Autistic liberation isn’t about being palatable. It’s about refusing to contort ourselves into shapes that make everyone else’s life easier while destroying our own.

I've had a very good week: started a job and had sex! 😄 Dating a guy who is very kind and affectionate to me, see where it goes. My accidental and very frustrating year of celibacy is over and I will be able to buy Christmas presents for family.

Australia: Victoria Becomes First State To Offer Free Birth Certificate Updates For Trans People www.starobserver.com... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

OK send help I think I'm flirting with a very hot Professor who is in her 50s and based in Belfast.

ICYMI last week, you can now read or listen to my short story “In the Zone,” about a bipolar artist who discovers she has a special power to aid immigrants, at Lightspeed: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/in-t...

Also for the 801346498246293487623th time, "BPD" is the official abbreviation for borderline personality disorder, NOT bipolar disorder (BD or bipolar). There is no "other BPD."

My meds don't cure my bipolar disorder they just give me time to think before I act. Basically limiting the severity of manic behavior and depression

What's wild is that I have the most stereotypical presentation of autism/ADHD. I didn't even go to school until 5th grade because there's no way I would have been able to sit still. I was just born female and it was the 90's

Beat for beat, same story here. Even had my mom drag me to a hearing specialist as a kid cuz I sucked at listening, turns out I just sucked at allocating attention.

The same thing happened with pain meds and antibiotics. They were overprescribed for so long, now it feels like you have to beg for amoxicillin

My doctor told me she saw many elderly female patients who essentially drank themselves to death in order to cope. They were functional alcoholics. I was well on my way to becoming one of them. I feel like ADHD meds were over prescribed, and now those that need them are punished

I was diagnosed with bipolar (I'm not) anxiety (I wasn't) and depression (okay, fair) before anyone considered I might be ADHD. What this article fails to mention is how many severely ADHD people turn to other drugs if they are not medicated. I had severe insomnia and suicidal ideation at times

I've come to the realization that im both Tigger and Eeyore at the same time sometimes. Thanks bipolar

For all my autistic, ADHD and bipolar people bsky.app/profile/did:...

blaming pedophilia on bipolar disorder is next level

Some therapy art I’ve made over the years:

i think it's reasonable to access that. If Autism tends to result in independent thinking by rejecting social conditioning, it seems likely you'd end up being vulnerable in general to psychological conditions relying on a altered view of reality.

yeah! so much overlap that there's virtually no utility to the terms haha

It depends if they can do an infantilism on you or not /jk

yeah that's total bunk haha. bipolar is more genetically inheritable than either autism or ADHD and schizophrenia and bipolar are both present from birth in terms of brain alterations

I’ve been under the impression that the difference is theoretically innate vs. acquired…which is also very fuzzy.

It’s a bit like dissociative stuff, which is also very stigmatized and I think also can at least often be considered neurodivergence. There are so many effects on the nervous system level in all these things. They get confused for each other a lot, too!

like I think there's probably a distinction between ptsd/BPD/CTPSD psychosis and "organic" psychosis just in terms of the symptoms (it tends to be shorter, triggered, and lacking cognitive deficits) but it's clearly in the same general ballpark!!

I very much believe that the bipolar and schizophrenic spectrums, overexcitability, and even PTSD should be considered forms of neurodivergence

(full disclosure i think the "distinction" between neurodivergence and many mental illnesses--particularly bipolar and schizophrenia--is nonsense on every level. but i try to use the most accepted language, which argues that they're different things despite having zero evidence to support it haha)

I was forced off Elvanse this year in Feb after 5 years due to high blood pressure. Bullied out of my corporate job and fired from a blue collar one. Now I have bipolar. ADHD meds can prevent bipolar onset in my experience.

Given how bad smoking is for you, you could probably justify prescribing stimulants to children with ADHD on that basis alone.

Children with ADHD who are on medications for ADHD are also much less likely to go on to start smoking! I'm not sure how much of that is specific to nicotine though, since they're also less likely to go on to drink heavily or use various other non-stimulant drugs.

Learning that nicotine regulated ADHD behavior was one of the dominos falling in understanding that I probably had ADHD.

I am genuinely convinced that one of the reasons it used to be thought that most people grew out of ADHD as adults was how common smoking was.

I guess I can drink twelve coffees a day while chain smoking if you want me to do this in a socially acceptable manner, I just don't see how that's better for my physical or mental health than Vyvanse, y'know?

I also will say, the moral panic thing sucks. It always boils down to, “why do you need drugs for your brain.” I don’t know! But we’re here now & it really works!

trying to start a moral panic and the stories are all like “the ADHD meds really helped but didn’t solve everything”

(holding up Charlie and Vox) the “bi” in “bisexual” stands for “bipolar disorder”

who else here got uk-specific autism

This is a very real programme on BBC iPlayer surrounding Heston Blumenthal’s journey with bipolar. A must watch for those affected by mental health struggles but also the people connected with such sufferers. Shows the realities of mental health medication and how the condition impacts everyone.

Not being hyperbolic when I say we're going to end up finding mass graves of people they raped and murdered in 5-10 years from now. Unqualified people with malicious bloodlust and unchecked power only leads to violence.

Imagine if, as so many rightwingers want, he'd been hanged as the rightfully-convicted villain of this heinous, depraved and brutal crime...

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Today, @washingtonpost.com is hosting a Global Women’s Summit. Meanwhile, the @postguild.bsky.social is protesting and raising awareness about the fact that the Washington Post illegally fired me, its only Black woman opinion columnist, for doing my job. Salute to the Guild. Shame on the Post.

“…if Condé can get away with this—and with President Donald Trump sabotaging the National Labor Relations Board, the company appears to be betting that it can—it will send a message to unions and employers across our industry that the foundations of labor law are collapsing.”

Hundreds of Starbucks baristas and labor organizers blockaded Starbucks' largest distribution center in York, Pennsylvania, halting distribution of syrups, coffee beans, and other supplies to the entire northeast. This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.

Y'all! The gloriously awful Mistletoe Mixup is on Netflix!! It's got a woman falling for two brothers. The roles are played by real life brothers, and their real life mother is also in the movie and encourages the main character to date them both. Other Highlights: creepy wish granting teenager.

Reminded today of this amazing open data project. Search by postcode for your local casualties of WW1, it’s astonishing Astreetnearyou.org

Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.