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@Dingsextrem @AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic

"i am Jewish!" - "Oh, you don't seem Jewish, you come across well"
"i am Black!" - "Oh, you don't seem Black, you come across well"
"i am an atheist!" - "Oh, you don't seem like an atheist, you come across well"

@AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic "i am a man!" - "Oh, you don't seem like a man, you come across well"
"I'm an academic" - "You don't seem like an academic, you come across well"
"I'm a good cook!" - "You don't seem like a good cook, you come across well"
...

I owe you all the deepest and sincerest apology. It has been brought to my attention that my facts are enabling fascism and destroying democracy. I am especially sorry for the harmful facts stating that:

-Every month is National Potato Month.
-George W. Bush has a Foo Fighters tattoo on his back.
-Optimus Prime is the only heterosexual Transformer.
-The Lord of the Rings was filmed in New York City.
-Cher’s full name is Chernobyl.

I pray that you can all find it in your hearts to forgive me.

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

I can't feel your love for the sinner when all you do is throw your hatred for the sin in my face.

And "sin"? Really? WTF is that, anyway? Your imaginary friend gets his panties bunched because he doesn't like what I do with another consenting adult?

Did any of my #ActuallyAutistic comrades grow up misunderstood, bullied, and rejected in an insular religious community?

I’ve been there. Many of us here have been too. You’re not alone.

#AskingAutistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

Privileged whining 

@actuallyautistic

A used VW is not for people with no extra energy to spare. Stereotypical run-around at the dealership.
It's a 2022 VW ID.4 EV, with app connectivity. An app I can't use when the car says the original buyer still owns it. VW can't - won't - help. They suggested I contact the original buyer and ask nicely if she'll unregister the car. I'm guessing it's a repo, and I don't want to do that.
[sigh] I guess I'm taking it to the dealer for them to work out.

@StillIRise1963

"I wonder if the Emperor Honorious, watching the Visigoths coming over the seventh hill, truly realized that the Roman Empire was about to fall."
-- JL Picard.

Also:

"It's actually quite warm in here."
-- Some frog, probably

β€œCan I have one?”
β€œOnly if you do the thing.”
β€œDo I have to?”
β€œYes, and you have to do the voice.”
β€œπ˜΄π˜ͺπ˜¨π˜©β€¦ Harry Potter must not return to Hogwarts!”

@Artemis201

My local school district just fought off a hostile takeover by the local disgruntled nutbars, now they're writing unhinged letters to the editor. I'm writing back (excerpt):
Why? What possible difference could it make in my life how someone else chooses to be addressed? What possible difference could it make in my child's life? Or the letter writer's life? This is just the latest "crisis" manufactured by what used to be a political party.

With pride month coming up, I wanted to ask all my queer ally friends, what are y'all actively doing to push back against hate?

#LGBTQIA #Pride #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Queer

Putin has said repeatedly that he is fighting NATO expansion but in reality his delusions of grandeur have brought about that expansion. NATO has never been a threat to Russia, all Russia had to do was join the free world. #StandWithUkraine

@andytiedye@neurodifferent.me @AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic

I found I like wearing a mask, and have continued to wear one. Also hubs is immune compromised, so that's another reason - and the one I usually give if people ask me why I'm still wearing a mask.
😊

@CarolynStirling @AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic

I gave a training at least once a month, sometimes up to 4 times a month, in front of groups of up to 30 people at a time. I did that for 17 years. I developed a "trainer" persona for it, and it's been useful in other situations, too.

@AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic Some autistic people can cope with public speaking but cannot cope in social situations. Hence being told β€œ you can give a speech so why are you hiding in a corner at a Corporate social event?”

@ScottSoCal @nellie_m @jens @Vincarsi @devxvda @Cleopatra @actuallyautistic @joshsusser " . .even when we have explained the performance of all the cognitive and behavioral functions in the vicinity of experienceβ€”perceptual discrimination, categorization, internal access, verbal reportβ€”there may still remain a further unanswered question: Why is the performance of these functions accompanied by experience?

— David Chalmers, Facing up to the problem of consciousness"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_pro

@nellie_m @jens @Vincarsi @devxvda @Cleopatra@c.im @sentient_water @actuallyautistic @joshsusser@neurodifferent.me

I absolutely support this. I don't believe consciousness is a binary on/off thing, there are many degrees of it.

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