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We are back for Deconstruction Coffee Hour tomorrow morning in Clubhouse with @cortland.me and me at 6AM PST and all the other times in the other time zones. ☕️✨

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Highly doubt it was the authors intent, but ten chapters into The Bright Ages and it’s just reinforcing my belief that Christianity really did ruin everything. And please don’t bother trying to convince me otherwise.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Today is the #DayOfRemembrance commemorating Executive Order 9066 and the government's mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. Eight years ago, I wrote about visiting Manzanar, what life was like in the camp, and how the National Park Service plays a role in teaching civil rights.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Instead of attention deficit it feels much more like attention divided. My attention is constantly divided between all the things all the time.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

You will never successfully fight fascism & think poor people are beneath you. You will never successfully fight fascism & think you get to legislate anyone else’s existence. You have to pick one.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Wrongly. Mass defiance against fascism is what we need from media

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Re-upping because (gestures wildly): open.spotify.com/episode/45Qw...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Finally reading No Bad Parts and can anyone tell me does he EVER stop making comparisons to Christianity because I CANNOT. Sir pls stop comparing your therapeutic modality to the thing that sent me to therapy in the first place.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

While I identify deeply with the sentiments in this article, its conclusion is sort of “congrats now you get to live unmasked and unapologetic.”🥴 Too bad it’s never that simple. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wild...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I don't know why anyone would want to lower the rates of autism. I am a delight.

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Stimulants make it possible for me to do my job. They also make it possible to brush my teeth and eat on a regular schedule, and help keep me from making boneheaded financial decisions. MANY of the people I love most are likely alive thanks to SSRIs and mood stabilizers.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

Resistance is Reminding the World that Autism Isn’t The Problem In the latest issue of Scientific American there was a fascinating article on Neandertal DNA in the modern human genome and its effects on neurodevelopment. At least one of the author’s is an #ActuallyAutistic scientist who studies…

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Fascinating article if you’re a nerd like me who’s into #paleogenomics and ancient DNA in general. However, what it really points to is a point I’ve been trying to make about #autism and #neurodivergence for some time now. Let me explain: apple.news/ArTnL9asyRPq...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

The truth is that those who feel “powerful” by taking from the very people they deem as worthless have a very deep insecurity because they know all their “power” wouldn’t exist without those people. All of it is borrowed. “Better than” never works.

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YOUR REMINDER THAT THE HANDMAID’S TALE DEPICTED ENTIRELY THINGS THAT WERE ALREADY DONE TO GLOBAL MAJORITY WOMEN The novelty was just that they were being done to white women please, it’s not some startling new ground being broken ok

submitted 14 days ago • 24 comments

While I identify deeply with the sentiments in this article, its conclusion is sort of “congrats now you get to live unmasked and unapologetic.”🥴 Too bad it’s never that simple. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wild...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Something for my compatriots in the press writing about #Autism: A survey shows that #ActuallyAutistic people and non-autistic people prefer identify-first language to person-first language. www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

“Eradicate anti-Christian bias” translates to “Eradicating anything that doesn’t give conservative Christians power over every other demographic”

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Feels like we’re on this endless loop of “he’s not really gonna do it oh shit he’s actually done it oops we just really didn’t think he would” until the whole country burns to the ground.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

At least, this is how those of us without intellectual disabilities, & who can speak, are viewed. As fakers. But they believe in intellectual disability & nonspeaking autism. Believe in them, & also hate them, & openly plot eugenics against them. #Autistic

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I wonder how many non-autistic people see autism as an unearned privilege. As an “excuse” to act badly or escape obligations. Same with #ADHD. The same thinking allows people like RFK Jr. to get away with treating autism & #ADHD as discipline issues. They don’t think they’re real. #Autistic

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

It's like they're all reading "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?" and going, "Yes...what DOES it profit a man???"

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I think what's being done to trans people in this country is a FUCKING SCANDAL. It's absolutely an attempt at eradicating trans people from public life and ALL OF US must refuse this. Everyone. Stop being a loser mealy mouth person. This is bullshit. You should say so in all the places you inhabit.

submitted 21 days ago • 113 comments

It feels overwhelming when you’re watching the unthinkable (and entirely preventable) happen all around you and there’s nothing you can do to stop it.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

When my book was released in September, @teenvogue.com ran an excerpt. I wrote a couple intro paragraphs that highlighted Project 2025's stated goal of eliminating the Dept. of Education - which Trump will propose via EO, per WaPo reporting today. www.teenvogue.com/story/exvang...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

It's literally insane how the right has been parroting a "deep state" conspiracy theory only to create a real shadow government led by Elon Musk and Project 2025.

submitted 23 days ago • 33 comments

My PSA on Musk's soft coup and our constitutional crisis. Share if you think helpful. youtube.com/shorts/tnLx2...

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

Autistic math is getting the answer wrong in exams, because: a) you didn’t know which way to interpret the Q, b) you interpreted the Q literally, c) none of the available answers seemed correct, or d) all the available answers seemed correct, leading to strange results.

submitted 26 days ago • 13 comments

This cannot be ignored. Trump just announced plans to send 30,000 immigrants to Guantanamo Bay. The inhumanity and cruelty is beyond. Do not let this get lost in the news cycle. Speak up. Make noise. This cannot happen. They will disappear.

submitted 28 days ago • 14 comments

Glad to see NBC referring it to DISCREDITED but DEBUNKED would be more accurate since it was fraudulent from the start and not just an inaccurate hypothesis. #AutisticActually #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

The OMB withholding of federal funds is the executive branch telling congress that the president will do what it wants. Luckily for the president, the Dems are too busy saying God is on the throne to put up a strategic opposition & the GOP senators all live and sleep on their knees now.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment