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SeattleSanchez , to actuallyautistic
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My mind has been obsessed with this video all day! So well laid out how our two parties became one since the 80s and 90s.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRc1uouD/
@actuallyautistic

sal ,
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@mdylanbell @SeattleSanchez @actuallyautistic nah you don't need active conspiring when a group's class interests line up against yours

poloniousmonk , to actuallyautistic
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@actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy @autistic[email protected]

What is this "mask", what do y'all mean by "masking"?

Like, what's the difference between a mask and a public persona?

Both my parents are pretty autistic and in total denial about it. Lacking siblings, cousins, a culture, or human contact, I really have no frame of reference for this stuff.

Thanks.

sal ,
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@wilbr @poloniousmonk @Dianora @sentient_water @punishmenthurts @actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy @[email protected] It's a theory that he wrote a long antisemitic article about.

mepurfield , to actuallyautistic
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I guess NTs that mimic traits like stimming also go to events in blackface. 🤔

@actuallyautistic

sal ,
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@mepurfield @actuallyautistic ? do you mean, like, mocking autistic people's stims?

sal ,
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@mepurfield @actuallyautistic oh ok, that seems like misguided thinking if that's what they think. there are lots of repetitive self-stimulatory things that many non-autistic and autistic people alike do just for their own sake.

haui , to actuallyautistic

Good morning @actuallyautistic

I started watching yesterday on and it seems nice. It’s a series about an boy and his family.

I haven’t checked if the actor is and obviously warning for so beware.

Please but feel free to lmk if you watched it and if you liked it or not and why.

That said I‘m incredibly happy that content about us gets out there because peeps still think we cant talk of something.

sal ,
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@haui @actuallyautistic lots of people can't talk and they're great

arcana , to actuallyautistic
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@actuallyautistic i'm trying to do some research into the basic neurology of neurodiversity and... idk, a combination of not really knowing how to research, not finding more than very biased and very flawed studies (because of course) and just not really knowing what i'm looking for...

i'm just curious whether anyone has any leads or cool resources? most of my knowledge about autism is about behavior and experiences, and as far as i know you can't currently look at someone's brain and be like "ah, yes, there you can see the autism."

i've had this hypothesis i guess that autism and allism aren't as cut and dry as they are sometimes discussed, but the information backing that hypothesis is all experiential, anecdotal, and philosophical. so i'm curious to see some actual data, and i can't find it.

sal ,
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@arcana @actuallyautistic Eli Claire's "Brilliant Imperfection" is good but more focused on the societal side
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29771370-brilliant-imperfection

Take yr pick of things by Oliver Sacks, more biological focus
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/843200.Oliver_Sacks

KitMuse , to actuallyautistic
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I'm going to throw this out there and it may sound a bit controversial, but keep in mind I have nearly 20 years's experience as an entrepreneur. Is there ANYONE who works with business owners or business owners who don't just regurgitate the same allistic/neurotypical "marketing advice" that's sold all over the groups and "free offers"? Because I'm not seeing anyone doing anything different from the NTs. @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

sal ,
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@KitMuse @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics advertising is what you are looking for, or something else?

theautisticcoach , to actuallyautistic
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If you're on the Left and your worldview AND praxis don't involve the liberation of disabled people, you aren't on the Left.

You're performative.

Gross.

@actuallyautistic @communism

sal ,
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@axnxcamr @quietmarc @Dremmwel @theautisticcoach @CStamp @actuallyautistic @communism Calling a comment 'asinine' is different than calling a person stupid.

sal ,
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@Dremmwel @theautisticcoach @axnxcamr @quietmarc @CStamp @actuallyautistic @communism There is no language that everyone can understand. 👍

bike , to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

Grumpy about the medical system, complainy

After an ongoing saga in which my medical records were deleted from the online database never to return, and in which I contacted my clinic to ask for these records multiple times per month in various ways, and in full violation of , I finally got a paper copy of my medical records in the mail.

So I'm reviewing this paper copy of my medical records that I finally got a little while back. And it is much more detailed than the information I had access to through the online portal.

It is riddled with errors. I say one thing. They expect to hear another. They write it down. It's now in my permanent record and I have to just live with records that are wrong or spend hours and lots of emotions trying to get it fixed.

Is angry the emotion I'm having? I don't know. I don't know what emotion it is, but every time I try to think about interfacing with the health clinic, it's just awful. I think I don't need a health clinic, I need like a personal professionally trained health nerd.

Most people: hi doc, I've got symptoms A, B, C.
Doctor: let's test your thyroid. (test) Great! Here, take this pill for the rest of your life.
Most people: ok, doc! Thanks! All better now!

Me: hey doc, can you test my thyroid?
doctor: whyyy?
me: I was reading about it and I think it might be off
doctor: sure ok (test) great! take this pill for the rest of your life!
me: wtf no don't you need to do more tests? make sure there isn't a root cause? I read a book for health professionals on nutrition and thyroid
doctor: (test). how about now? now will you take the pill for the rest of your life? we'll start you on a low dose, we promise.
me: how about I try to fix those nutrition results that were off
doctor: sure, we'll retest in a few months
doctor: crickets
me: hey you forgot about me
doctor: (test) ok look if you don't want to take the pill don't take the pill
me: i am fine with taking the pill if that's the thing that makes the most sense
also me: don't you need to make sure that pill isn't going to cause trouble for me per the instructions in its packaging?
doctor: this is not my expertise, go talk to the homeopathic doctor (test) (abandon patient)

sal ,
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@bike @actuallyautistic Oh no :(
Why would he tell you to talk to a homeopath?

theautisticcoach , to actuallyautistic
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Do you use the word "Neurodivergent"?

Why or why not?

Do you think it's ableist?

If you don't use it, what word do you use?

@actuallyautistic

sal ,
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@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic Not ableist.

I have never had any neurological testing done on myself, and if I did I would have to compare my results against the results of a rigorous, large-sample-size study of a 'default' population for contrast, before I'd decide to use the term for myself.

There are many neurological divergences that people can experience including MS, traumatic brain injuries, phenotypical expressions of Down syndrome, and so on.

sal ,
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@eo @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic And if you meet one autistic person you know ONE autistic person ;)

sal ,
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@melindrea @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic Well the thing is that many of those are themselves loose, subjective umbrella-descriptors for experiences that can't be assumed to be neurological-in-case -- and in this situation, it's especially important to realize that because psychiatrists will often (wrongly) tell people that their depression or voice-hearing or non-conformist ideas are DEFINITELY symptoms of a "neurotransmitter issue" or "chemical imbalance" when that simply isn't true.

(This, then, opens the door for said psychiatrists to rationalize forcing their will on patients, because it's easy for them to claim that any patient disagreement with the psychiatrist is itself just a "symptom.")

So I avoid using "neurological condition" to mean "anything that currently gets considered a mental 'illness'", because psychiatry is Not neurology, and because I don't want to gloss over or cut-off deeper inquiry into "what ways of thinking and feeling get pathologized by these formal legal/medical institutions, and why?"

(Some examples: It's ridiculously easy for adults to get psychiatrists to do punitive interventions against children who disagree with them - to try to "cure" them of that - and people of color are often pushed to go on antipsychotics if they tell their doctors about being racially profiled / surveilled in stores. Locating these things as "neurological issues" within the individual does them a great disservice.)

sal ,
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@Vincarsi @Dremmwel @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic That guy spent like three days trying to dismiss and mansplain-away my explanations of how doctors can and do use diagnosis in a violent and controlling way, both to justify withholding treatment and to justify forced interventions, so I don't think he's really interested in deconstructing the medical model :\

sal ,
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@marytzu @Selena @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic I get that some people use the term to include people with other DSM labels - but, like other psych diagnoses, "personality disorders" aren't diagnosed based on neurological tests of any kind but upon a psychiatrist's subjective opinion about a person's behavior.

(And they often do this as a form of violence and control. They will give people different diagnoses based on disliking the patient*, or based on the patient having a disagreement with them. Then, having solidarity amongst themselves as professional-class gatekeepers, other doctors will demonize the patient based on the diagnosis on their charts - not based on anything the patient has actually done. They will use it to justify denying the patient the care they want and need, AND to justify violently forcing unwanted interventions on the patient.)

Is it all of our responsibility to be in solidarity with those labeled with PDs?

YES, OBVIOUSLY! Only an intellectually-lazy person with a horrible misunderstanding of social dynamics could think otherwise.

*'Patient' here is an oversimplification, sometimes the people in question are better described as inmates.

sal ,
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@mike805 @KaCi @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic How did they make the fire without those spark-making rocks, or complete the hunt without those sharpened rocks?

oolivero45 , to actuallyautistic
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@actuallyautistic Does anyone have any good book recommendations about autism in adults? I've got a coworker who wants to understand how they can work with me better, but I don't know any books to refer them to myself.

sal ,
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@CivilityFan @oolivero45 @actuallyautistic Hello! Are you autistic?
(You posted this to the Actually Autistic people's group.)

sal ,
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@oolivero45 @actuallyautistic "Loud Hands", "And Straight On TIl Morning," and others at https://autisticadvocacy.org/resources/

johnnyprofane1 , to actuallyadhd
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Hey, anybody got 4 minutes? I'm testing some new voices and sounds on my podcast. Much of it AI generated from my cloned voice.

I could sure use honest feedback. ChatGPT ihas got me smoking my own stash... Encouragement from an AI is a two-edged sword.

@actuallyautistic
@actuallyaudhd @actuallyadhd
https://autisticaf.me/2023/11/20/got-4-minutes-i-need-a-quick-sound-and-reality-check/

sal ,
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@johnnyprofane1 @actuallyautistic @actuallyaudhd @actuallyadhd whoa this is an artificial-voice you based on your own? nice

18+ CuriousMagpie , to actuallyautistic
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C/W Trauma Tips @actuallyautistic

sal ,
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@CuriousMagpie @actuallyautistic oh I'm sorry, do you have to have further contact w/ them? :(

18+ MelsGarden , to random
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So I did something unexpected.

(for context: autistic-me rarely does anything unexpected lol)

I rejoined twitter.

My old acct is gone - so I've lost all my friends & connections. No-one has followed me back & that's triggering massive RSD issues.

But mostly it's just a weird & disorienting thing. An eerie 'walking the empty halls after school' kind of vibe.

Dunno if I have the strength to start over w twitter. I feel so alone there.

And I know Mastodon shuns twitter-using folks (pls don't throw hate at me) but for context: I went back bc I miss sci-fi. That was such a huge part of social media for me. I miss Stargate & old-school Star Trek. I miss being able to post about my fav shows & books I'm reading. I really miss my nerdy friends who would do things like geek out over my vintage sci-fi paperback finds.

I just really miss my friends there. 💔

Has anyone else gone back? Or started over on another platform? Just struggling & wondering if I'm alone. 😢

sal ,
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@ratcatcher @MelsGarden @actuallyautistic Nick G is an ableist who tries to gaslight disabled people talking about community members being killed by COVID carelessness, by telling them they need not just "therapy" but also to be "watched over," real creepy shit

theautisticcoach , to actuallyautistic
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Do my comrades find themselves having deep & significant empathy for others in general, but much less for those closest to them?

If so, you are not alone.

Why do we think this is?

@actuallyautistic

sal ,
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@russellmcormond @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic Much of what gets called empathy may be projection - imagining you're feeling "what someone else feels" but you're just feeling your own feelings and attributing them to the other person.

When we get closer to people we get to notice how personal and complex their own ways of thinking/feeling are, and how very different from our own.

theautisticcoach , to actuallyautistic
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What are some of my comrades' favorite scents?

Mine are lavender, vanilla, orange blossom, and pizza.

When you're feeling dysregulated, it's always good to keep something with it on hand to come back to center.

@actuallyautistic

sal ,
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@RolloTreadway @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic Oh those are all good ones. I think black pepper, I like wearing the essential oil of it, and tomato leaves, and creosote like they treat railroads and utility polls with.

sal ,
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@RolloTreadway @actuallyautistic @theautisticcoach & lilacs. & geosmin after it rains. see I want to find a place to get some mitti attar and see what that's like because it uses that, I hear.

haui , to actuallyautistic

I‘m having a rough time this morning. Having to discuss psychological/emotional abuse with someone who allegedly suffers from npd. I dont know how to handle that and the situation is overwhelming af. Any ideas? I‘m not trying to be mean to the person but I feel very unprepared.

@actuallyautistic

sal ,
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@haui @actuallyautistic Abuse that a third person has done to them? How does it relate to you / what do they want you to do about it?

sal ,
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@brainpilgrim @haui @pathfinder This is a false and bigoted thing to say.

The fact is: All you know about someone from knowing they have that label, is that someone with power called them that.

The fact is: If someone does actually find that those symptoms are something they're experiencing, those symptoms are likely trauma responses that cause them more pain and suffering than they cause other people.

Do not roll up to the @actuallyautistic group and advise bigotry against other psychiatrically-marginalized people.

sal ,
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@brainpilgrim (and @haui as well) @pathfinder Consider reading the work of Dr. Judith Herman on the politics of these diagnoses

https://archive.org/details/traumarecovery00herm_0

@actuallyautistic

ScriptFanix , to actuallyautistic
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When they speak about the Israel Vs Palestine conflict in the news, I just zone out. My brain just refuses to process that information. Do my fellow @actuallyautistic friends do the same?

sal ,
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@ScriptFanix @actuallyautistic No, it is our responsibility to recognize and oppose genocide.

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@nddev @marytzu @ScriptFanix @actuallyautistic Please understand the IOF is depending on silence to carry out this genocide hence they cut off the internet to all of Gaza, and Palestinians have been working hard finding ingenious ways to restore their links to the world outside. If we are exempt from the violence that others are targeted by, and if we have access to platforms they do not, it falls to us to tell the truth, boost their voices, channel vital resources to people.
There was an international solidarity campaign to get different SIM cards to Gazans that seems to be paused for now. There are other, absolutely free, ways you can support (Elbit is IDF's primary weapons manufacturer) like calling the landlord in opposition - if you don't have x/twitter the info was reposted publicly at https://hightimebykaceymusgraves.tumblr.com/post/732732476921954304/

sal ,
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@ScriptFanix @actuallyautistic @nddev @marytzu My reply was re 2 people saying they'd better not say anything bc of specific online disagreement they would face. (Which hopefully isn't meant to draw equivalency between the hate that gets thrown at people for opposing a genocide, and the righteous anger that's directed at people doing apologetics for genocide.) the other thing is autistic people live in Palestine

Other things can be done include the campaign to that I linked above, calling lawmakers, following efforts to restore internet access to Gaza [ https://twitter.com/mirna_elhelbawi/status/1718682866735813058 ] , sharing / promoting bail-funds

PossiblyAutistic , to actuallyautistic

Let's try the AQ, at https://embrace-autism.com/autism-spectrum-quotient/#test

@actuallyautistic

sal ,
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@Adventurer @PossiblyAutistic @axnxcamr @roryreckons @actuallyautistic Well these things are not "tests." They are just descriptions of the loose cluster of traits that get described as "autism" regardless of "cause." Ie the autism descriptor ("diagnosis") isn't in any way dependent on biomarkers or anything like that. It's not like saying someone's pregnant or HIV-positive where there's an objective right or wrong answer.
See also https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190708131152.htm

JeremyMallin , to actuallyautistic
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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?



@actuallyautistic

sal ,
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@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 , to actuallyautistic
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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 @autisticadvocacy @audhd

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

hosford42 , to actuallyautistic
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I'm interested to get my fellow 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 ,
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@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 ,
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@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 , to actuallyautistic
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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

sal ,
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@spika @actuallyautistic The kiosks are horrible

HopelessDemigod , to random
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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 ,
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@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 , to actuallyautistic
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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

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

sal ,
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@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 , to actuallyautistic
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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 ,
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@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.

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@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.

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

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

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

Trust Autistic people on Autistic matters.

@actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy

sal ,
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@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

SinnahSaint , to actuallyautistic
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Even though I have no experience with db queries, there was something I wanted to do in so I worked really hard on an advanced query. It took me all day but I won and it works and I know how it works so I can change it if I want.

It involved asking for help and crying and gathering myself back together and trying again and I would appreciate some positive feedback about doing a hard thing please. @adhd @actuallyautistic

sal ,
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@SinnahSaint @adhd @actuallyautistic you did it!!

sal , to actuallyautistic
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@Geoffberner Thank you @actuallyautistic

RE: https://zeroes.ca/users/Geoffberner/statuses/111207008291748280

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