Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
autism/disability
@actuallyautistic So I'm trying to come to terms with this. I think because I'm above water, I can work and take care of myself without regularly needing extra help (or rather, without needing extra help that I can't pay for), I don't feel like I deserve to say that. But I don't know how else to reconcile the fact that I can't afford to do things like protest or lobby or plant pollenizers. So I have to be able to say, I can't do those things because I have a disability, right?
autism/disability
Why is it so much easier for me to say
"I barely have the time and energy to work a part-time job and take care of myself. I don't understand how people can do things like work a full-time job and take care of a home and a car and kids. It all seems completely impossible to me."
than
"I have a disability."
We've been bad at visualization for as long as we can remember, but we seem to finally be making progress. Being able to summon bright colors and simple shapes internally is such a joyous experience.
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CVE-2023-21036 / acropalypse is absolutely bonkers.
Apparently for 5+ years the cropping / editing tools for screenshots on Google Pixel phones was only overwriting the start of the screenshot PNG file, but not truncating.
All screenshots shared for the past 5+ years might have data recoverable from them. Demo available at https://acropalypse.app/
Google still hasn't communicated anything on this.
(h/t ItsSimonTime on Musk's site)
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Amiga was a good name for a computer. It makes two important things clear:
1. computer is girl
2. computer is friend
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*upgrades Firefox, discovers new feature, immediately googles to find out how to disable new feature*
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There are 385.5 million trans people alive today
https://stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/there-are-3855-million-trans-people
I've been doing this thing lately where a topic comes up and I will feel that I know something about it and articulate an opinion. It's weird and I'm not sure I like it.
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People who hire people in tech, remember this:
If you are requiring a degree in the field, instead of simply the skills needed for the job, the people you are filtering out is the poors.
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Please boost if you’re still masking indoors (in public places)
plurality, mental health stigma
I wonder, if I'd understood that earlier and approached it from the angle of "I'm really not much different from everyone else, just more aware of the specifics of the parts that I, like everyone else, have, and that's important enough to me that I want to share it," would I have been met with less stigma?
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.
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It's done and out: my first full-length album, Beatrice's Rose, is free on Bandcamp https://spriteguard.bandcamp.com/album/beatrices-rose
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Wise words from a wise man.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts
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Reminder that if GitHub can make a functioning website without any fucking cookie and "consent" popups then so can you
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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,
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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.
Joined Aug 2018
