RolloTreadway<p>As I've moved to a new instance, it's time for another <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> - and whereas writing the first one felt deeply uncomfortable, this time it seems a lot easier. That's the transition from Twitter-brain to Mastodon-brain.</p><p>Who I am is more or less this: I'm an <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autistic</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/Welsh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Welsh</span></a> person who lives in beautiful <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/Tynedale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tynedale</span></a>, and I spend my working time fiddling about with emergency <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> to improve care quality in the <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NHS</span></a>. I have issues with <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/anxiety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anxiety</span></a> and <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/loneliness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>loneliness</span></a>, and I'm an abuse survivor. Because of the past abuse, I keep myself anonymous all over the internet; however, I've been using the Rollo Treadway alias for so long that it feels like part of me, my alter ego. So feel free to call me Rollo.</p><p>And I'm okay with they/them pronouns (because I don't really feel I fit within any gender identity) and also he/him (because that's what everyone offline has always used for me). Or frankly, any other pronouns, it's all good.</p><p>I migrated to <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> from <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a> during 2022 (initially at the start of the year, but properly in the autumn) and am very happy here.</p><p>Politically, I'm a <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/HandwringingLeftyLiberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HandwringingLeftyLiberal</span></a>, and like my bio says, I really don't have any time for Tories. This includes any close equivalents to Tories in other countries.</p><p>I love <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trees</span></a> and <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/woodland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>woodland</span></a>, I like to go <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/walking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>walking</span></a> when I feel physically/mentally able, I'm fascinated by <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a> but am hopeless at identifying them. I am *very* serious about <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/tea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tea</span></a>, I am (obviously) devoted to <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/SilentCinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilentCinema</span></a>, I'm unhealthily focused on <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/cricket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cricket</span></a> (mostly <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/FirstClassCricket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstClassCricket</span></a>, <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/TestCricket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TestCricket</span></a> and <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/CountyCricket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CountyCricket</span></a>, the white ball stuff isn't really for me), and especially <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/Durham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Durham</span></a> in the <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/CountyChampionship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CountyChampionship</span></a>. And in <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/football" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>football</span></a>, I support <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/Gateshead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gateshead</span></a>. </p><p>Finally, I promise this is the last time I will do such a long post, and the last time I will put hashtags in the middle of the post rather than all at the beginning or end. I think hashtags in the middle is permitted for an introduction, or I hope so anyhow.</p><p>HELLO!</p>