Andy Incarnate (He / Him)Soooooo..... Today I woke up an hour earlier than usual, thinking it was my usual waking time. Didn't notice for over an hour. While doing my lists I found a lovely name for a tune and bought an English-Latin Latin-English dictionary. For context, I only did two years of Latin at school when I was 10yo, was never any good at it, and dropped it as soon as I could.
HeartkeyOn a separate but kind of related note to my most recent post, Entrapta from SPOP has been genuinely good for me.
Thinking of "What Would Entrapta Do" has literally helped me move past moments I'd normally ruminate on to a self-destructive level. Her ability to simply be herself, do her own thing, and find joy in it so frequently, is something that (after a lot of work) I've been able to start emulating more. Joy over shame.
Even if only a bit for now.
I'm getting there. 
Annette C. Boehmthe light was good on yesterday's walk so here is some handsome lichen on tree bark.
Vi ZzyzxA moment of neurodivergent joy; I’ve got my (also neurodivergent) dad hooked on taiyaki ice cream.
🤣 I may need to buy more than one case of them at Costco on my next trip, he’s going through them so quick. At least he’s been leaving my the red bean ones #ActuallyAutistic #autisticJoy
AUTSCAPEDear Autscape attendees and allies,
We at Autscape are very happy to announce that registration for #OnlineAutscape2026 “Evolving Autistic Space Online” is now open!
The event will run from 6th to 8th February. We will be using Zoom webinars for the presentations and a dedicated Discord server for our social space.
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/
### Tickets ###
To book your ticket, please visit:
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/registration
### Programme ###
We're very proud of our incredible line-up of presenters! Please have a look:
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/presenters
We are particularly grateful to stand-up poet, spoken word artist, broadcaster and neurodivergent advocate Kate Fox (known from BBC Radio 4 and the Glastonbury Festival, among others), who graciously volunteered time in her busy schedule to give a creative writing workshop entitled “Radical self-acceptance through creative writing and reading”.
The main programme schedule is now ready as well:
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/schedule
Not listed there are informal discussions and activities; these may be announced later, or even organised on the spot at the event.
### Spread the word! ###
If you have the time, please help us spread the word by boosting this post and forwarding it anyone you think might be interested. It can also be very effective to forward it to organisations and professionals who work with autistic people, so they can show it to their clients (and attend themselves if they wish, of course: Autscape is autistic space, but everyone is welcome).
We hope to see many of you there!
On behalf of the Online Autscape organising team and the Autscape board,
Martijn Dekker
Acting chair, The Autscape Organisation
#Autscape #ActuallyAutistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #autism #AutisticSpace #AutisticJoy #autistic #conference
Three Good Things:
1) learned now to fix a mistake in my knitting
2) starting on season 3 rewatching Eureka
3) fresh oranges
Ellis C. A. Arcwolf (Author)Some neurotypical person may have to explain to me why the socially acceptable thing to do when someone calls you pretentious is to checks notes say thank you and lick their boot.
I'm autistic, so as we all know, I struggle to understand "common sense" things like that and am eager to learn so that I can be included in this delusionally toxic society of ours.
Some of that was likely sarcasm.
Things to keep in mind:
- If you're a woman, and someone calls you manipulative, they're afraid of the only power they've allowed you to keep.
- If you're an autist, and someone calls you pretentious, they are forcing you to do emotional labor to protect them, your attacker, from their own insecurity.
Never accept as feedback what is intended as abuse.
#SocialEngineering #BoundarySetting #EmotionalLabor #Sociology #Ontology #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiversity #AutisticJoy #DoubleEmpathyProblem #Masking #IntersectionalFeminism #PowerDynamics #Assertiveness #InternalizedMisogyny
AutisticRealmsI’m so excited to share the Neuroaffirming Advent Calendar I created with Lisa Chapman! 🎄🐧
Each day opens a window into Helping you build your own Autism-affirming library. #Neurodiversity #AutisticJoy #Autism #AdventCalendar
K.J. Elphinstone
[a]mayz[ing]’s gazeYesterday I got to see a former poetry slammer - now comedian, whose career I have followed for over 10 years live for the first time.
When I got the ticket in January I was overjoyed. But the closer the date got, the more apprehensive I got. I was so scared to be hyped because I know how the saying goes. “Never meet your idols, you might get very disappointed very quickly.”
In the last couple of years he disclosed his own late-diagnosed neurodivergence as an AuDHDer and made it a bigger topic in his art.
He was one of the most influential poetry slammers who inspired me to start writing my own texts. I knew several texts by heart and honestly, I still know many passages of texts even now.
The hesitant tiny bouncy flapp flapps started when we arrived at the venue and I when the program was just so fucking amazing I spent all of the break bouncing up and down outside because I was overflowing with joy.
I laughed more and harder then the last couple of month combined.
After the show he gave autogramms and I swear my brain short circuited.
No words, just a shitton of happy chemicals. Bouncing up and down in front of him, hands flapping, a completely unmasked version of me.
I got a bit self-conscious when I heard people cooing behind me afterwards and I am still unsure how I feel about it.
During his performance he made some points that to me sounded like back-references to an old text of his and I just loudly blurted out a phrase from one of his former poetry slam texts from freaking 10 years ago. He immediately got the reference and was taken aback, even though he also looked happy and shocked. When the other people applauded after the show I made a finger heart and he saw it made one back.
I cannot put into words how happy all of this made me. I will forever treasure this.
The point I originally wanted to make was, how annoying it is that not only the big sad feelings but also the big happy feelings are exhausting.
But now I’m just happy all over again, having written this.
Brain is a mess in both good and bad ways.
#AuDHD #actuallyautistic #specialinterest #autisticJoy @autistics @actuallyadhd