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Dedicated School For Autistic Students Scrapped By Edmonton Public School Board
https://autisticgoblin.ca/2026/04/17/dedicated-school-for-autistic-students-scrapped-by-edmonton-public-school-board/
I love it when autistic adhd women work on the crisis line and allow the magic mind meld powers to work over the phone and get me into an upswing so effortlessly. Gosh. Why can’t that be every time?
Documentaries and vampires were shared interests and we both think Margot Robbie and Nick Holt are snacks. And she referred to my sleep disorder as “like a vampire” we were closer than sisters.
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 825 , Friday 30/01/2026
Friday started around 7am, with winter making its presence felt in the form of an overnight snow shower.
It’s been cold, damp & dank all day.
Did my chores & then vanished into the virtual world of medieval Bohemia.
I’m currently holed up in a secret den in the heart of a forest in medieval Bohemia, I need to be patient & wait for darkness to catch the last of a group of bandits. ADHD me can’t do that so I’m merrily disturbing all the other denizens of the area!
Pizza for tea, a chicken on e for a change! Very nice it was too!
Final Thoughts.
I am over winter now, roll on spring!
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 Ten Reasons Why Autistic People Are Being Targeted | The Autlaw for The Unexpected Autistic Life courtesy of Medium (@Medium)
I was reflecting on my current job situation lately, and I have to say I'm not making tons of money... actually, I currently have to pull money out of savings to keep myself afloat... but man...
I've never felt happier with my job than I do now. I get to tutor. I get to write. I get to be there for those I care about. I do all of this from the comfort of my apartment.
I don't care for offices, at all. For one thing, I don't have to deal with bullshit commutes, but it is more than not having to deal with the commute.
"But don't you need socialization???"
NO! I don't need it. The kind of socialization that happens in an office stinks!!!! Offices offer the type of socialization that requires high conformance.
It's not all flowers and bunny rabbits. I have to deal with the odd dissatisfied student or the overbearing parent.
But I'll take this over going back to the office any time of the day. I wish I had realized this earlier rather than try to make myself conform to the "social ideal."
New video: How binaural beats work, and why I use 11Hz Alpha waves in my music.
AarDHD is a project creating functional music for focus and calm. The tracks use binaural beats for brainwave entrainment. The first release, "Flow State" is designed for people with ADHD and autism, or who needs help concentrating or calming down.
https://youtube.com/shorts/4Xq63W-GPiQ
#BinauralBeats #ADHD #Autism #FocusMusic #Neurodivergent #MusicProduction #ActuallyAutistic
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 812 , Saturday 17/01/2026
Ah Saturday!
I’ve felt a lot better today, i’m definitely on the road to recovery!
Climbing the stairs is still more exhausting that I would normally like but the other symptoms are slowly receding!
We watched a couple of episodes of ‘The Night Manager’ season 1 then decided to have a movie - ‘Dead of Winter’ (The 2025 version) with our tea, a Chinese takeaway. The move was really good - Emma Thompson providing an unusual heroine.
There is a dedication at the end ‘For Daniel’ which I cannot seem to find a reason for. I wonder if I’m being especially dense.
Final Thoughts.
I feel better able to cope with the complete chaos that is the world today!
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/@effinbirds/116539498375712652
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic at my work i could produce verification from world renowned experts and [enter deity of choice] and it would still not be enough to get an accommodation without a major fight
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic so info dump on one or more special interests?
when you meet a one-off crackpot like me, you have to know what it looks like from our side, that we live in a world where nobody understands anything 😳
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Just realized: Whenever I read outrageous news about politics, my outrage comes second. First, my brain makes an attempt to find a perspective in which it might make sense to act like these morons do.
That‘s not healthy for my brain. But I‘ve trained myself so well that I can’t seem to unlearn the reflex.
And this is the main reason why I have to avoid news these days. Of course it’s also because of the helplessness and all the bad emotions. But mainly because „understanding“ causes damage to my brain and soul.
Back to work after a two-week break. Trying to take breaths and work through things methodically. Let's see how long we can keep the meltdown/burnout at bay this time.
@autistics #actuallyautistic
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 813 , Sunday 18/01/2026
Sunday started around 8am after a reasonable nights sleep!
Its been a foggy & wet winters day & in classic English winter style it’s basically gonna rain for the rest of the week!
We went foraging to Costco™, it was stupidly busy but we made it thru!
A nice relaxing rest of the day, catching up on Mrs S’s shows.
Final Thoughts.
Aside from fighting off the screaming hordes in Costco™ its not been a bad day all told.
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
Spending more time with your special interests is good for an autistic person, helps regulating the nervous system and is a path out of burnout they said. And they were probably right about it. That I will end up in an almost constant hyperfocus on music, that intensifies my ADHD traits they didn’t say. I am so glad my routines and other systems help me to function in this state.
Written by a very happy AuDHD person.
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic nothing finer than being reminded by an ally that…
...“You’re a lot, let me do the talking”…
…while i know it comes from a good place…
…and i have enough self awareness to acknowledge it…
…still fucking infuriating that this is the world we live in
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 1049 , Friday 11/09/2026
Friday - the last gym day of the week - hurrah!
Not too bad a session although my heart rate went nuts on the bike!
A mostly quiet day although I did make some further inroads in the garage & even threw away a couple of things!
Friday night is pizza night & tonights ‘kebab feast’ went down very well!
Babylon 5 has reached the point where it compares very well with current events … the Centauri remind me of a certain country … low on moral values, high on genocide utterly engrossed in expansion at any cost, so long as it is not at their expense.
Final Thoughts.
I am going to have a massive audit of my new enlarged tool collection - there will have to be pruning!
Also the TWAM peeps have totally failed to get back to me about the tool donation I am trying to make. If they don’t respond soon then I will have to simply take them down to the tip - a move that I REALLY don’t want to make but we simply do not have the room for them!
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
the person I was speaking to has said goodnight, so I’ll “speak as though to the air,” if you’ve read Neurotribes.
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The pattern I pulled out of #TheChaliceAndTheBlade about ancient history was that Allistic people happened somehow and their aggression sent them off conquering the world of peaceful Neolithic peoples, and after every great conquest, they would kill the men and breed with the women, diluting their Allistic warrior genetics by half in the next few generations.
Still the Allistic men were in charge and war never really stopped, only paused and war encompasses all, and these newly pacified people begin to follow the Allistic invaders’ evolution, and this society now grows and evolves towards unsustainable levels of aggression again until another public meltdown and another conquest - and until the last millennia, there were new, Neolithic/Indigenous to assimilate, and a relative peace following each conquest, as old genes are again freshly incorporated, before the Allistic environment has unselected them again.
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this scenario has almost been completed, the Allistics vastly outnumber the remaining Neolithic peoples today.
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All that was just to get to the new thought, that this is where the Allistics’ mad idea of a war to end all wars originated, in the postwar temporary genetic influx of old genes that happened repeatedly throughout ancient (European) history, that’s why they think war makes peace, because it looked like it did.
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All that is in the past though, there aren’t enough old genes to affect the drift anymore, any more such peaceful intervals with be highly localized and increasingly rare now. Anyway, we need more than just a breather every milennium, this evolution needs to stop
and turn around completely.
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But you need to know where you’ve been and all
that 🙄🤨😇💜
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A thousand words on two and a half years of knowing I was autistic. I'd love you to read it.
https://matricardo.substack.com/p/i-didnt-always-know
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@filmfreak75/116348213444554307
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic one should never apologize for being “a fact bitch”
One thing that drives me bugshit is when someone has two or three minutes to tell me to shut up because they didn’t have five seconds to hear me say goodbye 😠
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people are full of shit
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Prior to understanding I'm autistic, my life was a strange combination of not fitting in yet trying to fit in, and not bothering to fit in. After my self-realization, I've slowly worked on getting rid of the trying part. I never really fitted in and the more I've just been myself, the better I've felt. I'm unique and now I'm more comfortable than ever letting it show. It's also tied to being non-binary and understanding what types of clothes and accessories I want to wear. Now the main thing is that it makes me feel good. I know my style makes me stand out from the crowd. It's not that I'm done thinking what others think about me but it plays a substantially smaller role than before.