Do other autists feel their driving is influenced by their autism? Driving up to the speed limit, but not over (as long as conditions allow), trying to stay exactly between lane markers, indicating (in time or distance) precisely when you should before a turn? Basically following rules to the letter?
#Autism #autistic #neurodiverse @autistics #ActuallyAutistic
El oso y la luna de hoy 🐻🌕
(The big farm bear enchanted by today's moon)
#farm #farming #rural_life #rural #naturism #farmbear #aspie #autistic
@RavenLuni @strypey Another thing to keep in mind: although collapsing all the complexity of the #autistic #spectrum to the simplicity of a gradient is, in itself, relatively innocent sloppiness of thinking, there is a horrifically toxic ideology that aggressively pushes that collapse because such an oversimplification serves its malign agenda. I'm referring to the "severe autism" ideology, which maintains that all the various components of autism are tightly linked and cannot appreciably vary separately. This is the ideology behind the "high-functioning" and "low-functioning" labels. Having collapsed the autistic spectrum to a gradient, they would like to draw a cutoff for minimum significant "severity", and thus collapse the gradient further, to a dichotomy: those with insufficient "severity" are just high-functioning lifestylers who are Not Really Autistic, are just self-pitying introverts, don't really need much help, and are insufficiently appreciative of the suffering of all those poor autism moms who are stuck with their low-functioning Really Autistic, severely intellectually disabled kids — who, ironically, also don't need that much help, because they're inherently incapable of benefiting from most kinds of help. Resources should instead be devoted to making the lives of autism moms easier — and, above all, to discovering the Causes of Autism, so that any further Really Autistic children can be prevented from being born.
THAT is the kind of thinking whose purposes are served by oversimplifying the autistic spectrum into a gradient.
@RavenLuni @strypey Actually, the term "spectrum" becomes even more appropriate for autism when properly understood. It isn't just a gradient. It's like a vector, but continuous rather than discrete. And instead of being completely independent and orthogonal like the components of a vector, the components of a #spectrum are related and overlapping. Think of all the information conveyed by the emission or absorption spectrum of a chemical element. An #autistic neurotype is like that.
Joined Vinted to try this circular economy of clothing but I fear my dopamine-seeking brain is getting addicted.
It feels so good selling clothes I no longer want and then buying with my earnings. And I am only buying within my own country so no air millage to keep it green.
Perhaps my #Autistic brain needs rules around scrolling times to manage the #ADHD side of the brain 🤔
In August 2025, the #ArtificialIntelligence and the Rights of #Autistic People (#AIRA) project presented a workshop at the #Autscape conference, discussing advocacy topics with the audience of autistic people from the UK and other countries. This video shows some highlights from the workshop presentation by Willow Holloway and from a discussion on designing practical learning assignments, as well as comments from workshop participants.
AIRA is a three-year project (2023-2026) by the European Council of Autistic People (#EUCAP), funded by the European AI & Society Fund. Autscape is a founding member organisation of EUCAP.
#autistic #rumination :
i have a difficult time describing things without having very specific idea in mind (i think i might have partial #aphantasia )....i was trying to describe to my therapist what i felt like during autistic rumination. the best analogy i could come up with is:
when i was a teenager, i had a lot of male friends who were very open about stuff with me (makes sense since i am #genderqueer / #nonbinary )...but they would tell me about looking at porno mags (its was the mid 90s GEEZ) and rotating the pictures around to see more of anything.
its *extremely* childish to think that you could see more nudity if you rotated a 2 dimensional picture but thinking about it now, a memory is a linear and flat thing. no matter how much you rotate it or turn it around or look really closely, it stays the same unless you have more information. without more information, all you can do is rotate the memory over and over trying to find something else until, well, youve been up for 72 hours thinking about the same thing (and this doesnt happen to me anymore because drugs).
i guess i could have used the rubic's cube metaphor but this story is more fun to tell.
Oh this is such a cute little video about our quirky MUNI public transit system here in #SanFrancisco. Not to get all sterotypical about train stuff, but this is like the best #autistic content I've found all week (no idea what the creators' neurotypes are, but it definitely speaks to me). #ActuallyAutistic
I am doing a more in-depth follow up to my 2024 survey into Autistic Language Preferences.
Please could you take some time to do this survey and help me build a robust data set?
https://forms.gle/AZdHomZDnHBLj5sZ6
#ActuallyAutistic #autism #AutismLanguage #AutisticRights #Autistic @actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy
The aim of this survey is to gather the preferences of both Autistic and non-Autistic people for language when talking about autism. The aim follow up on the data collection conducted during 2024 with some expansion of the questions being asked. None of your personal information will be published, all results and quotes will be anonymous, and your data is protected under GDPR.
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