Mastodawn

1,310 to go now 🥺 thank you so much again.
My brain is fried hhh idek what else to say except that I really appreciate you all. I genuinely wanted to give up today.

But then I remembered how US empire and its fave settler project keep sucking the life out of the entire planet… and somehow that gives me spite-fuel to keep going. Idk what the correlation is, but apparently I refuse to tap out before those systems crumble.

Anyway, pls help however you can, even just by amplifying my plea 🥹

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Ari "Two Holidays" Jackson 9h ago

Getting a little bit obsessed with #chess!

Even though I had asked a few people in the past to teach me, every single one of them got instantly aggressive about it and said that I wouldn't like playing with them. So, I never learned.

I started playing a few weeks back on Duolingo because I was tired of practicing Spanish, and yesterday I won the Diamond league. Again.

I'm now continuing to grind at chess to keep my status there. It looks like I'll have to grind for three weeks because I am now in some kind of Duolingo tournament? I don't know.

But trying to keep the "DHD" side of my #AuDHD interested in something for three weeks is going to be quite the task.

So, I got a paperback book of 125 of what are supposed to be the world's greatest chess games. I played the first one by myself today to try to figure it out. It was played in 1834!

Since I'm so very new to chess, it took me a little bit to figure out the nomenclature and the end move, because the book didn't diagram it, and it also didn't say what it was.

The book I got is clearly *not* for beginners, but when I dive in, I dive into the deep end.

I have some other paper resources (for beginners!) and a magnetic chessboard on the way, because earlier today, the kittens knocked over my tiny magnetic board and one of my dogs ate one of the rooks. I couldn't find it! It's small enough that it should pass through without problem, though. She has eaten worse.

So, the only complete chessboard I had was this non-magnetic wooden one that I can't leave set up because the kittens will also destroy it, and if they knock pieces onto the floor, the dog will chew on them. After I took this picture, I did mark the rows.

I played the 1834 game twice and figured out it must have been a black pawn promotion to d1 (capturing the white rook) that trapped the white king behind his own pawns at h1. Wow!

I'm hoping that moving my learning into the physical world rather than just staying on the phone screen will help keep me motivated, and that eventually I will find an actual human being to play with. I'm not too fussed about that, though. There's plenty to do right now without another human being in the picture.

Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach 13h ago

If you want some neurodivergent and neuro-positive book recommendations, here are my favorites, ranging from fiction, to sensory advice, to autobiographies, to ways to dissolve internalized ableism.

You can find all of them at: https://www.autismchrysalis.com/book-recommendations/

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Autistic #Neurodiversity #Neurodiverse

Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach 16h ago

When you first came across something about autism and thought it might have something to do with you, you didn’t have all of the information that you would eventually need to identify with this term. It took some time.

When you tell someone you’re autistic, they likely haven’t had that time or the information yet. They also need time to process this.

#unmasking #ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #Neurodiversity #AuDHD

PatternChaser 17h ago

#Autism
#ADHD
#AuDHD
#neurodiversity
💡 #weirdos 💡

Shine brightly!!! 😃

PatternChaser 17h ago

RE: https://10base2.dev/@monkeyninja/115682389807062974

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#neurodiversity

😂

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PatternChaser 17h ago

@simon_brooke I agree with most of what you say, but over-stating our case leads to the unwashed masses ignoring what's been said. 😢

E.g. I spent 40+ years as a Software Designer, and I can attest that we (autists or NDers) are not in the "majority". The "majority" of humans are allistic, even in software or architecture.

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#AuDHD
#neurodiversity