When I started Mindfully Divergent i had a simple idea in mind; how could I connect with the community and collectively work towards honouring our own needs in a world that tells us to ignore them.
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A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other neurodevelopmental diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
https://www.propublica.org/article/covid-pregnancy-risk-autism-study-cdc?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
Ana Cloudy tells their story of how late-diagnosis of autism impacted their life.
A raw and honest account of a world that should have done better.
https://www.davidgrayhammond.co.uk/p/ana-cloudy-harrowing-impacts-of-a
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Gift link if you're interested in understanding why nothing you can say matters to a devout anti-vaxxer. #vaccines #autism .
"I Went to an Anti-Vaccine Conference. Medicine Is in Trouble."
“What he was doing is called testimony,” she said. Testimony, in the tradition she grew up in, is “speaking the story of how you came to your truth, and how it helped you find your life’s purpose,” she explained. It’s about achieving catharsis, community and a calling all at once.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/opinion/children-health-defense-kennedy.html?smid=url-share
YouTube has some good recommendations for ppl watching #ThePrimeagen
Do you ever feel like a lot of conflict and controversy could be avoided if everyone was more clear about what they mean?
With other neurodivergents, I feel like we explain what we mean in more detail. If not that, the other one recognizes the lacking detail, asks about it, and it gets cleared up. When I talk to neurotypicals, or read or hear them discuss among themselves, this doesn’t happen as much. When I ask, it’s often seen as rude. Here’s some examples of what I mean: There’s a lot of ackshually, x is a fruit/berry/not a berry/ etc. When in fact, the terms each have two definitions: a culinary one and a botanical one. A strawberry is a berry in the culinary sense, but not the botanical one. A tomato is a fruit in the botanical sense, but not the culinary one. Ive repeatedly been called a know-it-all for bringing this up, and ironically usually by the person correcting others by saying, eg., a tomato is a fruit. ‘Do(n’t) you trust me?’ I may 100% trust your intentions, but I don’t 100% trust your judgment. This has nothing to do with you; I never 100% trust anyone’s judgment, including my own. This happens the other way around, too, when I ask someone for feedback about a decision I’m making, and they say they trust me and thus won’t give input. Like, thank you for trusting my intentions, but I don’t want you to blindly trust my judgment. That’s why I’m asking for feedback. Another one is respect. Sometimes, to respect someone means to accept them as an authority figure, and sometimes it means to treat them with basic human dignity. It’s hardly ever specified which it is. I could go on here, so please feel free to add your own, I’m curious! Do you also find this to be an issue with as well as among neurotypicals or am I way off here? Thanks for you replies!
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"autism4autism relationships are the best because autistic people communicate with each other in a way no allistic person ever could" no autism4autism is you & your partner screeching most bizarre & unnerving vocal stims at each other until one of you loses the will to live
(jk autism4autism4eva)
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