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Tuomo HPast the halfpoint in Silberman's NeuroTribes. It's really interesting read, although painful in places due to what has been done to us. I just read a sentence mentioning that in Asperger's files, there were many engineer fathers. My father was a graduate engineer...<a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActuallyAutistic</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/NeuroTribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeuroTribes</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@actuallyautistic</a>

M.S. Bellows, Jr.You knew Trump wants to eliminate the Department of Education. You've learned he's naming WWE wrestling executive Linda McMahon to head that agency.But did you know that Project 2025's blueprint for dismantling the agency calls for disabled children's special education services to be overseen by... RFK Jr ? The guy who believes vaccines cause autism and that autism needs to be "cured"? <a href="https://c.im/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autism</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/audhd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#audhd</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/neurotribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neurotribes</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ASD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ASD</a>Details in next post. 1/2

Andrew ShieldsSteve Silberman (1957-2024): The Grateful Dead, journalism, the history of autism, and a lively presence on social media. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/111Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#111Words</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SteveSilberman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SteveSilberman</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/GratefulDead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GratefulDead</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Neurotribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neurotribes</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autism</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Neurodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neurodiversity</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Deadcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Deadcast</a> <a href="https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/08/steve-silberman-1957-2024-grateful-dead.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/08/steve-silberman-1957-2024-grateful-dead.html</a>

Gremlin ChildFinding out yesterday that <a href="https://newsie.social/@stevesilberman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@stevesilberman</a> had passed away suddenly had more of an impact on me than I expected. I didn't know him but I kinda did I guess, because I read <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Neurotribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neurotribes</a> in the early days of figuring things out about myself, as a lot of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActuallyAutistic</a> people seem to do, & it's an excellent resource & he wrote compassionately & without pre-judging. So I guess I knew that he was a person who saw more of people & the community than what's on the surface & that's a special ability.

MOULE (in Rouge!) #RedInsteadI just found out the heartbreaking and sudden news that <a href="https://mastodon.moule.world/tags/SteveSilberman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SteveSilberman</a> passed away yesterday.His book <a href="https://mastodon.moule.world/tags/NeuroTribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeuroTribes</a> is very important to myself and so many other <a href="https://mastodon.moule.world/tags/Autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autistic</a> people in helping us know who we are, fight back against decades of "deficit" propaganda, and introducing so many others to the <a href="https://mastodon.moule.world/tags/NeuroDiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeuroDiversity</a> movement.<a href="https://www.stevesilberman.com/books/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.stevesilberman.com/books/</a>

ceartasSo saddened to learn of the passing of Steve Silberman, a fierce advocate for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neurodivergent</a> people, LGBTQ folk, and humanity in general. His book, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/NeuroTribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeuroTribes</a> was revolutionary in helping change the mental health community’s understanding of autism and other mental health challenges, redefining them as “a different way of thinking” as opposed to an “illness”.He was with us here on mastodon just a few hours ago, and i will miss him SO much 😢

Steve SilbermanFrench President Emmanuel Macron is serious about increasing opportunities in the workforce for <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neurodivergent</a> folks. Today I was honored to share some insights gained by talking to autistic people with Vincent Grimaldi de Puget, chair of the national Commission for the Recruitment of Atypical Talents, who got in touch after reading <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/NeuroTribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeuroTribes</a>. It was a great conversation.

Steve Silberman@powells.bsky.social in Portland is one of my favorite booksellers on Earth, and I'm so honored that Powell's on Hawthorne is featuring my book <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/NeuroTribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeuroTribes</a>, along with superb books by Devon Price, Hannah Gadsby, and others, to celebrate <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/neurodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neurodiversity</a> this month.

Steve SilbermanA very, very lovely essay by Kristy Barlow about waking up to one's own <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autistic</a> identity - near the heart of what my book <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/NeuroTribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeuroTribes</a> is about. Thank you, @mattward.bsky.social. <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/kristybarlow/p/lighthouse-in-the-fog?r=1e885&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://open.substack.com/pub/kristybarlow/p/lighthouse-in-the-fog?r=1e885&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web</a>

Steve SilbermanToday is <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/WorldAutismAwarenessDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorldAutismAwarenessDay</a>. No one ever explained the difference between "awareness" and "acceptance" better than this 14-year-old in Australia. Please read my in-depth history of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autism</a> and neurodiversity, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/NeuroTribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeuroTribes</a>, and books by great autistic authors like <a href="https://disabled.social/@EricMGarcia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@EricMGarcia</a>, Yenn Purkis, and Katherine May. NeuroTribes is available everywhere: <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/310415/neurotribes-by-steve-silberman-foreword-by-oliver-sacks/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/310415/neurotribes-by-steve-silberman-foreword-by-oliver-sacks/</a>

the Amygdalai Lama<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@actuallyautistic</a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#actuallyautistic</a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/neurotribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neurotribes</a> . ah, so it was Asperger’s Syndrome starting in the 70s 🤔 I’m hurt no-one thought I was smart enough to call me it, I guess 😈 .

the Amygdalai Lama<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@actuallyautistic</a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#actuallyautistic</a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/neurotribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neurotribes</a> . as a parent, I’m thinking, but Dr. Lovaas, surely I could have thought of torture myself? 🤮 . like this <a href="https://abusewithanexcuse.com/2020/06/06/the-myth-of-the-stick/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://abusewithanexcuse.com/2020/06/06/the-myth-of-the-stick/</a>

the Amygdalai Lama<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@actuallyautistic</a> I’m onto Lovaas’ abuse of his only subject and taking a . . . heart break, I guess. Look at me whining about it like it’s something happening to me or some privileged crap. 🙄❤️ . <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#actuallyautistic</a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/neurotribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neurotribes</a>

the Amygdalai Lama<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@actuallyautistic</a> It’s been hard hearing about the Nazi attitude and how apparently the whole world was not so different, the deadly take on “evolution,” - kill the weak. 🙄 . That’s not “learning about and taking control of our evolution,” that’s what predators have done forever, it’s like “taking control of the river and pushing the water down the hill.” . Evolution really isn’t about the preyed upon. It’s about the living, and the environment. These people want to “take control” of our evolution by making the environment police states and war and genocide, I don’t know how anything could be more misguided. . A “deterrent,” SOUNDS virtual, but for gawd’s sake do you not see the prisons and the cops are real? That we have turned our self made environment into a monster making machine? . Eugenics is not a health trim, it is an environment going to absolute shit. . A self-pruning plant would be a suicide, what was his name, Ashoka, tossing away his flesh in a mad act of “self improvement.” Not therapy for the gene pool - a universal existential threat for all of the living, drowning us all in our cortisol and driving us to ever worse. . I’m sorry. Evolution didn’t cause this trend, it’s a total gaslighting, pogroms are pogroms, if nothing changes, why do we think they learned anything? What people ARE is creationism - and we know that’s the core of it to them. What people CAN BE, that’s evolution. And we know they don’t care about that. . I haven’t started reading this morning, it’s the morning rant, shaking it out having slept on it. thanks and sorry. ❤️ <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#actuallyautistic</a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/neurotribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neurotribes</a> . and good morning 🙄😇

the Amygdalai Lama<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@actuallyautistic</a> 190 pages of NT history of what Autism ISN’T, I am going to be pissed when it turns out to be all 500. 🙄😠 I’m sorry, this is what reading is when you follow your own mind, an endless exercise in trying to prove some negative. FFS. . I’ll get there. <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#actuallyautistic</a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/neurotribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neurotribes</a>

the Amygdalai Lama<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@actuallyautistic</a> FFS I’m trying to do what I do with unpleasant tasks, push through, get it behind me, crash after but goddam, this vaccine shit, the predatory pseudoscience, I’ve heard it already, I knew I was going to already have heard 90% of this book and it was going to be painful, goddammit, Steve, why can’t you just answer my questions . I mean, I know why, but FFS <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#actuallyautistic</a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/neurotribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neurotribes</a>

the Amygdalai Lama<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@actuallyautistic</a> another break before some kids get their chelation therapy 😳 I keep imagining trying to deal with it my way and the kid being taken away and then the rest of ‘em too, and me getting locked up. . <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#actuallyautistic</a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/neurotribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neurotribes</a>

the Amygdalai Lama<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@actuallyautistic</a> second chapter is tough, upsetting. Need a break and a cuppa. I hate imagining what I might have done as a parent, what mistakes I might have made, who I might’ve listened to . . . not likely, but even being as good as you can be, it just sounds so tough. . None of my BS would change a thing. 😳 . <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#actuallyautistic</a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/neurotribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neurotribes</a>

the Amygdalai Lama<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@actuallyautistic</a> suppose I’ll have to live post reading it, sorry. . I feel like such a fool thinking I’m relating to these geniuses at the beginning, Cavendish and Dirac, but I’m on page 36 and I’ve laughed out loud four times already, OMG. “The way to talk to him is not to look at him. Speak as though to the air.” I love that. I do that here all day long. “My work has no practical significance.” . LOL. Same, if it was work. 🙄🤣 <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#actuallyautistic</a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/neurotribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neurotribes</a>

Steve SilbermanThanks to the East Virginia Medical School, Children's Hospital of King's Daughters, and the Autism Society of Tidewater VA for hosting my talk on my book <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/NeuroTribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeuroTribes</a>, the legacy of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autism</a>, and the future of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/neurodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neurodiversity</a>, this morning. It was an honor. <a href="https://cmetracker.net/EVMS/Files/Brochures/28278.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cmetracker.net/EVMS/Files/Brochures/28278.pdf</a>

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