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Claire Oct 21, 2023

Zumbador Oct 21, 2023

Their attitude to self diagnosis is a good one to check. Also:

How do they filter for an adult person masking, or having learnt skills as an adult that they didn't have as a child?

Do you need to provide testimony from your family / your parents, and how do they handle family dinamics such as a parent who is unwilling or unable to recognise autistic traits?

Do they only provide you with the diagnosis for Autism, or does your evaluation include more detailed feedback such as what co morbidities / challenges / sensitivities you have?

How aware are they of gender-based bias in assessing autism?

Claire Oct 20, 2023

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Zumbador Oct 20, 2023

@Claire

@exme

I'm a writer of Fiction, (fantasy and science fiction).

I get frustrated because writing is essential for my mental health, it just makes me feel so good. But it's so cerebral and hard work, so difficult to do when I'm in a bad mental health place.

I find talking aloud can perform the same function as journalling, it ticks some of the same boxes of finding ways to communicate as clearly as possible (which is always a fascinating challenge).

More recently I've been drawing my mental state which also works well as visual expression is both more precise and more ambiguous.

I've been posting my drawings at @zumbador

@seanwithwords @f1337

Claire Oct 19, 2023

Accessibility Awareness Oct 19, 2023

Cognitive load refers to how much working memory or short-term memory someone is using at a time. Minimizing the cognitive load it takes to use your site makes it more accessible for people with cognitive disabilities. Limit what you're asking users to remember to use your site.

Claire Oct 19, 2023

Making pear sauce from pears in my neighborhood. Processed acorns earlier this week. Busy as can be but so happy having moved into a more rural area.

Claire Oct 19, 2023

Dgar Oct 19, 2023

Three conspiracy theorists walk into a bar.

You can’t tell me that was just a coincidence!

Claire Sep 11, 2023

Nora Tindall Sep 11, 2023

Let's do an experiment! If you're *not* a professional or habitual programmer, I'd love to hear what you know about what happens between typing a web address like "example.com" into your web browser and actually seeing the page show up. Whatever level of abstraction and verbosity you're comfortable with.

Tech folks: absolutely no making fun of people for being wrong, okay? People are allowed to not know stuff!

Boosts appreciated, but only if you're interested in frivolity 💜

Claire Sep 7, 2023

bioluminescently Sep 6, 2023

For any US friends, you have til Friday to leave a comment for the CDC if you want to, regarding the decision to make Covid shots an "only immunocopromised and elderly" thing this time round:

https://www.regulations.gov/document/CDC-2023-0060-0001

Regulations.gov

Claire Sep 6, 2023

Seth the brave Sep 6, 2023

As an autistic adult I should be able to have people in my life who will accommodate my needs and not force me to suppress my needs because it makes them uncomfortable.

Just like a person in a wheelchair needs accommodation so do I!

#ActuallyAutistic #lgbt #trans #transgender #queer #lgbtqia

Claire Sep 6, 2023

Daniel Sep 6, 2023

PSA: until you've experienced burnout, you are likely to underestimate how long it takes to recover. It's not a couple of months, it's 6-18 months for partial recovery, and maybe 3 years for full recovery (all depending on how bad it gets). The company burning you out will almost never support your recovery, mostly they'll drop you when you stop being productive.

Nobody in business cares about your health but you, so be your own advocate, or suffer the consequences.

Claire Sep 6, 2023

@actuallyautistic Let's talk about autism and dissociation. For many of us with CPTSD, our masks can overlap w/ dissociative periods. Are any of you plural? Or have your masks overlap with dissociation?

This happens to me and I forget part/all of some experiences sometimes.