Alert #autism folks. A friend is mentoring a founder going through a startup accelerator program. It’s for idea stage founders. He’s wanting to do customer discovery interviews to validate his idea, which is a mental health app to support adults with autism.
@kcarruthers@actuallyautistic Check this out
👆👆👆in case you’re interested participating in a customer discovery interview re: development of an app for autistic adults
o. I am pretty sure I am #ActuallyAutistic , I had hints building up here and there, and then we took me out of my context, and I moved 300 miles away, and.. it’s like being off-balance every time I leave the house. Sometimes even inside the house. The question is what the fuck do I do about this?
@splott I always feel some sense of disconnection with the world around me, but I find it important to have spaces or activities to help be recharge/recenter/regroup. So I find myself wondering if there were particular aspects of your old home that you can recreate in your new one to help build a sense of comfort and connection… #ActuallyAutistic#ADHD#AuDHD#neurodifferent@actuallyautistic
Further to my griping yesterday about my #ADHD medication woes; I’ve just contacted my local ADHD service.
Things I have learned:
As far as I can tell, two years after being referred to them (already diagnosed), I’m still not officially on their books.
The way I’ve been having to do things (make a GP appointment, wait two weeks for it, they send a letter, we wait two weeks for a reply, etc…) is just The Way To Do Things.
I’ve also learned that the service are changing their Advice & Guidance supplier on April 1st, so today is the last day any dosage increase requests can be submitted until then.
So I’ve just had to hastily arrange a phone appointment with a GP, who has said he’ll do his best to email them today, but that there may not be a secretary available to send the email.
Haste Ye Back (again)
5 March, Glasgow University & online
Free
Dorothy K. Haynes (1918–1987) was a well-known author of horror fiction. Dr Craig Lamont discusses editing HASTE YE BACK, Haynes’s #memoir of her childhood years in Aberlour Orphanage. An orphanage, in north-east Scotland, during the Great Depression, sounds like the setting for something grim – yet Haynes shows how an orphanage can also be a home, & a happy one too.
HASTE YE BACK
by Dorothy K. Haynes
edited by Craig Lamont
A gifted writer of #gothic & #supernatural fiction, Dorothy K. Haynes (1918–1987) grew up in Aberlour Orphanage. In this memoir, she brings to life the residents & stories of the institution that shaped her
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I'm HV (she/her). I'm an #actuallyautistic college student from the U.S. interested in Pokémon, autism/neurodivergence, psychology, and disability. I also have anxiety and depression.
Feel free to reach out with any questions you have for me! :)
@hvanson
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(1/4) I don't really consider myself old per se, but I'll be 50 in a year and a half so I'm not exactly young either. There are so many things that have changed since I was a kid. I see so many ways in which life is better but also so many ways in which today's kids in public school have been robbed. There are classes I had that no longer exist in the US public school system anymore like wood shop or home economics.
@monkeyninja This trend away from trades and skills, in preference to Tech Bro IPO and standardized testing as a measure of success, has had some tremendous impacts on society and the economy. And in #neurodifferent circles there are opportunities for success lost when youth don’t have avenues for success that aren’t part of #ableist hegemony. Bring back skills and trades!! We need them! @actuallyautistic@actuallyadhd
"An estimated 90,000 Kenyans were slaughtered in the Kikuyu uprising while just over a thousand were hanged on a portable gibbet. Some 160,000 were detained in internment camps where torture was routine.
"One of Britain’s victims was US President Barack Obama’s paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, who was arrested in 1949, and tortured by having pins inserted under his fingernails."
Kitson brought to Belfast his experiences in Kenya, fighting the Kikuyu Land and Freedom Army (exotically dubbed the “Mau Mau” by the British) in the early 1950s where he honed a practice of using “turned” or “converted” rebels into “counter-gangs”.
"The battle of the Bogside was an important catalyst for change, triggering a determined British government intervention that ended the unionist monopoly on power. But it also marked the beginning of 30 years of violent conflict that would claim the lives of more than 3,600 people and bring untold suffering."