It’s almost the middle of April and I’ve barely noticed that it’s ’Autism Awareness Month’! 😊

It’s so nice to breathe the fresh air of the plains where the mastodon roam rather than the stale air of the blue bird’s sewer 😉

Anyway, I thought I’d share a short blog post from last April (in which I suggest that ‘autism’ is better thought of as derived from ‘Autistic’ rather than the other way round) 

https://transponderings.blog/2022/04/28/are-you-aprilness-aware/

#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #autism #AutisticAcceptanceMonth

Thinking of a podcast on Autistic Time...

It started as a comment on the Muskrat site. But folks started writing me anbout it. So I thought...

Why not?

Possible illustration. Bob Pepper of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" inspiration. There's detail about the image in the #AltText.

Here's the nugget of the thread that started the convo...👇👇👇

I'm autistic...

I don't measure time by the clock...

Or the distance between events...

I seem to measure time by the quality of my experience...

Nothing more.

And when I re-experience something ... time collapses. As if there were no time between similar experiences.

When I see a friend after years?

No time has passed. Joy just flows.

When I'm bored? Time stops flowing. Maybe even reverses. It's hell...

@actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd
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Morning sensory disregulation - when I wake up but my brain is still half asleep & my body feels far away and numb.

It takes me a few hours every day to get going.

As a kid I thought more sleep was the answer and sometimes would refuse to get out of bed.
Ht~ Neurodivergent Rebel
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