ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

@Zumbador @TheGreatLlama @actuallyautistic

The concern trolls run more regular than some time Swiss time pieces.

I tried to alleviate people’s issues w my pinned post. The old critique was always that I’m “‘it part of the community and no one knows you”.

Now it’s my qualifications, which is it course ridiculous because the only qualification one needs to speak with other autistic people is BE AUTISTIC.

Unlike what various trolls claim, I’m actually qualified by the standards of NTs (which is what they really want to know) and that’s posted clearly on my site. For the trolls reading this, I live and work in the European Union, where people cannot just do whatever they want without proper bureaucratic oversight in 99% of fields, including autism education. I am a fully registered and regulated autism educator in the French Republic. That being said, the trolls always claim to have reviewed my site, but always conveniently leave out that part which is clearly stated, along with that I am NOT a medical or psychological clinician, as required by Law.

First it was control that I wasn’t autistic, then it was that I didn’t share my stories, now it’s my qualifications. Posting them here wouldn’t change anything as nothing has ever changed this group of people.

The reality is that all of these people fall into one or all of the following:

1. They don’t support autistic self advocacy, the Neurodiversity Paradigm, or the Neurodiversity Movement.

2. They don’t think autistic people should work with the autistic community either for free or for pay. The latter is a direct connection to the idea that autistic people’s labor is worthless.

3. They are antisemitic and it bothers them to see a loud Jewish autistic person with a platform. This has happened a number of times with the terms “evil”, “Shylock”, “shifty”, “vermin”, “extracting souls” being used a number of times. All antisemitic tropes.

4. They’re bullies.

@Zumbador @TheGreatLlama @actuallyautistic

I’m the only person on this platform in the autistic community who is attacked and insulted with such regularity. It’s caused me much dysregulation and harm. This isn’t really about qualifications, all autistic people are qualified. No one else is asked.

It’s about autistics who internalize NT norms that everyone is lying. They don’t know much about autism or the autistic brain, which is no fault of their own. They don’t like what I have to say. It’s uncomfortable. I know. So they try to use every other excuse in the book to malign me and literally harm me.

The ban on #trans women in #chess is hitting me particularly hard.

I'm a chess enthusiast (in keeping with my careful curated rep as an expert strategist).

It's just this wtf moment that pulls the wind right out of my sails.

I know really well that lots of folks don't like us. But ... how are we ever gonna overcome a level of pure unhinged bigotry that says we can't be trusted play chess?

Obviously ALL women should be insulted by this move.

Cat break!

1. It gladdens my heart that a couple of shitheads who sought to avoid the wrong kind of press actually put their names into national headlines by trying to silence this paper

2. I’m quite ignorant of the process required to obtain warrants, but it seems the prosecutor not being informed of this one demonstrates how very, very shady the whole thing was.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/kansas-prosecutor-says-material-seized-in-police-raid-of-marion-county-newspaper-should-be-returned

Try it
#dogsofmastodon #dogs #cartoons #Humor #Cartoons #humour #DogsOfMastodon

Made the CEO laugh today!

He asked where the box cutter was so I showed him… and he politely asked if I was going to need it. I said, “If I need it that bad, call the cops!"

@philip_cardella @mrcompletely This is why they're book banning and trying to take over school boards.

And then there's this guy, making the implicit threat of violence against women explicit (Locke is a pastor in Mt. Juliet pop 39k)

Morning everyone, buenos días a todos, bonjour a tous.

This is a #ThrowbackThursday #TBThursday #Tbt and a #thirsttrapThursday also... From some summers ago at the #nudistbeach down my house. Nowadays you can still go #naked there but it has been invaded by dressed people so it is a bummer.

The previous homeowners had plastic grass in this planter, and I always thought about replacing it with real plants. 10+ years later, I finally did it. Fittonia and sansevieria. The sansevieria are tiny propagated babies right now and I’m looking forward to seeing them grow. #Houseplants