Frankly, I don’t understand what all the damned war is about.
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It’s not fucking Middle Earth, there aren’t monsters, you’re supposed to be the smartest animal on Earth, figure out how to live already, WTF. You already invented birth control, FFS.
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@autistics Very relatable content! And I dig his sense of humor!
How to Spot Autism in #HighMasking Adults - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJDKjH6rHhw
#LifeWithAutism #Autistic #Autists #ND #Masking #Sensitivity #SensoryIssues
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Dots Out of Line: On #Neuroatypical Curiosity
Educators should ask not who is curious, but how is each person curious?
MIT Press Reader
by Perry ZurnDani S. Bassett, December 2022
Excerpt: "Born in 1992 and diagnosed with autism of a 'severe' and 'nonverbal' type, #NaokiHigashida 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.
"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.' "
#Poets #LifeWithAutism #Autistic #Autists #ND #Curiosity #ABeautifulMind
So, one of my guilty pleasures is watching the TV show #HighPotential, which is based on another show (#HPI). #KaitlynOlson (who in real-life is married to #ND #RobMacElhenney) portrays "Morgan," who has an IQ of 160 and notices EVERYTHING! After she oversteps her position as a cleaner, Morgan is hired on as a police consultant -- where she helps to solve murders. Season 2 airs tonight on ABC, and Season 1 is available on Hulu...
Kaitlin Olson Listed A Whole Bunch Of Things She Wants High Potential Season 2 To Dive Into, And There's One I Really Hope They Focus On
By Megan Behnke published June 20, 2025
Excerpt: "Olson also mentioned she wanted to highlight Morgan's #neurodivergent brain, coming to terms with the 'gift' she may or may not have and how lonely she feels because of it. Plus, we also want to know more about everything else going on with Ava's dad, Morgan's relationships with her kids and more.
"It's hard to tell what exactly will happen in Season 2, but it sounds like Olson has more than a few ideas that will more than likely come to fruition. High Potential is keeping viewers on the edge of their seats, and it wouldn’t be surprising if the same thing is done with Season 2. Fans will just have to wait and see what the show digs into. In the meantime, the first season is available to stream with a Hulu subscription."
#MurderMysteries #Neuroatypical #Curiosity #PositiveDepictionsOfND #NDWomen
So, like #AlbertEinstein and #NikolaTesla were more than likely #Neurodivergent. I'm pretty sure their moms didn't take #Tylenol.
#ND #HumanEvolution #NewMutants? #NextStep in #Evolution?
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True story. I remember being maybe 11 years old and realizing I didn't fit in. After sobbing for a while, I thought to myself, "Do you want to fit in? Or do you want to be yourself?" I knew to NOT fit in would bring more pain, and isolation... But I'm so glad I chose to be myself (mostly -- I did mask a bit, as exhausting as it was). I paid the price, but became a staunch defender of my friends -- who were #ND, or #NonWhite, or #LGBTQ, or different in other ways. I don't regret my decision...
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listening to Sapolsky, he’s on about depression today. I’ll listen before I post, decide if it wants warnings first.
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But he’s mentioned a part of the brain that “does theory of mind, that figures out what someone else is thinking when it’s not the same as what you’re thinking,” and it struck me, don’t they bludgeon us with that by saying, No, you can’t be thinking that, you must be thinking what I’m thinking? Like they think it’s for figuring out that you ARE thinking the same as them, no matter what you say and do? The exact opposite of the core idea?
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At least that’s been my personal experience.
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So, for those who believe, it’s Good Friday, commemorating the very first #AutismAwarenessMonth
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these days it’s always, Am I managing this for my weirdness, or am I just fucking it up? (It’s about the guitar right now, but kind of about anything I do.)
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Mostly somewhere between, some from column A, some from column B, kind of thing.
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I don’t see how anyone gets “Autism awareness,” without getting the root concept of neurotype. I don’t see the point or possibility of Autism awareness without it, without Allism awareness.
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Sorry.
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I’m not prepared to defend this, they who have ears to hear and all that, but, “communication differences,” doesn’t ring right to me. We say different things, that’s content, not . . . transport.
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Honestly I have wasted my life trying to explain the simplest causality and science to them. They’re just too far gone, I mean historically and prehistorically, they seem to have arrived already too far gone. They continue on their divergent trajectory, but it doesn’t look like anything ever could have stopped them, even at the start.
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I see their life cycle, such as it is, I don’t mean it’s functional, but how do you change a life cycle? It’s like asking a caterpillar not to pupate. The first caterpillar that ever did likely didn’t think it had a choice about it.
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I might try my failed life experiment again if I had time and was a billionaire, except this time I’d lose the mother and pack my kids off to Mars to do it. Still, the first failure kind of suggests that wouldn’t work either.
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I know, NT psych even has reasons it wouldn’t work, repression and whatnot, but there’s hints that even without repressed abuse and attitude transmission, that a normal child may be sort of automatically abused and bitter, the way my kid speaks and knowing who I am and what I did, it’s like they can’t imaging a gentle father and couldn’t see one right in front of them. They know my unimpeachable history, they lived with me, but they’re sure I secretly wanted to hurt them regardless. The actual literal abscence of a crime carries no weight, they think they KNOW there had to be malice, this looks like paranoia to me, I can’t put a dent in it.
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And everything I ever felt thought said and did got erased by it.
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