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JeremyMallin , 9 months ago to actuallyautistic

How many fellow Autistics have never lied on a job application, never lied on a CV, never lied on tax forms? 🙋‍♂️

Is doing that expected? Is it required? Is not doing that handicapping us? Do you too feel almost unable to do that?

#AskingAutistics
#ActuallyAutistic
@actuallyautistic

sal , 9 months ago

@LunaDragofelis @actuallyautistic @JeremyMallin @frost Yeah tax forms I wouldn't lie on because it's too easy to get caught.

The other things, lie like a motherfucker.

DivergentDumpsterPhoenix , 9 months ago to actuallyautistic

It's a tough truth to face up to, but not every Autstic/neurodivergent person is a good person. Many of us find out the hard way that there are members of our own community who will do harm to us collectively and individually.

It's important that we acknowledge the truth that we can always do better as a community. We don't have to be perfect. We just have to do a little better each day.

#actuallyautistic #neurodivergent

@actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy @audhd

sal , 9 months ago

@omegahaxors @CatHat @nesi Hi Omega, this is actually not what the OP David Hammond @DivergentDumpsterPhoenix was talking about. :) He was talking about people who are actually abusive, this is just someone talking. It's fine.
@actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy @audhd

sal , 9 months ago

@omegahaxors @CatHat @nesi @DivergentDumpsterPhoenix
Another brief correction for Omega: Cat isn't actually going anywhere so there's no "out," I can see how you got confused though.

@actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy @audhd

sal , 9 months ago

@LilyoftheRally @omegahaxors @DivergentDumpsterPhoenix @actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy @audhd It's not actually "tied to 4chan" this person is just being pointlessly inflammatory, you're good.

hosford42 , 10 months ago to actuallyautistic

I'm interested to get my fellow #ActuallyAutistic folks' takes on this.

Neuroscience News: Is Inflammation in Childhood A Mechanistic Link to Neurodevelopmental Disorders?
https://neurosciencenews.com/neurodevelopment-inflammation-24941/

@actuallyautistic
@neurodivergence

sal , 10 months ago

@andymoose @dbc3 @ashleyspencer @hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence I think what they mean is that there's not a singular thing with a common cause that's called that, but a loose and subjectively-judged cluster of "symptoms" that can be caused by many different things, in a population where who "is and isn't" is judged by ableist institutions.

Many adults need lifelong incontinence care and feeding help, this is a really good resource about setting that up in ways that doesn't threaten their decisionmaking:
https://jennyhatchjusticeproject.org/justice-project/about-the-jenny-hatch-justice-project/

sal , 10 months ago

@null_hypothesis @hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence to fight systems of incarceration - we have to not distance ourselves from other people who are targeted for incarceration a lot - if you ever get a chance to look at the Toronto Psychiatric Survivor Archives they are great - also check out https://criticalresistance.org/resources/reformist-reforms-vs-abolitionist-steps-in-policing/

spika , 10 months ago to actuallyautistic

My dude told me he had a meltdown in McDonalds this morning. The store was understaffed and didn't have a person working register, and they were only taking kiosk orders inside.

He gets told this after waiting at the counter for twenty minutes. No offer to help, just told to use the kiosk.

Except, there's a problem with this.... He doesn't know how to use the kiosks. He finds them overwhelming, panic inducing and he's extremely afraid something will go wrong in the process of using one. So, he doesn't ever use them and finds the mere suggestion upsetting.

So, he started to have a meltdown about being required to use the kiosk, got very short with the employee who told him he had to use it, and went to leave without buying anything because he didn't want to be having a meltdown in public, when another employee intervened offering to help.

He didn't really want the help at that point because he was melting down and having trouble talking and just wanted to leave, but he did want food so he let her help and they got through the transaction the old fashioned way in person at the counter.

But not without him feeling deeply ashamed and embarrassed because he isn't able to use a McDonalds kiosk on his own or ask for help without being visibly upset about being asked to use the kiosk in the first place.

It's a story I share because I feel like it's the sort of thing that's an underrepresented experience within online conversations about autism and the autistic experience because I feel like the more common sentiment I see is how the kiosk ordering is great because you don't have to talk to a person.

I think an area of accessibility where many of us have a huge ableist blindspot around is how difficult an allegedly "easy" form of technology can be for some autistic people who don't have a lot of familiarity or comfort around tech.

@actuallyautistic #ActuallyAutistic #autistic

sal , 10 months ago

@spika @actuallyautistic The kiosks are horrible

HopelessDemigod , 10 months ago to random

#neurodivergent #neurodivergence

When we hear about the rise of neurodivergent people, children, teens and young adults, we should realize that from the 1940-1990’s we saw an uptake in the use of pesticides, insecticides, tetra ethyl lead in gasoline, tobacco use, and questionable medications that we didn’t fully understand.

Sometimes effects to human health take decades and generations before they fully manifest.

sal , 10 months ago

@HopelessDemigod Lead in gasoline started in the 1920s and was phased out in the 1970s. If you are concerned with how different social factors may be affecting @actuallyautistic and other neurodivergent people you need to actually listen to them when they tell you what's happening to them.

AutisticAdam , 10 months ago to actuallyautistic

Autistic people are often stereotyped as treating people like objects, but what if - for many of us - it is actually the other way around: we love and appreciate our objects so much that we treat them like they’re people?

@actuallyautistic #actuallyautistic

sal , 10 months ago

@WarmasterPalak @AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic Not actually though.
https://neurodifferent.me/@Finch/109863146019431108

sal , 10 months ago

@WarmasterPalak Oh right but I'm an @actuallyautistic survivor of psychiatry and other ableist medical abuse as well. The thread is one of numerous disabled people and their caregivers and comrades explaining their survival and accommodation needs - with replies from an autistic but ableist man telling them that they don't deserve accommodations for survival.

That's the treating people like objects I am concerned with. We are fighting so hard to stay alive.

theautisticcoach , 10 months ago to actuallyautistic

As many of you here, and as all of you who have met or worked with me, know, I am an Israeli.

I’m also a life long peace activist for Israel-Palestine.

Unfortunately, MANY of you have taken the last few days to attack me, call me a murderer, lecture me about the world I grew up and lived in for 35+ years of my life, dare to speak down to me and over me, erase my history and lifelong dedication for Palestinian rights, and even wished me to die.

Others of you have taken the opportunity to call me an antisemite, a race traitor, a horrible person, a hypocrite, a terrorist, and erase my history and lifelong dedication to Jewish life and making Israel a better place to live.

Yet, VERY FEW of you have asked how I am. How is my family? How are my friends? How are YOU?

Well, no. I have my family & friends in deep crisis. Many have lost their own other family and friends, parents, siblings, kids and lovers - some by bullets, others by fire, others by kidnapping. A comrade of mine lost his parents. An other had their 16 year old son taken into Gaza. Too many people I know or am connected to have been murdered or taken. And I use the word murder, not killed, because sleeping civilians in their home or at a party are not military combattants. Babies aren’t targets.

I also have Palestinian friends who have lost families in Gaza from the bombs currently falling from IDF planes. My heart aches for them too as theirs does for me.

But many of you only care about death when one side fits your own narrative and unformed and ignorant beliefs.

So no, I’m not OK. I’m not OK at all.

Keep reading in the next post

@actuallyautistic @mazeldon

sal , 10 months ago

@DJGummikuh @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @mazeldon They are both separable - and this is a very incomplete response to you, but a few things to note are 1. While Israel has a draft of all military-aged adults, there are also draft resisters who refuse to serve, immigrants who moved there later in life, and kids and stuff. 2. Israel's gov actually funded right-wing Hamas early on so it would get more power over left-wing PLO. 3. Gaza functions as an 'open-air prison' with an embargo limiting food and medicine and barring the import of concrete which people need to rebuild bombed houses, half of the people living there are children, and the recent offensive that broke the IDF's border wall was the first chance many people had to get out in years and years.
4. Arab nations, esp Egypt's gov, have also been complicit enforcing the embargo / prison conditions on the people of Gaza.

sal , 10 months ago

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic I am sorry people are saying these things to you. However I don't know if our instances federate so I don't know if you can see this.

sal , 10 months ago

@dschwarz @AutisticMumTo3 @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @mazeldon No those other things were also genocide and war crimes 👍

sal , 10 months ago

@AutisticMumTo3 @actuallyautistic You're right and you should say it. Sorry some guy is trying to clown on you.

DivergentDumpsterPhoenix , 10 months ago to actuallyautistic

No matter who we are, there is always a reason not to listen to us.

Trust Autistic people on Autistic matters.

#actuallyautistic #autism #Autistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent

@actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy

sal , 10 months ago

@DivergentDumpsterPhoenix @actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy They do this to most Crazy people tbh - and also with physical disabilities, doctors being actively hostile towards patients having "too much" medical knowledge