the #neurodivergent version of this…
https://mas.to/@skeletor/114858218729800169
@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic i know unlikely, but maybe if she wins, Netflix will reconsider cancellation…
https://mastodon.social/@hollywoodreporter/114858199530257184
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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#AutisticScience
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#Philosophy
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@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic sharing without comment since none is needed…
https://mas.to/@skeletor/114722415882458231
@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic reasonates
https://mastodon.social/@HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2/114968553320372440
@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic so be autistic?
https://mas.to/@PicardTips/114842265980520328
@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic has this ever worked for anyone?
https://mas.to/@skeletor/114739157508602844
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).
@actuallyautistic @autistics #ActuallyAutistic asking the gallery for thoughts on this language used in a recent email to me asking me to do something:
"Does that sound OK to you?”
@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