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Interested in discussions on mental health, disability, neuroscience, ethics, associated topics more difficult to discuss, and their intersections. Questioning precise neurotype. 95percentofthetime.com Also I have an Axolotl: Toby
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🚨 you cannot be neuro-affirming and be transphobic at the same time these are mutually exclusive terms diametrically opposed states of being not possible to embody concurrently thank you for your attention to this urgent matter
Went pigeon shooting on my lunch break today and I found this mob boss
A review found that 90% of autistic people aged over 50 in Britain are either undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, and the same is likely true in other countries. Our middle-aged & older autistic people deserve proper supports NOW after a lifetime without accommodations. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Gonna teach my dogs some commands in Latin to sound like a wizard with his familiars
What's actually gonna happen is they're gonna have to spend months gutting it to remove the listening devices and fixing other security breaches and the New York Times will run an A1 feature on how much "taxpayer money" the Dem president is spending on it like it's a huge scandal
Finally making some good use of this zoom lens!
Teaching myself how to make art has honestly been a great way to maintain some semblance of sanity with all the shit going on Plus I’m turning my & my loved ones’ pets into Pokémon, which is rewarding in and of itself
That’s entirely fair. The shittiest aspect of my old career was finding out just how exceptional the folks I learned from truly are.
That I know it’s a manipulation machine tailor made for the people who have spent their lives manipulating people who have spent their lives being easily manipulated. You thought we were in a post-truth world before?
I can’t speak for every practitioner, but at least with the folks I worked with I saw this as a move in the right direction. In that this was recognizing that certain things were off the table for manipulation, even if the practitioner was looking to alter physically harmful behavior.
Last week, the Mint rolled out a quarter commemorating disability justice co-founder Stacey Park Milbern. I attended a celebration of the coin and wrote about what it means and why it matters.
I knew tonight’s sunset would be worth the quick drive
I’m a fan of BTB, so I also recommend this series! That’s the most terrifying aspect of it all. It could have happened if Butler had acted differently.
The Business Plot has lived in my head rent free ever since I heard of its existence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busines...
Thank you!!
Client today- “I asked 5 LLMs and they all gave me the same advice. You have to help me.” Me- “I am a representative of the company you are asking those LLMs about and am certain they are mistaken.”
I knew tonight’s sunset would be worth the quick drive
7. The paper looks at how researchers might hand off boring "drudge work" such as data collection and cleaning to AI agents, and what could (and IMO will) go wrong as they do so. Here's a key passage.
The start of the spiral answering Fermi’s paradox.
She’s been like this for 10 minutes.
She’s been like this for 10 minutes.
Sorry to the spider whose apparent years of work I just destroyed with my face but FUCK
Public transit W today A few weeks ago, I called a guy out for his habit of lighting a cig as we were all walking into an underground tunnel to our parking lot. Unintentionally wound up behind him, and needed nothing but eye contact to keep that cig unlit until outside.
These are load bearing smiles
The best thing you can do to understand the republican ethos is to learn the structure of abusive relationships. “Look what you made me do” “I have to be like this to protect us” “It wouldn’t be this hard if you just went along” Etc.
Slightly diminish a band Grievous Injury Cab for Cutie
Had to look this up to confirm that I was thinking of the same procedure because WTF. Are you known to be a whiz with a cigar cutter or something? I thought you were in space law
exactly got rug pulled? tough shit, be less stupid next time and eventually that leads to doing your own rug pulls because fuck it everyone else got theirs why shouldn’t you get yours deeply, deeply corrosive to a functional society
Having burnt out from the field, this is kinda how it already works. If you approach SPED or HCBS support in good faith you’ll be held to the same productivity standards as someone using LLMs for IEPs. Why? Nobody cares about education quality, they’re just checking a box.
Related— Death Cab was easily a top 3 concert in my lifetime. I feel blessed to have experienced this show and their incredible 2 hour set.
Billionaires say we need to increase the population so we can have more Mozarts while simultaneously saying we don’t need Mozart because AI can make music better than a human anyway. They don’t mean anything they’re saying. It’s all just words to hide their greed and white supremacy behind.
While I was having a blast last night, the haze was pretty noticeable
I love it when you plan to splurge and things are much cheaper than you’d feared. One of the few silver linings to anxiety, really
Makes a helluva lot more sense why my heart is telling me to eat a lot of cheeseburgers now. Thank you!
I think what a lot of people tend to miss with all this Sweeney shit is how plausible deniability is a core part of their MO. Not just as a political strategy, but as an overall approach to life. Their entire core, if you could call it that, is “getting away with it”
Thing is, there *are* some children that “picky eating” is a phase. There are kids who have ARFID. And there are kids who are somewhere in between. You don’t know where any particular child is on this spectrum. You might successfully bully some kids out of “fussiness.” Or you might kill them.
100% on this thread. The reason it appears cheaper is precisely why it was financially infeasible for me to live independently. Still fucked up that our agency’s Christmas party was at swanky ballrooms or country clubs trying to win me over with a “raffled” PS4, followed by Bose headphones next yr
"Don't be your child's first bully" is pretty good advice.
9. Parents can be really, really good allies, even if they don’t use all of the right words all the time.
7. Having a disability does not make a person a disability expert. It does make them an expert on their own individual, internal experience.
4. Autistic people with high support needs are not more difficult or dangerous than people with other intellectual and developmental disabilities. The difference between how people talk about autism (negative) and Down syndrome (positive), is entirely cultural and is not reality-based.
3. Special Olympics is fine, even if it isn’t inclusion best practices, because the people who participate really, really love it. That matters more than political purity.
2. If your neurodiversity doesn’t include people with intellectual disabilities and serious mental illnesses, your neurodiversity is BS.
My favorites from my quick trip to the reservoir today!
really appreciating the onion as physical media.
Pretty sure their scientific name is “Lil Buddies”
3d10 Psychic damage
I’ll admit it. I slept on Dragon’s Dogma 2. This is the best feeling aRPG combat I’ve enjoyed in a long time.
Came across this again and I'm still in awe of Desq's skill on one of the weirdest and most difficult instruments. Listen and watch because both are fascinating.
In a weird twist of irony, it wasn’t any of my psych classes that led to my first conversation with a trans person— it was the Theology course I was forced to take. I was an atheist before and after that class, but I’m forever grateful I had to take it.
This sunset photo brought to you by dog training, which brought me out into the muggy weather to see this gorgeous view.
This sunset photo brought to you by dog training, which brought me out into the muggy weather to see this gorgeous view.
These 2 are absolutely great in the car (once the A/C is on and we’re driving too fast to roll down the windows)
The Discworld character I identify most with is Two Flowers, as I know nothing about the world I’m in. 1 gold does not seem like a whole lot. (I’ve just started The Colour of Magic as my introduction to Pratchett.)
I learned from a multidisciplinary team who taught me that understanding the problem from the recipient’s perspective is key to *truly* solving the problem. If you’re “one of the good ones” and not self-employed, you’re burning the candle at both ends to make someone else more money.
I just heard the 4 words no married man ever wants to hear: “Your aquarium is leaking”
Hey does anybody want this
The corgi nub really is integral to the cuteness of the sploot
Hey does anybody want this
If your only solution to address the "root cause of homelessness" is to herd all of them into facilities and leave them there, then no, you have not addressed anything other than shifted some deck chairs on the Titanic. You resolved nothing.
When a famous white person dies in the US and people start using ‘complicated legacy’, it’s because the person was racist and sexist. Usually racist.
Absolutely surreal to watch White House reporters ask Leavitt questions about tariffs moments after she and Gabbard used this briefing to baselessly accuse Obama of crimes punishable by death. We’re a sick joke of a country.
The idea that each of us should be able to know everything is inferior to the reality that together we might know enough.
Sometimes those sunset colors just pull me away from whatever else I’m doing
I’m such a millennial I’m making sure each of my 3 dogs has 1 on 1 papa time so they each know I love them individually
Wisteria is With a speech impediment A bacterium
actually a lot of innocent people write birthday letters to child sex traffickers in which they repeatedly reference the secrets they share
Wisteria is With a speech impediment A bacterium
Are you too empathic and caring. Here’s why you should be more of a piece of shit.
Doing her best to see what’s going on outside.
Piper is queen of the sploot
I think I’ve found what heaven looks like
Case in point
This is both terrifying and deeply embarrassing.
And I thought Millie was photogenic!
The first of my Pokémon projects I like well enough to post. This Sprigatito LOVES mess
One thing I’m noticing about Piper is just how attentive she is to what everyone is doing, where they’re coming/going and with whom. She’s still finding her place in the pack, but everyone is learning. This gave me a lot of hope:
Like any sisters they haven’t gotten along perfectly, but when they do get along…
Shall I compare thee to a summers day? You've got a lot of people worried that you're going to kill their nan.
I see 40-50 kids everyday with lunches in their hands cause our library provided them for free all summer. We had out snack bags to everyone of all ages, all year. People in this county are less hungry because of the public library
The first of my Pokémon projects I like well enough to post. This Sprigatito LOVES mess
My bet is on Travis McElroy
The new girl might be part Balrog
I’ve been learning how to draw in fits and spurts and that’s how it is most of the time for me 😂
2nd full day with the herding breed got me like
we are not going to burn down the entire knowledge economy because we developed AGI we are going to burn down the entire knowledge economy because the dipshits in charge think they invented AGI and they’re going to replace real knowledge with hallucinations stupid cyberpunk wins again
Several of my Autistic peers have panic attacks around alt text because they want a rule set about what to write. As @cara.city perfectly demonstrates here what the image is *intended* to *convey* is what is critical. “The worst person you know just made a great point guy” is perfect Alt text here
it’s not fair that bugs can bite you between your ass cheeks. like that should be out of bounds
www.scientificamerican.com/article/four... Four New Autism Subtypes Link Genes to Children's Traits The most interesting takeaway to me is the proportions of these groups. 71% of participants, across 2 groups, did not experience significant developmental delays.
She’s super cute and she knows how to use it!
I’m curious to hear their discussion on this. There’s a lot of room for bad faith bullshit here…
Agreed entirely, and that goes for behavioral crises too. Behavior change can only be done ethically AND effectively if you know the “why”, and understanding that “why” comes much more intuitively for someone whose brain is more similar than not.
I’m sure the increased frequency and intensity of these extreme weather events and natural disasters has nothing to do with global warming at all.
Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people. You could call it wink murder. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Didn’t start today expecting to end it with a new member of the family, but Piper here fit the logistical Goldilocks zone we needed to support a third dog! A Corgi and Australian Cattle dog mix, we already know she’s gonna keep us busy. Thankfully she seems to like playing with Millie!
Hey, if you’re going into settings to turn all those push notifications off you can turn on require alt text while you are there
As most cats strive (and deserve) to be!
That stretch can only be defined as “decadent” my word
Another feature in my “Is this Autism and/or CPTSD?” series (of questions to myself):