<p>I suppose an introduction is in order. Better make one before I forget...</p><p>I'm Ferrus, your local queer goat! 🐐</p><p>I'm a <a href="/tags/pansexual/" rel="tag">#pansexual</a>, <a href="/tags/agender/" rel="tag">#agender</a>, and <a href="/tags/aromantic/" rel="tag">#aromantic</a> of the <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#autistic</a> <a href="/tags/furry/" rel="tag">#furry</a> variety! My presentation is primarily feminine, though I incorporate some masculine or neutral pieces when the mood strikes me.</p><p>I was born and raised in <a href="/tags/newzealand/" rel="tag">#newzealand</a>, though you wouldn't know that from my accent, a weird american-british-kiwi hybrid.</p><p>My Hobbies/Special Interests include but are not limited to: <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#linux</a>, <a href="/tags/anime/" rel="tag">#anime</a>, <a href="/tags/vidogames/" rel="tag">#vidogames</a>, <a href="/tags/tabletop/" rel="tag">#tabletop</a>, <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a>, <a href="/tags/movies/" rel="tag">#movies</a>, <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a>, <a href="/tags/space/" rel="tag">#space</a>, <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a>, <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a>, <a href="/tags/oldtechnology/" rel="tag">#oldtechnology</a>, <a href="/tags/lego/" rel="tag">#lego</a>, and <a href="/tags/sustainablefashion/" rel="tag">#sustainablefashion</a></p><p>My favourite pieces of media are: <a href="/tags/warhammer40k/" rel="tag">#Warhammer40K</a>, <a href="/tags/theexpanse/" rel="tag">#TheExpanse</a>, <a href="/tags/startrek/" rel="tag">#StarTrek</a>, <a href="/tags/starblazers/" rel="tag">#StarBlazers</a>, <a href="/tags/tensura/" rel="tag">#Tensura</a>, <a href="/tags/dungeonsanddragons/" rel="tag">#DungeonsAndDragons</a>, <a href="/tags/pathfinder/" rel="tag">#Pathfinder</a>, <a href="/tags/worldofdarkness/" rel="tag">#WorldofDarkness</a>, <a href="/tags/stargate/" rel="tag">#Stargate</a>, and the <a href="/tags/nasuverse/" rel="tag">#nasuverse</a></p><p>I may occasionally toot about these</p><p>Currently looking for education in some kind of Systems Administration Role, and run <a href="/tags/nixos/" rel="tag">#NixOS</a> on a daily basis. I also build my own machines.</p><p>My toots and boosts may occasionally be <a href="/tags/nsfw/" rel="tag">#NSFW</a>. DNI with these unless you are of legal age.</p><p>Feel free to DM me, unless you're a <a href="/tags/troll/" rel="tag">#troll</a>, <a href="/tags/bigot/" rel="tag">#bigot</a>, or anything else of the sort.</p><p>Offenders will find themselves fed to an Elder Wyrm (the mute/block button)</p><p><a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a> <a href="/tags/welcome/" rel="tag">#welcome</a> <a href="/tags/newhere/" rel="tag">#newhere</a></p>
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<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@actuallyadhd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyadhd</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span></p><p>Today my brain went something like: Ghhaaaaaarrggggghhhhh! ... 💡!<br>I think a penny got stuck a long while back & finally worked itself loose & dropped.</p><p>I started looking into & bullet journalling several years ago after my brief encounter with mental health services & the woman running the 6 session group therapy suggested it.</p><p>Thanks to Pinterest I quick fell in love with the idea, though possibly for the wrong reasons as I have never been able to wrap my head round trying to recreate or at least achieve something that functions how I want & somehow with zero extra time & effort achieving such decorative masterpieces.</p><p>The first 2 - 3 years it sort of worked but the effort of hand drawing every page & the time it consumed seemed to be eating at me & in the last 2 - 3 years it began to percolate through to me that it might be part of why I lack the spoons, time & energy to do anything.</p><p>In the last few years I kept falling behind & would spend the early months of the new year finishing my entries for last year transferring them from note app to physical bullet journal.</p><p>This year, I got last year's up to date but this year's feels like a non-starter. January & February are drawn up & ready to fill in but I'm just not feeling it.</p><p>I guess today is the day I say, nope to adding something potentially useful but ultimately getting in the way of trying to improve my life.<br>So, no more bullet journalling this year, though I might, when the mood takes me & I can actually spare the spoons look at what things I'd actually find useful to track & maybe track them separately in the future unless I find the ideal solution to my bullet journalling woes.</p><p><a href="/tags/clarity/" rel="tag">#Clarity</a> <a href="/tags/momentofclarity/" rel="tag">#MomentOfClarity</a> <a href="/tags/audhd/" rel="tag">#AuDHD</a> <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#Autistic</a> <a href="/tags/adhd/" rel="tag">#ADHD</a> <a href="/tags/actuallyadhd/" rel="tag">#ActuallyADHD</a> <a href="/tags/actuallyautistic/" rel="tag">#ActuallyAutistic</a> <br><a href="/tags/hyperfocus/" rel="tag">#Hyperfocus</a> <a href="/tags/burnout/" rel="tag">#Burnout</a> <a href="/tags/spoons/" rel="tag">#Spoons</a> <a href="/tags/nospoons/" rel="tag">#NoSpoons</a> <br><a href="/tags/focus/" rel="tag">#Focus</a> <a href="/tags/selfcare/" rel="tag">#SelfCare</a></p>
<p>Spent the last 3.5 days at <a href="/tags/autismeuropecongress/" rel="tag">#AutismEuropeCongress</a> and was so heartening to see the research happening around <a href="/tags/autism/" rel="tag">#Autism</a>. Multiple presentations of research, and pretty much all the research was designed with the <a href="/tags/doubleempathyproblem/" rel="tag">#DoubleEmpathyProblem</a> at the forefront. It was a tonic to hear continuous neuro-affirming language. <br>Next step: increase diversity of people studied, to include non-speaking autistics, ethnic minorities, more people of colour etc. </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span> <br><a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#Autistic</a></p>
<p>Joined Vinted to try this circular economy of clothing but I fear my dopamine-seeking brain is getting addicted. </p><p>It feels so good selling clothes I no longer want and then buying with my earnings. And I am only buying within my own country so no air millage to keep it green.</p><p>Perhaps my <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#Autistic</a> brain needs rules around scrolling times to manage the <a href="/tags/adhd/" rel="tag">#ADHD</a> side of the brain 🤔</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@actuallyadhd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyadhd</span></a></span></p>
<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span> </p><p>Me, very autistic, with all black clothes. </p><p><a href="/tags/actuallyautistic/" rel="tag">#actuallyautistic</a> <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#autistic</a> <a href="/tags/autism/" rel="tag">#autism</a> <a href="/tags/neurodivergent/" rel="tag">#neurodivergent</a></p>
<p>R.I.P. Guppe Groups. Special shoutout to the @actuallyautistic group in particular, I've found so many fellow <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#Autistic</a> people and that group helped me realise I was not alone in how I process the world. Good thing we can follow hashtags on the Fediverse, the <a href="/tags/actuallyautistic/" rel="tag">#ActuallyAutistic</a> one is wonderful!</p>
<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@actuallyadhd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyadhd</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span></p><p>When you struggle with Object Permanence, everything in a box, cupboard or drawer becomes a Schrödinger's thing(s).</p><p>Do they exist or don't they exist, or do they only exist if you remember them & where you put them? <br>Do they only exist when you find / rediscover them?</p><p><a href="/tags/audhd/" rel="tag">#AuDHD</a> <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#Autistic</a> <a href="/tags/adhd/" rel="tag">#ADHD</a> <a href="/tags/actuallyadhd/" rel="tag">#ActuallyADHD</a> <a href="/tags/actuallyautistic/" rel="tag">#ActuallyAutistic</a> <a href="/tags/objectpermanence/" rel="tag">#ObjectPermanence</a></p>
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<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span> Very relatable content! And I dig his sense of humor!</p><p>How to Spot Autism in <a href="/tags/highmasking/" rel="tag">#HighMasking</a> Adults - YouTube</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJDKjH6rHhw" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJDKjH6rHhw"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJDKjH</span><span class="invisible">6rHhw</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/lifewithautism/" rel="tag">#LifeWithAutism</a> <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#Autistic</a> <a href="/tags/autists/" rel="tag">#Autists</a> <a href="/tags/nd/" rel="tag">#ND</a> <a href="/tags/masking/" rel="tag">#Masking</a> <a href="/tags/sensitivity/" rel="tag">#Sensitivity</a> <a href="/tags/sensoryissues/" rel="tag">#SensoryIssues</a></p>
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<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span></p><p>Dots Out of Line: On <a href="/tags/neuroatypical/" rel="tag">#Neuroatypical</a> Curiosity</p><p>Educators should ask not who is curious, but how is each person curious?</p><p>MIT Press Reader</p><p>by Perry ZurnDani S. Bassett, December 2022</p><p>Excerpt: "Born in 1992 and diagnosed with autism of a 'severe' and 'nonverbal' type, <a href="/tags/naokihigashida/" rel="tag">#NaokiHigashida</a> attended a number of educational institutions in the course of his youth, including a neurotypically centered primary school, a special needs junior high, and a distance learning high school. Observing the many ways in which people with disabilities are fast-tracked out of normal life and shuttled into special needs circles (and low-wage jobs, if they are lucky), Higashida, the author of dozens of poems, short stories, and nonfiction books, wanted to make his own choice. After 'questioning things' for himself, and identifying his gifts and hopes, he decided to become a writer.</p><p>"While in school, he had become increasingly frustrated with the steady infantilization and 'schoolmaster-type instruction' that denied his creativity and squashed his curiosity. Indeed, scientists and educators alike repeatedly characterize people with autism as lacking any measurable — and therefore meaningful — curiosity. Resisting this narrative in his writing and activism, Higashida repeatedly asserts his own curiosity: 'I’m always hungry to learn,' 'hungry for knowledge,' he writes in his bestselling memoir 'The Reason I Jump'; 'I want to grow up learning a million things!' Other autistic people, he says, are much like him in this respect, 'constantly challenging and asking questions of themselves.' This should be no real surprise, he writes in a poem called 'Curiosity,' given that curiosity is fundamentally human; it 'is why we carry on.' "</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://getpocket.com/explore/item/dots-out-of-line-on-neuroatypical-curiosity?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="getpocket.com/explore/item/dots-out-of-line-on-neuroatypical-curiosity?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">getpocket.com/explore/item/dot</span><span class="invisible">s-out-of-line-on-neuroatypical-curiosity?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/poets/" rel="tag">#Poets</a> <a href="/tags/lifewithautism/" rel="tag">#LifeWithAutism</a> <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#Autistic</a> <a href="/tags/autists/" rel="tag">#Autists</a> <a href="/tags/nd/" rel="tag">#ND</a> <a href="/tags/curiosity/" rel="tag">#Curiosity</a> <a href="/tags/abeautifulmind/" rel="tag">#ABeautifulMind</a></p>
<p>I feel exhausted today. Two weekends with intense socializing have left me with empty fuel tanks for the week and a fuzzy, overstimulated brain that can't focus, but also won't calm down at night. It's days like this where being <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#autistic</a> feels like a disability, not a superpower.<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span></p>
<p>SO IT'S <a href="/tags/autism/" rel="tag">#Autism</a> Awareness Month?</p><p>since am one of those <a href="/tags/actuallyautistic/" rel="tag">#ActuallyAutistic</a> people Dx at the tender age of 50 (yes, 50. and yes am older now, shut up), am not acquainted with the american rituals of national days or awareness months involving autism.</p><p>welp, let me do this as a gentle reminder: </p><p>1. BLACK<br>2. INDIGENOUS<br>3. PUERTO RICAN<br>4. CARIBBEAN<br>5. LATINOAMERICANES<br>6. WOMEN</p><p>can be <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#autistic</a> too.</p><p>and in my case: <a href="/tags/dyslexic/" rel="tag">#dyslexic</a> with a sprinkling of good ol' extra spicy <a href="/tags/adhd/" rel="tag">#ADHD</a>.</p><p>but ironically, 🧵</p>
<p>Hello Neurospicy* friends. Are you someone who finds you need calming sounds/music to help with overwhelm?</p><p>I recommend BBC Radio 3 Unwind. 24 hours a day of the calmer, relaxed classical music. Available on BBC Sounds from almost any device.</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live/bbc_radio_three_unwind" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live/bbc_radio_three_unwind"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live</span><span class="invisible">/bbc_radio_three_unwind</span></a></p><p>If you're in the UK, you can also access a massive number of old programmes from BBC Radio 3 Unwind.</p><p>Listeners outside the UK can only listen to the live broadcast.</p><p><a href="/tags/actuallyautistic/" rel="tag">#ActuallyAutistic</a> <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#Autistic</a> <a href="/tags/adhd/" rel="tag">#ADHD</a> <a href="/tags/audhd/" rel="tag">#AuDHD</a> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span></p>
<p>For <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#autistic</a> people everywhere 💓</p><p>Credit to Taylor Sanders on Neurodivergent Memes, FB.</p><p><a href="/tags/neurodivergent/" rel="tag">#Neurodivergent</a> <a href="/tags/actuallyautistic/" rel="tag">#ActuallyAutistic</a></p>
<p>Hello <a href="/tags/audhd/" rel="tag">#AuDHD</a> siblings, as well as my <a href="/tags/adhd/" rel="tag">#ADHD</a> and/or <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#autistic</a> peeps!<br>Do you have any experience with barefoot shoes? Are they awesome for you? Or horrible maybe? Both? Something in between?</p>
<p>my mom’s sister was born in 1943, about 12 yrs before <a href="/tags/acetaminophen/" rel="tag">#acetaminophen</a> <a href="/tags/panadol/" rel="tag">#panadol</a> was invented. she would have been diagnosed autistic these days but because my grandparents were dirt poor ―literally still living in a house with dirt floor― my aunt didn’t, just like neither Mami nor any of my uncles, get the kind of pediatric diagnosis nor care, upper class <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#autistic</a> Americans got at the time.</p><p>it’s 2025: we know <a href="/tags/autism/" rel="tag">#autism</a> can be hereditary. we also know <a href="/tags/viral/" rel="tag">#viral</a> <a href="/tags/infections/" rel="tag">#infections</a> may be an epigenetic cause.</p>
<p>A gifted autistic person pretending to be a good person. <br>(I do my best but I don't always succeed)</p><p><a href="/tags/gifted/" rel="tag">#gifted</a> <a href="/tags/giftedness/" rel="tag">#giftedness</a> <a href="/tags/autism/" rel="tag">#autism</a> <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#autistic</a> <a href="/tags/actuallyautistic/" rel="tag">#actuallyautistic</a></p>
<p>Having to sit through a meeting where a nurse says "well we're all a little bit autistic aren't we" 😬😩🪓 </p><p><a href="/tags/neurodivergent/" rel="tag">#neurodivergent</a> <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#autistic</a> <a href="/tags/autism/" rel="tag">#autism</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> <a href="/tags/myths/" rel="tag">#myths</a></p>
<p>I wonder how other <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#autistic</a> people feel about symbolism - in a broad sense?<br>The thing is, I’ve always been fascinated by it, since being a child. I love it when a seemingly innocent image has a hidden meaning, or some detail in a text that seems irrelevant at the first sight gets a deep meaning once you find the point of reference. When I write, when I draw, even when I just dress - I always have those symbols hidden there. There rarely are random details: this references to that, that points to another thing… I was kinda obsessed with flower language for a bit when I was a kid, and since then there are no random flowers when I draw. I’ve read everything in the library on popular psychology in my early teens - so all the doodles I’d make during lectures, meetings and calls have a hidden meaning to me unless I impose it there consciously. <br>I can’t go out of home without dressing up: all my outfits are always put up together to create some kind of a story. I’m totally conscious that that story escapes from people around - up to the point that if anyone would get all the clues I put, I’d probably be between being freaked out and amazed. But I still can’t just step out as is, I need to create the image, the visual story to tell, with all the references, all the allusions, all the associations. And when write, there’s no random words. Even when I create documentation at work or explain some task to someone - when I’m making up an example, those random names and numbers are not random, they still reference to something, they still tell a story. <br>In a way, it’s like one big pun every time. It may(and often will) pass unnoticed, but those who notice may be amused.<br>I wonder if that love for symbolism and hidden meanings is something common in autistic or generally <a href="/tags/neurodivergent/" rel="tag">#neurodivergent</a> people <br><a href="/tags/autism/" rel="tag">#autism</a><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span></p>
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<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@actuallyadhd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyadhd</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span></p><p>Log in to ebay to check things I've ordered.<br>Once logged in, proceeds to spend 30 minu- what do you mean 3 hours? …<br>Survives 3 hours hunting for the mythical Surface Pro 1 (2013) case & / or cover 😱😭😞<br>How's that for hyperfocus? Am I doing it right?<br>Also keywords / points: Mythical, Pro, 1 & 2013. eBay shows me everything else (Surface Go / Surface Pro 4+) instead 🤦.</p><p>Right it's 13:30, time for a tasty brunch & a gallon of tea to cheer me up.<br>(Online) shopping is such fun (⬅️total sarcasm).</p><p>P.s. I did find some 'universals' that should do … I hope 🤞. <br>Just need to recalibrate my brain to except boring over the design / colour I want so I can order the right one.</p><p><a href="/tags/audhd/" rel="tag">#AuDHD</a> <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#Autistic</a> <a href="/tags/adhd/" rel="tag">#ADHD</a> <a href="/tags/actuallyadhd/" rel="tag">#ActuallyADHD</a> <a href="/tags/actuallyautistic/" rel="tag">#ActuallyAutistic</a> <a href="/tags/hyperfocus/" rel="tag">#Hyperfocus</a></p>
<p>(Wanted to make a separate post for this discussion to not mix it up with other topics)</p><p>For me, it’s very important to systematize most things. To find their place in the picture of the structure of the world I have in my head. </p><p>When I see a new plant - I look up its systematics: less to know the exact name(being able to name them and learn their names in different languages also matters, but it’s not the only goal) and more - to understand how it is related to others, what it is close to, where it descends from. </p><p>To be able to place a piece of knowledge I got neatly into the system, understand where it relates to, is more important to me than to remember some details. Like, I don’t care about the precise length of Megalosaurus, but I care that its closest relative is Torvosaurus</p><p>But there is a thing. That all doesn’t quite work with people. I neither want nor actually care for categorizing people. I actually really prefer not to, and would sometimes oppose the categorizing. I don’t want to shove anyone into any box. And something similar stands for the feelings towards others. I can easily describe my emotions at the moment, but don’t ask me to define a feeling towards someone. I simply can’t. And I kinda feel very averted from doing that. Like it’s something I shouldn’t do. Even when a social situation demands I do. </p><p>Does it have anything to do with <a href="/tags/autism/" rel="tag">#autism</a>? <br>Does the specific aversion towards labeling people and feeling towards them has anything to do with being <a href="/tags/neuroqueer/" rel="tag">#neuroqueer</a>?<br><a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#autistic</a> <br><a href="/tags/neurodivergent/" rel="tag">#neurodivergent</a> <br><a href="/tags/audhd/" rel="tag">#AuDHD</a><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span></p>
<p>Hey <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span> fam, happy to find us again!😄<br><a href="/tags/audhd/" rel="tag">#AuDHD</a> <a href="/tags/adhd/" rel="tag">#ADHD</a> <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#Autistic</a> <a href="/tags/autism/" rel="tag">#Autism</a></p>
<p>If I were a rich philanthropist, I think it would be fun to visit every elementary school, and award <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#Autistic</a> kids who did well in Math or Computer Science with a free and fully accessorized <a href="/tags/raspberrypi/" rel="tag">#RaspberryPi</a> 500+. This way they could all network together with the other Autistic kids who also won the same - in case they have few friends in school. At least they would have each other. They could come up with geeky ways of interacting with each other, like sharing files with each other through <a href="/tags/copyparty/" rel="tag">#copyparty</a> or some such.<br><a href="/tags/actuallyautistic/" rel="tag">#ActuallyAutistic</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span></p>
<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span> </p><p>Walking down the street with headphones and listening to music It allows me to stay calm and not lose my temper. I was asked today how that feels, and I explained... <br>The street, the people and the activity look like a scene from a very bad movie with very good music.</p><p>PS: I ran into one of the therapists who diagnosed me with autism and giftedness today on the street. The joy with which she greets me every time she sees me is very gratifying. <br>That's all. <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/infosec.exchange/catjam.gif" class="emoji" alt=":catjam:" title=":catjam:"> </p><p><a href="/tags/autism/" rel="tag">#autism</a> <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#autistic</a> <a href="/tags/actuallyautistic/" rel="tag">#actuallyautistic</a> <a href="/tags/neurodivergent/" rel="tag">#neurodivergent</a></p>
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<p>Having a lovely day of doing basically nothing today, after public speaking yesterday at a literary festival- I crash hard after these events but fully allow myself to chill out the following day with no guilt. Being productive by doing nothing productive .<br>A few necessary chores (washing school uniforms, cooking dinner with everyone roped in to help), sleeping, reading, chatting to my kids. </p><p><a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#Autistic</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span></p>
<p>Like mother like daughter.</p><p>My 7yo loves organising her books by author and series and this brings me <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#Autistic</a> joy.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span></p>
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