What is autism? Autism happens in the brain. It's not a bunch of observable traits. It's a PROCESSING difference... In the brain.

Wes Streeting. From a cannon. Into the sun.

In Lapland mythology, the aurora borealis is said to be created when the Arctic fox’s tail sweeps shimmering snowflakes into the moonlight as it gallops across the snow-covered mountains. art by Owen Gent #Folklore

Downy Woodpecker #WoodpeckerWednesday #birds #nature #photography

Well that went as well as could be expected considering someone I hardly know sprayed water over my head, put their fingers on my skull and then blew air all over my face. #autisticatthehairdressers

I forgot to cancel my haircut appointment and can't afford to be a no-show. This means I must go out. But before that particular hell, I can worry about what to wear.

Hear a particular tune/song and immediately want to eat a particular thing? Law and Order (US) TV theme Fritos (from a bowl)

Yesterday I had to be outside in weather to get milk which I can now use to make tea to aid recovery from being outside in weather.

It's the can't read no sleep please turn off my thoughts stage. Anyway. Watched that show everyone says is brilliant and enough with the long corridors, geez.

Low on supplies. Black coffee from an out of date jar of Kenco Decaf surprisingly delicious. #rummage

Remove indoor mittens before frying eggs.

Always a weird day, this. Muscle, heart, appetite memory. I keep thinking it's Christmas, my mind trying to account for the sense of expectation. Like Christmas, a day that used to happen.

A celebrity I've never heard of in a TV show I don't watch in a newspaper I

Cast iron skillet tamale pie, here !

Living room curtains crisp with frost.

Tamales for Thanksgiving this year 🫔

Oh, and if you're buying electricals / white goods etc, give AO a swerve, eh? www.theguardian.com/business/liv... - 9.30am

Roger Brown, Celebration of the Uncultivated—A Garden of the Wild (detail) (oil on canvas, 1980)

do a vulgar roast, use forbidden words, get down tonight

Rent's gone up again. A hundred big ones.

Things are shit, and unaffordable, being answered with “we hear you, let’s keep things exactly the same (for a limited period of time, terms and conditions apply)”.

Anyone know who plays steel on the Sonny Burns recording of 'I left One on the Bar' ? If you have the Bear Family copy of 'The Devil's Disciple' LP it could be in the track notes ... tumbleweed emoji

The peach bot is waving "I'm here, I'm here!". It knows things aren't good. I'll submit at some point today.

✨Sunday read: Bridlington Old Town - 'I can’t tell you the joy it brings to visit a place not just to make a transaction, but for what it is - tracing how it has been shaped, reshaped and re-imagined across generations.' 👉 www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshal...

Happy Harpo Day!

Little chocolate bar man from Poland

Off sick. Instructed to rest. Set an alarm to wake me up in order to follow the 'call in sick' procedure. The same procedure I followed yesterday when I called from hospital explaining I wouldn't be at work today either.

Returning due to popular demand - 11° resting bedroom face

Have a relaxing seat in this cubicle underneath the broken alarm that will beep loudly for three hours. #autisticinthehospital

Nine hours in A&E and can't get the smells out of my nose.

Worth remembering as this unfolds that it was disabled people and people from ethnic minority backgrounds who disproportionately died. Tens of thousands needlessly lost their lives, many who died alone or with just an iPad. Thousands more were left with life changing Long Covid. A true scandal.

The drinking water supply at my place of work comes through lead pipes. It's ok, we aren't allowed tea breaks anyway. On my days off I drink gallons of tea at home.

Taketh Away: nearest Asda no longer stocks Tahini Giveth: Five quid off the Jameson Irish

To all of the warriors out there. Keep fighting, keep talking, keep emoting but stay strong like the kings you are. You got this 💪♂️🍆 #internationalmensday

Think yourselves lucky I can't post from Insta because all you'd be getting is live audio from Sam's Town Point.

By the time I get home I'm too tired to chew (new development) and it's too close to bedtime for soup. This is how people turn to drink. Whisky is bread mostly.

For the LOLS please yourself

omg omg warm biscuits emoji

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Today is Tuesday. Not yesterday. That was Monday. Friday is last week. Was.

The wheels on the bus go round and round INSIDE MY HEAD 🎵

Bathed in fridge light eating maltesers out of my own palm like a big smug horse

Can't speak for souls but hoo boy, so many of the sick in mind body and spirit #onthebuses tonight.

Chipping Sparrow #birds #nature #photography

Orff we jolly well go #onthebuses

One of my Nana's favourites, known in our house as 'Randoloph' Scott.

I’m gonna keep sharing these ovarian cancer symptoms whenever I see them. I will add - from personal experience - diarrhoea and fatigue. Get it checked! Remember, there’s no routine screening for ovarian cancer.

This was the last bear captured on the cameras this fall. It has been almost 3 weeks since any bear activity. Rest well, bears.

Sigh.

On Friday during Storm Claudia I spent seven hours at work and five hours traveling around on buses. It's called the Library Cluster System by library execs. That's not what library assistants call it.