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don't wait for your kid to come out

tell them right now: i support and love you no matter your gender or sexuality

the bills in some states mandating teachers inform parents if their child is doing any kind of gender exploration does more than put kids whose parents will be violent at risk

it means any kids who are unsure how their parent will react cannot safely do any sort of gender exploration then come out to their parents when they feel ready

so right now. tell your kid. don't give them any room for doubt.

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Never mind, progress averted.

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twitch.tv/madewokherd I am once again live playing BIT.TRIP Runner in a very silly way, but this time I am likely to be forced to move on in the game very slightly, to stage 1-4.

@recursive I suspect this is one of those things neurotypical folks are secretly also bad at.

Ear worms, questions 

@compostablespork Exactly like the original as far as we (plural system) can tell. Of course, memory is imperfect and there may be parts we forget or didn't notice.

CONSERVATIVES: Corporations are people and deserve free-speech rights

CORPORATIONS: Trans people exist

CONSERVATIVES: Not like that

Autistic ramblings 

@Sophie Thank you, I might use this.

I was finally getting used to NOT having quote-posts.

Please, can we not hate-share things? Don't QP to dunk. QP to "yes-and," and QP for memes, but don't QP hate into your friends' timelines.

This article from @dangoodin about "juice jacking" is the kind of article which make me happy to be an Ars Technica subscriber.

Actual research and nuanced information, while still making it clear that general fearmongering is unwarrented.

I also really appricate that the article includes the following, which is really key in the disucssion:

"The problem with the warnings coming out of the FCC and FBI is that they divert attention away from bigger security threats, such as weak passwords and the failure to install security updates. They create unneeded anxiety and inconvenience that run the risk of people simply giving up trying to be secure."

arstechnica.com/information-te

On my old Twitter account I used to spend a lot of time carefully curating politics/news links and RTs and on here I don't post about politics at all, part because the vibe here is calmer and I don't wanna disrupt it but part because it was exhausting.

This said there IS a constant escalating week by week eliminationist war on trans people in the US with basically zero pushback from liberal entities/politicians so if you're cis please go like… read news yourself… until you are informed. Thanks

covid, grumping 

@picklish Masking in indoor spaces where I'm likely to encounter other people, except at work or when eating. Keeping up on vaccine recommendations. Last time I went to a con, I worked from home before and after to reduce the chance of spreading anything, will probably just test in the future instead.

Is it common to experience heightened sensitivity when recovering from autistic shutdown?

School trauma, mention of CPTSD, disturbing (illustrated, fantasy-style) depictions of wing-cutting, thorns, swords, fake blood 

When school is torture...

A comic about autism and “school avoidance”. (1/2)

#AutisticComicTakeover #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Education #AutismAcceptanceMonth

covid, grumping 

@picklish I dunno, I feel like I'm far more cautious than most but also less cautious than I should be. Like it's probably not going to make much difference, but what I'm doing is barely an inconvenience anyway.

I've been going to conventions that have mask+vaccine policies (but those are *also* limited by me budgeting my flights).

Autistic ramblings 

@Sophie Come to think of it, the same behavior could also be both.

Autistic ramblings 

@Sophie Really hard to sort out in general what is an autistic trait and what is a result of the way autistic folks are treated.

i might just carry n95 masks for the rest of my life. they're great. weigh nothing, take up no space, fix so many problems. stinky? smokey? pollen? pet dander? forgot to shave? want to avoid face rec? have to be around sick people? dont want to have to show emotions? nbd! one piece of paper fixes all of these problems & more!

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twitch.tv/madewokherd I'm live trying to learn to play BIT.TRIP Runner perfectly with my toes again. It's been a while so I'm probably worse at it than usual.

@Sophie It sounds like your hypersensitivity is stronger than ours (well, Kaedyn's), but we like looking at trees.

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