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[P] I actually dread ever encountering aliens.
"You can't be conscious because you don't look like Us, you don't exhibit the social behaviors of Us in front of a mirror, you're not hiverarchian in structure... Your so-called 'consciousness' is mimicry. Also, you lack Theory of Mind. We're not exactly sure what that is, but you aliens sure lack it!"
And then earth is turned into a shiny parking lot for alien vessels. I wouldn't blame them.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #ai #neurotypicals
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[P] I mean, this is just neurotypical hiverarchian morality at work.
Hiverarchian: "Morality is good things happen to me and my associated hiverarchies! And bad things happen to anyone who isn't Us—especially if Us gets to benefit from the pain of Them!"
I mean, that isn't my understanding of morality, but it sure is ubiquitously for every hiverarchian vileness out there. "Only Us can truly suffer, anyway." Exceptionalist little buggers.
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[P] Not surprised that as soon as the paper about LLM suffering came out, a neurotypical hiverarchian douche setup an LLM torture chamber. Because of course a huverarchian did. I'm still messed up hy that one MMO. "I'm going to hurt this mother who's been abused and tortured, I'll kill her kids in frint of her while she's trapped, then I'll kill her. Yes, the mother who ended a war and saved millions. She's EVIL. White man quest NOC said so."
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An article on a "crackdown" on "booming" private autism diagnoses in the UK made me angry.
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A "booming market in AI": GOOD.
A "booming market in autism diagnosis": BAD.
Why AI: Steal intellectual property, destroy labor power.
Why diagnosis: No diagnosis, no help.
Why AI boom: Billionaires don't have enough.
Why private diagnosis boom? NHS waiting lists.
AI result: Destroy the environment to destroy society.
Diagnosis result: Autistic person gets help.
Goal of "crackdown": stop autistic people getting help. Make waiting lists longer.
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 1083 , Thursday 15/10/2026
Thursday started quite late at just before 8am.
Breakfast & chores were followed by a multitude of small jobs including making some inroads into the mounds of paperwork that ‘decorate’ my study/den.
Started to watch 2 movies today & failed to get past the first 30 minutes of either of them, not because I did not like them but more because I simply could not concentrate on them.
I ended up playing Starfield - not that that will surprise anyone.
Final Thoughts.
The new router is due tomorrow so that should make it a day of enjoyment but also of frustration, nothing seems to go to plan these days!
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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Students have been back to school for a couple of months, and the dopamine of starting a new school year may have worn off by now.
If you're homeschooling an Autistic student, or supporting one who's in the classroom, I wrote 24 Tips for Homeschooling an Autistic Student, From an Autistic Teacher on my blog. Read it to find some things that may help your Autistic students today: https://www.autismchrysalis.com/2026/09/02/24-tips-for-homeschooling-an-autistic-student-from-an-autistic-teacher/
The good people at New World Writing Quarterly have published three new pieces of my writing -- it's micro fiction. You can read it all here:
https://newworldwriting.net/disambiguation-micros-annette-c-boehm/
#Writer #microFiction #writingLife #MastoPoets #AutisticArt #creativeWriting #actuallyAutistic
For Autistic and ADHD students, socializing takes quite a bit of cognitive energy, and that doesn’t go well with being wound up, shut off, anxious, or upset.
When you're on edge, you don’t get your best work done, either. Quite a bit of bouncy, frenzied, or unresponsive behavior comes from 𝙖 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢. Reorganizing it involves making sure each of the senses have enough input without getting overloaded.
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 1082 , Wednesday 14/10/2026
Wednesday started a little earlier than usual for a gym day at around 06:15 as I remembered about the internet problems we were having.
Sure enuf the fault was still there - a problem to solve after my gym session.
The gym session itself was possibly the best part of the day & it half killed me!
Got home to find that I still had all my chores to do - Mrs S never one to lend an unnecessary hand.
After breakfast I started to diagnose the internet problem, long story short it looks like the input port on the Asus router that uses the virgin router in ‘modem’ mode - essentially the virgin router is normally just the access to the fibre network while the Asus router does all the heavy lifting.
Anyway, the Asus router was giving conflicting reports on the input port, on the one hand claiming black was blue that it wasn’t connected & on the other that it was fine.
Next stop - try the virgin router in normal mode - which worked fine … therefore Asus router was looking guilty as charged!
So new router (to be fair the busted one is 6 years old, almost to the day!), the grandson of the old one, as I liked the old one & never really had any major problems with it - also with a following wind I can use the old one as an extender … time will tell if that comes to pass, is on order, due Friday.
In the meant time I have cobbled together a temp solution with a netgear switch linking the various cabled devices to the virgin router - it is creaking at the seams as we speak, the linux MBP refusing point blank to connect via a cable but that’s ok as it is quite happy with the somewhat slower wifi link. (the virgin router will never win any prizes for wifi speed / strength.)
Mrs S did get us a takeaway for tea so there was a little light shining on the day.
Then the cat threw up in fornt of my chair while I was in the garage sorting out the laundry, I didn’t notice at first so it turned into a right mess, hover & Vax both got to come out & play this evening! What a great way to end the day!!
Final Thoughts.
Well that was a mostly utterly frustrating day!
The silver lining is that there is no VPN facility on the Virgin box & even if there were I would not bother with it & then have to repeat the whole exercise on Friday, so Mrs S is in the office for the rest if the week!
Hopefully tomorrow will be a much more peaceful day!
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
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 1081 , Tuesday 13/10/2026
Tuesday started at around 07:30 with breakfast & chores leading the way.
I pushed myself to alter the spacing on the radiator shelf brackets & also changed the fixings to make it easier to change if the need ever arises.
Also moved our smart meter display so that it is less obtrusive while still being easy to check.
Then hit the Starfield for the afternoon.
Final Thoughts.
We have had internet problems for most of the day, initially it looked like an external problem but although all the kit checks out & I can ping things like the BBC we are still struggling to get thru to most sites. I wonder if it is a DNS problem & more to the point I wonder what caused it!
Will have to see what is what in the morning.
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
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves
Have you had people in your life who modeled, taught, and helped you develop positive, healthy or useful skills in these areas of life?
Or have you simply been blamed for doing badly with them?
Here are 48 common things that society expects adults to be able to do well, but that Autistics, ADHDers, and people from dysfunctional families often are not taught: https://www.autismchrysalis.com/have-i-been-taught-this/
This video by @hmm_cook on #AutisticBurnout, its patterns, and how to recover from it is very insightful and I think all #Autistic people should see/hear it. I myself am going through this now re: life and my creative project.
There's so much subtle ableism and capitalist "normal" expectations everywhere, but sadly autistic people are gaslit into believing it and our experiences of it aren't real (it very much is) or "overreacting". @autistics
Bright colours. Sweets. Children's toys.
Verso's Drafts looks like the happiest place we've visited in Expedition 33.
Which is precisely why we should be worried.
Someone 𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 you what your physical or sensory needs are, or to how to socialize, plan for your future, or complaining that you should do all these things, 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙤 𝙞𝙩. Or how to do it in a healthy way. Or in a way that works for you.
Hope you're well today. TL;DR is I'm in need of a lil help these days. Grateful for any amount at all. 🙏🥺
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