fodderfigure.bsky.social
Author of I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder and Work It Out: A Mood-Boosting Exercise Guide For People Who Just Want To Lie Down. Wrestling and film nerd. Lapsed music fan finding her way back.
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I'd love to!
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And this is particularly delightful! It's a whole book of him going through stuff in storage and using random bits of things as launching points for stories about his life.
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I'm kind of surprised it hadn't occurred to me before now! But his book is a whole other level.
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Uh… I haven’t through through the zine sales yet. (I was giving them out free with purchase, but I should start selling them.)
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Heh. The 00s were a different time.
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Indeed!
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He left before I could say that I've done my own Japanese research (follow a wrestler who has 200 beetle pets and am mutuals with his dad on twitter) and it has confirmed my belief that there might be a genetic component.
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You’ll occasionally spot one in small towns.
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Maybe they could tell you were a cool dude and friend to animals and wanted to hang.
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Thank you!
And I hope their current revival leads to more international dates.
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Thanks! Got it at one of the Toronto shows last September.
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Thank you! I don’t think anyone is going to care but at least I can go visit the kitties.
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Blade and Suede are a pair of Orinoco crocodiles. They got their names from a contest run by local dirtbag rock radio station 97.7 HTZ FM.
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Absolutely.
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Oh my god, I hated that discourse so much! Especially because there's an alternate reading you could take where she was doing a very autistic thing by taking him at his word and trying her best.
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Gah! I'm really sorry you had to deal with that.
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❤️
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Well, that's a different kind of movie that I want to see.
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I agree completely.
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I just can't buy argument that we should never talk about inter-community stuff! Especially when all of this autistic vs NT talk almost always ends up hurting other autistic people the most.
And I also don't think it's the worst thing in the world if lsn autistics have to compromise occasionally.
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What did you think the "other" in "other autistic" meant?
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I am autistic! This whole point has been about issues within the community!
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Oh cool. We're almost the same person again. Sigh.
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I still haven't caught up to that! But I'm visiting mom this weekend and it seems like the perfect watch for both of us. I think they extremely underrated chemistry in general.
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On the other hand, I'm happy to see that Ueno is part of the Charisma universe, because I have long suspected that he's quite fond of that brat.
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Ok, serious answer: you're making a very good and important point here about how the "community" keeps finding new ways to recycle that old and awful schism.
But I also have to say: as an autistic person I (virtually) hang out with, you are also bad now!
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In my followups, I also gave examples of how some autistics will find a way to prove that the autistic who can't accommodate them, asks for their own accommodations, or even mentions this issue in public is actually a bad autistic who is toxic to the community and doesn't deserve support. Like this!
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I'll try to state it more clearly then: I was providing an authentic example from my own lived experience about how some autistic people will demand perfect accommodation from other autistics but refuse to provide any in the other direction. Or acknowledge that other people's needs also exist.
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Did I basically say that? Or did you read into things that I didn't say? (That can't be. I've been assured that is a purely NT behaviour.)
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Oh, most likely! I don't think we're as far removed from the days when autism moms would try to get autistic women to date their sons so that someone would take care of them as we'd like to imagine we.
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And how have you made the determination that I am one of the “folks that should know and/or have the capacity to know” vs an autistic person who also has issues and needs?