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Cait the Proud Trans Woman<p>I would like people to think about the fact that I can only safely make this statement right now because I live outside the United States.</p><p>I am <a href="https://wargamers.social/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a>. </p><p>I have not been identified as such by a gatekeeper. I have been welcomed and recognised by my fellow ActuallyAutistic people, who showed me the ways in which "I'm just weird that way" turned out to be "I'm just autistic that way". I've taken the RAADS-R inventory, which showed me as "strong likelihood of autism" on three occasions. </p><p>And I get people who say, as I used to say to myself, "How is it you've been so successful in social situations in your life?"</p><p>I had to answer this to myself, to get over my ableist ideas, so I will speculate here. </p><p>I have a facility with language. I speak several languages with varying degrees of fluency, but all to a degree where I can make conversation. </p><p>I'm also a very good mimic. It's part of how i get good at languages - I'm good at making the right sounds, and copying what I hear. </p><p>To be a good mimic, you must also be a good observer. And so when I was young, I observed, consciously, a lot. I built what I came to know as my algorithms, the patterns I'd identified in how people interact, to guide me in appropriate interaction. I got good at it. I had a very good neurotypical mask. </p><p>So in a way, the fact that language and communication is a Special Interest for me is what let me develop such a good mask. </p><p>But it has always been a mask. And now I'm letting that down, and not trying to suppress my autistic tendencies. </p><p>And with autistic people under attack from eugenicists with great power in the US, I wanted to speak up in solidarity. </p><p>We are not diseased. We are different. Different isn't bad. It's just different. </p><p>We don't need to be studied to determine how to prevent us from occurring in the human population. We need to be studied to learn how best to accommodate the diversity we bring to human modes of thought.</p>
KristenHG<p>I haven't listened to this podcast yet, but I did already read Autism Is Not a Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity and found it enlightening. Knowing how long it takes for anything to be written and published, the timing of this book is serendipitous. It's a fairly short, readable book, not a heavy lift. Highly recommend!</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/jodie-hare-on-the-politics-of-neurodiversity/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/jodie-hare-on-the-p</span><span class="invisible">olitics-of-neurodiversity/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a></p>
Kevin Davy<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> </p><p> Hopefully to help all those currently fearing what is to come in the US and perhaps to help to clarify things. I would like to throw this into the ring. If you put a load of snake-oil salesmen in charge of your health service. Expect snake-oil.</p><p> I hopefully believe, and not entirely unrealistically, that the list they are going to try and make, given that they can even get it off the ground, will be far more about that.</p><p> That it will be used somehow to justify the oil and its effectiveness and by extension their removal of the pesky modern day alternatives, that otherwise have this unfortunate tendency to be proven.</p><p> That it will be far more about identifying those who they can force the oil upon. Than, the fear of boots in the night, that is far too easy to imagine. But, in America isn't really necessary, not when being deprived of support and thrown out onto the streets is so acceptable. (Although, obviously just as bad and lethal.)</p><p> None of which, of course, is in any way good. But, seeing the shape of things to come, the ways it may take form, is half the battle to fighting it. </p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autism</span></a> <br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a></p>
Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach<p>You can be looking like you’re doing a lot of things but getting actually very little useful stuff done.</p><p>You can also look like you’re not doing much, you’re just sort of sitting there, but you’re processing a lot internally or you’re resting, which is a productive thing to do.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/EnergyManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyManagement</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuDHD</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/BurnoutRecovery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BurnoutRecovery</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AutisticBurnout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticBurnout</span></a></p>
tasia<p>Still trying to raise another $30 before going back to bills.</p><p><a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ourinsatiabesouls" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">paypal.com/paypalme/ourinsatia</span><span class="invisible">besouls</span></a></p><p><a href="https://disabled.social/tags/MutualAidRequest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MutualAidRequest</span></a> <br><a href="https://disabled.social/tags/DisabilityCrowdFund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityCrowdFund</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/Queercrowdfund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Queercrowdfund</span></a> <br><a href="https://disabled.social/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autism</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/HelpFolksLive2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HelpFolksLive2025</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hexbear.net/c/mutual_aid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mutual_aid@hexbear.net</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@MutualAidVisibility" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MutualAidVisibility</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.media/accounts/mutualaidmedia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mutualaidmedia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://freeradical.zone/@anarchomutual" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>anarchomutual</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/blackfedi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>blackfedi</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://starflower.space/@mutual_aid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mutual_aid@starflower.space</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mutualaid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mutualaid</span></a></span></p>
Dziadek<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@farah" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>farah</span></a></span> </p><p>As an aside, and for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, I commend the comedy series AUSTIN for a masterclass in seeing ourselves as others see us. The main character is an <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> adult played by an actually autistic adult. It is illuminating and heart-warming. Best of all it’s a design for us to live by being ourselves confidentl. My hope for it is that it gives folk a better understanding of what we’re like here, over here in Divergistan.</p>
Harmony Seeker<p>This week, I have discovered something important about myself: I am AuDhd — autistic and ADHD.</p><p>A few years ago, close family suggested that I might be autistic. I started to wonder too, but life kept moving and I pushed it aside. Recently, my psychologist recommended a full assessment. I decided it was time to find out.</p><p>Now it’s confirmed. I’m officially diagnosed.</p><p>It’s life-changing.<br>It’s a revelation.<br>It explains so much about who I am and how my brain works.</p><p>I finally have answers to the questions I’ve carried for years. Why I think the way I do. Why I experience the world so intensely. Why things that seem “easy” for others cost me so much energy.</p><p>I’ve already spent time grieving the parts of my life shaped by misunderstanding — both from others and from myself. This diagnosis doesn’t change who I am. It simply gives me language for it. It makes sense of a lifetime of being “too much,” “too sensitive,” “too intense.”</p><p>I’m not broken.<br>I’m not a failed version of normal.<br>I’m neurodivergent — and there is strength in that.</p><p>I'm still learning what Unmasking for me means, but here are a few things i plan to start doing: </p><p> • Asking for clarity instead of masking confusion<br> • Setting up my life around my brain’s natural rhythms<br> • Refusing to apologise for my sensory needs<br> • Speaking plainly about how I experience the world</p><p>Getting this diagnosis is not an end. It’s a beginning.</p><p>If you’re walking this path too — late-diagnosed, learning who you really are underneath the masks — you are not alone.</p><p>We are allowed to exist as we are.</p><p>I’m AuDHD.<br>I’m proud.<br>I’m building a life that finally makes sense.</p><p><a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuDHD</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/ADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ADHD</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/LateDiagnosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LateDiagnosis</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neurodivergent</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Neurodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neurodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Unmasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unmasking</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/SelfAcceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SelfAcceptance</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/DiagnosisJourney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DiagnosisJourney</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/DisabilityPride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityPride</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Authenticity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authenticity</span></a></p>
Mat Ricardo<p>"Despite what the brain worm might be saying to him, RFK jr doesn't get to redefine people to less than him just because they don't score on his random-ass baseball &amp; dating test. He does not get to push his dollar store eugenics agenda without some fucking pushback"</p><p>Here's me. Pushing back.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autistic</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurodivergent</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/neurodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/rfk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rfk</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyxGocZi7-Y" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=RyxGocZi7-</span><span class="invisible">Y</span></a></p>
David Gray-Hammond<p>Update to this situation, the English version is gone, but the Spanish version still remains. Keep spreading the word and signing. More here:</p><p><a href="https://emergentdivergence.com/2025/04/22/the-amazon-book-teaching-parents-to-treat-autism-with-bleach/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">emergentdivergence.com/2025/04</span><span class="invisible">/22/the-amazon-book-teaching-parents-to-treat-autism-with-bleach/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://disabled.social/tags/AutisticRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticRights</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autism</span></a></p>
Executive Producer<p>Having completely interrupted my day, the bastard still hasn’t shown up. <br>My brain refuses to let me continue getting shit done until he’s here and preferably gone again. </p><p>COME ON. I actually have energy and very little pain for once. I wanna dooo the things omg. <br><a href="https://mendeddrum.org/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a></p>
mgorny-nyan (he) :autism:🙀🚂🐧<p>I've finally signed up for a visit to the dermatologist.</p><p>Now I just need to recall why I was supposed to see them.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a></p>
Executive Producer<p>Also I was being really productive and now I’m just sat in Waiting Mode. <br>😐</p><p><a href="https://mendeddrum.org/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a></p>
Executive Producer<p>Me - *in the middle of a big clear out, tidy and move around wearing pyjamas*<br>D - *landlord* just messaged to say he’s on his way round</p><p>Fucksake. We did ask him to sort the hedge so I can’t complain (assuming he doesn’t just look at it) but how can I explain to people that zero notice to be in my space is not ok? </p><p>He’s supposed to give 24 hours notice but the work does need to be done so I have no choice. <br>This happens every damn time. <br>“Well you want it done don’t you?”</p><p><a href="https://mendeddrum.org/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a></p>
Bamboy<p>I might add: <br />We <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> do not just have to be worried about the government itself enacting violence against us, but also radical individuals emboldened to enact violence against us by <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> hate speech and vocal misunderstandings of us.</p><p>There have always been those fringe people that hate autists vocally online - trolls - and those are the kinds of non-governmental threats that may be emboldened to violence by an asshat in power like <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/Rfk_jr" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rfk_jr</span></a></p>
Bamboy<p>..they see us as weak defenseless liberals who don&#39;t exercise our 2nd amendment rights. That gives us a huge advantage, for those of us <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> who are up to being defenders</p><p>The number of right-wingers I&#39;ve debated, whom I&#39;ve told I will absolutely fucking defend myself if it comes to it, only for them to be completely taken off-gaurd by that. Oh hell yes</p><p>Difference on the left is we don&#39;t go showing off our guns unless there&#39;s a reason<br />Now we have reason and its not being genocide&#39;d</p>
Bamboy<p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/PSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PSA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>autism</span></a><br />Fascists think we <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> will not defend ourselves<br />The 2nd amendment of the <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Constitution</span></a> gives you the right to bear arms<br />Many states give you the right to use deadly force against intruders YOU believe are about to cause you deadly harm, inside your home, with full legal protection</p><p>Now is the time to practice gun safety for <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/selfdefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>selfdefense</span></a></p><p>You should do prior research into local state laws regarding homestead defense, in order to protect yourself legally. <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/KnowYourRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KnowYourRights</span></a></p>
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