Mastodawn

@analogfusion @fishidwardrobe I really want to see a film about his stay with Charles Dickens. Written by an autistic queer who adores the messy little disaster-bi, obviously.

Aerliss Jan 10

Natasha

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Japanese artist Narumi Takada's 2021 embroidery piece, "Stepping on Fresh Snow" with snow created using punch needle and straight/satin stitches for the boot and paw prints

(nrm_takada on IG)

#Womensart #embroidery

Aerliss Jan 9

Mark Dominus Jan 9

One of the cooler things I saw in the Corning Museum of Glass was this chandelier made of blue glass butterflies. The butterflies are actually made of recycled solar cell material, and they're wired up so that the chandelier lights up with no external power source, the power is supplied by the butterflies themselves.

https://glasscollection.cmog.org/objects/58287/virtue-of-blue

#CMoG

Aerliss Jan 7

My favourite genre of "spooky things caught on film" videos are "ghost hunters get spooked by strange noises in what is clearly a squat, but keep investigating until some poor guy has to wail like a banshee at them while hiding in a cupboard".

They'll find half drunk bottles of cola & beer, the remnants of rollies on a table in a room with a mattress & bedding, & say things like "this is so weird, why is all this here?"

My brother in the paranormal, it's a dude's home! Leave!!

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Aerliss Jan 6

@skinnylatte isn't the answer "to cook rice"? Like... Yeah, I could prepare all my food on a burning pile of wood outside. Or I could take advantage of the great advancements in cooking tech we have made over the last half a million years or whatever.

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Aerliss Jan 6

@troy_frizzell @ScienceDesk @NewScientist like the visible light spectrum!

Though more like a colour wheel, than the rainbow.

https://enna.org/why-is-autism-considered-a-spectrum-what-it-actually-looks-like/

Why is Autism Considered a Spectrum? What it Actually Looks Like

Do you know what the spectrum actually looks like? Read this blog to get your head around the Autism Spectrum.

Enna Global

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Aerliss Jan 3

@undefined_variable @punishmenthurts I've read that cola is more acidic than vinegar, but I'm not sure.

And I don't think it was JUST acid triggering the emptying (because isn't stomach contents way more acidic than vinegar?).

Even just the smell of vinegar triggers my digestive system into hungry mode. Some other acids too, like very tart fruits. So, for me at least, there's something about acidic foods that tells my stomach to prepare for a meal, and move on everything currently in it.

Aerliss Jan 3

@undefined_variable @punishmenthurts I had a bout of crippling chest pains that docs thought was just heart burn & prescribed antacids. That made it worse. They insisted that couldn't happen & prescribed stronger antacids.

I figured if alkalines were making it worse, why not try an acid? So I drank vinegar. It worked.

Turns out I had herniated my stomach up through my diaphragm during a 3mo battle with bronchitis.

The vinegar triggered my stomach to empty, thus reducing the volume of acid.

Aerliss Jan 3

sonja Jan 3

by sarah andersen

its true. #actuallyautistic @autistics

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Aerliss Jan 3

@troed yes, I've thought about this on similar lines. My thoughts were on how more and more of the population has been able to attend university, where they are more likely to meet people like themselves.

A... loosening up of social rules in many cultures has probably helped with people meeting others of their neurotribe.

Which makes the calls for a "cure" all the more horrible, given how tptb have tried to eradicate inherent traits in the past.