Search results for tag #autism
Finally got over myself and some denial and internalised ableisim about the fact I'm AuDHD, not just Autistic. Alright then. Onward!😁
anyone have any links or resources to give neurotypical romantic partners to help them understand and navigate autism? official, evidence-based sources preferred.
"...The word “autism” is composed of two parts, “aut” and “ism.” The prefix of the word is “aut,” which comes from the Greek word “autós,” meaning “self.” The suffix “ism,” also from Greek, implies a state of being or condition. When I looked at the prefix and suffix of the word combined, I found that the word “autism,” in its purest form, means “a state of being oneself."..
Wowsers! Yes. Thank You. ♡ 🧡 ♡
#Autism #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticActually #ASD #etymology #WordsAreCool
https://www.jewishboston.com/read/etymology-of-the-word-autism/
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Undiagnosed… but everyone is pretty sure!
#adhd #autism #neurodivergent #meme #memes
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reem @ramoumaaa
not diagnosed, not undiagnosed, but a secret third thing (peer reviewed)
An actor and comedian, I've been watching for years on twitch is part of "the world's first sitcom by and for autistic people". Given hos other work in really looking forward to this, and assume it'll appeal to some people on here too.
https://www.patreon.com/TheDailyTism/posts/you-are-invited-162380067
From my favourite place by and for late diagnosed/realized autists.
It’s a very long piece, and be aware that you are probably going to see yourself in some parts of it. If yes I feel you, and it is so weird to read a big part/component of my reality so well described!
Some advice at the end of the text on how to try to learn to unlearn. I tried with a few health professionals in my life forced by the reality of my rare genetic mutation and thankfully it works.
Please add the @ autistics group in the comments, I can’t from my new instance.
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Learned Helplessness in Autism: Why You Stopped Asking for What You Need
You are not low maintenance. You are someone who learned, early and repeatedly, that asking did not work, so you stopped asking and called it independence.
https://www.heyasd.com/blogs/autism/learned-helplessness-in-autism
And this one too from the same source as mentioned in my previous post.
“The gap between deciding to do a thing and beginning to do the thing has a name in the research literature: task initiation. It is one of the executive functions, and it can fail on its own, independently of motivation, intelligence, or how much you want the outcome.
This is the part that outsiders never believe, so hear it plainly: you can want the room clean, be capable of cleaning the room, have the entire afternoon free, and still be physically unable to stand up and start. Not unwilling.“
Applies of course also to ADHD.
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Autistic Doom Piles: Why the Mess Isn't Laziness
The chair with the clothes on it. The box you have moved house three times without opening. The pile was never a character flaw, and it was never laziness.
So yes, we’re all neurodiverse.
The statement is quite a conversation stopper. Which, I think, is exactly the effect desired by the larger societal agenda that reinforces it.
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Thank you! Rant over 😊
"We're all neurodiverse!"
I've heard this phrase a lot recently.
It’s both depressing and enraging to me that so many of us use it, yet seem unable either to look the word up in a dictionary or to understand the implications of saying it.
A thread 🧵
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#Autistic #Autism #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent
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Photo of a little yellow frog against a black background, jumping towards the camera.
♾️Ten reasons why I like being autistic♾️
Maybe surprisingly to some, being autistic isn't all bad.
Here are some things that may get missed when autism is defined *only* through our difficulties & struggles.
#Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD
A thread 🧵
1/11
When some people learn you're Autistic, they may start treating you as less intelligent or incapable, even though nothing about you has actually changed. Or they might speak slower and use small words, because in some people's minds, that's what you do for someone who's disabled. With absolutely no nuance. 1/2
@autistics
Announcement: #Voxelibre multiplayer casual game today (Sat) for 4 hours in the late afternoon to evening (North America). That's in about 3 hours from now.
Voxelibre is a free and #OpenSource #Minecraft clone. More details here: https://docs.autis.toque.im/
Damage has been turned off. People with #Autism, #ADHD or #AuDHD are invited.
UPDATE 04/07/2026 02:40 UTC+7. 0/818, no movement until now.
Didn't meet last month's minimum essential needs goal, as usual. The unmet $218 really needs to be added to July because it was for meds.
July essential needs: $818 (deadline: 16/07)
- $218 meds
- $375 monthly minimum basic necessities ($90 electricity and water, $35 Wi-Fi + phone data, $250 groceries)
- $225 building maintenance fee, charged every 6 months
Monthly pledges are what allow me to function and continue building the mutual aid infra I've been working on. One-off support also helps.
https://ko-fi.com/wrzky/goal
Other support options:
https://wrzky.com/links
@mutualaidspace @mutualaid@ovo.st @disability @mutualaid@fedigroups.social @actuallyadhd @autistics
@edendestroyer @QuyetPawz @frugalcoffee @nillerus @ellespeaks @wrzky@wrzky.com
#MutualAid #mutualaidspace #MutualAidRequest #Fedihelp #DisabilityCrowdfund #poverty #DisabilityMutualAid #EmergencyCrowdfund #healthcare #mentalhealth #neurodivergence #cptsd #audhd #adhd #autism
uspol,healthcare [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Scientists find no link between Tylenol and autism, again, after Trump warning
After Trump’s claims, Tylenol usage dropped during pregnancies.
#acetaminophen #adhd #autism #health #robert-f-kennedy-jr #trump #tylenol
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/07/trump-and-rfk-jr-still-wrong-about-tylenol-and-autism-another-study-finds/
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My amazing Partner's debut graphic novel APOCALYPSE BABY is finished! And has been sent off to Her publisher to be released this fall!
Set in the midst of the zombie apocalypse, this is a queer romance story like no other! It's boy meets boy... meets ZOMBIE!! 🧟♂️
Check out Anna's official insta for more artwork and updates:
https://www.instagram.com/anna.sketches/
You can preorder the book right now!!
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apocalypse-Baby-Heartstopper-post-apocalyptic-adventure-ebook/dp/B0GSWZSDBJ?crid=ZLKNPX170TFB&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.bsBVyB8oxElI8oOsqxODvOkE-ZNEZVLntO7oQ58L-l82_qsbPCYKVcDKLv4WMaI2viqw_NJgYfXDBiOKyOMSANfi6a0K-9qXjKph6QEticjc5tJLZ3g75NtTYoRA6BEQFmQy04EE3m0b_hhtiFkfbwzlfF2ovUXudqdq9GbOcBB0XkgwSr3rx24EYyQcq9IJ69ZnzgSlJe9ZAnQLu8KloA.beQ-zQbMOCoqewtOObXVe2njirVSHtet3QlCmVVMLf4&dib_tag=se&keywords=apocalypse+baby&qid=1782939550&sprefix=apocalypse+baby%2Caps%2C203&sr=8-1
Bookshop:
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/apocalypse-baby-anna-penn/56fe6b983b125c6c?ean=9780702340482&bkshp-astro=t
Waterstones.com:
https://www.waterstones.com/book/apocalypse-baby/anna-penn/anna-penn/9780702340482
#books #bookstodon #apocalypsebaby #comics #graphicnovel #horror #romance #horrormance #lgbtqia #queerfiction #zombies #dystopian #fiction #autism #annasketches #imsofrickinproudofHer
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The cover art of Apocalypse Baby by Anna Penn. Artwork depicts two guys with a baby, wading through water while silhouettes of hands grasp at them. Below it says: "Out 8th October"
GODDAMN IT, BOOMER COWORKER.
I JUST NEED YOU TO ANSWER MY SEVEN WORD TEAMS MESSAGE WITH A TYPED YES OR NO, I DON'T NEED A RAMBLING FIVE MINUTE PHONE CALL.
#introduction
I'm a techie with sudden philosophical tendencies.
#ADHD/#ADD, Schrödinger's #Autism. Probably #Marxist. Definitely leftie. Oscillating very fast between hating capitalism and working in the core of the Imperial Core. #Linux admin. I know how the Internet does not work. Game player (hiatus). Compose Key enjoyer. Ex-pro-amateur photographer. Man of many hobbies, none of them in practice. Probably overthinking something right now, until I find a new thing for my ADD… What are we tal
Yet another study debunks the #RFKJr nonsense about #Tylenol during pregnancy leading to #autism in the child. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science/tylenol-during-pregnancy-doesn-t-increase-risk-child-s-autism-or-adhd-study-suggests
In the UK, 89-97% of autistic adults aged 40+ may be undiagnosed.
That's a whole generation of people who've been blamed for traits they naturally had that went unnamed. 😢
#LateDiagnosedAutistic #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent
As an #actuallyautistic #human I often listen to the same song on repeat....for long periods of time. I find it really helps regulate my nervous system.
Today at work I listened to this gem all day. From 0700 to 1600. Predictable, pleasant, and oddly soothing. I was super productive.
Who else does this and what's your go-to music?
Some ways my Husband tries to think about accomodating my neurodivergent tendencies:
- Putting up colour changing lights/fairy lights so I can adapt the lighting as I need
- Asking if it is ok before dishing up if certain foods are touching
- looking out for things I might not be expecting and warning me
- buying me lego and being delighted at my excitement
- not being worried by my stims when we are in public
There are many others, these are just the few that came to mind
He is a good man
In 46% of cases where therapy is used to stop an autistic child from stimming, the child has come out with symptoms that meet the criteria for PTSD.
Here's a thought: "Time flies when you're having fun." A common saying that applies to everyone. However, for interest-based people like autistic and ADHD, might this be related to time-blindness? If we correlate fun with interest anyway. An example of things that NTs experience but NDs experience it on a whole other level.
For those of us who figure out we're Autistic and/or ADHD as adults, it's incredibly common to experience a mix of overwhelm, relief, regret, hope, anger, and excitement. Sometimes all at once.
That's normal for us.
And figuring yourself out is worth it all.
#Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #AutismAcceptance #ADHD #AuDHD
Yeah we do!
#trans #autistic #autism #neurodivergent
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Trans flag in blue, pink and white, with white text that reads "trans autistics rock."
UPDATE 16/06 03:15 UTC+7 | Bills are paid. Alhamdulillah.
Thank you so much to everyone who showed up, gave directly, and boosted before the deadline. That part is covered now.
I still need $248 for meds and groceries for the rest of the month.
The urgent bill cliff has passed, but the month is not over, and I still need to stay fed and medicated.
Please keep this moving if you have capacity. $5/month support helps me and my work the most with disability constraints; one-off support helps cover the remaining gap too.
Please scan the QR or click the link in bio to help. Boosts still help this reach people who can move resources.
Thank you, thank you.
@posts @mutualaid@ovo.st @mutualaid@fedigroups.social @disability @autistics @actuallyadhd @edendestroyer @QuyetPawz
#adhd #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #disability #disabilitymutualaid #disabilitycrowdfund #emergencycrowdfund #poverty #healthcare #mentalhealth #neurodivergence #autism #writer #DisabledWriters #books #activism #politics #anarchism
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When The Reference List Has More Errors Than The Article: Autism Edition.
I like scientific papers. When a blog post or news article cites an actual research paper, I am pleased. Not only does that mean that it is using […]
#business-of-writing #neurospicy #science #autism #research
https://ideatrash.net/2026/06/when-the-reference-list-has-more-errors-than-the-article-autism-edition.html
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When The Reference List Has More Errors Than The Article: Autism Edition.
#AuDHD #ADHD #Autism #ExecutiveDysfunction #TaskParalysis
You know what most often gets me stuck? Dependencies. This can happen in programming, in DIY, in housework, anything really.
This is how it goes:
I need to do A. Ah, but in order to do A, I have to do B first. Oh damn, before I can do B, I have to do C. And oh shit, C is pointless until I do D (this sometimes continues through half the alphabet...)
By the time I've worked out all the dependencies so I know what has to come first, I'm screwed. Motivation has left the building. The list is longer than I have the #spoons for, my sense of future time has disappeared and I shut down.
Now I'm writing about it, probably the best thing is to just try and do the first task *but* ignore the fact that all the others depend on it. But it's easy to forget that when you're in the thick of it, your anxiety is building and your spoons are disappearing left and right.
At the request of my therapist I'm reading Attwood's "The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome" (2008) and now I need a detox.
Can anyone recommend any texts or media that considers the Autism Spectrum from the perspective of disability justice or similar?
Preferably in English, but Polish also works
Judge ruled in my favor, I won my SSDI hearing for disability!
It was a very quick hearing, the psychiatric specialist played immense role, i didnt have to answer any questions.
#MentalHealth #MentalIllness #Schizoaffective #Schizophrenia #PTSD #Autism
Silencing One Brain Gene May Reverse Autism Deficits
https://neurosciencenews.com/slc6a20-aso-nmdar-autism-30851/
Many more women than men have been diagnosed over the years with ‘personality disorders’.
These labels are much more personally damning than autism or ADHD - as they judge who you are, rather than explaining how you function.
Many more women than men have been diagnosed over the years with ‘personality disorders’.
These labels are much more personally damning than autism or ADHD - as they judge who you are, rather than explaining how you function.
#Autism #ADHD #AuDHD #Diagnosis #Sexism #GenderEquality #Neurodivergent
Sometimes my caring responsibilities feel too much and I snap in frustration over something stupid.
That’s followed by guilt and shame at being angry with the person I love most. I hate myself for hurting their feelings. But of course it’s too late when you’ve hurt someone.
I wish I could find the way to not feel so trapped, as though I’m serving a life sentence. I don’t always feel this way but when I do the taste is bitter.
My person is funny, sensitive and sweet, and is mystified by my explosive emotions/reactions (They’re neurodivergent and not inclined to be loudly expressive like me. We’re so different.) I so wish I was more easygoing and could let ‘stuff’ wash over me.
The weird thing is I don’t seem to see it building up and when the flashpoint blows it’s always over something ridiculous.
I wish I could find the way to change…
Running Everything On Manual: Responding to “But Everybody Feels That”
It is... and it is not.
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/i3qw2
#mental-health #neurospicy #actuallyaudhd #actuallyautistic #autism #neurodivergence
https://ideatrash.net/2026/06/running-everything-on-manual-responding-to-but-everybody-feels-that.html
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Running Everything On Manual: Responding to “But Everybody Feels That”
"U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pursuing federal government access to most Americans’ medical records, in a quest to research a link between vaccines and autism — a connection the medical establishment studied for decades and flatly rejects."
#PublicHealth #HHS #autism #MentalHealth #vaccines #immunizations #misinformation #EMR #EHR #infosec #datasec
uspol,healthcare [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
RFK Jr. Seeks To Peek at Americans’ Medical Records for Clues on Autism and Vaccines
To collect and scrutinize millions of Americans’ health data, U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. aims to work with state organizations that help health ...
#autism #childrens-health #disabilities #hhs #mental-health #midwest-bureau #misinformation #public-health #southern-bureau #trump-administration #vaccines
https://kffhealthnews.org/mental-health/sharing-patients-medical-records-access-rfk-jr-project-link-autism-vaccine-injuries/
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A man sits at a table with a placard with his name on it. Other faces are seen blurred in the foreground in front of him.
I think a lot of autistic people must have like a Masters degree in "pretending to be okay when I'm actually not."
Becoming such a constant that you literally don't know what it feels like to not be doing this. 😬
#Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Anxiety #SocialAnxiety #MentalHealth #Masking #Neurodivergent
@autistics
There used to be a forum about #Autism called "Wrongplanet". It's been offline for several months now. It had a huge number of interesting threads, all the way back to about 2012.
One of the best threads was a "Megathread", where each #ActuallyAutistic forum member contributed the best boiled-down advice they could muster, for the other Autistic people - **how to understand Neurotypicals**.
It took me days to read it. There was a ton of good advice, which hit me like a ton of bricks. I saved my favorite posts, and made a .pdf out of it; *straight-up copying and pasting* - even leaving grammar errors intact. I made a nice .pdf out of it, formatting it for a phone screen. It's all I have left of that forum to remember it by.
**If you are easily provoked, and are triggered easily by words which you don't think are politically correct, don't read it!!**
If you'd like to read the .pdf, here it is:
"The Autism Social Rule Book":
https://toque.im/docs/Understanding_Neurotypicals-for_the_Autistic.pdf
When Affirmation Turns Into Erasure, Neurodivergent Edition
The language meant to value neurodivergent people can accidentally dismiss their lived difficulties.
#neurospicy #actuallyaudhd #adhd #audhd #autism #disability #neurodivergence
https://ideatrash.net/2026/06/when-affirmation-turns-into-erasure-neurodivergent-edition.html
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When Affirmation Turns Into Erasure, Neurodivergent Edition
"So we had our first Needs Assessment under the NASC Autism pathway, referred by the ASD coordinator at our paeds department after our diagnosis. And our blatantly burnt out, well-intentioned, but refreshingly honest Needs Assessor informed my support person and I that the funding pot is completely empty."
#ScoutBarbourEvans, 2025
https://kahukurascout.substack.com/p/at-least-one-large-disability-support
( I still don't get the triangle worked solution in the appendix though.
I literally did a physics degree, somehow.
The step where it goes from (x^2 - 1) > 2n or whatever is fine, but right after, it looks like (x^2 +1) - (x^2 -1) > 2 from nowhere.
It's just like wtf?
Did I just have a stroke.
Where the hell did that come from and go, fucker-eyed crow?)
#book #books #Books2026 #Read #Reading #ReadingList #ToRead #FreedomToRead #story #stories #literature #kid #kids #Child #Children #ChildrensMentalHealth #ChildrensLiterature #Teen #Teens #Teenagers #autistic #AutisticJoy #Autism #AutismAwareness #AutismSpectrumDisorder #AutismSpectrumCondition #Asperger
I don't give a fuck, fuck you.
I'll care about YOUR gd friends and family, you cunts.
Anyway. Go read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.
Get a copy for some kid or teenager or young adults you know (of). JESUS CHRIST MAKE PARENTS AND CARERS READ IT.
Thing's from 2003 and still relevant, ow, my existence hurts.
#book #books #Books2026 #Read #Reading #ReadingList #ToRead #FreedomToRead #story #stories #literature #kid #kids #Child #Children #ChildrensMentalHealth #ChildrensLiterature #Teen #Teens #Teenagers #autistic #AutisticJoy #Autism #AutismAwareness #AutismSpectrumDisorder #AutismSpectrumCondition #Asperger #disability #DisabilityDrivenDevelopment #DisabilityAwareness #Disabled #Ableism #FightAbleism #StopAbleism #Ableist
Slide from AutisticNotWeird, Chris Bonello.
#Autism #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic
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"I have this communication disorder where other people don't disable what they mean and I get blamed for it."
AutisticNotWeird, Chris Bonello
#neurodivergent #train #trains #autism #autistic
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[Original post]
"He doesn't look autistic" My apologies. Luke, would you mind doing an autism for the lady please
[Reply]
To everyone's horror, Luke then proceeded to name every train ever built
Alright, I'm asking on here for obvious reasons:
Does anyone have suggestions for good books for adults who suspect they might be autistic?
Ideally, I want descriptions of what it's like to be autistic, in analytical terms, so that I can see if I relate to it.
#autism #autistic #ActuallyAutistic #neurodivergent #neurodivergence
#Autism #AutisticJoy #Neurodivergent #Neurodiversity
Ahh the intensity. I can never tell if it's a blessing or a curse.
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One important feature in autism is having particularly intense feelings sensations and experiences in some areas while having very reduced ones in others. It can feel as though the middle part of our 'feeling and experiencing' dial has been taken out all together.
For years, authorities and others in positions of power have made it very clear that autistic people’s experiences wouldn’t be taken seriously without a diagnosis.
And now, in some quarters at least, we're the ones being blamed for overloading the system 🤷♀️
#ClinicalPsychology #ActuallyAutistic #LateDiagnosed #Diagnosis #Autism #UtaFrith
My Partner's graphic novel APOCALYPSE BABY just had its official press release which means
I'M ALLOWED TO GUSH ABOUT IT
and tell you all to GO PREORDER IT!!!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
If you like:
ZOMBIES
GAYNESS
AUTISM
ROMANCE
FUN
COMEDY
EPIC FIGHT SCENES
AMAZING ARTWORK
CUTENESS
this book is for YOU!
Available from all good bookstores!
Including this one!
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/apocalypse-baby-anna-penn/56fe6b983b125c6c?ean=9780702340482&next=t
#books #bookstodon #graphicnovels #comics #zombies #novels #autism #lgbtq #horror #romance #fiction #yafiction
Wonder how many people with ADHD, or autism, don't get diagnosed based on the family member interviews where the parent themselves has ADHD or autism and just thinks the kid is normal - just like them. Intense interests? Duh, hobbies. Issue with time? Everyone's scatter brained, but they focus well when interested! Hard time with social situations? Whole family is introverts, leave gammy's spoon collection out of this! Etc.
RE: https://mastodon.uno/@G3rt/116537683906326265
@caesarcattus I find it difficult to agree with this:
"Human nature is to be a soulless son of a bitch, held back only by fear of punishment, whether from human law itself or some imagined deity."
From the same paragraph:
"I myself can be a compassionate genius and in the next moment break your head for being rude and treating me badly."
– that's more like me, without being a genius.
I have long believed that humankind's concept of deities arose, partly, from a true sense of awe (millennia before "awesome" became a throwaway word). Few humans lived above cloud level, and everything higher was entirely, wonderfully, mysterious.
There's a human nature to not only gain knowledge but also share knowledge―and enjoy agreement, or consensus, about what's shared.
We live in an era that is both blessed and tainted by what our predecessors believed that they knew in the absence of modern science.
https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/wonderment
Thanks to @G3rt @lproven @volts.wtf @gisiger @j2bryson.bsky.social and others who have shared the article about consciousness. I don't know what to think, and it's OK to not know. Quoting Carlo Rovelli:
"Consciousness is not separate from the physical world — our “soul” is of the same nature as our body and any other phenomenon of the world."
Amongst the questions that remain:
― how can two human beings, at a distance, literally share the same dream?
Is this fantastic fact an aspect of the soul? Is it an ancient part of human nature that predates spoken and written communication? I enjoy the fact that there is no reasonable scientific answer.
The mystery is truly awesome.
#autistic #autism
Asperger's syndrome explained for children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9eATBV-_lg
@autistics
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Announcement: #Voxelibre multiplayer casual game today (Sat) for 4 hours in the late afternoon to evening (North America). 🧙♂️🪄 According to the cron Crystal ball, it's fated to begin in about 1.5 hours from now.
Voxelibre is a free and #OpenSource #Minecraft clone. More details here: https://docs.autis.toque.im/
Damage has been turned off. People with #Autism, #ADHD or #AuDHD are invited.
Autistic people don’t just ‘fail to fit’ into social norms and into the social order.
It seems quite a lot of the time we actually challenge the social order - often even just by existing.
#stimming #autism #meme #memes #gunSafety
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valtsv Aug 31, 2023
emptying and reloading a gun with practiced efficiency so you think i'm an expert marksman but you later find out that's just how i stim
turning the safety catch on and off like i'm clicking a pen until everyone gets really mad at the noise but no one says anything because i have a gun and they don't
#jay ferin
Moving to a new instance is a sly excuse to write an #introduction post (I never did one before).
I'm Drew, pleased to meet you. I'm male, middle aged, child-free, a Brit but don't feel like one, living in 🇵🇭 for the last few years. I'm #neurodivergent with quite severe #CPTSD. You can ask me about it, I'm trying to get better at discussing it. I'm married, I work in #tech and I love animals and nature.
I post about (takes deep breath): #DogsOfMastodon #WebDev #Linux #Fedora #RaspberryPi #Apple #NoAI #FuckAI #BanAI #Enshittification #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ADHD #ChildhoodTrauma #MentalHealth #Stroke #PTSD #ModelRailway #NGauge #Philippines #SilentSunday #Bookstodon #Music
Almost forgot! I have a single-page personal profile website at https://drewtowler.me which expands on all this.
I wrote about #autism. Specifically, having an autistic twin; pondering a diagnosis myself; The Telepathy Tapes; pop-psych bullshit; the 90s; life-giving beauty, stupid deaths.
I recorded an #audio version of it too. 11 minutes long, downloadable wav file.
I feel bad posting Substack links to Mastodon, so I put it on my website. The audio's not up on my site yet but I include the url for the original
Link here: https://emmastamm.com/autism/
Meltdowns are not tantrums. They are not a choice. They are not manipulative. 1/3
#Autism #autistic #ActuallyAutistic #AutismAcceptance #Acceptance
I had to unmask my #autism, to some extent, to find out what actually worked better for me. I couldn't figure that out from inside the mask. 1/2
US ‘drowning in misinformation’ under RFK Jr, autism advocates say
Health officials in Trump administration were accused of fueling ‘crisis of public trust’ over autism and vaccines
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/s1lir
#autism #uspol #misinformation
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/03/trump-administration-rfk-autism-misinformation
Is autism self-diagnosis valid? Yep. 💜
Hey all, after reading dozens of research papers, and meta-analyses, and living through it, I made a thing!
I'd love it if you'd check it out! 🥰
https://codeberg.org/alicewatson/asd-self-dx/src/branch/main
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Update: I replaced the header image, now people can complain about the actual research instead of the thumbnail.
Also, before any more guys respond with gatekeepy opinions about my conclusions, try reading the paper first.
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@actuallyautistic #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #ASD #Trans #SelfDiagnosis #SelfDX #SelfDxIsValid #Research #Codeberg
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AI painting of maze-like pathways through a forest, representing obstacles to getting a formal autism diagnosis.
We went from precise web search with boolean operators to "natural language models" of AI search.
You can tell nuerodivergent, Autistic, ADHD, AuDHD, etc folks created the early internet...
...and you can tell that neurotypical folks are now leading the current overlays of the internet.
We used to have very precise search mechanisms. Specific words found in web pages with boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT, etc) to filter out the web pages that contained specific words and did not contain other words.
Now, we search for web sites (or don't even search for web sites, yay abstraction layers that separate us from actual raw information) using "natural language" to try and coax out info.
Have you ever been frustrated when you use very precise and direct language to communicate a specific idea with someone who then takes those specific words and adds obscure meaning and connotations and personal fears and bias to what you said... thus completely misunderstanding you... only to then try and clarify what you said with more precise language only to have that further degrade the conversation?!
Yeah. That's the internet with AI "search" now.
They took something that worked precisely and directly and muddied it.
We've introduced the "double-empathy problem" to web search.
I'm noticing that everyone in my circles, family, and especially work that are nuerotypical LOVE LOVE LOVE the new AI search mechanisms. They'll tell me exactly what the answer they received was - regardless of whether it's right or has multiple possible and conflicting answers. They just repeat what the AI said like it was the Gospel Truth.
And they love talking to it like it was a "real person."
It certainly takes my search parameters and adds its own interpretation to which I have to clarify and correct which is then misinterpreted further...
I haven't tried vibe coding, but I can only imagine the horror.
Can you imagine vibe pentesting with Claude / Mythos?!?!?!
You know how neurodivergent folks gravitated towards IT because it was precise?
Yeah, that's gone now.
When I talk about removing barriers to being your best self, I'm not talking about removing the #autism to find a "normal person" underneath. 1/2
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To my english-speaking followers 💕
Dear followers,
thank you so much for being interested in my posts. 🙏🏻
This is my second time in the fediverse.
First time around, I came as a seeker, looking for information, help, anything related to autism to help me understand what this new revelation was supposed to mean to me and my life.
After a while, I had to leave because it became too much. I couldn't cope with all this wonderful interaction, it was just too much.
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"We found synaesthesia is significantly more common in autistic people than in the general population."
https://www.autismresearchcentre.com/projects/synaesthesia-and-autism/
#ActuallyAutistic #synaesthesia #AutismResearchCentre #CambridgeUniversity #autism