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JulieR<p>Oh, and just a reminder for other <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> people...the closed caption thingy at the movie theater is excellent and free. Makes all the difference in my ability to fully comprehend the movie.</p>
Dave the Nomad 🇨🇦 :autism:<p>Interesting video on always feeling tired and some strategies that worked for this guy. This is something I've been trying to work on myself... definitely going to try these strategies.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/b-1b7GGMqZ0?si=BXRxxAGLMV1Z0Ucu" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/b-1b7GGMqZ0?si=BXRxxA</span><span class="invisible">GLMV1Z0Ucu</span></a></p><p><a href="https://autisticnomad.social/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://autisticnomad.social/tags/Neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neurodivergent</span></a> <a href="https://autisticnomad.social/tags/ADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ADHD</span></a> <a href="https://autisticnomad.social/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AuDHD</span></a></p>
Murdoc Addams 🧛🏻:ri: 🇨🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@kcarruthers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kcarruthers</span></a></span> <br>This research still looks like too much medical model to me. Their "subtypes" are still based on the difficulties these children have, which isn't necessarily bad in itself, but looking for solely medical/genetic reasons for these problems instead of considering the social environment of the kids is wrong. They are conflating two things here. If they want to keep the types bssed on problems, then they have to consider the social environment as cause. If instead they want to look solely at the biological causes for autism, then they need to stop classifying it by "problems", because it is not a problem in itself.</p><p><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a></p>
Kevin Davy<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> </p><p> I have now got a week off work and no I'm not going anywhere. I gave up on that a long time ago and besides, all my stuff's here. And yes, I've written a list for what I want to try and achieve and the rough timetable for it, that's an obvious. But, finally, I can relax and not have to dwell on anything and just enjoy my, me time. </p><p> "Er..."</p><p> Yes, my Audhd brain.</p><p> "You know the reason for taking this particular week off?"</p><p> Yes, someone is coming in on Thursday to replace my central heating boiler. </p><p> "So, take a wild guess on what I'm going to make you dwell and obsessively think and worry about."</p><p> Bugger! Why brain, why?</p><p> "It's what I do."</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Autism</span></a> <br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Audhd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Audhd</span></a></p>
Erik L. Midtsveen🏳️‍⚧️🇳🇴<p>Swifties exist, and then there’s me, way more obsessed with Zoë than with Tay, sorry, not sorry!</p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/SorryNotSorry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SorryNotSorry</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/TaylorSwift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TaylorSwift</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a></p>
Erik L. Midtsveen🏳️‍⚧️🇳🇴<p>The second I search "Zoë Straub after:2023-02-16 before:2023-04-01" on Google, Google’s servers blink, the algorithm nods, and somewhere in a data center a little profile pixel updates, my privacy evaporates the moment I hit enter, and now Google knows my hyperfixation is official.</p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Autism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Autistic</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Hyperfixation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hyperfixation</span></a></p>
Erik L. Midtsveen🏳️‍⚧️🇳🇴<p>I have Googled Zoë Straub more than anyone alive. My autistic hyperfixation has turned search engines into shrines and every obscure web page into treasure. It’s weird, it’s wonderful, it’s like my neurons are doing synchronized swimming in Zoë Straub trivia, and honestly, I wouldn’t trade this brain circus for anything.</p><p>OMG, I just realized I’m <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a>, what even, I exist, and somehow my brain picked this gloriously odd hyperfixation, so be it, Zoë, you’re my favorite artist, and I love you in the most wonderfully peculiar way!</p><p><a href="https://midtsveen.codeberg.page/letter.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">midtsveen.codeberg.page/letter</span><span class="invisible">.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Autism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Autistic</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Hyperfixation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hyperfixation</span></a></p>
Sean C.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> so be autistic?<br><a href="https://mas.to/@PicardTips/114842265980520328" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mas.to/@PicardTips/11484226598</span><span class="invisible">0520328</span></a></p>
SHODAN :nonbinary:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>anon_opin</span></a></span> Much less of a sensory nightmare to this <a href="https://mas.to/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a> person too!</p>
Dave the Nomad 🇨🇦 :autism:<p>Didn't have much time to elaborate as I was arriving at the meetup..</p><p>I was driving to the meetup, alone in my truck, listening to Yakko's Nations of the World from Animaniacs on repeat (my current "pointless" fixation is memorizing the lyrics) and singing along to the parts I've memorized so far.</p><p>And as I nailed new lines, I felt the urge to flap my hands in excitement. So I did 😃</p><p>I've heard the term "Autistic joy" and struggled to really identify what that means to me. Well, this was it 😁</p><p><a href="https://autisticnomad.social/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a></p>
Church of Jeff<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ShitIFind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShitIFind</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/KingOfTheHill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KingOfTheHill</span></a></p>
Tim McTuffty<p>Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 623 , Saturday 12/07/2025</p><p>Saturday started later than is our habit as Mrs S went to visit her mum yesterday, so up just after 07:30.</p><p>A relaxed day, sheltering fro the heat.</p><p>Fried chicken &amp; chips for tea, the takeaway we go to really have no concept of a ‘small’ portion of chips - 2 bags full of chips each filling a dinner plate amply. Mrs S has yet to make the cognitive leap to ordering 1 large potion of chips to save us throwing food away that we can’t eat despite this being a regular thing for goodness knows how long. </p><p>Watched the movie ‘Against the Ice’ about the 1909 Danish polar expedition. Good but really quite sad in parts.</p><p>Final Thoughts.</p><p>I object to any temperature below 15ºC so I would be useless on an Arctic or Antarctic expedition! Also I would go stir-crazy with such a bleak landscape. I need trees &amp; greenery in my life. </p><p>Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each &amp; every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖 </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span><br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/TimsASDjourney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimsASDjourney</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Neurospicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neurospicy</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TheMammutMoves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheMammutMoves</span></a></p>
Dave the Nomad 🇨🇦 :autism:<p>Holy crap, my hand flapping has resurfaced after being suppressed for 25+ years.</p><p><a href="https://autisticnomad.social/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://autisticnomad.social/tags/Neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neurodivergent</span></a> <a href="https://autisticnomad.social/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AuDHD</span></a></p>
BlackPixelDust: Art :autism:<p>I'm on Mastodon mobile (from browser) and the UI changed. I don't like sudden UI changes. I might be able to tolerate it? But if there's a way to get back to the UI from earlier this year, I'd like to hear.</p><p>(I already hace tried some mobile apps like... what's the one with the pink elephant? Didn't like the UI and UX.)</p><p>I just am not a fan of massive UI changes. I don't think its bad, It's not good for *me* as an autistic. Any ideas?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Mastohelp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastohelp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a></p>
Uniflame<p>I am currently eating a lot of times out of boredom. I know I am <a href="https://beige.party/tags/dopamine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dopamine</span></a> seeking but I don’t know how to stop it. Any tips are welcome! I am AuDHD, chronically ill and low energy. No retail therapy please 😂 That’s a whole different can of worms 😂 <a href="https://beige.party/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ADHD</span></a></p>
RoundSparrow<p><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Autism</span></a> </p><p>I've spent a lot of time living full time in an RV all over USA and I've met hundreds of homeless people who clearly suffer from autism style problems, either hate for routine or desire for routine, etc. And you get a sense that the white collar job lifestyle has high</p>
RoundSparrow<p><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Autism</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <br><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/DiaryOfRoundSparrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DiaryOfRoundSparrow</span></a> </p><p>When you witness what the USA society has become since year 2012, the steady marching path towards confusion, bewildering, shock antics for entertainment that became MAGA / Donald Trump - and what religions are doing with terror war in Middle East...</p>
nellie-m<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> </p><p>I'd like to share a thought on a post by <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://neopaquita.es/@Cattz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Cattz</span></a></span> <br>which was here:<br><a href="https://neopaquita.es/@Cattz/114834132051999185" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">neopaquita.es/@Cattz/114834132</span><span class="invisible">051999185</span></a></p><p>Starting a new thread because it's not an answer to her question but a new question instead.</p><p>I feel this could be one expression of a much broader characteristic of our <a href="https://autisticpri.de/tags/actuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyAutistic</span></a> mind: we find it hard to not finish one thing before we can let it go and get to the next. Not being able to resolve it paralyses us, because we're unable to just forget and move on.</p><p>1/</p>
the_adventures_of_an_introvert<p>Happy birthday to my big bro! 🎂🎉 This photo was taken in 1991! 🗓️</p><p>When we were younger, he was the quiet one, while I was the exuberant kid. This changed by the time we were in secondary school, as I became withdrawn and extremely shy, whereas his confidence blossomed.</p><p>Our physical appearances and personalities may have changed since this photo was taken, but our brotherly bond remains intact 👬❤️</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/happybirthday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>happybirthday</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/brothers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>brothers</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/memories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>memories</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/adhd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>adhd</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neurodivergent</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AuDHD</span></a></p>
Inspektionsleiterin Lijo 🌱<p>Die Psychologin fragt, wie ich meine Autismus-Diagnose bekommen habe.<br>Ich: „Fünf Wochen stationär in einer Klinik.“</p><p>Sie: „Wow, eine echte, spät diagnostizierte Autistin!“</p><p>Und ich denke sofort an all die Frauen, die nie so einen Platz bekommen haben. Die sich durchs System kämpfen, endlich eine Diagnose haben, und dann stellen Fachpersonen sie infrage, weil sie „nicht abgesichert genug“ sei und der Kampf ist doch nicht vorbei 🥺💔</p><p><a href="https://norden.social/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AuDHD</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></p>