shadowisland.bsky.social
Fascinated by humans. Pretty sure I am one. Autistic & ADHD. Sometimes I get carried away.
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Instinctually my first thought was… “Kafka wasn’t this dark” 😞
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@bubbaprog.lol fyi in case it was not obvious my above skeet was meant in solidarity 😶🌫️
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OMG IF YOURE HAPPY HE WON WHY CANT YOU ALSO BE HAPPY THAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE ALSO HAPPY HE WON IM SO DIZZY
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Le sigh… ¿uno mas? If I get it wrong in an insensitive way and you get justifiably angry and let me know… guess what - I will do my fucking best to hear you and embrace you and not be angry in return. Because I respect you and I respect ASD and we are internet strangers. K gotta catch a plane!!
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So yeah hopefully this will be the last one? I also know even though I’m autistic and relatively new to all this - I’m going to get things wrong! But I don’t want to be wrong - I want to listen and adjust my views. And if I get something wrong and it’s insensitive you have every right to get angry!!
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Last one because my executive dysfunction is determined to write replies instead of getting myself to the airport. You are putting this out there on the internet!! The place where people are roadraging everything!! It’s draining to be brave here. Pls know I see you, hear you and support you…
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…I’ve so much left to learn about autism. I’ve only been learning about us for 6 years. I feel no conflict saying “I’m autistic & my life is hard, but I’m so lucky because there are many more in the ASD community who’ve got it more difficult by orders of magnitude”. We can still support each other!!
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…and I really want to emphasize how lucky & fortunate I consider myself to be compared to others in our community who had to go through these experiences at much younger ages. I’m well aware that if I’m still struggling so much, how much more difficult is it for those who were diagnosed much younger
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…it is only when someone like you shares their own story that I find strength to share my own. Which is important because a few years after diagnosis I finally realized I spent my life without respecting myself!! I had no idea I was oh so happy to accept social breadcrumbs I was “lucky” to receive.
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…but I have a wife and two kids and a home and even though I lost my job we’re okay!! It’s beyond crazy luck that I’ve not spent my adult life living in my dad’s guest room. You have no idea how much I appreciate you sharing your experiences because I am still so scared to share my own…
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All good!!! This stuff is so hard!! You’re putting yourself out there in a very vulnerable and honest way. You’re also challenging your own community - a community that struggles with acceptance everyday - we need to support each other. I am still learning so much. My life is hard, but…
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Absolutley - apologies I am a slow typer with a circuitous thought pattern - i was setting all that up for how well aware I am that my life could have cratered when I was 12 rather than 37. It happened this way because I was lucky, not because of anything I did to succeed.
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…And for the first time in my life I began to really love myself. One of the seminal events in my life, but diagnosis didn’t save me. 6 yrs later I’m at peace with myself & I’ve much more awareness of my needs, but everyday I struggle to act on those needs. Still - I am well aware of how lucky I am
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I am 43, was diagnosed at 37. I endorse everything you wrote. I was a lifelong high achiever due (in part) to a combo of unhealthy coping mechanisms and fortunate circumstance. Until everything cratered. Diagnosis was the beginning of healing - for the first time in my life I got “to know myself”…
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❤️❤️❤️ to you and your family with all my heart and soul 🙏🙏🙏
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ndtherapists.com
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You’re way more optimistic about our receiver situation than i am.
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Holy shit I wish I could throw like a girl 😳🤯🛫🥅
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I get that this is a headache for you, but I want you to know this is the first skeet to put a (sincere) smile on my face since Trump took office. Don’t you worry about the Tulle - I guarantee someone will have plenty to spare - you just get your ass to that wedding and party your MoFo ass off. 😊🏳️🌈🍻💃
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This makes me so happy I feel like I’m going to cry 🥹
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I’ve got an idea for how you can be both the richest person in the world AND remain in good standing with your moral compass! It’s pretty simple - you acquire all the literal wealth and then you like… give it all away to humane causes and such!Metaphorically speaking you’d never have to work again.
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It’s cold out there. It’s cold everyday.
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Hell yeah!! I bet your song kicks ass!!! 😃☺️🍻
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Very sincerely thank you - we were insanely lucky, but mentally/emotionally it’s excruciating. The number of people I know who lost everything increases everyday. Kids whose schools are gone, people who lost their businesses… music is really the only thing that can takes my mind away from all this 🙏
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Here’s the thing… I think you’re a great writer w/great taste in music and would be so psyched if I found myself in the same song share subgroup w/you!! It might make you feel a lil awkward or even be your worst nightmare but it would still be a v funny story amiright!?!? 🫣😬🫠 (I’ll see myself out)
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Some say it’s a documentary, I say it’s a documentarii; either way it’s educational af. How else would I know it’s never a good week to stop sniffing glue?
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OMG I’m in this class too! I started making music 25 years ago because of Eno (no formal training). I was evacuated due to the Eaton Fire in LA last Tues, so I’ve only been to the 1st lecture (we are safe, our house is ok, the anxiety is unbearable). I’m hoping to be there for the Q&A on Wed.
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🤝🍻
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I like that list as long as Nebraska’s on double secret probation.
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