#autistic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #autistic, aggregated by home.social.
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Complaint of an autistic, bipolar, and gifted person who is dysregulated and tired...
Something changed. In my personal life and in my digital life. I'm getting old, with bipolar disorder and level 2 autism, with an overlap of 3 autoimmune diseases, diabetes, progressive deafness, and almost no work (due to the economic situation in my country and my health).
I live quite peacefully despite these problems, with my wife, my cats, and my dog. I have a very good family environment, with my daughter (even though we live 1100 km away), my wife's children, my sisters, and a few close friends.
I have some activities that satisfy my brain and intellectual exercise needs, such as chess tournaments with friends, some science projects, books, music (I have a guitar to sing blues in the evenings), hacking and programming, and my Zen and Yiquan practice at home.
So yesterday I had a "conversation" with a guy who claims to be autistic and a psychologist, but who actually isn't and just wanted to argue and practice his neurosis on me. His supposed profession and life wouldn't stand up to even the slightest OSINT investigation; it doesn't exist. It's not that I enjoy doxing stupid people, it's that it's practically obligatory (and I can't break my old habits) given how many people like that there are on social media.
The thing is, I don't even feel like sharing memes anymore because there's always some son of a bitch trying to stir things up. I'm tired of it. My wife gave me a lecture today, and she's right.
The worst part is that these kinds of encounters have almost always been with people who claim to be "autistic." I hardly ever think about being autistic in my daily life, nor am I constantly engaged in activism or tilting at windmills. I also dislike the ideological mess that many people have in their heads.
So I'm going to keep quiet for a while and let certain topics go. The main reason I had social media accounts, and lately on Mastodon, was for the information and the people involved with computers. The rest doesn't really interest me. The autism issue is over for me; I've already understood what I needed to understand after the diagnosis, which was the last link in a series of diagnoses that took up 18 years of my life. There's no need to keep dealing with repetitive and irrelevant information or with unhinged people.
Of course, there are interesting and pleasant people on Mastodon, and even among the autistic ones I can find, but my mental and physical health are screaming for me to step back from digital life a bit more. Mastodon isn't exempt from the toxicity of other platforms; it just seems less noticeable because there are fewer people and because many users follow a certain behavioral model and a set of sociocultural guidelines. But dare to think differently, to disagree with something, to not be interested in the group, cultural, and even tribal trends of Mastodon, and we'll see how you fare. It's exhausting to see hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of profiles that seem to be made with templates and with bombastic hashtags that are more like threats than advertisements, because if you don't agree with or aren't interested in the topic of the user you're interacting with, you're going to be labeled a damn Nazi. I've even seen users with thousands of followers proposing bans and boycotts of people, software, and even memes because they're "on the other side."
I'm really tired of so much human mental crap and it's very likely that I'll disappear or do what some accounts do that only post cat memes, not because they don't have anything better to say but because the others won't understand or listen to anything serious or really important.
I still prefer hacking and programming, and the people who focus solely on that. As Mr. Torvalds said, I like computers, not people. And I understand his reasons.PS: I don't feel like replying to comments that are just trying to start a fight or argue. And the post will be deleted no later than tomorrow, depending on my mood.
😞#actuallyautistic #autism #autistic #bipolar #gifted #neurodivergent #mentalhealth #brainrot #socialmedia #mastodon #toxicity
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Neurotypical people are so entitled to you doing their song and dance that they will try to get you fired if you don't do it
#neurodivergent #neurodivergence #disabled #autistic #actuallyAutistic
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Chicken wth mayo, mustard & tommy sauce for lu- * checks time* er... stupidly late lunch at after 16:30 😬
Thanks AuDHD for getting me to do other stuff & jumping from one thing to another, nstead of letting me get on with nixng the day away at my leisure.
#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #ActuallyADHD #AuDHD
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I've never really found the Pomodoro thing to work for me. The "work 20 minutes, break 5 minutes" approach.
Because I'm usually in the middle of something. And my brain needs to be able to finish that thing.
#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Autistic #Neurospicy #Neurodiversity
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https://theconversation.com/school-trips-arent-always-accessible-for-autistic-children-but-they-can-bring-huge-benefits-279894; https://nasenjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1471-3802.12638 (open access). "With the right #adjustments, #school #trips can provide rich, meaningful & enjoyable #learning #experiences for #autistic #children. Ensuring this happens is not only #good #practice, but a matter of #educational #equity."
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NT Society: Hey, you're #autistic, have a jigsaw piece symbol! We think it suits your kind!
Me: Erm... no thanks. I'm not some puzzle for you to solve.
#Autism Rights Movement: Hey, we're autistic! We have infinite potential! We should use the infinity symbol!
Me: OK, I guess.
Meta: *uses infinity symbol as corporate logo*
Me: I'm just going to not have a symbol.
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Even though I’ve been unmasking, and sorting out my internalized ableism and internalized capitalism, and other unhealthy cultural messaging, for around eight years now, I still routinely find new aspects to unpack. 1/2
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#introduction Hi!.
I'm Michael, or Fubsepude.
I'm a 30's #blind and #autistic person from Denmark.
My interests include:
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Try to get very specific about the things you don't want in your life.
Instead of "that asshole of a boss," what's more useful is "he does these specific behaviors," or "has these particular personality traits," or "these particular ways of communicating that just do not work with my brain." 1/2
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"At Compleat Kidz, a fast-growing chain of autism clinics based in North Carolina, the policy is firm: Naps cannot be longer than seven minutes before children are awakened to resume therapy."
Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz for The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/health/autism-therapy-clinics.html
#Longreads #Investigation #Journalism #Autism #Autistic #Children #HealthCare
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"At Compleat Kidz, a fast-growing chain of autism clinics based in North Carolina, the policy is firm: Naps cannot be longer than seven minutes before children are awakened to resume therapy."
Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz for The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/health/autism-therapy-clinics.html
#Longreads #Investigation #Journalism #Autism #Autistic #Children #HealthCare
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"At Compleat Kidz, a fast-growing chain of autism clinics based in North Carolina, the policy is firm: Naps cannot be longer than seven minutes before children are awakened to resume therapy."
Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz for The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/health/autism-therapy-clinics.html
#Longreads #Investigation #Journalism #Autism #Autistic #Children #HealthCare
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"At Compleat Kidz, a fast-growing chain of autism clinics based in North Carolina, the policy is firm: Naps cannot be longer than seven minutes before children are awakened to resume therapy."
Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz for The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/health/autism-therapy-clinics.html
#Longreads #Investigation #Journalism #Autism #Autistic #Children #HealthCare
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"At Compleat Kidz, a fast-growing chain of autism clinics based in North Carolina, the policy is firm: Naps cannot be longer than seven minutes before children are awakened to resume therapy."
Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz for The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/health/autism-therapy-clinics.html
#Longreads #Investigation #Journalism #Autism #Autistic #Children #HealthCare
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#WordWeavers 2026.05.26 — What is your antagonist’s earliest memory?
My chosen antagonist has been the protagonist in several stories, so this is pretty easy to figure out, and might even be canon. Rainy Days is maybe five, a decade before the story she will appear in. Her earliest memory would be of her kneeling on all fours in a yard, her knees and hands dirty and mashed into the soil, the smell of sawdust in the air, watching over her autistic twin brother Harvest Days as he plays with counting stones—currently arranged in piles of primes. She's doing so because their mother died in childbirth and taking care of children is girl's work. They're out there because their carpenter father, who is engaged in alternately planing and sanding some piece of furniture, is hoping to interest his son in his craft, to no avail because the man can't understand how his son is actually special. What made this day different is Rainy Days suddenly hears a voice, or thinks she does, and heart racing, she turns suddenly to the purple and orange horizon to squint, palm shading her eyes, at what we would call the sun. Did it speak to her? Why did it sound lonely?
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#mystery #thriller #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory #autistic #actuallyAutistic -
Well. Lydie is not only queen klutz, but I can't remember things to save my life.
I have no "working" memory (a typical neurodivergent trait). And, in AI terms, my context window is very very small.
So I lose things. It costs me a lot of money buying replacements.
However, there is a modern tech that I'm just now trying. Air Tags (well, the Android equivalent). I'm going to put them on lots of things.
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There was a good decade where I barely brushed my teeth. And I was severely judgmental to myself about that.
But it wasn't because "I'm a crap person who can't do adult things." 1/2
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Hello Mastodonians! I am wondering on whether or not I should transfer my account to another server? Basically the server I’ve been using has a ton of lag as well as the admin of the server hasn’t posted in over a year, so I thought I should potentially move in case this server I’m on goes dark all the sudden as I don’t want to lose my account and all my followers. If I should move, any suggestions on which server to move to? #Mastodon #Server #Servers #Fediverse #Neurodivergent #Autistic
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Hello Mastodonians! I am wondering on whether or not I should transfer my account to another server? Basically the server I’ve been using has a ton of lag as well as the admin of the server hasn’t posted in over a year, so I thought I should potentially move in case this server I’m on goes dark all the sudden as I don’t want to lose my account and all my followers. If I should move, any suggestions on which server to move to? #Mastodon #Server #Servers #Fediverse #Neurodivergent #Autistic
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Hello Mastodonians! I am wondering on whether or not I should transfer my account to another server? Basically the server I’ve been using has a ton of lag as well as the admin of the server hasn’t posted in over a year, so I thought I should potentially move in case this server I’m on goes dark all the sudden as I don’t want to lose my account and all my followers. If I should move, any suggestions on which server to move to? #Mastodon #Server #Servers #Fediverse #Neurodivergent #Autistic
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Hello Mastodonians! I am wondering on whether or not I should transfer my account to another server? Basically the server I’ve been using has a ton of lag as well as the admin of the server hasn’t posted in over a year, so I thought I should potentially move in case this server I’m on goes dark all the sudden as I don’t want to lose my account and all my followers. If I should move, any suggestions on which server to move to? #Mastodon #Server #Servers #Fediverse #Neurodivergent #Autistic
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Growing up, I thought I was doing what everyone else was doing.
But at best my social encounters would fall flat, and at worst people would edge away.Every social interaction became a minefield — trying not to say or do the wrong thing and set off a bomb, but having no idea what that wrong thing would be this time.
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It's a new week! Question for all of my #ADHD, #Autistic and #AuDHD folks out there: what do you think will be your fixation food for the week?
Last week, mine was pizza. Very specifically, the Ottawa Valley style with enough cheese to kill a person.
The week before, it was burgers. I batch made burgers and ended up eating them eight times through that week.
I think I have shaken off the pizza itch finally, and all I can hope is that this week's is something I can make at home.
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Oh great, @loopearplugs just did a paid sponsorship with #Kaelynn Partlow after all the problematic stuff she has said. Nobody asked for an #accessibility tool company to fund a literal #ableist, especially one that attacked both accessibility pins and communication boards.
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Autistics often complain about how neurotypicals will say one thing and mean another, or there’s subtext or implied meaning, but sometimes we’ll do that as well but in a more direct fashion.
We’ll say things like “the lights are so bright,” but what we mean is “can you turn off the lights?” But if you don’t actually ask for that, they might not know that that’s what you want. They might just think that you’re complaining about something. 1/2
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It's okay to switch jobs every couple of years.
What you're doing now doesn't have to last forever. You're allowed to outgrow things. You're allowed to decide something isn't working anymore. You're allowed to leave before you hit the wall.
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Parece va a ser un día intenso para el oso 🐻🌱
(It looks like it's going to be a busy potatoes day for the big farm bear)
#farm #farming #rural_life #rural #agroecology #naturism #farmbear #aspie #autistic
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Parece va a ser un día intenso para el oso 🐻🌱
(It looks like it's going to be a busy potatoes day for the big farm bear)
#farm #farming #rural_life #rural #agroecology #naturism #farmbear #aspie #autistic
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Parece va a ser un día intenso para el oso 🐻🌱
(It looks like it's going to be a busy potatoes day for the big farm bear)
#farm #farming #rural_life #rural #agroecology #naturism #farmbear #aspie #autistic
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Parece va a ser un día intenso para el oso 🐻🌱
(It looks like it's going to be a busy potatoes day for the big farm bear)
#farm #farming #rural_life #rural #agroecology #naturism #farmbear #aspie #autistic
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Some of us learn as small babies that there's no point in crying because we won't be answered.
So we go quiet.
And then we spend years wondering why it's so hard to ask for what we need. -
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My friend Jonathan Hiebert over on Facebook. #whimsy #authenticity
https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.hiebert.1
#giftedandtalented #actuallyautistic #autism #autistic #neurodivergent #adhd #AuDHD
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It took me a long time to realize there wasn't actually anything wrong with me.
As in, I rarely did anything socially "wrong." It was just that I did something other people weren't expecting. And sometimes that gets misinterpreted as bad. 1/2
#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Autistic #Neurodivergent #Neurodiversity
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It actually feels like I am living in the country that is going to get invaded by the rest of the #world when WW3 begins.
I really hope that doesn't happen, as I'm the exact group that would be targeted, and killed off if another #holocaust ever started: half #jewish #autistic and #disabled.
I think I need to find me a rich foreign woman who needs a tall house husband with #tourettes and an attitude problem.
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I have five pairs of shoes and six types of socks in total. Can you guess what they are? #discordserver #redpill #autistic
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I don't think most people genuinely want someone keeping them accountable. That's stress.
But a lot of us use that — because we're so used to externally imposed goals, deadlines, and pressure. 1/2
#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Autistic #Neurodivergent #Neurodiversity #ND
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I was open about being autistic and this person seems to be educated on Autism but it also worries me that they may not give me a job because they feel there be too much effort to help me and be understanding.
It's important to note that just because we have challenges doesn't mean we shouldn't work. Companies need to be understanding and try to accommodate us but many just don't want to.
I definitely feel I'm being tested.... -
Yeah, I don't think neurotypicals can handle a project like this, with no monetary gains, as a solo, and keep it actually working for real world usage. Only #Autistic people can do this. 🤪
