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

It's my Birthday today 🎈
As a tradition I may request for sharing my work.
Thank you to everyone who supported me so far.
I'm looking forward to a brighter future. You can find more in my Bio.

#art #mastoart #landscapeart

Whichever twitter alt platform loves Alexis the most is the one I will want to spend the most time on

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic Listings of homes for sale

One of my favorite things about @KevBot is how he’ll loosely plan out or day and send the agenda to me in the form of a Yelp collection.

today is the only day you can retoot this

Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American newsletter is always worth reading but I want to flag today's on the efforts in Texas to target interstates and other transportation routes to prevent women from leaving Texas for (legal) abortions. Surreal, definitely unconstitutional, but also creates even more barriers and confusion. So reminiscent of proslavery political maneuvering. #history #abortion #histodons 1/ https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-1-2023

Your non-violent, harmless autistic traits aren't bad because other people are "annoyed" by them or "don't care for them"

That's on them, not you.

They're part of you. Imagine if we fired people and insulted their moral character because they asked about the weather.

@actuallyautistic

Salesman: so the Camry trunk is about 15 cubic ft.

Me: Okay but how many bodies can I fit in there?

“There’s not a ‘weird’ acceleration happening” in the Earth’s climate, said Noah Diffenbaugh, a scientist at Stanford University. “There’s an expected acceleration happening.” #ClimateChange https://mstdn.ca/@shawngoldwater/110996100603381847

@ScruffyDux @actuallyautistic

One of the best things about the rise of the internet is that everyone thinks their physical life experience is "the norm", so even when things are uncomfortable they generally think "well everyone is dealing with this so I can't complain." Especially if it's is common in your immediate family!

Now we have conversations with people way outside our families are find out that some things are not widely shared (or are, but in different sub groups).

So helpful <3

@danak6jq @wakame @ginsterbusch @ScottSoCal @sentient_water @hosford42 @yourautisticlife @zakalwe @markusl @cwebber @Tooden @SQLAllFather @dpnash

Aha! I still have that rat mug somewhere.

Willow Springs 1987: crashing on my very first day on the track in the "new racers" school and waking up as a conveyor belt was transporting me inside the dome of a CAT scanner; which, having never been in one before, looked remarkably like the inside of an alien spacecraft.

Looks like the Republican Indiana state Attorney General is now demanding transgender health care records, too.

As @KrissyKat pointed out, they try their tricks out on the trans community first before going after other targets. Probably because we're tiny in number and typically don't have much political clout.

https://sfba.social/@KrissyKat@hoosier.social/110984934397063691

Morning! Have a wonderful day!

These two...oh my heart! 🥰

Another book on #autism, "Autism and Asperger syndrome in adults", by Dr Luke Beardon. I had seen him interviewed in a BBC programme on autism and was curious to read some of his work. The book is short and easy to read, and it's written as a dialogue with the autistic reader, discussing things that the autistic person should consider when choosing where to study at uni, where to work, whether to disclose their diagnosis (which he calls "identification", and I love that) etc. It's full of examples from the real life of autistic people and shows how amazing they can be. It's an overview based firmly on the social model, so doesn't go in depth, and it's largely uplifting and provides some practical guidance.
#DrLukeBeardon #AutismAndAspergerSyndromInAdults @bookstodon @actuallyautistic

Regardless of whether you were diagnosed early or later in life, you may have spent years suppressing your autistic identity and conforming to neurotypical norms. Our focus will be on self-advocacy, unmasking, and cultivating self-care and self-regulation techniques.

Let's embark on this empowering journey together! My #ActuallyAutistic workshops are built in order to create community and bring together like-minded autistic people looking to grow their autistic self. We are all looking to find or get further in touch with our inner lives and unmask and live authentically.

@actuallyautistic

https://www.theautisticcoach.com/autistic-self-advocacy-unmasking-exploring-the-autistic-self

A friend inspired me to share some of my personal poetry & short stories.

It's ironic, of course, that I share so much here with you all here and even more with those I work with, but I still have felt that this part of my life cannot be shared.

Here goes nothing....

https://www.theautisticcoach.com/autistic-poetry-autistic-fiction/easter-in-saint-michel

@actuallyautistic @poetry