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Emily Moran Barwick [archived]May 21, 2025

Hey. I don’t know how to share this here. I don't know how to "frame" it for Mastodon...

But I want to share it. Because I know other people out there hurt. I know how isolating it is.

So, this isn't snappy & well-packaged. But neither am I. And neither is pain.

I hope this somehow helps someone feel less alone in their pain: https://fromemily.com/open-letter-to-my-body-and-public-apology/

@actuallyautistic

#ChronicIllness #HealthCare #ChronicPain #spoonie #ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #blog #writing #MentalHealth #FromEmily

An Open Letter to My Body (and an Apology to the Public)

This is a post in two parts. One to my body, and one to you.

...from Emily Moran Barwick

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Bernie Luckily Does It May 23, 2025

@EmilyMoranBarwick @actuallyautistic

Quote:
At my core, I'm still the little five-year-old who cried herself to sleep thinking of all the injustices and suffering in this world—asking to take it all into her tiny little body if it would bring relief to everyone else.

Relatable. So very relatable. And not just to me. One of my mini mes is this way too.

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Emily Moran Barwick [archived]May 23, 2025

@BernieDoesIt

Yet further examples of how many #ActuallyAutistic people are hyper-empathetic to a debilitating degree…

…and how perversely absurd and damaging the conception that “#Autistic people lack empathy” has been and continues to be…

@actuallyautistic

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Sean C.May 24, 2025

@EmilyMoranBarwick @BernieDoesIt @actuallyautistic article on point

https://neuroclastic.com/autistic-people-care-too-much-research-says/

Autistic People Care Too Much, Research Says

A research article concluded that autistic people cared too much about others, citing inflexibility to be an issue by following moral code even when individual gains are high. In my personal opinio…

NeuroClastic

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Miakoda

May 24, 2025

@filmfreak75 @EmilyMoranBarwick @BernieDoesIt @actuallyautistic I've only read a paragraph thus far - it points out what I already knew. Autistic people are more likely to be exactly who they show themselves to be in public. Everyone has secrets, sure... But if an autist seems kind and caring in public, it's unlikely they'll stab me in the back months later. If they're a shit person, and some are, you'll know it fast.

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Kevin Davy May 24, 2025

@hellomiakoda @filmfreak75 @EmilyMoranBarwick @BernieDoesIt @actuallyautistic
What you see is what you get. Mostly, because not only don't we understand being performative, but it is not how we communicate.

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Miakoda

@pathfinder @filmfreak75 @EmilyMoranBarwick @BernieDoesIt @actuallyautistic This is why I get fired from sales jobs so fast. I CAN'T pretend to be excited about a product. If it's not in my special interest, or a tool that changed my life, I won't be able to muster enough of a shit about it to meet corpo standards. ....and if I dislike the product, there is 0 hope. I cannot upsell, and that's a deficit I actually have some pride in. Yeah, no, you do not need the security package offered.