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Dear friends,

It brings me joy... maybe even a mixture of queer joy and autistic joy ( :joy: ) to announce the creation of two new events at the MoCo Pride Center in Bethesda, MD.

The first event is a neuroqueer meeting group. This is an event in which we will discuss how our conditions affect our lives. I'm going to be the facilitator of the event.

The second event is a board game event that happens right after the neuroqueer event. I'm also managing this event.

Here is the neuroqueer meeting group event:

https://www.mocopridefamily.org/events/neuroqueer-meeting-group

Here is the board game event. (Note that there is no way to currently register to this event. The page sends you to Meetup.com and Mobilizon, but that's a mistake. I'm not responsible for publicity. I did tell the folks responsible, but it hasn't been fixed yet. They seem to just have copied the ad for another board game event that I'm also hosting at the center. 🤦 )

https://www.mocopridefamily.org/events/gfghled92vvbdlbvcp7xmwx62q3x9e-z3jfm-23mdl-lb8hz-r4jfy-x8nc6-t5r7m-ezm54-shkhb-752k9

#NeuroqueerMeetings #neuroqueer #BoardGames #queer #neurodivergent

If you get inspired and start on your own spiritual journey, please take heed: lots of grifters out there cashing in people's desperation. Or even, well-meaning teachers who cause damage by making vulnerable people even more so. Those of us socialised women, neurodivergent, queer, we need encouragement to be more assertive, to stand up for ourselves. 1-3

#ActuallyAuDHD #ActuallyADHD #buddhist #ActuallyAutistic #spirituality #Buddhism #NeuroQueer #queer #AFAB

Weird Pride is a practice of becoming. A refusal to shrink. A quiet, feral devotion to staying alive as ourselves in a world that keeps trying to make us something else.
#AutisticRhizome #Neuroqueering #Neuroqueer #WeirdPride #LiminalSpaces

https://autisticrealms.com/weird-pride-in-a-hostile-world/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

I haven't actually written about gender stuff here in a while, I'm realizing. 😅

When I first came out, I did a ton of reading about labels and landed on "agender." My felt sense of gender was a whisper most of the time, and I felt it was more important to me to focus on being myself than to try to conform to a particular part of the gender binary. Even my early transition goals were reflective of this: I remember wanting to avoid breast growth entirely when I first started fHRT.

These days, I feel like the "agender" label is fitting me less. I have boobs, and I *like* that I have them. I haven't made drastic changes to my wardrobe, but I've absolutely added more femme touches. That sense of gender is much louder than it was before, even if it still doesn't feel like it fits cleanly into the binary.

Where does that leave me?

The word "queer" has been a much more regular part of my vocabulary since coming out, and the idea of "queering"—of pushing back on norms when they don't fit—has been a consistent part of my adventure. With respect to gender, then, "genderqueer" is probably the best fitting label for me these days. (I'm very certainly queer in other ways too; I've adopted Nick Walker's "neuroqueer" to describe my neurodivergence, and am certainly some flavor of relationship-queer.)

Anyhow, if you see me using "agender" a lot less going forward, now you know why. ☺️

#agender #genderqueer #neuroqueer

Today I have confirmed that I am in fact a cis woman and a trans woman. At the same time!!! (I'm intersex. 😜)

#Intersex #TransAndIntersex #XXY #Mosaicism #Tetrachromacy #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #NeuroQueer #Xennial #Latina #Endosexism

Lo he leído hoy:

Es posible nacer neurodivergente, pero no es posible nacer neurotípique. La neurotipicidad es un modo de comportamiento normativo inculcado socialmente, y no es más innato que el comportamiento de un rol de género heteronormativo. Y al igual que el comportamiento heteronormativo de género, se puede queerear a la neurotipicidad; une puede subvertir el comportamiento y liberar el cuerpomente (y liberar las relaciones, las actividades, los espacios y, en última instancia, las culturas) de las restricciones de la normatividad. Desde una perspectiva neuroqueer, esto es una excelente noticia, ya que significa que nadie está biológicamente condenade a una vida normal.

Nick Walker: A Horizon of Possibility: Some Notes on Neuroqueer Theory. En: Neuroqueer Heresies. Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities.

#queer #neuroqueer #neurodiversidad

We're writing a lot lately.
Most of it for self-employment.

Not all of our writing fits into that bucket.
So we created another space:
https://neuroqueer.systems/

A public integration space.
Writing for us.
Writing for sense-making.
Writing for self-regulation.

Topics?
Tech.
Language.
Attachment.
Systems modeling.
And anything else this #AuDHD #plural system cooks up.

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Unpolished.
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#Writing #Newsletter #weird #neuroqueer #neuroqueering #SelfCare

This week on my #neuroqueer newsletter, Hello Computer.

I've been on #ADHD meds for 2 years. Has it helped? Did they cause #MECFS?

Read and subscribe - https://pete.news/hellocomputer/podcast/2-years-of-taking-adhd-medication/