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2026-07-28 18:17:52 CEST

♾️ 10 reasons why I like being autistic ♾️
Thanks to @npub1z8s…6gem, my thread has now become a beautiful and fully-illustrated zine! Share if you like what you see❤️
https://wise.astridpoot.nl/30-10-reasons-why-i-like-being-autistic/
🥰 🥳 😎 🙏
#Autistic #Neurodivergent #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic
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2026-07-22 18:41:53 CEST

"Why do you need a label?"
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#Neurodivergent #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ADHD
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2026-07-21 12:42:35 CEST

Is autistic distress around change necessarily a problem of personal rigidity or inflexibility?
The truth is, everyone's more comfortable with change when they choose it, understand it - and have some power over how it happens. And this is especially true for those who've been traumatised, or had deeply negative experiences, even when others insisted that everything was fine.
So perhaps the deeper issue isn’t sameness, but safety.
💟
#Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent

2026-07-11 08:48:07 CEST

"We're all neurodiverse!"
I've heard this phrase a lot recently.
It’s both depressing and enraging to me that so many of us use it, yet seem unable either to look the word up in a dictionary or to understand the implications of saying it.
A thread 🧵
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#Autistic #Autism #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent
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2026-07-08 16:24:47 CEST

Thank you @npub1p2k…w0da for this excellent article on small talk - from the neurodivergent perspective.
https://www.alittleofnothing.co.uk/small-talk-is-tcp-handshaking-for-humans/
Indeed, you've pretty much convinced me!!
This part I think I ought to write on a napkin and carry in my bag:
"- Eye contact? Adjusted.
-Tone? Checked.
- Facial expression? Calibrated.
- Volume? Sensible.
- Response time? Natural enough to avoid suspicion.
- Internal panic? Well hidden, hopefully."
#Autistic #AutisticCommunication #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic

2026-07-07 10:22:11 CEST

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Reason no. 10 "why I like being autistic"
My potential for authentic friendships, given the right environment.
We have a strong and growing community.
There's still often this vast loneliness. But now we can find each other, at least. And perhaps, ourselves.
🌈💟
#AutisticCommunity #AutisticJoy

2026-07-07 10:21:49 CEST

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Reason no. 9 "why I like being autistic"
Resistance to manipulation. 🫏
Autistic people can be hard to praise or punish into compliance. Often due to inability more than any active rebellion. Though we may feel a lot of shame around this.
My take: it's not always a positive thing to fit in.
10/11

2026-07-07 10:21:38 CEST

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Reason no. 8 "why I like being autistic"
My non-conformist mind. 🎋
To many autistic people, “because everyone else is doing it” is NOT a good reason for doing something.
I see this non-conformist thinking style as an important safeguard against herd mentality.
9/11

2026-07-07 10:21:25 CEST

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Reason no. 7 "why I like being autistic"
Asking, "Why?" ❓
There's often a strong autistic tendency to look for the “why” of things: to question systems, notice patterns and wonder about them.
And then to creatively imagine how things could be changed.
8/11

2026-07-07 10:21:09 CEST

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Reason no. 6 "why I like being autistic"
Unusual imagination 🍃
Autistic imagination can be wonderfully various, rich, strange, vivid, or deeply felt.
Some autistic people have whole inner worlds!
While for some, there are no inner visuals. For some, memory - if present - comes by sensations.
7/11

2026-07-07 10:20:53 CEST

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Reason no. 5 "why I like being autistic"
Getting right into the details of things. 🎼
Autistic attention to detail can be difficult, for example when trying to shift focus - but it can also mean unusual observational powers, precision, and noticing things other people don’t.
6/11

2026-07-07 10:20:37 CEST

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Reason no. 4 "why I like being autistic"
My hyper-sensory experiences. 🤪
These can be totally overwhelming. But, on the positive side, I might notice ambient nuances, beauty and subtlety – smells, textures, sounds.
They can also be handy, e.g. for noticing in time if the house is on fire!!
5/11

2026-07-07 10:20:19 CEST

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Reason no. 3 "why I like being autistic"
My selective hyper-memory and hyper-focus.
This can mean persevering past the point where others would give up – so developing knowledge, skill, or creativity to unusual depths. ⚓
That said, I may sometimes forget how to use a kettle.
#Hyperfocus
4/11

2026-07-07 10:20:02 CEST

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Reason no. 2 "why I like being autistic"
My unusual empathy. 💟
Autistic empathy can be intense! It tends to also be pretty democratic: for people, animals, plants, and even objects.
Our empathy often isn't interested in hierarchies - and doesn't exclude those who don’t appear useful or successful in society.
#AutisticEmpathy
3/11

2026-07-07 10:19:48 CEST

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Reason no. 1 "why I like being autistic"
My way of processing information. 🔢
Autistic different ways of processing information can lead to unusual perception: seeing patterns, details, connections, and possibilities that may not be obvious from the mainstream view.
#AutisticCognition
2/11

2026-07-07 10:19:25 CEST

♾️Ten reasons why I like being autistic♾️
Maybe surprisingly to some, being autistic isn't all bad.
Here are some things that may get missed when autism is defined *only* through our difficulties & struggles.
#Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD
A thread 🧵
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2026-06-27 10:11:57 CEST

In the UK, 89-97% of autistic adults aged 40+ may be undiagnosed.
That's a whole generation of people who've been blamed for traits they naturally had that went unnamed. 😢
#LateDiagnosedAutistic #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent

2026-06-26 12:35:59 CEST

In 46% of cases where therapy is used to stop an autistic child from stimming, the child has come out with symptoms that meet the criteria for PTSD.
#ABA #Autism #Masking #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic

2026-06-20 11:21:09 CEST

Subject: Autistic perception
Studies suggest that autistic people give relatively more weight to incoming perceptual detail - and less weight to prior expectations, or assumptions.
A thread 🧵
#Autism #AutisticPerception #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic

2026-06-07 08:57:42 CEST

Many more women than men have been diagnosed over the years with ‘personality disorders’.
These labels are much more personally damning than autism or ADHD - as they judge who you are, rather than explaining how you function.
#Autism #ADHD #AuDHD #Diagnosis #Sexism #GenderEquality #Neurodivergent

2026-06-04 08:48:59 CEST

I think a lot of autistic people must have like a Masters degree in "pretending to be okay when I'm actually not."
Becoming such a constant that you literally don't know what it feels like to not be doing this. 😬
#Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Anxiety #SocialAnxiety #MentalHealth #Masking #Neurodivergent

2026-05-29 08:49:12 CEST

Slide from AutisticNotWeird, Chris Bonello.
#Autism #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic
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2026-05-21 09:56:24 CEST

A still-quite-popular belief about autistic people is that we lack empathy.
But perhaps what we mostly lack is socially approved ways of expressing fellow-feeling. And this then gets construed as lacking empathy.
#AutisticEmpathy #ActuallyAutistic
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2026-05-17 09:24:59 CEST

In research, education, & policy making, autistic people are expected to accept a situation where non-autistic "experts" speak with authority about them.
An autistic person's lived experience is seen as less valid than external observations of our behaviour.
#ActuallyAutistic #AutismResearch

2026-05-16 06:52:45 CEST

Autistic people don’t just ‘fail to fit’ into social norms and into the social order.
It seems quite a lot of the time we actually challenge the social order - often even just by existing.
#Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent

2026-05-06 09:10:29 CEST

Anyone still wanting a reason to not do shitty things?
😂
#AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic #adhd #Neurodivergent
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2026-04-11 08:36:12 CEST

What has autism got to do with trauma?
Quite a lot, actually.
And not only because of what happens inside the autistic person, but because of what happens around us.
A thread 🧵
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#Autism #Trauma #Neurodivergent

2026-03-28 20:14:06 CET

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So what could ethical research look like, instead?
Here's the proposed researchers’ code of ethics:
1. Co-participation,
2. Respectful language,
3. Autistic differences not always as deficits,
4. No alignment with those promoting ABA, eugenics, and similar harms.
Far from today's reality.
7/11
Thanks @npub1ral…mtp8 for this! And your work is in the references.

2026-03-28 20:13:43 CET

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Then, as we’re not listened to, society's understanding of autism develops without us.🤷🏽‍♀️
That flawed understanding is then used to overrule us, again.
Strange little loop. ➰
6/11
#EpistemicInjustice #Autism #AutismResearch

2026-03-28 20:13:19 CET

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Because a ‘world without autism’ isn't abstract.
It's a world without autistic people. 🙎🏽‍♀️🙎🏾🙎🏻‍♀️
There’s also a deeper issue here.
Autistic people aren't believed about our own experiences. Or we don't get asked at all.
#UtaFrith said it would be unscientific to do so. More on her views here: https://mas.to/@KatyElphinstone/116206483353899881
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2026-03-28 20:12:56 CET

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The implication here – sometimes unspoken, & sometimes not so unspoken – is that autism is something to be reduced, corrected, or even eventually eradicated ☠️
So my questions are:
1/ Whose problem is autism being treated as?
2/ And whose interests are served by that?
4/11

2026-03-28 20:12:10 CET

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That idea – that there’s a separable ‘pure self’ – is basically not one that's shared by us.
But it's very popular elsewhere!
Many millions are poured into #autism research every year, in the areas of treatment, intervention, prevention, and the hunt for biomarkers.
💰💰💰
3/11

2026-03-28 20:11:40 CET

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For us, autism doesn't feel like some detachable defect.
Take it away – and you don’t leave me, just improved. You change who I am.
This feeling isn’t limited to one ‘type’ of autistic person. Across support needs, most autistic people say the same (refs at the end).
2/11

2026-03-28 20:11:15 CET

Most autistic people, despite everything, actually like being autistic.
Not all, of course. But most of us.
And I don’t just mean ‘making peace with it’.
I mean: it's bound up with who we are.
A thread 🧵
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(refs at the end)
#Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent

2026-03-10 20:19:41 CET

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Her view: Autism in women has gone too far.
Reply: Interesting. Has freedom in women gone too far, too?
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Her view: We must categorise autism into smaller subgroups.
Reply: Interesting also - a bit like how Hans Asperger did in Nazi Germany? I think, in this case, the purpose is to exclude a lot of people from the category "autism" and to divide the autistic community.
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#Autism #Research #Neurodiversity

2026-03-10 20:18:40 CET

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Her view: The concept of masking is “unscientific” because it’s unfalsifiable.
Reply: So is the concept of pain. Should we treat that as irrelevant in medical or psychological contexts, as well?
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#Autism #Research #Masking #UtaFrith

2026-03-10 20:16:57 CET

Replying to Uta Frith's views, one by one.
With thanks to all the members of the autistic community who've informed me & inspired me to write this thread.
For those lucky not to know about her article in The Times, and various other related statements, links at the end.
CW: it's upsetting 😟
A thread 🧵
#UtaFrith #Research #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent

2026-03-07 19:56:11 CET

#AskingAutistics
How would you describe your ordinary daily level of anxiety (if any at all)?
#Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD

2026-03-03 12:16:30 CET

Subject: Autistic ‘black and white’ thinking.
It's framed as a deficit often seen in autism, but... is it that simple? :shrug2:
Autistic people are traditionally criticized for our inflexibility, or cognitive rigidity.
But I think this isn’t the whole picture.
To start with what we know, here are ten things we autistic people generally have in common (refs at the end of the thread):
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#Autism #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Neurodiversity

2026-02-14 18:33:34 CET

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Autistic people, after all, are known for preferring logic (I certainly do).
And we’re also known for thinking outside the box – meaning that if we’re forced to make false decisions based on faulty assumptions, then we are quite likely to make the ‘wrong’ choice.
Interested to hear others’ thoughts on this! And I’ll be looking for another influential study to look closely at.
I really enjoy analyzing things! 😊
End of thread. 🧵

2026-02-14 18:32:16 CET

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This would mean:
- responsibility should be proportional to agency, influence, and ability to change outcomes (this would be not just logical but also extremely useful),
- individual / exclusive blame is not required in all situations where harm occurs,
- but *responsibility* to take appropriate action is not the same thing as blame, and conflating the two is an error.
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2026-02-14 18:31:11 CET

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Here’s an alternative take.
(Note: These are just my thoughts, I’m very open to discussion and other suggestions!)
It may be – though we can’t know this, since participants weren’t asked – that autistic people in the study didn’t lack anything, but rather tended to reason in logical terms.
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2026-02-14 18:30:28 CET

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...are tasked with the enormous and near-impossible job of ‘educating them’ (and blamed for failing when they don’t manage to).
But, sadly, the privileged ones are selectively deaf or you didn’t use the right tone or… or… well, I think you get the gist.
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#EpistemicInjustice #Racism #BlackLivesMatter #Patriarchy #GenderEquality #TransLivesMatter #LGBTQ+

2026-02-14 18:30:07 CET

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I’ve noticed that being innocent of knowledge is a good defense for many crimes in our society.
Those with the most power to change things seem to often be the most innocent of knowledge.
While people who are marginalized, discriminated against, and who don’t have much in the way of resources, influence, or free time...
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2026-02-14 18:29:34 CET

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Within this frame, prioritizing outcomes over intentions is coded as a moral error...
A lack of understanding about the situation and about other people.
Even though, for the person who’s now dead, intentions make very little difference, while the outcome has been quite important to them.
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2026-02-14 18:28:37 CET

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Error 1) Presupposition / Loaded framing. The task assumes that when harm occurs, someone usually gets blamed. That assumption isn't tested & is built into the question.
Error 2) False dichotomy. Moral evaluation is reduced to blame vs no blame, leaving no room for partial, shared, or non-punitive responsibility.
Error 3) Category error. Conflation of blame and responsibility. Responsibility for outcomes is treated as identical to moral condemnation, collapsing two very different concepts.
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2026-02-14 18:27:11 CET

Have you wondered where the claim that autistic people lack empathy came from?
The “jellyfish” study (2011) was influential in this, as it concluded that autistic people lacked Theory of Mind & capacity for moral reasoning.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-01-autistic-mind.html
In the fictional scenario given to participants, Sally tells a friend it’s safe to swim with jellyfish. She believes they’re harmless. The friend is stung and dies.
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#Autism #Empathy #Neurodiversity #Psychology #TheoryofMind #ActuallyAutistic

2026-02-06 21:40:50 CET

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"But I do not deserve more humane treatment than anyone else US Citizen or not. And I am here today with a strong spirit and a duty to the many people who haven’t had the privilege to tell their stories, or see their loved ones come home.
I am extremely distressed by the pattern of violence from law enforcement [that] has been happening to black and indigenous communities for centuries and to DHS survivors for over 20 years.
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2026-02-06 21:40:27 CET

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"When I became unable to speak, my cellmate pleaded for me. The last sounds I remember before I blacked out on the cell floor were my cell mate banging on the door pleading for a medic and a voice outside saying,
‘We don’t want to step on ICE’s toes.’
When I opened my eyes at Hennepin County’s emergency room, I learned I was brought there to be treated for assault. The impacts of DHS detention on my physical, mental and financial well-being and safety have been very severe...
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2026-02-06 21:40:03 CET

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"Agents did not know if the facility had a wheelchair.
When I was finally placed in one to be taken to interrogation, agents taunted me,
‘You were driving right? So your legs do work.’
I pleaded for emergency medical care for over an hour after my vision had become blurry, my heart rate went through the roof, and the pain in my neck and head became unbearable.
It was denied.
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2026-02-06 21:39:32 CET

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"You have no reason to believe you will make it out alive if you are already being called a body.
Agents had to repeatedly stop and ask how to do tasks. I received no medical screening, phone call, or access to a lawyer. I was denied a communication navigator when my speech began to slur. Agents laughed as I tried to immobilize my own neck. I asked for my cane and was told, 'No'
Pulled up my arms and prodded forward in leg irons by agents, laughing & saying,
‘Walk, You can do it, walk!’
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2026-02-06 21:39:01 CET

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"Approaching the Whipple Center, I saw black and brown bodies shackled together, chained together, being marched by yelling agents outdoors.
I continue to hear the word ‘bodies’ because that is how the agents refer to us.
‘We’re bringing in a body.’
‘They’re bringing in bodies 7-8 at a time, Where do I put em?’
‘We can’t use that room, there’s already a body in there.’
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2026-02-06 21:38:38 CET

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"Shooting pain went through my head, neck and wrist when I hit the ground face first and people leaned on my back. I felt the pattern, and I thought of Mr. George Floyd who was killed four blocks away.
I was carried face down through the street by my cuffed arms and legs while yelling that I had a brain injury and was disabled. I now cannot lift my arms normally.
I was never asked for ID. Never told I was under arrest. Never read my rights. And never charged with a crime.
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2026-02-06 21:38:20 CET

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"I felt immersed in a pattern, and I thought of Genoa Donald, an autistic black man, killed by police during a traffic stop in 2021. I remembered Mr. Silverio Villegas González who was killed by ICE in his vehicle last year.
An agent pulled a large combat knife in front of my face, which I thought was for cutting me, and I later learned, was used to cut off my seat belt.
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2026-02-06 21:37:58 CET

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"His first instruction.
Agents, on all sides of my vehicle, yelled conflicting threats and instructions that I could not process while watching for pedestrians.
Then, the glass of my passenger side window flew across my face.
I yelled, ‘I’m disabled.' at the hands grabbing at me.
An agent said, ‘Too late.'
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2026-02-06 21:37:36 CET

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"On January 13th, on the way to my 39th appointment at Hennepin County’s Traumatic Brain Injury Center, I encountered a traffic jam caused by ICE vehicles and no signs indicating how to get around it.
I had not wanted to pull into a blocked, chaotic intersection, but verbally agreed to do so and rolled down my window after an agent yelled:
‘Move! I will break your f•ing window!’
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2026-02-06 21:37:06 CET

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"And while what the world saw happened to me exactly 3 weeks ago today, on video, was a terrible violation - it is still nothing compared to the horrific practices I saw inside the Whipple Center.
So, I am here today with a duty to the people who have not had the privilege of coming home. And I offer this data, because these practices must end now.
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2026-02-06 21:34:14 CET

Aliya Rahman's statement after being abducted by ICE.
The transcript is in the posts below (courtesy of Jenny Carter on FB).
If you watch it, at the link below (it's on Instagram), I should mention I was crying by the end of her statement.
🧵⬇️
#Autistic #Neurodivergent #ICE #Fascism #Democracy #Racism #Minnesota #Trump #ActuallyAutistic (me) #BlackLivesMatter #Disabled
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2026-01-24 10:06:03 CET

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Apparently not 🤷‍♀️
Rather like we don't have the 'right' kind of empathy*
*I've just written an article about this because of studying power structures, and realizing how closely empathy (or social intuition) relates to that stuff!
@npub19v8…gsx7

2026-01-24 08:26:02 CET

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Exactly!!
What prompted me to ask this question was a Facebook post by Naomi Fischer, she's basically saying what you're saying...
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17xKsSdyr8/
And I started wondering about imagination more generally. I think the idea we don't have any - or limited - might be a great deal to do with societal expectations.

2026-01-24 08:08:06 CET

One of the current diagnostic criteria for autism is a lack of imagination.
Would you say you lack imagination?
Whatever way you answer, I'd love to hear more detail - if you've time & inclination.
Reposts also appreciated ☺️
#AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic #Diagnosis #Neurodivergent

2025-12-11 20:02:18 CET

** Convenient myths **
Myth no. 1:
🚸 That children must be harshly disciplined to become decent, polite, kind people (it's actually the opposite).
Myth no. 2:
👹 That humans are naturally lazy, selfish beasts who, if they were kindly & gently treated from birth, would be monsters.
Myth no. 3:
🤷 That autistic people are terrible at communicating properly, so allistic people have to be very patient and accommodating with them.
A little thread 🧵
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#Childhood #ActuallyAutistic

2025-11-15 18:12:52 CET

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While if you don’t have a doghouse at all (instead having more understanding and compassion towards others and yourself) you don’t need to be so scared.
You can be honest, instead.
That way lies self-awareness.
Growth. And connection.
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2025-11-15 18:11:51 CET

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A hard and fast rule becomes: never admit fault, never confess to a mistake – not even to yourself. Never make yourself vulnerable. Always be right – and if the evidence suggests you’re not, say you’re right anyway.
If you’ve got a doghouse, with anyone in there (even if it’s Caligula, or Hitler, or so), then conceptually you’re being faithful to to the ‘blame and punishment’ model.
Given the right circumstances, you yourself, or your most loved people, could end up in there.
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2025-11-15 18:11:25 CET

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We maybe punish with judgemental words, ridicule, harsh criticism. Often against them personally.
What they look like, how they talk, how stupid or evil they are – and maybe unnecessary details e.g. about their personal or family lives.
Only that the more punishment people receive, the more they hunker down.
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2025-11-15 18:08:52 CET

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Me: “Who are evil, you mean?”
Them: “Well, yes.”
Me: “I’m afraid I don’t believe in that, either.”
Them: “Why am I not surprised?”
We both laugh. End of conversation.
Let’s pick this apart a bit:
We tend to equate blame with responsibility, and punishment with prevention. But the outcomes are very different.
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2025-11-15 18:08:27 CET

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Me: “I’d be really surprised if at this point in your life you went that way. But anyone who believes in blame and punishment is, yes, I think, more likely to do things like that that someone who doesn’t believe in them at all.”
Them: “Thanks for that (laughing). Well, I think you’re right for most people and situations, but… no… (shaking their head) for me there are just some people who are beyond the pale.”
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2025-11-15 18:08:05 CET

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Me (cont'd): "Plus, I think a major and necessary ingredient for lacking empathy and (for example) going on to commit terrible acts like genocide is… um… believing in blame!”
Them: “Are you saying I’m the kind of person who might go on to commit genocide?” (mock serious)
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2025-11-15 18:07:03 CET

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Them: “But what about people who are responsible for genocides, are you saying they aren’t to blame for it? They should be held to account.”
Me: “Well, it’s not like they land one day from Outer Space in front of a sign that says, ‘this way genocide; that way no genocide.’ There’s, like, a context. Of course I’d want to stop them from doing any more bad things, but it would be purely preventative. Not punishment.”
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2025-11-15 18:06:02 CET

"We’re gonna have to face it, we’re addicted to blame."
My sister just described a conversation she had with a friend. It struck me it was almost identical to one I also had recently with a friend.
It was about the role of blame in our society. It went a bit like this:
Me: “I don’t believe in blame.”
Them: “Me neither. Oh, except for, like, really bad people.”
Me: “Like who?” (laughing a bit)
Them: “Well, Trump, Elon Musk, Liz Truss, people like that.”
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2025-10-25 13:10:16 CEST

"Who should pay?"
CW: controversial.
Many men are poor. But women, as a group taken together, are poorer. And this is true in all countries in the world, not just those known for gendered oppression.
If you’re a man who’s interested in having more connection & understanding, I think it's important to consciously know this, “I am richer, in money terms, as a man, than most women are.”
(Refs at the end)
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#Poverty #Patriarchy #Women #Relationships #Money #Feminism

2025-10-12 20:14:17 CEST

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And btw, 💓💔🫂
It must be terrifying, and horrible... I'm so sorry for your situation 😐
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2025-10-11 22:53:44 CEST

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All this said, it's true that once a dictatorship is in place there's no taxing them out of power - obviously.
That's why I feel we ought to move on this stuff... before it's too late.
@npub1tju…ladn

2025-10-11 12:41:25 CEST

Just a 2% wealth tax on the world’s richest 3,000 billionaires could raise $250 billion every year, enough to save lives, protect ecosystems, & fund a just transition to a greener future.
Ramaphosa has set the stage. His G20 presidency theme, “Solidarity, Equality and Sustainability”, puts justice to the fore. He’s launched a task force on wealth inequality & economic disparities. A billionaire tax could 'seal the deal':
https://act.sumofus.org/go/734830?t=10&akid=153805%2E15669379%2EE6bhRf
#Environment #TaxTheRich #Billionaires

2025-09-21 07:52:12 CEST

I relate to this.
Anyone else out there 'hardworking and quiet'?
And.. yes:
"Why don't we just start using words to communicate so I can stop tracking everyone's eyebrow twitches, that would be great."
#Autism #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic
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2025-09-16 23:10:06 CEST

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1. Autistic people have often been conditioned since infancy to regularly go well outside our comfort zones (whether socially or in sensory ways), and to not complain about it.
How is one to then know that *some* of those uncomfortable things are socially not acceptable, or even illegal? 🤷‍♀️
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2025-07-19 23:47:46 CEST

What she said 💟 👇
#equality #genderequality #womensrights #feminism #patriarchy #financialabuse
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2025-06-21 20:12:40 CEST

I'm looking for a theoretical physicist - also a student, or indeed anyone with a large knowledge in this subject area.
My specific question, at this moment, is about the second law of thermodynamics and entropy, but I'll have more questions.
I'd be very grateful for someone to chat with about these things.
Reboosts also very appreciated! 😊
#Physics #Science

2025-05-13 18:31:15 CEST

What does power do to humans?
A little insight into our psychology.
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#Psychology #Power #Leadership #Politics #Monopoly

2025-05-05 21:10:31 CEST

#LateDiagnosedAutistic #Neurodivergent #Autistic
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2024-12-26 01:29:05 CET

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Is all this burgeoning right-wing ideology around the rights of women (i.e. that we shouldn't really have any), in all walks of life and in all places in the world…
…de facto just another part of a grand money making scheme?
🤔😳
💰💰💰
15/15
#Wealth #GlobalEconomy #Billionaires #Monopoly #FarRight

2024-12-26 01:27:39 CET

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But back to demographics.
Women have more children when they have no choices, are dependent, and are poor (in rights, education, and financially).
13/15
#Demographics #Children

2024-12-26 01:27:04 CET

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It would also explain:
a) Why schools put so much pressure on children to compete & ‘succeed’
b) Why the authorities don't much like putting resources into #disabled & #autistic kids (where's the ROI?).
12/15
#School #Education

2024-12-26 01:25:54 CET

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Mm so ensuring people pay privately for raising children…
… but that the money those kids later generate (as taxpayers, consumers, workers, suppliers etc) will go into the system…
… is a savvy (if not 100% logical) move. 🤨
11/15

2024-12-26 01:25:21 CET

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… but other people are actively benefitting, economically. Salaries, pensions, a functioning system, carers when they're old… etc… etc.
Collectively, we deride & exploit (or allow exploitation of) main-carer parents.
While benefiting directly from their labor.
😥
10/15
#Patriarchy #Exploitation #Oppression

2024-12-26 01:24:39 CET

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So… let me get this straight.
Not only are parents (esp. single ones) derided, gaslit, poor… looked down upon by society while doing very arduous & difficult work...
9/15
#SingleParent #Parenting

2024-12-26 01:23:42 CET

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One person answered my thread on “ten reasons why parents should be paid” using the phrase, “ROI”.
“Return on Investment.”
💰💰💰
7/15
#Banking #Economics

2024-12-26 01:21:59 CET

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Elon repeatedly says about women that they ‘should be moms’.
Though he doesn't quite seem as interested in them getting salaries (nor indeed child support) as I am. 🤔
4/15
#Parenting #Mothers

2024-12-10 10:00:36 CET

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Money
Stated aim: Making exchange of goods & services easier. Rewarding people for providing things of value.
Hidden aim: Pushing wealth towards the already wealthy. Maintaining power structures. Domination, compliance from those with less. To perpetuate/exacerbate inequities.
#Capitalism #InterestBearingDebt
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2024-12-10 09:59:51 CET

Subject: Outcomes vs intentions.
When you look at outcomes of things, I think you get a clearer idea what their real aims may be…
More about outcomes vs intentions here: https://mas.to/@KatyElphinstone/113629409658149829
A thread 🧵
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#Hierarchy #Capitalism #Inequity #Poverty #Discrimination
#Oppression #Exploitation
#ActuallyAutistic

2024-12-04 06:49:25 CET

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Ditto for me. School was not the best environment for learning, I found. It was much too anxiety provoking, and too noisy and chaotic.
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2024-11-30 04:06:20 CET

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Do you mean AI could write it?
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2024-11-29 11:43:45 CET

Self diagnosis.
Or, as it's increasingly known, 'self identifying' as autistic.
What does the autistic community think about it?
A short thread 🧵
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#AskingAutistics
#Autism #Diagnosis #ASD #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD

2024-10-18 14:23:26 CEST

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Exactly. People seem to adore 'simplicity' ...lack of nuance or other perspectives.
I wonder if it's something about the patriarchal system whereby it's better to be (loudly) totally wrong and ignorant, than to ever admit any doubt about anything.
Hang on...I saw a meme I loved:
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/328/403/636/311/424/original/f84a4d8d3e01c181.jpg

2024-10-13 23:30:14 CEST

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Aw so much ditto!
It would just be so.... hypocritical. 😂
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2024-10-13 10:18:22 CEST

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6. ‘Inadequate’ school attendance.
Otherwise known as, “Not being willing to drag your child to school by their hair,"
Or, “Not standing by to watch your child gradually disappear into a lonely pit of distress, hopelessness, agony, and despair.”
#NotFineAtSchool

2024-10-13 10:15:47 CEST

Nine things parents are encouraged to think are all their fault.
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#Parenting #ActuallyAutistic #UnpaidCarers