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I guess I wasn’t curious because I didn’t like the similarities to my life, but now I love the similarities 
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I confess, we took the test, and they were negative, we didn’t have to choose, but we probably would have got it wrong, unhatched and clueless.
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Of course now, I want all the Downs people and I would screen for Allism.
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the idea that one famous person is going to teach me new subject every week in an hour.
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I used to listen to Jim Jeffries’ pod, and I love him, he’s hilarious, but he can’t learn half of it and he can’t teach me about . . . everything, LOL
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watching “Lucas: An Endangered Human Species,” because I want to know and I’ve been negligent about it.
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One of the things that disables #ActuallyAutistic people is the fact that a lot of our education is very much focused on fitting in and enjoying things that gives us much trouble emotionally and with sensitivities. Society is busy, pushing to make us comply, to make us “normal” instead of looking at us and accepting us as we are and seeing how the way we are is what makes us strong.
Unpopular opinion: I don't like podcasts!
People are always recommending podcasts to me. I don't get their appeal. I never have.
It's not like I haven't wanted to start one, though, because when I was a kid I used to make tape-recorded "shows" all the time. 
The only podcasts that I follow through on are the ones that offer a transcript of what had been said. I like to read, and I read pretty fast with good comprehension. I don't like sitting through chitter-chatter about things that I'm not interested in.
I have trouble with audiobooks as well unless I am absolutely captive, like in the car on a lonely stretch of highway.
#actuallyautistic so here is an ick question for you all. In the last year paper back full sized books… like coloring books or the Milepost 2024. The covers feel slimy. Like not plastic but with this UNBEARABLE OOOOOOGIE feeling. I need the Milepost for the trip down the Alaskan/Alcan hwy to WA. I just couldn’t touch it for one more second. I cut the cover off & made a new one out of cardboard & packing tape from old notepads. Anyone else know what I am talking about? So CRINGE feeling
please help a #disabled, #queer woman with #groceries, menstrual products, transit fare, utilities, & medical #bills. she's really been struggling with all her bills. anything helps!
$68/299 needed ASAP
So much of my healing over the years has been just allowing myself to care for myself. Becoming less perfectionist. More compassionate to me. Less trying to fit in, more trying to do what is right for me and seeking that healing space balanced between burdensome & helpful. It’s a constant process. What’s helpful for big picture, might need more nuance in application at an individual & personal level. I’ve had to sacrifice ideas I thought beautiful for my health & safety…
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$945/~2441 DUE MARCH 31
octo is a trans, plural recent graduate making plans to move out of her abusive parents' house. she did really well in school but she is struggling with severe anxiety from the abuse & lack of funds for her monthly bills.
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Here's a little executive function tip based on my Splines Theory.
If you're having trouble starting a complicated and boring task, give yourself time to "load the splines." Splines are just my silly word representing the fact that ADHD and autistic people are more detail-oriented. We have a hard time accessing an idea by its summary, and need to think about the whole system with all its parts (splines) in order to grapple it. This takes time and energy.
But the good news is, reticulating splines is mostly a passive activity. First step, the hardest, is communicating to your brain about what it needs to load.
A few hours ago when I started gathering paperwork for taxes, I felt incredibly overwhelmed and my chronic pain was activated. So I pushed myself to kinda get started (updating my list from last year, opening the email folder, creating some folders on my computer), but then I hit a wall. Under intense overwhelm, I couldn't get started turning those emails into PDFs.
But my brain knows what it needs to do. It just needed time. I entered my passive splines reticulating phase, which can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days. Since I only have a week to get this to my CPA, the sooner I started the loading process, the better. Most of that happens in the background. The hardest part was telling my brain to start, which I did by giving a glance to the body of details I will need to absorb.
Then I went did a couple of hours of paid writing work which my brain normally expects on a Monday (so that went easier). And then back to taxes to see if things were flowing better.
And they are! I still hate it! But now my mind has an understanding of the task and it doesn't seem impossible.
I will work on it until I feel sick and foggy again, then I will pick up tomorrow where I expect it to go even more smoothly.
Here's my 2013 post on Splines Theory of neurodiverse executive function.
#taxes #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic #pacing #MECFS
https://www.corbden.com/2013/10/splines-theory-spoons-metaphor-for.html
Taxes are like a signal jammer on my brain.
Abuse Culture project is on hold, mid-transfer of notes from Mastodon, which is just insane that I decided to start that when my accountant needs my tax paperwork in like a week. Trying hard to put a pin in that in such a way I'll find my place again.
(I've decided not to tax strike because, well, Idaho is holding my health insurance hostage. I can't even file an extension under threat of unaffordable medical care. Drat and I was all ready to go back to my Taxes Are Theft libertarian roots!)
Head is full of static now and I barely even got started gathering receipts. There's no noise here baby, it's all signal. But it's 15 HAM operators, two industrial and dubstep stations, and the NOAA weather report all talking on the same channel.
Anyhow, clocking into paid writing work now where I don't even know what what
One of the upsides (there are very few) of growing up #ActuallyAutistic where I did (Singapore) is that it was legitimately just impossible for me to understand social pressure or ways in which I had to fit in. I never once had a ‘I should do X because my parents / teachers / society’ thinks I should moment.
People from back home often say ‘oh you have such a clear vision for what you want to be’ and I’m partly also like.. ‘I didn’t have a choice? Also you all made me feel like shit for it?’
I have always had a clear-eyed vision for the life I want to lead and the ways in which I will not bend to fit in. Simply because I know there’s no fitting in anyway, all paths there lead to rejection, so why try.
As an #ActuallyAutistic person with certain skills, I can do some really complicated things but things like how to buy pants that fit me really flummox me
ok maybe i should give yall a proper intro on me #introduction
i'm alex, i'm a kitty 
who moved from poland to netherlands (living in Utrecht as of now) in september 2024 kind of by force
i speak polish and english, as well as trying to learn dutch (with little to no results though)
at the time of writing this i am no longer a neet woohoo 
i got a job
i usually draw things in my free time or endlessly scroll the internet for no reason. i collect plushies and keep them on my desk, as well as collect pokemon TCG cards.
i also gamed a lot, but nowadays i am trying to find motivation to boot up something else than osu from time to time
if i get the inspiration i work on static websites, most notably my personal site, dokokashira.nl (that needs to be updated asap because of how many outdated things there are
still morphing and trying to discover myself now that i have a proper environment to do so
i'm a trans gay guy and started my HRT on february 8 2025 
i'm proudly disabled (HoH, AuDHD, C-PTSD, BPD et al) and i wish for a better world
where else to find me on fedi:
@kaaskop - art account
@alexander - private account for friends
@kaviaar - AD account, only for people i know that are 18+
also @nugget from time to time when i test something on wafrn
as always, tag spam for reach and topics:
#furry #artistsOnFedi #pokemon #ActuallyAutistic #vocaloid #AuDHD #indieWeb #disability #hardOfHearing #LGBTQ #transmasc #ftm #queer #videoGames #digitalArt #netherlands #utrecht
As an #ActuallyAutistic person I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed with all the changes going on... In the past few weeks I've...
- Deleted my Facebook account and switched to the Fediverse as my main social media presence.
- Moved from Mastodon to Sharkey within the Fediverse.
- Been asked to manage the Pixelfed account of an event I volunteer at and have started doing that.
- Been asked to take over as admin of the private Mastodon instance of another organisation I volunteer for.
- Moved my primary email service from GMail to Proton Mail.
- Ditched Firefox in favour of Vivaldi.
- Ditched DuckDuckGo in favour of Qwant.
- Ditched WhatsApp while most groups I was in moved to Signal or Discord.
- Started a new TTRPG campaign using Pathfinder 2e instead of D&D 5e.
- And to top it all off, in a few days I'll be trading in my Tesla for a Volvo.
I really feel like I'm gonna need a while to process this all and find my bearings again - the question is, will the world let me? Everything seems to be in flux nowadays... I just want things to calm down for a bit so I can mentally catch up, you understand?
Article about how high ambient noise levels, and the noise types, impact human health.
I found this very reassuring to hear that it’s not just those of us who are hypersensitive to sound (like many #ActuallyAutistic people) who are impacted by high noise levels around us.
Hoping (but not getting hopes too high!) this might lead to quieter places one day for all of us. 
In the second episode the waiter is taking a day off to go to the police precinct. The cook is asked to take an order off a customer in the dining room. He says "I'm not good interfacing with people" the boss corrects him, " You mean you're not good with white people" This made me thinking, maybe this is me... but nah, I am the same with Chinese people too #actuallyAutistic #Chinese