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

@ScottSoCal @wdlindsy
Yes! Gotta monetize those experiences! 💰

@MariaHill @Heimdall Affirmative Action benefited Clarence Thomas, now he wants to make sure that it never benefits anyone else ever again.

The media is tripping over itself because Pres. Biden wears a CPAP machine. Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell randomly shows up to work with purple bruises all over his face and the former guy nearly died when he got COVID, and Clarence Thomas was hospitalized for several days within the last year. The absence of editorial perspective is contributing to the destruction of American democracy

There are two types of Star Trek fans in the Bay Area. Those who can't look at the Golden Gate without seeing Starfleet Academy behind it, and those of us who are waiting for the Bell Riots.

I'm having an outstanding curl day today

#TransJoy #Trans #Selfie

"Stephen Miller, one of Donald Trump’s top immigration advisers, advocated using U.S. predator drones in 2018 to blow up migrant boats full of unarmed civilians, according to an upcoming book by a former administration official."

~ Asawin Suebsaeng

#Republicans #immigrants #cruelty #StephenMiller

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/stephen-miller-donald-trump-immigrants-1234778491/

Sotomayor’s discussion of the majority’s disregard for #precedent is crucially important. She shows the lawlessness of the decision, the same lawlessness shown in cases like #Dobbs and #Bruen, other decisions where the current right-wing majority ignores settled case law and substitutes its own radical conclusions without any basis in law or fact. This is, as I’ve argued elsewhere, quintessentially tyrannical. 8/ #FAIRvHarvard #LawFedi

It’s time to end legacy admissions. Each year thousands of students are admitted to colleges around the nation only because their parents went there.

Legacy admissions are back-door discriminatory policies that overwhelmingly advantage wealthy, white students over everyone else.

Never forget that the thing that made it possible for #SCOTUS to kill affirmative action was racist Republican voters electing the most dangerous traitor in US history who appointed paid-off justices that perjured themselves in confirmation hearings.

How can we possibly fix racial injustice and achieve racial equity if we cannot acknowledge race at all?

"Climate change? What climate change? I don't see any extreme weather."

....probably Trump.

@actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

My partner, who I live with, left to go on a trip this morning (GMT+1). For the next few days, I will have the house to myself.

About an hour ago, I suddenly realised that I could very easily end up having no human contact until my partner gets back on Monday. As a result, I could end up spiralling mentally and not taking care of myself physically.

While I am someone who appreciates having time to myself, I have learned to recognise that having no human interaction can also be very bad for me too.

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Before I was diagnosed as being autistic, it's times like this where I would start feeling really bad and negative about myself.

I'd feel like a loser. I feel like no-one likes me, because if they did I would already have social plans organised this weekend, or people would be getting in touch with me to invite me to things.

And then, I'd get stuck on how to resolve this issue.

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Back then, like now, I'd want to have human contact but I'd have no idea how to go about getting the human contact that I needed. It would feel overwhelming.

I would blame myself. I'd feel sad that other people are able to socially interact much easier than I was able to.

I'd feel sad that I wasn't "normal".

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I knew something wasn't right but I had no idea what it was.

How could I be so "smart" and yet not be able to figure out such a "simple" thing as how to interact with other people?

How could I get high grades in my school work, and yet have no idea how to build and maintain the types of social relationships that I wanted to build?

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If I hadn't been formally diagnosed as being autistic, I would be feeling the same way now, as I did back then.

But now everything makes a lot more sense.

My diagnosis has given me clarity about so, so many of my past social interactions that left me feeling guilty and anxious.

So much of my life has been spent feeling sad and alone and unlovable.

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I don't feel bad about all that stuff anymore, but I still feel sad.

It can be hard not to wonder how my life would have turned out in alternate timeline - What if I had been diagnosed much earlier in life? What if I had been granted the accommodations I needed at school and in the workplace, in order to feel more comfortable in those spaces?

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I don't feel like a loser anymore. I'm just... different. That's the reason why a lot of people don't understand me and I don't understand them.

I'm not going to have to same type of social life that other people have. And that's fine.

How is this weekend going to turned out?

I don't know.

I won't be wasting any of this weekend thinking and worrying about how to make allistic people like me more, though. And, to me, that's a win.

#autism