late DXed Autistic artist, lover of cats, birds, film, & Trek. She/They 🏳️🌈
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ALT for profile image: me in a pink wig smiling and holding a mixed drink at Pride.
Banner ALT: abstract digital painting of a pink haired woman in green
I am doing alright, considering! My coping skills are better than when I was younger and undiagnosed... and my therapist is on my ass to make sure I'm doing self-care and engaging in my special interests. Thank you 🥰
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Thank you 🥰, happy to see your cute lil profile pic! 💚
Honestly I have had worse burnout. Like when I worked a phone job at a student loan servicing company and we had 10 hour mandatory overtime for years. I'm glad to report I have better coping skills now and things will get better!
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So good to see you too!! ❤️
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Yeah, I uh... social media sucks sometimes. I heard something was going down so I'm glad I missed that, very stressful things.
Hope you're well too!!
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I'm not coming back yet, just didn't want anyone to worry about little old me. I'm just cleaning dog messes and researching sharpei fever and how hyaluronan works and doing dog training like 18 hours of the day and playing I Was a Teenage Exocolonist the other 6 hours.
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I am ok, I'm just autistic and in autistic burn out. Social media is hard and I have a lot more grass I haven't touched yet. My new puppy is a lot. My job is weird. Talking is weird. Being understood is hard. Takes a long time to get words in the right order. I'm being serious about that.
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🥰 thank you!! I'm glad I could help!
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Thank you so much for this. I've been having a rough time of it IRL and the break has been very good. Social media has always been very hard for me so when life gets rough this is the worst place for me to be.
I'm ok just very burnt out and coming back to myself and the moment is good.
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I'm not like other girls, I've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty...
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It's a real badge of honor!
It's entirely possible people interact with them without knowing for sure that they're a bigot yet... but transphobia in particular is such an extreme brain rot and hatred-pipeline that's impossible to hide for too long...
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“social construct” doesn’t mean “fake”. it means our understanding of reality is shaped by the way our culture makes sense of the world. reality shapes us, we shape reality.
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The state is investing in prisons, & overpolicing its Black population, not infrastructure. This is in evidence if we examine Baltimore & Maryland.
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Fund Friday. Fund Day Friday. Drop your funds and links if you need a boost:
- Mutual Aid
- Abortion
- Transition
- Medical Bills
- Whatever you need
Please make sure you’re adding alt text and making your skeets as accessible as possible.
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Well, this totally made my day. Thank you Neil, and best wishes to everyone who reads "NeuroTribes" seeking to understand certain family members, friends, and co-workers better.
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Ok let me explain publicly. On the west coast you have bedrock broken up by a series of strike-slip faults, where plates are sliding along each other. A 4.8 there is a series of little jolts that doesn't travel far. The east coast is VERY FUCKING DIFFERENT. Bedrock is one big sheet for one.
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Thecla and the mountain lion are still available. I will probably post some more originals tonight
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Autistic adults tend to see autistic stimming "as an adaptive mechanism that helps them to soothe or communicate intense emotions or thoughts, and thus objected to treatment that aims to eliminate the behaviour." Research says so! From mostly autistic researchers @drstevenkapp.bsky.social et al.
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There is no question in my mind that my physical and emotional health is worse off for having had stimming ripped away from me as a kid. How are you ever supposed to be comfortable in a world where expressing joy is too weird looking and must be suppressed?
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Today in 1977, disability activists in multiple cities began the 504 Sit-In, which would become the longest peaceful occupation of a federal building in US history. I had the great honor of interviewing the late Judith Heumann about it four years ago.
thehill.com/518289-women...
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A slender reveal party where the itinerary is split between 10 pages that we need to find before we die (and then we die anyway).
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o shit its Bandcamp Friday !!! i put out this cool single last month, and i got a couple more singles plus an album up in there too it would mean a lot if you checked it out <3 <3
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Also my Spring Moving sale is good through the weekend.
Tell a friend who’s website is stuck stuck. They’re in luck luck 👇🏽
nineke.net/product/webs...
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a Bender reveal party but it's just a regular reveal party with blackjack and hookers
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A fender reveal party where a new limited edition Stratocaster is unveiled
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seconded! like this is what i tell everyone. i am awake now. i’m really alive and enjoying life! even the hard times are easier cus i know that i’m doing the best i can for myself
so go make that appointment babes! you can do it 🫴✨
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I even heard that in her voice, LOL!
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I can super tell when I'm getting dangerously stressed out because sometimes I'll get obsessed with things like watching cave diving videos or stories about shipwrecks (I'm scared of caves AND diving AND deep water AND drowning etc)... anyway, have you heard of the Mary Celeste...?
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a bender reveal party where we learn that one of our friends was the Avatar this whole time.
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I'll be ok, just so tired and it's harder to redirect my "helpful" pattern-recognizing brain from ruminating when I'm socially-hungover.
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Also I've just been informed about apparently huge office drama around the circumstances in which I was hired, hugely complicated and entirely unnecessary drama but feelings were hurt, and it's only a matter of time til I get dragged into said office drama... and office drama is my kryptonite...
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"People asked you a lot of questions and yes you answered them and gave them time to respond too if they wanted, but you didn't ASK them the same question back, non-autistic people can't answer too unless you ask the question back, they'll think you're self-centered, did you ask any questions back?"
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I had to be in the office around people on Wednesday & I still haven't recovered. My brain is still going "hey, wanna go over everything you did and said with a fine tooth comb to see if there's anything that might make someone hate you but not tell you so you can't clear it up before it blows up?"
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🚨BOOSTING TF OUT OF EPPS MA🚨
Venmo:MSN99
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I bugged the guy who runs that site and he fixed it. I'm surprised there's a guy who runs that site at all, it reads like one of those websites populated by data scraped off of other websites.
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What a great idea!! They might even bond over it... who knows?
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I just think the people who handle our public representatives' inboxes would appreciate a little variety in what they read every day. Might as well give them something to talk about at the water cooler. Like what Castiel's dick looks like. Do angels have dicks? Let your senator know!
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I think their interns will really appreciate the opportunity to read this. Better fax it to them too, make sure it gets through.
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just a reminder that bandcamp friday is the morrow ....... and i dont just talk abt music, i make music .......
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Yes, it does. In my experience, just as well as it runs on Steam.
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i want to be the reason that john fetterman gets reams and reams of sam and frodo comforting each other with their bodies
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but nothing is stopping you from sending your fanfic to the government whenever you want.
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Hey artists 👋 What are your favorite tips and resources for finding references?
As search results become more laden with AI images, the more resources we can share, the better. 🙂
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Dennis is a friend of mine. If you have any information, please reach out to the Alachua County sheriff's office.
Please share for visibility, and pray for my friend.
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