Taking a moment to appreciate , ADHD hyperfocus—it can move mountains! …did you need anything else done? Too bad! I’ve been moving mountains for the past three days and all I see when I close my eyes is a bunch of angry cartographers.

Wild that the answer to my autism is simply becoming more autistic

Frith doesn’t give any weight to what we autistics say about our own experiences. Sensory accommodations “may feel good to [autistics], but not actually be good.” Masking is fake because SHE can’t understand how it would be tiring. Utterly appalling levels of ego & disdain for autistic people. 3/3

So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity

It’s not actually “self-diagnosis” people doubt, it’s the entire idea of autism without accompanying intellectual disability. They don’t believe it’s real, & no authority will convince them otherwise. They simply don’t believe us. #Autistic

I'm autistic and I used to correct people a lot because I like to be know what's correct and I appreciate it. But allistic people without question used to think I was trying to show off my knowledge and they'd get so offended, so I stopped doing it.

If they sue, how much is their shame worth in damages, I wonder? In the 2010s, there was an epidemic of porn copyright grifts. They seeded cheap porn online & waited for someone to pirate it, then threatened to sue. People paid exorbitant settlements to avoid being publicly outed as porn thieves.

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends. It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

Bizarre for Frith say that increased autism diagnoses "overshadows the needs of those with intellectual disabilities, who require much more intensive support." I don't know a single late-diagnosed #ActuallyAutistic self-advocates who wants to erase high-support needs people.

Uta Frith's claims that autistic masking doesn't exist because of a lack of research ignores a significant body of peer-reviewed research directly linking long-term masking to burnout, depression, and suicidality. It silences the voices of autistic people who have been sharing their experiences. 1/

Too real. “Sure, my research is being used to arm an organized crime ring, but I need funding from somewhere, & the Pokegovernment just canceled all the pokeball research grants!“ #Academia #HigherEd #STEM #Pokemon

If you're going to give me a mystery centering an autistic cheesemonger, I want that autism to affect her life beyond being a reason to wear earplugs and be embarrassed about her diagnosis IRL and I want some fucking infodumping about cheese.

Autism is not a disease! Autistm isn't something you outgrow! #autism #autistic

Something to take into account on #InternationalWomensDay: Females may be just as likely to be autistic as males but boys are up to four times more likely to be diagnosed in childhood, according to a large-scale study. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Insisting on a world that is shrunk down to a spectrum of things you're comfortable talking to your kids about isn't just lazy and entitled, it's profoundly unrealistic. Children have questions. Many of them are going to be uncomfortable. Deal with it or don't have kids.

Being #autistic feels like the culture shock of visiting a foreign country where you don’t speak the language fluently…except it lasts our entire lives & we can’t escape it by returning home.

Late diagnosed autism essentially means you had enough burnout and couldn't fake being neurotypical anymore. You had your victories and defeats with faking it. You sought advice. You internalized criticism. You thought everything through 20x. It was never your fault, deserved grace and kindness.

Demand to be buried with a stone tablet saying “Detailed descriptions of our political, phonological, and economic systems in Tomb Two”

It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI." But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined. They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.

“Try” because we don’t really know much. A common approach seems to be: “It’s a direct descendant of earlier Canaanite, so just assume it’s the same as Ugaritic.” Concerning. Convenient, but concerning.

Crud, now I’m angry. Gonna go have coffee & play video games until I feel better, then try to research Phoenician religion.

The right-wing government of israel doesn’t give a flying fuck what liberal American Jews think! Are you people for real? They hate us!

I hate that a few high profile rich jerks used autism as an excuse for abusive behavior, & now any time autistics ask for a little understanding, we’re accused of doing the same thing. Often, #autistic people are just trying to clarify a miscommunication, not make an excuse at all.

No! No I don’t! And this right here is our problem. People who think The Jews have some secret magical influence over world affairs.

Neurotypical adults in my childhood: "You must always follow the rules! It's unfair on everyone else if you don't follow the rules." 🧵

trying to be normal about not correcting people as an autistic is so hard. but like sometimes it is just not necessary. you have to let it slide. but i want to do it so bad

It’s also a complete abdication of agency & responsibility. Israel isn’t forcing people to be antisemitic against their will. You could choose NOT to buy into their equation of Jews & Israel, but instead you completely adopt it & use it to victim blame diaspora Jews for antisemitism. Gross.

“Backfired” on who? Because right now, it’s diaspora Jews facing antisemitism because of things done by Israel, a country we do not live in and have no power over. “It’s because of Israel” doesn’t help me when someone attacks my synagogue accusing us all of “zionism.”/

Do any of my follows/moots have preferred sources on Phoenician religion? Longshot, maybe, but idk some of you might 🤷🏻‍♀️

Do any of my follows/moots have preferred sources on Phoenician religion? Longshot, maybe, but idk some of you might 🤷🏻‍♀️

Too real. “Sure, my research is being used to arm an organized crime ring, but I need funding from somewhere, & the Pokegovernment just canceled all the pokeball research grants!“ #Academia #HigherEd #STEM #Pokemon

There's been a spate of idiots shooting at empty synagogues in Toronto, and every instance brings us one step closer to some fuckhead visiting during actual hours of worship.

The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage

Evangelical Christians aren't the only people whose faith-based views of abortion matter, ruled an Indiana judge who just blocked the state's abortion ban citing Jewish religious freedom. Someone had to say it! RNG has tracked this case as it moved through the courts. Our updated story here.

look ima need white people to stop explaining to me that every white dude is prone to get obvious Nazi tattoos in their 20s. the shit is not true. I know plenty of white military dudes who didnt get Nazi tattoos. This is not a widespread phenomenon.

Not that it matters, but I have traced her ancestry extensively going through multiple generations and centuries. This is not true and appears to simply be echoing false claims made by prominent white supremacist Peter Brimelow.

TAKE AWAY HIS KEYS ALREADY How many have to die? How many innocents have to die stupid, meaningless deaths to fulfill this man’s senile ramblings?

"I gather that everyone here is 100% certain JD Vance is a racist who hates immigrants. So, who here actually knew JD Vance's wife is a non-white woman born to immigrants? And how does that influence your certainty?"

oh ffs who told Tucker about Chabad he is not to be trusted with the knowledge of specific Jewish group names so he can sound to his audience like he knows things

Trump has assumed for years that American Jews are Israelis, not Americans.

Wait, so... the guy who had a worm die while it was eating his brain, eats nothing but meat, and has a voice that sounds like gravel being raked across a chalkboard... is saying OTHER people have demons in them? 😆

I love LA. 💙

not today, yeytser hora

Some AI goons in my replies say they pity me. Don’t pity me, guys! I know how to write! I’ll be able to produce quality work no matter what the prevailing technologies are! Save your pity for your fellow AI goons who misunderstood my post entirely because AI has stunted their reading comprehension!

Ugh I may need to mute Pokopia. I can’t afford a Switch 2 & the FOMO is intense. No one tell me how much fun you’re having!

Being #autistic feels like the culture shock of visiting a foreign country where you don’t speak the language fluently…except it lasts our entire lives & we can’t escape it by returning home.

(1) It is not particularly uncommon for bigots to have individual friends or even spouses from groups about whom they hold incredibly bigoted beliefs. (2) The only “source” anyone can find for the claim that Platner’s wife is Jewish is the Substack of notorious white supremacist Peter Brimelow.

I've been called a self-hating Jew by Zionists and called a Zionist for loving my Jewishness too much by some non-Jewish antizionists so to make my stance incredibly clear: - Free Palestine - I love being Jewish - I do not have to compromise love for myself to love other people

I have resolved to be even more autistic

Autistic Burnout, I begrudgingly choose you!