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#actuallyautistic

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Trump administration identifying #Autism, #ADHD as "direct threats to the American people."

Underlying many of Trump's policies?

Eugenics. Against all disability.

Libertarian survival of the fittest.

Link to Whitehouse gov post:
whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac

Even if they don't round us up, over 80% of us #autistics are unemployed or under employed.

Killing our benefits like Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Foodstamps, Housing, etc?

Just a soft means of killing us.

#SoftGenocide is more deadly. It goes unnoticed.

#ActuallyAutistic

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An autistic story... my wife and I...

@actuallyautistic @pathfinder

My current wife and I met when she was 2 and I was 6. She was crying because her mother had washed her hair and that scared her. It was 1969 and we are half cousins. For years we saw each other very little because we lived 1,100 km from each other. But when she was 14 and I was 18, she came to visit us at my house for her vacation. It was love at first sight. We fell in love. We were both the "odd ones" in the family, intelligent and not very sociable. It was almost a Greek tragedy because of the beliefs and prejudices of that time and after trying to see each other for a while and after several trips we ended up separated. She was forced and I had to accept. Then when I was in the army, in the middle of a very big crisis in which I almost took my life, I wrote her a letter (there were no cell phones or social networks, it was 1984) and she replied that she was going to get married. It was totally bitter for me. After that, military life brought out the worst in me and I traveled for work.
Life went on for both of us, she had 3 sons and I had a daughter. In 2008 I had a psychiatric crisis and ended up admitted to a mental hospital, she knew about it and was very distressed. In 2010, with a very bad first diagnosis, she decided to look for me. She traveled to my city and we were together for a week. When she returned, she divorced and in 2011 she went to live with me, I lived a block from the hospital because of the frequent crises she had.
In 2012, I came to live in Buenos Aires with her and since then we have been together, the relationship with the whole family is very good, with her sons and my daughter.
Here comes the autism part: In 2018 my granddaughter was born and she is autistic, that dispelled the doubts and I went to have an evaluation that resulted in me having double exceptionality, I am gifted + autistic and probably not bipolar. That triggered a cascade of diagnoses and it turns out that she and two of her daughters are autistic as well as my daughter and granddaughter.
It's an interesting story and many people are telling me to write a book but I don't feel like exposing ourselves so much for now, especially for my mental health.

Help an #ActuallyAutistic girl out with her social confusion -

Sometimes, a person will send me a message. So I’ll engage with it and send a friendly reply. And then that person… vanishes. No confirmation, no follow-up, they’re just gone until the next time one of us has something to say.

…What is that? Why do people do that? I feel like this is rude behavior but maybe I’m just missing something or expecting too much?

This is a deceptive photo, there were actually quite a lot of people on the beach this morning. I accidentally started my meditation timer just before I went into the water, so I know I swam for an hour and six minutes!

Odd thing about being in the sea, especially if it's choppy like it was this morning, with fairly big waves: it helps me break out of any mental holding pattern I've been in. After this swim, I closed my world building and planning documents, and started writing my new book, the sequel to We Broke the Moon. Yesterday that still felt like an impossible thing to do.

Does anyone else find it a bit confusing the way "support" is used around things like emotional support?
I've been puzzled by it's use in various books and my partner is using it in ways I don't fully understand. It seems to encompass a lot that is assumed.
Anybody know of any good complete explanations?

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Diary of an ASD Squirrel. Day 479 , Tuesday 18/02/2025

Tuesday started around 8am, Mrs S had gone into the office so it was a peaceful day.

I spent the vast majority of the day listening to my Audibook - I did my chores of course but really could not get into anything else.
The new speaker is working a treat! It’s small enough (about the size of a box of Aftereights) to be easily moved around & the sound quality is excellent - certainly for the audiobooks.

We had yet another energy saving session this evening - it was 5pm to 6pm so I was pretty much on my own for it.

Alice has been in a very cuddly sort of mood today, she has come over & begged for a snuggle 4 or 5 times today, which is a lot for her. I think that she might be feeling a little insecure as there is a new tom in the area that has been harassing Alice & Sophie. Sophie just yells at him but it seems Alice needs some extra TLC, which is fine , she purrs like a hose full of cats & while she only wants cuddling for a few minutes each time she really seems to enjoy it. 😊

We had a Melton Mowbray pork pie with salad for tea - I am fast becoming sick of this as a meal, it’s totally out of season & while it made a change the first time we had it, when the weather was a little warmer it’s getting to the stage where I’m going to feed it to Mrs S & have beans on toast myself!
It wouldn’t be so bad if Mrs S didn’t get the same pre-prepared salad bowl (only one between the 2 of us, (heaven forbid we splash out on 2!) which means I have to try & divide the constituent parts equally between us - a definite object lesson in chaos theory & entropy!

20:00 Ugh, my tinnitus is screaming in my ears & Mrs S has gone up to read her book & left me on my own as usual, I get a whole 2 hours of her company of an evening & that’s it.

I might go to bed & listen to some more of my book.

Final Thoughts.

Next therapy session with Sami tomorrow, not sure if I’m in the right frame of mind for it though!

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@actuallyautistic
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