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A helpful reminder to anyone else who needed it today #actuallyautistic #adhd

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 1032 , Tuesday 25/08/2026

Up early - at just before 7am to see if Mrs S wanted me to go & let the cleaners in at her mums, as it happens she didn’t so while I had got up early it was somewhat of a relief not to spend most of the morning on another MiL related task.

Chores & breakfast were followed by a day of relaxing interspersed with a few odd jobs. Nothing too major because my brain was like ‘No way mate’ when I presented it with anything more difficult than some light tidying up.

I gave Alice a good brush today - it is, like cleaning out the litter tray - a job that apparently only I can do. I have to be very careful as Alice is very skittish & wary so one has to let her get very comfy & add lots of stroking & love.

We had fried garlic sausage & mushrooms with an egg& potato tortilla Mrs S got at the weekend.
Wasn’t bad, but I’m glad Mrs S stepped up & did the dishes because there were double the normal amount! (Although some basic rearrangement of the dishes in the dishwasher would have saved her washing the frying pan but she had done it before I could say anything.

Final Thoughts.

Ugg back to the gym in the morning!

Also given the amount of fur that came off Alice how is she still the same size!

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
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@autistics #ActuallyAutistic

https://www.instagram.com/p/DcLPVGgI_Vh/

I woke up multiple hours earlier than I normally do, and it's thrown off my whole day. The smallest change messes with me so much. I hate this. #ActuallyAutistic

#ActuallyAutistic
do you also have frequently the feeling like your brain literally overheats from processing everyday, espically from trying to keep up with other people?

I have the recent weeks started to quite often not just lie down but put a wet towel over my forehead and eyes

@autistics #ActuallyAutistic watching an issue unfold at work where the issue of “how" something was done is more important than “what’ was done...

…and the distinction seems to be lost on those participating in the debate

CBS is wrong: You don't HAVE #autism, you ARE #actuallyAutistic. Autism isn't an illness, it's a development! Autistic ones are -generally spoken- more honest and less cowardly. Since the world can only be saved with fairness and decency, it should be glad that autistic ones exist.
#autismAwareness

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:x4g4laxkmsrczwvnvbbgsm7g/post/3mtw3tsyfxk27

Spoke to a dietitian earlier today to try and help me overcome food sensitivities and combat stress/boredom eating. As predicted, she gave me one or two bits of ideas but she generally catered to a NT demographic and not someone #ActuallyAutistic. What advice does you suggest for someone who indulges in bad foods when stressed or bored, has a limited palate due to repetitive eating patterns and struggles to identify when they are genuinely hungry? Please #boost for coverage, thanks 🙏🏻

I found a new therapist this summer, and she is at least 20 years younger than me. It makes a difference because the training she received (and still receives! she keeps up) around autism is so different from therapists I've had who are closer to my own age. More acceptance of what I'm telling her, better informed questions and suggestions for dealing with challenges, an understanding of the spiky profile and very late diagnosis. She's been really helpful.

#actuallyautistic

Whether or not you're actively working to change things in the larger world or in your own personal life, your individual efforts can only go so far. There are a lot of causes, projects, goals, ideas that you'll never be able to work on. Things you'll never be able to affect.

And that doesn't have to be a painful thing. It's neutral. This has always been the case. There are things you can change and things you can't.

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Autistic #Neurodiversity #Acceptance

The myth that autistic people are better off alone collapses under the instrument that should confirm it.

In the literature, loneliness isn't "being alone": it's the gap between the relationships you have and the ones you want. A discrepancy. And in autistic samples that gap is wider.

So we mask to close it — and masking sends the bill. Which the clinic files as ours.

Italian, but the studies aren't.

https://osservatoreautistico.org/integral-birth/

#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD

Il mito dell'autistico che sta bene da solo si smonta con lo strumento che dovrebbe confermarlo.

In letteratura la solitudine non è "stare da soli": è la distanza tra le relazioni che hai e quelle che vorresti. Uno scarto. E nei campioni autistici quello scarto è più largo.

Poi ci si maschera per accorciarlo, e il masking presenta il conto. Che la clinica registra come nostro.

https://osservatoreautistico.org/integral-birth/

#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD #autismo

[ Edit - Blocking them and their entire instance seems to have fixed the issue? ]

Oh great there's a 'news' bot that automatically boosts any toot with the tag #ActuallyAutistic and #Autistic and there doesn't seem to be any way to opt out.

#FFS

Just accidentally did something that set all my android phone app icons to display in Alphabetical order AND it unpacked all of my curated folders.

::: silent screams :::

#AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic

"Someone said stop spreading the story autism is a tragedy.

So I doubled down on spreading my lived experience.

Autistic oppression."

#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent

Random question: this "high-masking" autistic type - is that more common in folks who also have ADHD?

(Anecdotal evidence says maybe, and it would explain why I have such a hard time with the concept - I feel that my autistic experience is rather different from that of the AuDHD folks)

#ActuallyAutistic

[P] It's maddeningly frustrating as I know that my intellect is average at best, an iota beyond that is nowt but wishful thinking on my part. I'm not that bright. I'm also not at all tribal, and the tribalism of hiverarchians sets a nauseatingly low bar, one that leaves me feeling queasy and confused. I've met startling intellects in the past, but what I now see is that every one of them was deeply neurodivergent.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #humans #slop #hiverarchiansaredumb #dumb #dumb

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[P] And how are hiverarchians going to survive the world being cooked rapidly? Ocean temps just broke records again. The rich are ignoring that, despite it being a guaranteed extinction event in the making. How will you survive, hiverarchians? "Ugg? Uggabunga! We iz blaym poor, dizaybull'd, 'n brownz! Den we iz surr-vyvin'!" Oh, absolutely, you simple-minded dip. Yes, that'll ensure a future for humanity.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #humans #slop #hiverarchiansaredumb #dumb #dumb

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[P] I do so loathe hiverarchians. I've been reading some hiverarchian slopthink copium that invites the absurd notion that humans will live forever due to being adaptable creatures. Where does that even come from?? I mean, historically speaking, humans have been truly terrible at adaptation, humanity is one of the least adaptable species without advanced tech and meds. Without those? Good luck! You'll need it!

#psychology #actuallyautistic #humans #slop #hiverarchiansaredumb #dumb #dumb

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