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my idea is that they say they don’t like evolution because of the past, they don’t want to think of themselves as the offspring of apes - but of course it’s really about the present and the future, they don’t want to know that it’s them making the broken, futureless human nature, they don’t want to break cycles and have to absorb the abuse of their childhood and never “get their power back” (Alice Miller’s language) from their children.
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My . . . thorough acceptance of evolution tells me that’s exacty what they have to do, but I haven’t been able to convince one of them, let alone all of them. They seem to think they have the freedom to believe whatever they want.
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#Psychology #NTPsychology #ND #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #TheGadfly @autistics

#ActuallyAutistic

Riddle me this.

I can watch a movie or see someone in real life overcome adversity, and I can feel happy for them. I can feel thrilled that they ovecame a difficult problem or situation.

But why am I unable to show myself the same courtesy? Sure, I have a lot of privilege...far more than I should feel entitled to, really, but that doesn't mean I haven't struggled. That doesn't mean I haven't persevered. And I am capable of objectively observing it.

But it is internally meaningless. And I do not understand why. I expect others to accept the praise. I expect others to take the external observations as fact. But myself? No. For me it's mostly just luck how things turned out or thanking my stars that my problems didn't get worse. I'm never able to accept any amount of credit for my own good fortune.

I don't get it.

@autistics #ActuallyAutistic and here i thought i was just dead inside and becoming an emotional sponge…

“5 Traits that People think are Normal but are actually Rare Autism Symptoms”

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXr9GGWEt0D/

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@autistics #ActuallyAutistic last minute staff meeting’s been called for Monday and that can mean only one thing...

…someone is failing upward again

#Neurodiversity and the two layers of cognition

What if the way you think and the output you produce are two completely separate things — and the gap between them has a cost? A post about internal process, expected output, and what autism adds to the picture.

#autism #actuallyAutistic

@autistics

https://dev.to/raphink/neurodiversity-and-the-two-layers-of-cognition-42dp

Blowing hard again, sorry 🫣
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got Antiques Roadshow on and they’re talking about To Kill a Mockingbird and it’s one of the “most important books in American history,” and my divergence/contrarianism is grumbling, You mean it SHOULD have been, it WOULD have been if anything had changed.
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I mean, I know about the civil rights movement and it’s successes, but the pendulum is swinging back again, and sure all that literature is brilliant and, honestly, “should have been important,” is about as good as it gets with a creature that collectively cannot learn.
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It’s my same old story, same old song and dance, I find the whole
world of NT culture and speech to be devoid of causality, there is a blanket built in (and selected for) attitude that the default state of life and of people’s morals is shit, and so they aren’t even trying to understand WHY people do bad things. Racism is bad, that seems to be the message forever and the good non-racists seem happy to keep saying it and hoping, no-one thinks there needs to be a real world cause for hate, or that there could therefore be a real world solution.
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So again, both “sides,” of the majority neurotype simply accepting that this evil is simply a forever and “natural,” part of life, the opposite “sides,” of this argument share the same core belief in a causeless, changeless, mythological sort of a “nature.”
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Right? I mean, that’s how things look to me, but grain of salt, I’m pretty depressed. 💜
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@autistics #Psychology #ND #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Philosophy

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 929 , Thursday 14/05/2026

Thursday started at around 7am.

Breakfast was had & chores done then we had to go to the funeral of Mrs S’s uncle who sadly died around the same time as her mum, but we only found out about this last month!

It was a lovely service, the sun making an appearance to see him off in style.

This afternoon has been a quiet one, I spent it trundling around the Milky Way.

We had a naughty Chinese takeaway for tea & very nice it was too!

Final Thoughts.

Not a bad day all told, but not much energy. I will have to see if I can find some spoons to go shopping tomorrow.

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

No matter how well you explain something, it won't be understood, if the other person doesn't even listen, doesn't try to understand, doesn't think about it beyond how to justify not having to expend energy and not having to endure any discomfort.

There are preconditions that make it possible or impossible to be understood and right now, for most of us, if we are part of a marginalised group, with most people, the preconditions are very unfavorable.

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@autistics

#ActuallyAutistic

@autistics #ActuallyAutistic

https://mas.to/@skeletor/116778034119529893

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#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #Autism #neurodivergent #ADHD #AuDHD

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@autistics #ActuallyAutistic i can confirm it is…

https://mas.to/@skeletor/116579955559462372

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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 930 , Friday 15/05/2026

Out at the gym again by 7am this morning.

Got back had breakfast & did my chores.

Also swapped out the filters in the vacuum cleaner, because they were, as my sister would say, minging!

I was going to go shopping today but we still have loads from last week so that mixed with a lack of motivation meant the trip has been postponed.

Enjoying doing a bit of exploration in Elite Dangerous as I return with goodies for the Engineer.

Pizza for tea, although I am not enjoying them as I once did, I think the gym is altering my biochemistry!

Final Thoughts.

I am persona non feline with Alice mog tonight. Her coat was in a right state because I haven’t brushed her in a while & brushing the cats comes, along with clearing out the litter tray, under the heading of ‘house elf work’ as far as Mrs S is concerned.

Sophie mog is fine, she loves being brushed but her sister feels that it comes under the same heading as being given her worming drops!

Hey ho, all done for a little while, Alice may forgive me but that seems unlikely.

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

it's just like Rudolf the red nosed reindeer
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I mean except I don't want to be a dentist, I want to be a singer
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oh and I'm not an elf, I'm a supervillain
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you know, because everyone hates me and I want to, uh, change the world and also I've been monologuing since I could talk 😀
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@autistics #ND #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD

RE: https://mastodon.social/@filmfreak75/116562401072793797

@autistics #ActuallyAutistic hell has frozen over

the OP just responded to me on iG saying they did some research after what i said, and now admits their error, and thanked me for pointing the issue out

@autistics #ActuallyAutistic

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZxoeunsmhv/

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 965 , Friday 19/06/2026

Friday started before 6am with Mrs S deciding that crushing cans, while having all the doors open to carry the noise, was a good plan!

Gym & then chores, with breakfast coming a very late 3rd place at 08:30.

The weather has continued to be nice, although it did cloud over this afternoon, threatening rain that never came.

Final Thoughts.

Another day closer to the finishing line!

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/116584796870990567

@autistics #ActuallyAutistic the last time i said the polite version of this it was met with:

“I and I alone will decide what is and is not a good use of this group’s time.”

after this the individual was promoted twice with a third time coming any day now

@autistics #ActuallyAutistic yesterday picked up my senior cats aquamation ashes and now just saw a movie about terramation…

…i think i’m broken beyond repair for awhile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_cremation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_composting

RE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116585909947401418

@autistics #ActuallyAutistic Steel Magnolias was the only time i went on a date with women…

…went so badly that she didn’t talk to me for 2 years after even though i was close friends with her cousin…

…but high school shit, what ya gonna do