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Jack of all trades, master of none, other than materials engineering. Managed to get a master's in that. I make documentaries too.
Cishet dude - he/they
#ADHD (probably #ActuallyAutistic)
#Humanist, not humanitarian
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theautisticcoach , to actuallyautistic
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How did my comrades self-regulate before they knew that they were or before they learned healthy ways to do so?

@actuallyautistic

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@theautisticcoach
I basically didn't.

I self-isolated a lot, and indulged in all sorts of stimming, self medication etc. but the gist of it is, due to poor understanding of my own brain, this all cause self loathing and depression rather than regulation.

I think I burnt out at age eleven or so and never fully recovered. I have hope for the future tho.

@actuallyautistic

theautisticcoach , to actuallyautistic
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Do my comrades have a carb addiction?

If so, you’re not alone.

Do you find that carbs regulate you? Or dysregulate?

@actuallyautistic

CynAq ,
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@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic carbs make me feel awful so I need to avoid them but without carbs my brain doesn’t work, which makes me feel awful, so I need also need them.

I legit need to walk a tightrope of carbs-exercise-work-rest-sleep to feel alright and be functional at the same time.

theautisticcoach , to actuallyautistic
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What does the term “unmasking” mean to my comrades?

@actuallyautistic

CynAq ,
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@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic I overthought this answer and now I’m second guessing everything I start to type. Unmasking is the opposite of this.

CynAq ,
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@EVDHmn @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic thank you for your concern ☺️

Check out my post history tho, you’ll see I’m quite comfortable with the company around here. I feel pretty safe.

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@EVDHmn @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic no misspeaking, nothing to forgive 😊

Just wanted to put your mind at ease. Because you cared, I cared back.

CynAq , to actuallyautistic
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I have a number of question for people who report :

Do you daydream at all, and if you do, how does that work without visuals?

How does your memory work in general? Assuming you remember seeing things, being in places, meeting people, how does that work?

When you need to describe the appearance of something, how do you go about doing that? Do you plan ahead and memorize lists of features while the thing is in front of you?

Thanks! I’m trying to wrap my brain around this phenomenon I can’t experience myself so if you take some time to educate me I’ll be forever grateful.

@actuallyautistic

CynAq OP ,
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@joshrivers
Thank you so much for the reply, it's very interesting!

I can relate to the 3d modeling environment analogy. My mind's eye is like that too, but the detail level isn't consistent. I can't say it's lossy by default. The loss depends on how much attention I can spare to look at something. If I'm paying attention, I usually remember a lot of details, and the more I intellectually know about a thing, the more details I can remember. I think my brain recreates the image like a self-correcting compression algorithm, piecing it together from different kinds of information,
@actuallyautistic

CynAq OP ,
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@james
Very interesting.

It sounds like you actually do have pretty good visual memory but comes in parts. I think my visual memory is also like than when I'm alert and active, but my comfort zone is to hold the visual memory in place. That way I can hyperfocus and think about complicated details as deeply as my brain allows.

Now that I think about it, I can't really hold a vivid memory in my head AND keep myself alert and active. My ability to hold a detailed visual image completely disables my ability to perceive the physical world.

Shit, I think I discovered that I'm hypnotizing myself! Thank you for the assistance 🙂

@actuallyautistic

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@FrightenedRat @james

I think by these two comments, I realized something about how my own visual imagination works.

If I'm active and alert, I have detailed but fleeting images. I can momentarily see something in my head and then it triggers a list of features in verbal form, which I can talk about, for example.

But I can also conjure up a detailed visual world, separate from the physical world and stay in it long term to explore the details. This is quite similar to a virtual reality but with all of the senses intact instead of just vision and hearing. While doing this, I absolutely can't perceive the physical world consciously though, so I can't stay alert and active.

I think I've been performing self-hypnosis my entire life without knowing I'm doing it.
@actuallyautistic

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@Susan60
That is fascinating!

If it won't be some sort of doxing (I don't know why it would be but, you know...), could you point me to the direction of this writer? I'd like to read some of his stuff.

@actuallyautistic

russellmcormond , to actuallyautistic
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Introduction is: "Whenever I mention my feelings on ABA, someone always asks me for alternatives to ABA."

https://neurodivergentrebel.substack.com/p/alternatives-to-aba-if-not-aba-then

I really want to know why people think that is a valid question?
ABA is not about helping the person be themselves or have a better life, but to try to “convert” them to be more like other people to make those other people feel more comfortable with their beliefs.

@actuallyautistic

CynAq ,
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@Susan60
@KitMuse
@russellmcormond @actuallyautistic people who are knowledgeable about the history of ABA say it’s a version of gay conversion therapy but for autistic people. IIRC, it’s either invented by the same people who invented conversion therapy or it’s based on the same, now discredited source material.

There is a lot of material out there, including a Behind the Bastards series about it. It looks like it’s been horrific from the get go, and if anything, has been desaturated and humanized a bit. It started with straight up beatings and electric shocks, which turned into deprivation from positive experiences when authorities got the inhumane treatment banned.

CynAq ,
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@Susan60 @russellmcormond @actuallyautistic @KitMuse from what I read and listened, parents like it because it’s marketed to them as the only possible solution to the enormous and devastating problem that is having an autistic child, by a billion dolar industry headed by “autism speaks”.

Parents are told their child (who isn’t exactly human) will not only never have a fulfilling, happy life but will also ruin their lives as parents, and the only way to maybe have something resembling normalcy is to put their kid through ABA.

I suspect you are trying to find a silver lining because you can’t fathom something like this can be done by people to people without well meaning people making honest mistakes, but don’t underestimate the evil people can do to those they refuse to understand for their own comfort.

CynAq ,
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@Susan60 @russellmcormond @actuallyautistic @KitMuse I hope I didn’t come off as judgy in my previous comments. I didn’t intend to mean you were engaging with the issues of ABA naively.

I myself have a tendency to fit humane explanations to behavior from other people that doesn’t make sense to me and it takes me a while to accept that some people are just selfish and cruel. I think I was projecting that a bit.

theautisticcoach , to actuallyautistic
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How do my comrades cope with / handle / process grief?

Do you do it "differently"?

If so, you're not alone.

@actuallyautistic

CynAq ,
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@innervisioner @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic I’m exactly the same way.

Interesting part is, sometimes I get waves of grief come out of nowhere and I can’t figure out who or what I’m grieving.

theautisticcoach , to actuallyautistic
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For those of my comrades who don't recognize themselves as being in Autistic Burnout -

Is it possible that you actually may be masking your Burnout?

@actuallyautistic

CynAq ,
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@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic I certainly have in the past, but what I’m doing right now is more like denying it.

My circumstances don’t require me to mask anything these days but I’m having a hard time acknowledging that the lack of energy and motivation I’m experiencing is due to autistic burnout.

haui , to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

I feel like I'm really getting into autistic spaces in the past couple of months. It feels very different from the past couple of years, not to say the rest of my life.

Being able to express my feelings without constantly being told they're invalid is a completely new concept for me. Relating to people and them relating to me.

Not sure what to make of it rn but I kinda like it. I don't fully trust it yet but I try to.

Anyone else?

CynAq ,
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@haui @actuallyautistic yup, same.

I find that even disagreements among frequenters of spaces (at least on mastodon) seem to involve much more understanding and acceptance than I’m used to everywhere else.

snoopy_jay , to actuallyautistic
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@actuallyautistic
What's the deal with "keen sense of justice"? I am not sure what it's called in English, but I keep reading that it's an autism thing and I definitely have been accused of an "exaggerated" sense of justice or having too much of it. Why do we have that?

CynAq ,
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@snoopy_jay @actuallyautistic my personal theory is that as children, we all start out with a keen sense of justice but then NTs get desensitized to all the injustice around them, especially those which benefit themselves or their group, but autistic people tend to stay sensitive as is the case with other types of hypersensitivity common among them.

theautisticcoach , to actuallyautistic
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Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights starts tonight.

Do you know it's connection to unmasking?

https://www.theautisticcoach.com/autism-spirituality-blog/were-all-maccabees

@mazeldon @actuallyautistic

CynAq ,
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@theautisticcoach
Thanks for sharing this nicely written piece.

It beautifully illustrates the fact that freedom of thought and expression is a universal need, and people are no exception.

There isn't a single population on Earth which doesn't have some sort of independence myth, but Jewish people might be unique in going through the process of regaining their autonomy countless times throughout history.

@mazeldon @actuallyautistic

theautisticcoach , to actuallyautistic
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The vast majority (but NOT all) humans live with alexithymia, making it difficult for us to either engage or express (sometimes both) with our emotional state.

When combined with interoception issues (in our bodies) we lose access to just about all feelings besides those that we intellectualize.

Getting in touch with both our emotions and our physical embodied sensations is essential for living fully.

@actuallyautistic

CynAq ,
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@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic personal anecdote time:

I thought I didn’t have problems related to alexithymia, as I believed to have above average ability to analyze and describe my feelings. It turns out, not only I’m significantly out of sync with my immediate physical state, I’m also very convincing when I talk about something I think I know thus nobody including my therapist noticed I was so out of touch with my feelings.

Just yesterday, I had two definitive periods where I couldn’t identify a cause for my anxiety and lack of motivation. As far as I was aware, I was extremely anxious at both instances and the feeling was directed towards something I was about to do. I felt stress on the verge of a panic attack and couldn’t bring myself to engage in the thing in front of me. This also came with a noticeable difficulty focusing my thoughts.

In both cases the issue was solved inadvertently when I did something to alleviate a physical need, first noise reduction and second, having dinner. In the first one I just decided to listen to a podcast instead of the work I thought I was stressing about and as soon as I put on my noise canceling headphones an enormous calm came over me and I was able to start working almost immediately.

The case with hunger is extra ironic because the thing I was procrastinating and feeling anxious about was having dinner in a restaurant with my wife, which was solved by having dinner at a restaurant with my wife.

CynAq ,
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@hakirsch @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic it could also be that you are average at telling people’s feelings by their body language and expressions but have difficulties context switching when you focus on a behavior or mood you caught onto.

As an example, you might detect someone having a bad day and think they need help but you get so caught up in that “helping” state, you don’t realize the reaction of the person to your help offering, or maybe you do realize the reaction but feel friction because you have difficulty adjusting to the new state of being reacted to.

Boy, did that turn into a wall of text in its own right 😅

CynAq ,
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@Dr_Obvious @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic in both cases, I was aware of the way my body was feeling. The problem was that my brain wasn’t connecting the dots.

In the noise case, I was aware of the excessive traffic noise from the street and that I was annoyed by it. That’s why I opted for the noise canceling headphones instead of the speakers on my desk for the podcast. I just wasn’t aware that the entirety of the stress I was feeling was because of the noise and not in any way from the work I was trying to engage in.

In the second case, I was very hungry and aware of it. I didn’t connect the anxiety to hunger but kinda guessed that I was tired or maybe not in the mood for a restaurant dinner. I thought that if we were home, I would just be hungry but not anxious. After getting my hunger under control, all of my anxiety disappeared with it.

Now, of course this could be some kind of interoception issue where I do have the feelings but not the correct amount of it. Maybe I’m aware of hunger but not exactly how hungry I am. I just thought the definition of alexithymia fit my situation better than bad interoception but it’s probably both. Maybe alexithymia is in itself a symptom of interoception issues.

CynAq ,
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@hakirsch @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic hehehe it sounds like you’re me. Check out this video and the others this lady posted about AuDHD: https://youtu.be/nJ8fAfVevL8?si=zVKDu6IxTcRKt39v

It resonated with me very closely. You might find it useful too.

CynAq ,
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@Dr_Obvious @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic alexithymia is described as difficulty in identifying, expressing or describing emotions so it’s a bit generalized and vague to begin with.

I guess it is a matter of what you decide to include in your definition of feelings and emotions. Maybe even where you put the bar for difficulty.

In any case, the important message I took from my experience yesterday was that I was not correctly attributing my general mood (happiness, calmness etc) to my physiological state, even though I was aware of said physiological state and my mood separately from each other.

CynAq ,
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@russellmcormond @hakirsch @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic haha, lol

I didn’t take this test but just going in and reading the definition, I know that I will correctly guess most of the pictures but there’s no way I won’t overthink it and go way over 3 minutes for 36 images 😂, especially if the pictures are just the eyes without the rest of the face.

CynAq ,
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@Dr_Obvious

I can tell the difference between desperation, fear or anger, in multiple languages I can speak, complete with different cultural connotations they may have.

I also can immediately say if someone is happy, sad, concerned, dumbfounded, chagrined or even feeling wronged but proud to not have let it get to them.

The issues I have that I think points to alexithymia (as I understand it) only is related to instances that I don't attribute my overall emotional state to my bodily needs.

To summarize, 8 times out of 10, my anxiety and terrible mood stem from a bodily need that's unmet, and even though I'm aware of the need, I can't make that connection automatically. I have to deliberately say "I am in a lot of stress and I'm also hungry. Let's see if that's my only problem or do I have something else to be stressed about".

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic

CynAq ,
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@Dr_Obvious

I understand these but I don't think the issue is that clear cut.

Basically what I'm trying to say is, I am apparently unable to identify and describe something my body feels.

If I am having difficulty concentrating on my work due to excessive noise outside but my brain can't make the connection and keeps trying to find a cause and I settle on "I am procrastinating because of my perfectionism", I have made an error in assessing and describing something I was feeling.

Also notice that I didn't say "I have alexithymia". I said "I didn't think I had any issues related to alexithymia."

Ultimately I don't exactly have a vested interest in claiming what I'm experiencing be called alexithymia. I'm merely interested in correctly identifying and reacting in useful ways to my needs and emotions, which I apparently have difficulty with.

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic

theautisticcoach , to actuallyautistic
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Being autistic is a disability.

We are disabled.

For some it is a joy.

For others it is a burden.

For some of us, it is both.

For others, neither.

But it is us.

There is no duality of our brain or soul.

We are autistic humans & we love ourselves.

Or are trying to.

@actuallyautistic

CynAq ,
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@Susan60 @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic I can relate to this word for word.

theautisticcoach , to actuallyautistic
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How do my comrades manage a clenched jaw?

@actuallyautistic

CynAq ,
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@neversosimple @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic a crowbar might be a bit harsh on your face tho. Would you say doing it just by hand could work or maybe a softer massage tool?

CynAq ,
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@neversosimple @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic I kinda like shaky massages. A high freq vibration would probably uncomfortable but I found that the larger shaking motion some massage tools make feel quite relaxing even on the face for me. You gotta make sure the machine doesn’t punch you in the teeth of course 😁

theautisticcoach , to actuallyautistic
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Are "professional standards of behavior" a universal thing (amongst the discussed culture & society) or are they just arbitrary Neurotypical rules used to project power?

@actuallyautistic

CynAq ,
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@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic I think these are complicated.

The rules are selective, regardless of if they are organic human behavior or not.

Very obviously these rules are not universal as they vary from culture to culture a lot, and there are also a whole lot of neurotypical people as well as neurodivergent either forced into molds or excluded from social/professional circles.

So I agree they are arbitrary power projections but I don’t agree they are a neurotypical thing. I think it’s just about power and exclusivity, regardless of neurotype. They just exclude more neurodivergent people than neurotypical, by the nature of society.

theautisticcoach , to actuallyautistic
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As humans we’ve been conditioned not to take up space. To feel small.

As we enter autistic spaces we learn for the first time that we can indeed take up space and express ourselves and our feelings.

It’s important to remember to leave space for others too. @actuallyautistic

CynAq ,
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@theautisticcoach

It's a striking observation in a world where most people seem to measure their worth by the amount of space they can claim for themselves.

@actuallyautistic

theautisticcoach , to actuallyautistic
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Are you tired today comrades?

Are you feeling time-blind?

Staring at the wall?

Have no idea where the day went?

That's OK. Give yourself a hug. Don't worry about the reasons now. Don't guilt yourself.

Be kind.

Be gentle.

Self-care is self-advocacy.

@actuallyautistic

CynAq ,
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@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic that was me yesterday, especially towards the afternoon. Today is a better day.

I know today started better specifically because I didn’t guilt myself yesterday but allowed my brain to rest and recover.

neversosimple , to actuallyautistic
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Eating has been a struggle for a few days. Everything is very textured. I'm also gassy 😅

It's not always the case though. Things that I usually have no or little issue with are just suddenly a lot more difficult to get down, even when I'm pretty hungry.

Do your sensitivities vary a lot over time like this? (Food/texture in particular)

@actuallyautistic

CynAq ,
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@neversosimple @actuallyautistic +1 for yes.

I don’t have too much variance in texture preference but taste does vary a lot, as well as GI performance.

autism101 , to actuallyautistic
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Autistic people may be dealing with many other issues, dubbed comorbidities by the medical community. I've listed some of them in the mind map below. Many can’t be seen by others.

@actuallyautistic

CynAq , (edited )
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@aproposnix @autism101 @actuallyautistic beat me to it!

Dyscalculia is insidious. Most people find it difficult to do mental arithmetic, especially when they are out of practice so I think it feels like one of those “everyone has that” problems.

I’m pretty sure I have it because even though I can understand the theory behind many advanced mathematical methods used in science and engineering, applying the calculations causes great anguish for me. Doing a simple calculation takes more concentration and energy from me than explaining how and why the method works. Despite the difficulty I have applying my understanding of math, I find it equally difficult to convince people I have a brain function issue with regards to calculations BECAUSE I can understand the theory behind them.

CynAq ,
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@Susan60 @aproposnix @autism101 @actuallyautistic in my case, nobody thought no was dumb because I was constantly reading and learning things, which I promptly infodumped on family and the few friends I had.

They just thought I was bad at maths because I was lazy and couldn’t be bothered with the effort of learning it.

Their logic was explained to me like this: “you are very smart and learn things extremely quickly, except for math, so the only thing you need to “apply yourself” is this one thing, and since you can’t seem to do it year after year, you must be avoiding it on purpose, which means you’re a lazy fuck.”

CynAq , to actuallyadhd
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To me, feels like being a weirdly rolled d&d character.

Str 12, Dex 8, Const 4, Int 14, Wis 3, Chr 2


@actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd

spika , to actuallyautistic
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I have such mixed feelings about social media a lot of the times these days... I'm noticing that have a habit of gravitating to the socials when I'm feeling lonely and feeling dysregulated from that loneliness, but more often than not I'm just ingesting more information that dysregulates me even further, causing even more loneliness and despair and wanting to isolate from people even more.

@actuallyautistic

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@spika @actuallyautistic

Same tbh. Gotta figure out a way to change that habit.

CynAq , to actuallyautistic
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@actuallyautistic

I wanted to write a bloggish post about the etymology of the word autism, and I wanted to be precise as to how the word was coined.

The wikipedia article for "the history of autism" naturally came up first, with this disclaimer I'll attach.

It struck me as funny and slightly ironic that an article about autism was deemed "too long to read and navigate with too many overly lengthy quotations".

I wonder how the community feels about it.

CynAq OP , (edited )
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@Dr_Obvious @actuallyautistic

about the disclaimer on the article, without reading the article itself.

I'll talk about the etymology after I hopefully manage to write the piece I have in mind.

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@Dr_Obvious @actuallyautistic

I haven't read the entire article, but I skimmed it. Didn't find it particularly lengthy or complicated.

But that's beside the point.

I found it ironic that the warning about an autism article mentioned that it was long, complicated and contained lengthy quotes, given the propensity of autistic people for infodumps, lengthy explanations with precise context and hyperfixation on details.

Wouldn't you agree that it's at least somewhat funny given that context?

CynAq OP ,
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@Dr_Obvious @actuallyautistic

We're completely on the same page then. I haven't realized how dark the humor I'm seeing here was until you mentioned feeling the annoyance more than the irony.

It's very annoying indeed.

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@Dr_Obvious @actuallyautistic

I have quite a bit to say about the word itself as I intend to write a blog about it so, I'll give you a heads-up when it's out.

CynAq OP ,
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@zigi_now9 @actuallyautistic this brings up another question for me.

How did “allistic” become a suitable negation of “autistic” linguistically?

Autistic comes from “autos”. The same root of words like autonomy, automatic, automobile etc.

What is the root for “allistic”? Is it the German “Alles”? Who coined that term and why?

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@alexisbushnell @zigi_now9 @actuallyautistic turns out it’s not all or alles but the Greek root allos (other), the opposite of autos (self).

So in a way, since “autistic” is literally coined to mean “obsessed with the self”, “allistic” should mean “obsessed with others”. Pretty amusing when they’re taken literally 😂

CynAq OP ,
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@independentpen
I love this.

It's up there with the description of the stock market graph as "the graphical representation of rich people's feelings".

@brainpilgrim @nddev @alexisbushnell @zigi_now9 @actuallyautistic

CynAq OP ,
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@zigi_now9 what does that prefix mean?

@actuallyautistic

theautisticcoach , to actuallyautistic
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Do my comrades find that they sleep better when avoiding triggers in the last few hours before bed?

@actuallyautistic

CynAq ,
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@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic oh, for sure!

It doesn’t prevent me from exposing myself to triggers due to bad habits though. The ADHD part of my personality is notorious for that.

theautisticcoach , (edited ) to actuallyautistic
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Loneliness is responsible for early death.

humans are more isolated than allistics and suffer more loneliness.

This fact is rarely discussed when we are talking about our oppression.

Being together in autistic space is an antidote. It can save your life.

@actuallyautistic

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@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic

I think you have a typo there:

early->earth

Either that or you accidentally spelled capitalism as loneliness

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