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

@actuallyautistic Reading Unmasking Autism at the moment and my mask is very much my special interest right now. I'm starting to think that my mask might be just broken - After decades of masking and not getting much out of it, I feel that I just can't mask anymore in 'friendly' social situations.

But I also don't feel safe being myself. This has led to a total halt of all social activities for a few years now. Anyone else have some insight or experience with this?

Good, Dems are finally stepping up, but since polls show that the economy is the #1 issue, justice & the rule of law with respect to #TFG will be secondary: The DCCC is seizing the chance to neutralize Republican attacks on Dems as soft on crime, pointing to Memorial Day billboards it bought in swing districts spotlighting GOP lawmakers for not denouncing Trump’s attacks on LE agencies... #GOPLies Biden allies start to chafe at Dems’ silent treatment of his indictment: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/biden-allies-start-chafe-democrats-silent-treatment-trump-indictment-rcna89458

I only just today realized: I don't have friends in real life anymore. Everyone has moved away, no one can afford to live here now.
The only people I talk to are my sister, my niece and my coworkers.
To be fair, I don't even know HOW to be friends these days; I work and go home, sleep, and go back to work. There's no time or space to make friends, except online. I couldn't afford to be social, even if "being sociable" wasn't so uncomfortable for me.
When I "had friends", it was all based on how hard I was masking and overcompensating.
I'll never be able to do that again... and I don't even WANT to be able to do it again. That was a fake me.

Still, it's sad and scary to be so isolated.

#BessieSmith - NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU'RE DOWN AND OUT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zea-1Fzi9JQ&pp=ygUdYmVzc2llIHNtaXRoIG5vYm9keSBrbm93cyB5b3U%3D&pbjreload=102

I've got a research paper* that I'm almost ready to send to co-authors for comments before submitting for peer-review, and I keep adding stuff. I really need to take to heart this advice I got from a mentor years ago: "A science paper is never done. At some point, you just have to set it free."

*this paper is NOT ABOUT SATELLITES TAKE THAT BILLIONAIRES I'm still doing astronomy despite the all shit you're putting in orbit in my way.

Late identified #ActuallyAutistic humans often find themselves moving a lot - especially to new countries.

There is something about not being "weird" for being you, just being foreign. There is also an element of being able to shed the past and build anew.

Do you relate?

@actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

@kacey @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics I'm not living in autistic burnout anymore since I have my own business and work when and as it pleases me. I earn very little and must be very careful how I spend money, but I am much, much happier now. It was more or less forced. The business I was working at closed down and I could either take the business and workers over (no way), find another job (and face the same problems) or go it alone. I chose the last and it is good.

@ScottSoCal @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics @coffee needs more French Press

Do you think he realizes the irony?🤔

@RenoirDana @BZBrainz @audhd @actuallyautistic Yeah, you have to negotiate. I started stimming before my cancer. However, most of it was not visible to my ex-wife. I've always been stimmer seeking audio-visual stimulation. On the other hand, my ex-wife's ADHD evolved to make her avoid strobe light effects.

After my cancer I spend a lot of time in the living room listening to YT. She did not like the music, and she did not like the strobes that some music videos had. (According to her.) So I eventually got headphones and would listen to YT on my laptop. That meant that sometimes I wouldn't see the music video. But even when they are on the TV I don't always scrutinize all of them.

I'd put the music videos back on the TV when she was out of the house.

Alas, our marriage was already on the rocks (a good 2 years before my cancer) so that did not save it, but it did lessen the friction.

How do my #ActuallyAutistic coffee nerds brew?

#AskingAutistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics @coffee

All of Pompeii stands still when the horrifying screeches of Henry Kissinger are heard

There is an unspoken hierarchy of sexual identities under patriarchy with women and femininity being considered inferior and "bad," and everyone who is not a toxically masculine cis-het man gets kicked down into some level of the woman / inferior status as a matter of course, but instead of reckoning with the inherent misogyny of this system and trying to dismantle it, most people spend their time jockeying for position within it by punching down on someone else.

BOOST THOSE TOOTS!

Let's grow Mastodon together For the Future!

Have you boosted your Mastodon today?
#Mastodon #mastodonart #MastodonPR #mastodonsocial #mastodontips

I learned one thing after my long journey. It's hard to find someone who shares your lifestyle. Don't drive yourself crazy. Somewhere there is a day, a moment and the right person is standing in front of you and has already packed his bags.

@TonyStark

Dumpst's actions have *significant* consequences for international co-operative security, too.

Tiktok user "America_is_the_bad_place" pointed out that any country with intel operatives undercover will think long and hard before passing information pertaining to their intelligence agents to the USA again - including intelligence regarding the safety and security of the US.

Risk their own operatives and intel officers for a guy Americans elected[*] to lead them who's solely interested in being able to pimp his own power and status?

Uh, no.

And that will apply to the current administration too, however much they might approve/trust the Biden admin (rightly or wrongly). Who's gonna hand the US government anything while knowing there's a decent possibility that Dumpst might end up as pres again in the future and be just as casual with the lives of their agents and their information as he was with those documents?

Sorry, nope. Not gunna happen.

[*] Yes, I know how the US election system works. Yes, I am aware of its flaws. Yes, I know about popular votes and electoral colleges and how barely 50% of y'all vote and only a quarter of the country actually *chose* Dumpst.

HOWEVER after all the ballots were counted and the soundbites faded into silence, he was still the duly elected PotUS according to your system (even if it's broken).

And he very well could be again (cf. broken system). And that's a risk that other countries have to factor in.

Biden Will Propose A New 25% Minimum ‘Billionaires Tax’ In 2024 Budget, Report Says

The Billionaire Minimum Income Tax Is Popular

82% of Canadians say now is the time to tackle wealth and income inequality by increasing taxes on wealthy Canadians and large, profitable corporations

Why the wealthy should anticipate paying (even) more taxes in the future

Taxing the rich is extremely popular

11 Charts on Taxing the Wealthy and Corporations

#HERE #THERE #canpoli #uspoli #UKpoli

Vote flexghost 2024

I’ll ban churches and force clergy to attend drag brunch conversion.

If I have to prep for and then receive a colonoscopy, I firmly believe that that should be the worst part of my day.

And if I die as a result of a colonoscopy, it should either be because of a known side effect of the procedure or medical malpractice on the part of the doctor.

If I die weeks later, because the secretary decided to come to work sick, that strips me of the basic dignity of knowing who to haunt.

The far right vomitted attepts to tell their base the firestorms are a hoax, as selfish as monsters have ever been.

The excessive heat destroying forests, turning forest floors into kindling fire starter, has turned farmers soils into dust. Crops dead.

The scream of warning. Replace all carbon sources of energy, build wind, build solar, supply 100% of energy without carbon.

#CarbonIsMassDeath #BUILD #NOW #AllOfIt.