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plurality, mental health stigma 

If you pay attention, it's very common to acknowledge, directly, that our minds have parts. But when you start giving those parts names and letting other people know they exist, it's suddenly assumed that you are dangerous, even if only to yourself.

Maybe I dissociate a bit more than most people, but the thing that really makes me different is just self-knowledge and authenticity.

Having to constantly remind myself today that my despondency is the result of sleep deprivation and it's OK to take it easy.

It's done and out: my first full-length album, Beatrice's Rose, is free on Bandcamp spriteguard.bandcamp.com/album

re: looking for software 

@lizardsquid It's definitely possible to get that info from outside Firefox, though whatever method that program used may not work anymore.

Reminder that if GitHub can make a functioning website without any fucking cookie and "consent" popups then so can you

Been thinking about this quote of Stephen Silberman in a paper I read early this morning:

“ The shocking levels of premature death and
suicide among people on the autism spectrum
should be a wake-up call to governments and
service providers worldwide: dramatic proof
that bullying, lack of support, inadequate
health care across the lifespan, insufficient
allocation of resources to create options
for housing and employment,

happy belated womens day to all the belated women

transness, autism 

I love the explanations from trans autistic people of why there some correlation between someone being diagnosed with ASD and being trans.

It's like, when you're autistic, society can be quite unkind to you sometimes. Gender rules are already weird and messy and don't make a lot of sense...

So like, if there's this incongruence with you trying to be your AGAB and you feel any measure of relief by exploring a gender identity away from that, then it's kind of hard for society to deter your from transitioning. They certainly try, but you already see their rules as flawed, bullshit, and they weren't very kind to you anyways. Might as well live as your authentic self 🤷‍♀️

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2. Probably almost every adult autist has at least suffered from PTSD for some period of time in their life. Probably very few ever get the support and resources needed to recover from that.

3. We are at greater risk of PTSD because our sensory experiences are more intense and our reactions to that are more intense.

4. That the world continues to become faster, louder, and providing relentless and multiple sources of stimulation make it harder for us to find respite and repose.

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Every year I write a blog post for #InternationalWomensDay about women in folktales.

This year's theme is: Folktales about women who slay monsters! 🐉 ⚔️ 👸

People often criticize traditional stories for having "passive female characters." So, I made a list of tales and legends about women who are definitely active. In defeating dragons, ghouls, and giants.

Read it here:
multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com

#women #WomensDay #folklore #folktales #storytelling #GirlPower

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic Falling snow, especially when the objects behind it are just the right distance.

plurality 

We're still building. We think it's an important part of being human. But, we've started going about it with so much more understanding and planning than we ever did in the past.

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We didn't just learn as we grew. We had to build the mental structures necessary to approach situations with wisdom and maturity. This must have been real work that took a great deal of time and energy, even if we didn't know we were doing it.

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Thinking about how so many of us were not there when the system was growing up, especially early on, and the options we did not have as a result.

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We sure have been acting like Jude today.

plurality, dissociation/derealization 

Belle posted this somewhere else and we feel it's important enough to cross-post:

We were told that it's common for plural folks to experience some dissociation all the time, and it sort of makes sense of how so many seem to maintain denial even in the face of compelling evidence. We're not sure where this comes from, but there's a part of us that feels we're not really part of the world at all, and it's just a story or a game or a performance.

ok is anyone actually neurotypical or is that just a rumor

@b0rk My guess would've been that it took off more because of network and file format standards, but I am having trouble finding info on the development of these. There were Ethernet and EBCDIC which were 8-bit, but there was also ASCII which was 7-bit.

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