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

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

"No, we're not firing you because you're autistic."

"We're firing you because of the way you communicate with your team. And because you expressed sensory needs at a company event. And because of the structure you seem to need."

"So you see you're just not a fit. It's got nothing to do with the fact you're autistic."

'Fit' can be ablist. It can be all kinds of exclusionary. Hire better.

@actuallyautistic, thank you for listening /vent

#ActuallyAutistic #Inclusion #Work #Hiring

How would my #ActuallyAutistic comrades rate their shoe tying skills?

Are you better at tying one foot more than the other?

A particular type of laces?

Or do you got for laceless shoes altogether?

#AskingAutistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

I was with you all the time.

#Funny #Fun #Humor #LOL #Humour

1983: “But for them (affirmative action laws), God only knows where I would be today. These laws and their proper application are all that stand between the first 17 years of my life and the second 17 years."

2023: He votes to end using affirmative action in college admissions.

Reflections on the streets of Granada #Nicaragua
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#DigitalArt #architecture #LatinAmerica #FediGiftShop #MastoArt #ArtMatters #MarkOnArt

#PrideMonth #lgbt

@NiteThief @SrRochardBunson One of this best moments was when he said to TFG, in national TV, live, "will you shut up, man." To his face. While TFG was President of the US.

No one has done this. No TFG's opponents, critics. Not Chris Christie. Not George Conway. Not DeeeeSantis. This is some grit right there.

We carry on!

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in her well-reasoned dissent, “deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.” This fight is not over!

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/read-supreme-court-justice-ketanji-150423547.html

@Carex @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistics @actuallyautistic I think it applies to everyone. People who pretend they're someone else when dating. Well they're gonna end up with someone who's right only for the person they pretended to be.

It's one of the things I'm so proud of about autistics, we're often fiercely, unapologetically ourselves. I actually think this is one aspect that annoys NTs. Our bold authenticity highlights their own inauthentic persona. (NTs also mask, they're just better at it).

Meine pädagogischen Erfolge.

Symbol-#Video

This is your periodic reminder that, unless you buy and download the music you love, it will absolutely disappear out from under you at some point.

I failed to heed my own advice! This album is pretty obscure, sure, but now it's grayed out on Apple Music, and totally gone from the iTunes Store, so too late there. Bummer.

SCOTUS struck down AA b/c it’s allegedly discriminatory. Here’s the Facts:
•AA benefitted white women more than all other groups COMBINED—plaintiffs never complained about that
•43% of white Harvard students are legacy or athlete students, of which 75% would not be admitted otherwise—plaintiffs never complained about that
•Asians are 6% of the population & 26% of Harvard admissions—plaintiffs never complained about that

This SCOTUS ruling is 100% anti-fact & 100% anti-Black racism.

I hope that Biden highlights that these recent #scotus rulings - many contrary to precedent, facts, logic and majority views - clearly demonstrate that the Supreme Court is out of touch with the American people, is vulnerable to manipulation & corruption and must be reformed - while everyone is paying attention today. #politics