Jon ParkJust re-watching Marvel's Defenders...
Matt Murdock: We need this place to look closed… I still hear neon.
Luke Cage: Who hears neon?!
Every #actuallyAutistic person watching:
K.J. ElphinstoneThe Deficit-Trauma Loop ➰
1. Autistic trait exists.
2. The trait is socially inconvenient or misunderstood.
3. The person is corrected, punished, excluded, shamed, or unsupported.
4. Trauma, anxiety, masking, burnout, or co-occurring difficulties develop.
5. The resulting distress is read as autism alone.
6. The diagnosis/deficit story is reinforced.
7. More pressure is applied to reduce the autistic trait.
8. The person is further harmed (PTSD etc.).
9. They exhibit increasingly more distress and less ‘functioning’.
10. Conclusion: “Autism is simply a disorder.”
AUTSCAPEAn #Autscape2026 presenter highlight: Courtney Ward will deliver a writing workshop based on the topic of understanding and caring for our neurodivergent selves, changing perspectives from society’s point of view and gaining a voice within our selves and for others. More at: https://www.autscape.org/2026/programme/presentations#courtney
Registration is open until 14th July! #Autscape is an in-person residential event, organised for and by autistics (but open to all who are willing to respect our #AutisticSpace), that's on from 17th to 20th August (with optional extra day) at High Leigh conference centre in Hertfordshire. Visit https://www.autscape.org/ for all the information.
(Background art by @lauratje86)
#Autscape #ActuallyAutistic #autistic #autism #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #conference #retreat
Pete OrrallAs an #actuallyautistic #human I often listen to the same song on repeat....for long periods of time. I find it really helps regulate my nervous system.
Today at work I listened to this gem all day. From 0700 to 1600. Predictable, pleasant, and oddly soothing. I was super productive.
Who else does this and what's your go-to music?
oompa loompa 1 hour loop
Heather Cook🖖Autistic CoachIn burnout recovery, sometimes you'll have more time and sometimes you'll have more money. Depending on which you've got, you can make different types of changes—but there are possibilities either way. (I'm assuming in either case, you have no energy.) 1/4
#AutisticBurnout #BurnoutRecovery #Burnout #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD
The Autistic Writer
Alexis BushnellVery proud of myself this evening. I pushed past all my self prescribed rules and requirements to solo some #LegendInTheMist in a way that's accessible for me at the moment.
Instead of being all "I should make notes. I should not use screens. I should read the text myself." I instead didn't make any notes, used Foundry VTT, and used my text to speech program to read stuff to me so it's easier for me to parse.
Vi ZzyzxWaiting with dad for one of his appointments and there is one of those terrible buzzes/hums that just thrashes my #ActuallyAutistic brain
🫠🫣 this is worse than loud boomers
Weary Wulf[P] And if we're being egomaniacal enough to suggest that humanity is worth that kind of trip? Interstellar travellers would just say hi. This very human-flavoured belief that they'd travel inconceivable distances just to take part in badly managed clandestine ops is really quite silly. They'd have to be very bored and too dumb to fashion a means of interstellar travel. So it's too unlikely to be worth considerog.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #uap #aliens #hellonevadaiwannaseeayleeyuns
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[P] I've apoken prior that UAPs are a bunch of nonsense. They sit somewhere between a young nation's desire for mythology and the cold war era fetish for propaganda objects. I'm not some genius, it's just a matter of statistics. For anyone that could travel great distances, there's nothing useful or interesting around here for many lightyears, one could do better elsewhere. There's nothing special here at all.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #uap #aliens #hellonevadaiwannaseeayleeyuns
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