@autistics #ActuallyAutistic i’ve had friendships last 7 years, but very few survived the diagnosis disclosure two and a half years ago…
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I can't help but think that part of the uptick in autism diagnosis is that our current society is particularly bad for autistic people right now.
"I can do the job if I am left alone, but I can't keep up with the social stuff, then people don't like me, then I lose my job."
That sounds like a job market problem. If employers were desperate enough they would keep you around.
Also, a lot of jobs are bullshit jobs meant to prop of the economy with busy work.
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic am i alone in thinking that the senior admin readily admits they don’t know the last time internal reference materials were last updated?
I have to raise $502 to cover my bills this month. Including a $399 loan repayment that has wiped me out.
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Divergent thoughts about biblical creation:
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you know, I’ve been talking about biblical creation as the beginning of NT people, but I’ve been ignoring half of the story. Of course it’s about the Fall, isn’t it. 😀🫣😬
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Off the top of my head, the first soundbite that has been careening around in it and needs to be let out is the bit from Paradise Lost, when our antihero Beelzebub declares that it is better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven - this to me must
be NT-ness, Allism, and it is the point of most of what I say that it is NOT better, that ruling and thinking your world is Hell makes it so, and that as someone else said, serving and thinking your world is Heaven would make that so instead.
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Off course in this story, Beelzebub is only the first to Fall into that view and that life, into that neurology.
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Not sure I’ll have more anytime soon, but 💜🤨
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@autistics #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticScience #NTPPsychology #AuDHD #ND #Philosophy
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 1091 , Friday 23/10/2026
Friday has been a cold, dull & damp day, but although there have been dire warnings of a storm it never reached us here in deepest, darkest Yorkshire.
Not a bad gym session, my arms seem to be getting stronger, I went up to 5kg (well I think it’s kg, who knows - it might be 5 gooseberries for all I know! Whatever it is up from 4 gooseberries so I will take the win!
Lost count of sets again so I might have done either 2 or 4!
Really struggled to get into anything today once I got home, these dark days suck the energy out of me.
Final Thoughts.
Supposed to be off across the hills for a joint birthday do (me & my sister - it’s a date bang in between our actual birthdays) at my Dad’s fave eatery. I am not desperately eager to go across & the weather is not forecast to be good so who knows it might get rained off yet. Will see what the weather warnings say in the morning.
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
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 1093 , Sunday 25/10/2026
Sunday has been a very relaxed day, which was much needed after yesterday’s excitement!
We seemed to have survived the first 2 named storms of the season relatively unscathed, & I do feel for those who were not as lucky!
Final Thoughts.
For the first time since I got engaged I will be spending Christmas day with my family over the hills. Details are yet to be confirmed but we are defo going across!
I am really rather looking forward to it!
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
Current conversation has given me an idea for an #ND movie.
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Autistic hermit/monk gets a student, figures out the student is NT, and starts the young man’s religious training by beating the ever loving shit out of him, because he knows the NT won’t respect him and listen to the teaching if the teacher fails this NT test. Scenes of the master privately melting down and cursing God after the beatings . . .
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eventual success when the light comes on for the student, maybe he passes a peace test . . . 😀😇💜
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#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD @autistics
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic we maintain the line
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 1092 , Saturday 24/10/2026
Saturday started quite early at just gone 7am.
Breakfast & then some basic shores were done before we set off to see my family on the other side of the hills.
The journey was ok until we got across when we got stuck in all kinds of traffic problems & the beginning of Storm Boelo. Basically the weather was uniformly & completely ‘orrible!
The other problem we encountered both on the way out & the way back was drivers who really were not taking the weather into account!
We had a lovely meal (chicken teriyaki sizzler for me & steak & ale pie for Mrs S) then we bought a couple of ginormous pieces of gateaux for our supper.
We went back to my sister’s for tea & biscuits before heading home before the rush.
The journey back was slightly better than the journey there, mostly because there was less traffic for the most part, although it rained cats,dogs, elephants & probably small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri!
Got home in time for an early supper & a watch of the new movie ‘Tenzing’ a really moving movie about the man who joined Edmund Hillary in bring the first to officially conquer Everest. In reading his Wikipedia entry it seems that some liberties were taken with the screen play, I suspect for dramatic purposes, but it is still a good watch & great way to end the day.
Final Thoughts.
Not a bad day,weather not withstanding, although the drive was one of those full on total concentration journeys that will no doubt leave me knackered tomorrow - but that’s fine as it’s Sunday which is normally a very quiet day any way.
We are due some strong winds tomorrow too, a final farewell from Boelo!
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
If every time you express a need you’re told you’re difficult, eventually you’ll stop expressing needs.
That doesn’t make the needs disappear.
Unmasking as an autistic adult doesn’t mean performing autism as seen on Instagram.
It means exploring your needs and advocating for them.
had I known what I think I do now about #ND, neurotypes, I absolutely would never have married and bred. The only reason I did was because I thought I could opt out of “normal,” childrearing and then they wouldn’t be normal.
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Because I believed the NT nonsense about everyone being the same and education having some magic power, I guess.
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Capitalism is NT hyper sociality, the focus on competition - it’s as though nothing else happens, the world is a storehouse, and the only thing going on is people competing with each other over a given, unchanging (so inexhaustible) world.
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The disappearance of the salmon means nothing in itself, it’s the same to Us as to Them - so it’s a push, “doesn’t matter,” in the competition, to a brain that sees nothing but the human social world.
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Punishment kills the rational brain, commandeers the brain for social matters - I think this is probably the paring away of connections, they lose the conflicting connections for the rational side of life. It makes
complete sense that the entire pyramid of human hierarchy, that the doctors the state pays think it’s good that all those connections that conflict with social order are “unnecessary.”
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A rational mind wouldn’t approve of trimming connections, a less social mind might call a loss of connections brain damage.
I’m sorry if anyone does read me, I know I’ve said it all before.
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Just expounding that capitalism is not chimpanzee aggression,
it is modern Allistic hypersociality - this is the point of authority and punishment, to force the mind away from the real world and insert an all consuming focus on purely human matters, and the result is they really cannot see the real world anymore and they will fight among themselves until the oxygen runs out.
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This is sort of the definition of education. Those who laud education as the answer to it all - are you under the impression people are not already educated by force about everything?
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Do you think they need school because everyone was leaving them alone, letting them develop naturally?
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#Philosophy #ND #NTPsychology #AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic @autistics
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 1094 , Monday 26/10/2026
Monday started later than usual, Mrs S has taken a days leave & so we both had a lie in.
I know my body will hate me on Wednesday when I go back to the gym but hey no pain no gain!
It’s been a mostly quiet day, we started the day by making a bit of a dint in the stuff from my late MiLs that is currently in the spare room upstairs. Progress was made but there is still a lot of stuff to go thru!
This afternoon we had a bit of a Space fest, finishing off the last 3 eps of ‘Star City’ then finishing off with the brilliant ‘Apollo 13’ one of my top 5 all time movies, Tom Hanks leading a great cast.
Final Thoughts.
Not a bad day at all, the only fly in the ointment was reading the news - which is consistently & persistently bad!
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 schedule these several weeks in advance sometimes, but this one from yesterday deserves the #TapestryApp treatment…
…wise words from such a violent movie too
“Oh, you’ve had a a rough life, drunk dad and an abusive marriage, trauma? I am sorry, that is terrible and far too common. You have my sympathy.
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Well, goodbye then.”
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Whaddaymean, ‘goodbye?’ People need to talk about these things, I need to talk about these things!
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“Yeah . . . not to me you don’t. You need to find someone of your own kind. I’m divergent, you’re traumatized - that’s a bad setup. I don’t look right, you won’t understand me, and your trauma, your hyper vigilance and your neurology will all misunderstand on the side of protecting yourself and I will become an abuser in your mind no matter what I say or do.
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It gets old fast and it’s been happening for a long time. It’s just the way it is. I’m sad, I like you, but your abusers took people like me away from you and you from me.
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I’m as angry as at them as you are, no-one can see me and I am forever alone because of this stuff - but I know from experience that to you, I am one
of THEM.
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So good luck and goodbye.”
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#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ND @autistics
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 1097 , Thursday 29/10/2026
A very quiet & sedate day here in deepest, darkest Yorkshire.
Really could not get my head around doing much at all.
Final Thoughts.
Gym in the morning … yay! (Uggghhhhh!)
Patrick Stewart died today, another great man who will be missed!
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 my unit’s “senior admin” just added a letterhead template that is:
(1) a very skewed version of the master instutuition template
(2) ignores that the header and footer DO NOT GO on every page
(3) in general looks like shit
…yet i’m not professional in my presentation
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic and yet we are expected to persist…
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 1095 , Tuesday 27/10/2026
It’s been a mostly quiet day today.
Watched ‘6th Sense’ by way of kicking off a Halloween horror fest, a gentle one to begin with which I watched while sorting thru another of the boxes from my MiLs.
The sun came out this afternoon & while the door demons kept me in I did enjoy the warmth & the light coming thru the window.
Nuked a lasagna for tea, but resisted the urge to have ice cream for dessert - went with a tangerine instead!
Final Thoughts.
Days seem to be zipping past at the moment, I seem to turn around & ½ the day is gone!
Back to the gym for the first time in a few days tomorrow - ouch time!
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