"With greater awareness & much-reduced stigma, older ppl with subtler traits are now diagnosed. […] It’s amazing how many ppl will consider the possibility of having autism when the label no longer implies a lack of humanity." @mosaicofminds.bsky.social: mosaicofmindss.substack.com/p/autism-its...

I've been a little slack about it but did you know I'm a Kinder World Ambassador? 💜 The KickStarter for Kinder World: Mother Tree is live and it is SO GOOD. The game is designed to be a little breather, a pocket of fresh air when you're stressed and working hard. You check out a free demo on the KS!

cool. folks are going to have a new business model where they can sell age-verified accounts to kids.

Autistic Lexicon Babyface Autistic babyface appears to be a combination of multiple factors including: - less frequent emoting over an entire lifetime - environmental factors - psychological - Autism co-occurring with EDS (which can cause people’s skin to look younger *or* older)

For many autistic people, “picky eating” is a legitimate hard-wired sensory aversion. This means that forcing autistic people to eat aversive foods is… the wrong approach, and can make food issues even more traumatic. www.rdsforneurodiversity.com/blog/arfid-c...

AnuMaat Kahina Jones is a single mother, full-time caregiver, and advocate for her beautiful daughter, Kherisheta Nefer Kahina, who was recently diagnosed with Autism. Please consider donating if you are able, so we can get this family a car and improve their daily life. gofund.me/c9b5f5a1

💡 What is Stimpunks? Meet an organisation and movement rooted in authenticity, interdependence, and neurodivergent-led design. #StimpunksSays: “Authenticity is our purest freedom.” Discover more: stimpunks.org

When you/your autistic person are sick: "Now is a time for rest & relaxation. Put off whatever you can until another day. Those emails will still be there when you’re well. So will school projects & deadlines. Take care of you because you are so so important." autisticallyalex.com/2019/02/19/s...

Even if you're not into your autistic person's passions, you can follow along with them, and make them feel seen: "I wouldn’t be interested in those topics but then I know it's something that makes her happy […] you want to make your kids feel heard and happy." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Euphemisms are not necessary when talking about Disabled people. We can't do some things and generally that's not as bad to deal with as abled people's discomfort with the fact that we can't do some things.

We've all heard "If you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person." However, the more autistic people you meet, the more you learn about autism. Not only how autistic people are different, but how often autistic experiences are shared—even by autistic people who SEEM very unalike.

“We ran a series of tests involving touching foods, eye contact and trains. We even put a big disco light on and started blaring music to see if he’d have a meltdown, but he just started dancing.”

Image description: promo image for Light of Motiram. It features a young woman holding a bow with a quadrupedal robot by her side. She stands atop a cliff overlooking a forested land split by a blue river. Giant mechanical deer tower over the trees. It's a blatant ripoff of Horizon Zero Dawn imagery

Like, one community shocks y’all?? How about a whole state with laws written into its founding constitution for the sole purpose of keeping it white as possible? www.opb.org/news/article...

no donations in over a week. i have to pay rent again in a few days. no luck finding another job, i don’t speak the language, i’m still trying to correct the mess with the phone company, i have one week of meds left 🙃 V @permanentalien C $permanentalien PP @AlyssumBorges gofund.me/982b699b

Especially when you start gaslighting yourself. Shame grows in the silence - when you don’t “look” dysregulated enough to be believed. When you collapse alone, and no one sees the crash. We don’t owe anyone proof. We don’t need to scream for it to "count". Internalized doesn’t mean imaginary.

When a meltdown is internal - quiet, hidden, invisible - people don’t see distress. So they deny it ever happened. They say you’re overreacting. Too sensitive. Too much. But internalized meltdowns are real. And the gaslighting that follows is its own trauma.

I am Disabled and rely on $847.40 income from SSI and SSDI—plus help from social safety net programs—to survive. I'm going to transfer a thread about these programs, but: If you can help, please: 1. Go to ugiftable.com. 2. Enter the Ugift code: B1M-J0R 3. Send money from your US bank account.

If you're unfamiliar with how the programs work, I put together some threads explaining the basics and differences of Social Security and Supplemental Security Income.

Music for the evening... (An older playlist) open.spotify.com/playlist/5H5...

18. Disabled is not a slur. Feel free to use it (depending on the disabled person you are talking to and their preferences).

==🔊🎦 Oh! Were these yours? 🍪== Oh er....how silly of me...umm....BYE! (another random little silly animation i made to try out some things 😊) 🎨 #furryart #furry #clown #jester #animation #furryanimation #silly #furryjester #furryclown

Japanese tea cups or “yunomi” are designed with no handles with the intent that people won’t burn themselves by drinking tea that’s too hot. The idea is that when it’s safe to pick up it’s good to drink.

I don't know how many people know this: If you ever see a story coming out of the USA, about people getting in trouble with the law for feeding the homeless, many of those laws were in direct retaliation to the Black Panthers setting up food banks and community centers for children and the poor.

Japan is in no way perfect, it has many flaws, but this sort of thing is fucking phenomenal and I so desperately wish we had an approximate of it becuase fuck man it sucks that so much of our lives get dictated by corporate morality

blue sky

Disability communities have so much to teach the world about community & resistance. About creativity, love, & anger. About power, justice, & politics. About acceptance & change. I wish more of you would listen to, learn from, and collaborate with us. The world would be better for it.

"Disability drives innovation. Accessibility helps everyone. So next time you use one of these, remember where it came from. Be sure to share this so more people realise the impact disability has on their lives," Jenni said in her viral video. www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/di...

Australian Psychosocial Disability Collective's submission on the #NDIS Supports Lists. "The current Lists fail to reflect the complex realities of psychosocial disability and risk re-institutionalising the very people the Scheme was meant to liberate". 🔥🔥🔥 www.apdcollective.net/ndis-support...

I knew bits and pieces of most of the discussions in this book, but putting it all together really drives it home. The last few chapters especially will remind you how far we’ve retreated just since 2023. Highly recommend, just be prepared to get mad. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676271...

「 Charlotte 」🌹 Artfight attack #6! Revenge for @yuksiiis.bsky.social (งᐢ. ᵥᵥ .ᐢ)ง 💕 #Artfight #Artfight2025 #TeamCrystals #oc #art

Comfy coffee #oc #originalcharacter #art

#Watercolor #gardeningfeed #botanical #traditionalart #sciart #bskyartshow

Was gonna wait to post this until I was done rendering, but I think she looks too good not to! Dee update!

Another Artfight revenge for Arcturusgleaming of their BG3 Dark Urge character Vayenn! #art 🌹✨

Mega Dragonite’s new wings reminded me of someone… 🪽 #art #pokemon #xenoblade

Baby Gladius and Heolstor #Nightreign #Art

Mega Dragonite but based on the old Green sprite. #art #pokemon

Splatoon characters, but human #splatoon #art

silly perspective tip! ✨ #art #arttutorial using overlapped round shapes truly helps when you're dealing with a difficult perspective pose 3 circles for head, chest and hips!

One Piece is close to surpassing Superman's record for Best Selling Comic of all time #Yuuichi

That said, what I think should happen is that folks who do have money should pay for billboard campaigns that say truthfully what is going to happen and who will be to blame for it when it happens.

*Very* important thread

"In short, I no longer retain any rights to any of my songs. So help yourselves, and don’t send me any money."

Dug out my mom’s original 1953 pressing of Tom Lehrer’s first album, which he self-published and sold through the mail

Inventory!

On communicating: Research shows it works best when EVERYONE is more considerate, for example sharing & accommodating communication modes even if alternative, and double-checking to see if a message was understood—instead of making assumptions. Holly Radford et al: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

PSA, because some how folk still don't understand: Asexual ≠ doesn't want sex. Asexual in fact = experiences little/no sexual ATTRACTION You can be ace and desire relationships. You can be ace and desire intimacy. You can also be ace and desire neither That is all