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Announcement: #Voxelibre multiplayer casual game today (Sat) for 4 hours in the late afternoon to evening (North America). That's in about 5 hours from now.

Voxelibre is a free and #OpenSource crafting and mining voxel game, available in the #luanti game engine.

Damage has been turned off. People with #Autism, #ADHD or #AuDHD are invited. We also have a #Deltachat group for game-related discussion. More details here: https://docs.autis.toque.im/
(You can join with pretty much any device which **isn't** an iPad/iPhone)

#game #gaming #games

Mastodon users who have autism, which books would you recommend reading to people who are neurotypical or allistic and who would like to learn more about this topic?

It can be fiction or nonfiction.

I’m especially interested in books written by folks who are women or members of another minority group as well, but all suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thank you. 💜

#Autism #Books #Nonfiction #Fiction #AskFedi

@bookstodon

As someone with #Autism, I find the term #NeuroDivergent to be simplistically judgemental.

What is being deviated from? A trait or whole nature of autistic and non-autistic people?

And what of divergence along other dimensions? How about extroverts as divergent as they cannot tolerate time alone very well.

One of the saddest things to witness online is people going back and forth between identifying as ADHD or autistic because of descriptions of the experience and doubting because of "clinical", extreme or one-sided descriptions.

It's especially sad, when people seem to develop a mental block to understanding themself and connecting with others because of it.

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#ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD #Autism

In Hiding, a short story by Wilmar H. Shiras, written in 1948, is such a good depiction of autistic experience, of that necessity to mask, of being accused of lying about being able to do something just because the accusers can’t conceive the fact that you can do something they can’t, of existing within your solitude taking joy in books, learning and creating
If you also read that short story, do you also feel it relatable?
@autistics
#autism
#AuDHD
#autisticMasking

I done blogged again. Sorry.
This one's about masking. Specifically, why I think the discourse around it is a bit one-sided. Some of my masks are genuinely useful. Some of them I actively like. The entertainer one in particular has been putting in a shift lately.

https://theaardvark.co.uk/in-defence-of-the-neurodivergent-mask.html

#AuDHD #Masking #ADHD #Autism #AcutallyAutistic @autistics

Since I have been diagnosed I find showering much more difficult. I used to wash virtually every day, now I basically do it twice a week, or maybe every 4 days,and only then from a sense of shame.
#Autism #autistic #neurodiverse @autistics #AutisticBurnout #ActuallyAutistic

Ok, I think this one is a stretch, but I have to ask.

Are you an #autistic / #AuDHD bald man in the northern hemisphere, who wears a hat indoors as the weather moves towards winter?

I know everyone is different, but pls, recommend a comfy, not too warm hat that my sensory sensitivities can cope with. I live in Scotland, so has to be something I can easily get here or online from a UK/ EU based retailer.
I don’t get on with stiff labels and seams and absolutely do not enjoy or use real wool at all.
lol 😂

@autistics #Autism #Bald #ADHD #Hat #AskFedi thx! 🎩

NHS assessment wait times have been horrendous for years, now they have made the wait time an official policy. #Autism #ADHD

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/24/nhs-integrated-care-boards-england-two-year-waiting-times-adhd-autism-assessments

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#Autism #ADHD #AuDHD @autistics #ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD @actuallyadhd

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@autistics
Announcement: #Voxelibre multiplayer casual game today (Sat) for 4 hours in the late afternoon to evening (North America). That's in about 8.5 hours from now.

Voxelibre is a free and #OpenSource crafting and mining voxel game, available in the #luanti game engine.

Damage has been turned off. People with #Autism, #ADHD or #AuDHD are invited. We also have a #Deltachat group for game-related discussion. More details here: https://docs.autis.toque.im/
(You can join with pretty much any device which **isn't** an iPad/iPhone)

**New this week**: some great new maps - nicely labelled - were contributed by @Catwoman69y2k , which can be seen here:
https://docs.autis.toque.im/#map/

#game #gaming #games

In most countries on planet Earth, #Autistic persons of L3 and L2 are often complaining that the discourse is dominated by L1.

Meanwhile here in the #Philippines, there's a growing active voices of #Autism L1 and L2 because the discourse is only about L3.

#Neurodivergence #PWD

In most countries on planet Earth, #Autistic persons of L3 and L2 are often complaining that the discourse is dominated by L1.

Meanwhile here in the #Philippines, there's a growing active voices of #Autism L1 and L2 because the discourse is only about L3.

#Neurodivergence #PWD

Good Morning,

#Today includes going to my autism support group, taking the dog for a walk and some more crochet.

Getting to the support group is going to be tricky because the bridge is shut and so I have to go the long way round. This is not helped by the fact that the official diversion takes a route that I actively try to avoid because it was clearly designed at a time when there were far fewer cars on the road and concrete was king. With the volume of traffic now, it just does not feel safe to drive that way. I am quite probably overthinking that though.

Apart from that minor stress, I think today looks like a relaxing sort of a day. Earlier in the week I made a Bolognese-ish sauce, so today I shall turn it into lasagne (lasagna?). One of my favourite meals - I am already looking forward to it

What are you planning for the day?

#GoodMorning #Autism #Dinner

Actually a sensible article about the possibility of autism being separated in different diagnoses again, despite the slightly clickbaity headline.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/nov/01/the-term-is-becoming-unrecognisable-have-the-experts-who-believed-in-a-single-autism-spectrum-changed-their-minds

#Autism #autistic #neurodiverse @autistics #AutisticBurnout #ActuallyAutistic

Does anyone know any good blogposts / articles (or want to explain themself) about how autistic people socialize with each other? And could you share it with me please?

Search engines aren't helping. It's all about stuff like difficulties in interacting with neurotypical people, or the basic concept of the double empathy problem. Not what I'm looking for whatsoever. I want how autistic social interaction actually works. Of course, I'm pretty familiar with it since I do it myself but my goal is to inform others.

"‘The term is becoming unrecognisable’: have the experts who believed in a single autism spectrum changed their minds?" - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/nov/01/the-term-is-becoming-unrecognisable-have-the-experts-who-believed-in-a-single-autism-spectrum-changed-their-minds
#autism #autistic #neurodiversity

"An ethical advantage of autistic employees in the workplace"

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1364691/full

#Autism #autistic #neurodiverse @autistics #AutisticBurnout #ActuallyAutistic

I don't know if it's just me, but I like the benefit of wearing a mask to prevent inhaling airborne pathogens, but also to hide behind - it makes societally essential 'masking' easier. For example when I'm at work and interact with the public.
#Autism #autistic #neurodiverse @autistics #AutisticBurnout #ActuallyAutistic #N95 #COVID #influenza #flu

I'll be as critical with #ExtraordinaryAttorneyMinami ( #南田南弁護士は天才肌 ) as I was with #ExtraordinaryAttorneyWoo ( #이상한변호사우영우 ).

First reaction: similar look & haircut = stereotype. No two #autistic persons are the same!

#Jdrama #Netflix #autism

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For anyone with either #ASD or #ADHD (anyone #Neurodivergent, really): do you experience sensory issues related to the length of your fingernails?

@autistics @actuallyadhd #ActuallyAutistc #Autism #Autistic

Who'd have thought? 😂

#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticExperience #Neurodivergent #Autism

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Things we don't have to keep doing

A lot of my own journey since diagnosis has been recognising the things that make me happy, and the things, the obligations, that contribute to overwhelm or burnout.

The relief when you stop doing those things is exhilarating. For me it started with going back to a 7pm bedtime.

I've put some of my own releases together in this guide:

https://www.heyasd.com/blogs/autism/things-you-no-longer-have-to-do-autistic-adult

#ActuallyAutistic #LateDiagnosed #AutisticAdults #Neurodivergent #Autism

After watching this excellent and thought provoking #philosophy video "How Different Cultures Defined a Life Well-Spent ":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-PbzIuo78s
...I think I can finally explain the purpose and function of #autism @autistics

Autistic people were described by the Maori culture as "existing in their own time and space", as apart from everyone else. I think that there is good reason for it. Sometimes one finds oneself born into a Social milieu so toxic, that a radical psychological defense is necessary, which is what Autism essentially is. Let me use an analogy. Are you, dear reader, Engineer enough, or geek enough to understand what a "breakout board" is, and why it's useful?

I say Autism is psychology's "breakout board". When everyone around one is so neck deep in a bunch of "narcissistic shared fantasies" and can't find any escape, there needs to be some escape from it, some sort of "escape hatch", as it were. Autism provides this "Escape hatch": similar to what a "breakout board" allows *to the right engineer geek, for the right purpose*.

The Sally Meatballs, Susy Housecoats, and Joe Sixpacks of the world (who are not engineers or geeks), will never understand why a breakout board is valuable. They will scratch their heads, missing the *intensely context-specific* function and purpose of the breakout board. You have to have an Engineer's or Geek's perspective to see the value. Similarly, most people will never see how Autism is a good thing, *for its specific function and purpose*.

#ActuallyAutistic

Human evolution thread:
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I typed a bunch of this as replies to someone, but there’s no reason they have to answer any of it, they didn’t say anything everybody doesn’t say.
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And this far beyond the context of what they were saying.
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Where to start? I’ll try to preface those replies with something to set the scene, then I’ll add those replies, but don’t anybody answer right away, I’ll be editing them after initially posting them.
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So the idea is that every enlightened person knows that, “survival of the fittest,” suggesting, “the strongest,” isn’t the correct take of evolution, that there is more to life than strength. People have made great cases for the functional evolution of cooperation and sharing over competition and fighting.
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But somehow, the brutal version is still the only version there is in the world, simply say “human evolution,” and everyone reacts to the brutal version, no-one thinks, “maybe this is the good kind of evo talk,” ever.
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What seems to exist for the majority is a kind of a false binary where human evolution must be either the rough sort with the perfect soldier at its pinnacle - or humans stopped evolving during the Palaeolithic - so we still have “Palaeolithic emotions,” right, isn’t that what they say?
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They seem to make evolution something the bad guys talk about - and so the good guys, when they are in charge of things, cannot manage or improve anything either, because they don’t see evolution - the effect of the environment of an evolving Human Nature - at all.
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OK, the replies:
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#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #NTPsychology #Autism #Evolution #AutisticScience @autistics