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rancoisse

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I sing tenor in the inexpertly Latin-named Vox Caldera and live on a land share west of Cape Byron.

Doing a bit of web app stuff in my spare time...

Another of the recently-self-diagnosed #actuallyautistic, which can tend to make my alternative existence as a RFS Brigade Captain an extra challenge. Oh, and Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, and Empathy.

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@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar futurebird , (edited ) to random

Which had the more sophisticated and subtle sense of humor?

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@futurebird How very odd - this is the first time I've heard of this Heathcliff. And I am very very old

@Alice@beige.party avatar Alice , to random

I always get bummed out whenever I think about chicken wings because every two chicken wings represent one chicken's life, so I think the solution is to genetically mutate chickens so they each have a freakish amount of juicy wings ready for the plucking.

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@Alice Seraphens

@evacide@hachyderm.io avatar evacide , to random

When it is time to do the year-end wrap up, inside you there are two wolves:

One says "HOW DARE YOU?" and recites your achievements like Daenerys Targaryen about to burn a city.

One says "Oh, nevermind. I have no memory of anything I have accomplished. Truly, I have achieved nothing this year."

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@evacide Yes but what did your outie do

@maxleibman@beige.party avatar maxleibman , to random

Hold on—does the official Mastodon client no longer show the federated timeline!?

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@maxleibman Did anyone ever use it?

@Gargron@mastodon.social avatar Gargron , to random

If you enjoy using Mastodon for Android, please consider leaving a positive rating or review on the Play Store, because a lot of people who do leave reviews are like this:

A 1-star review saying "Far-left echo chamber"
A 1-star review saying "I got banned for simply saying good things about Elon Musk and Donald Trump. While others are allowed to say nasty, vile things about them. This app is definitely another leftist dump"

A 1-star review saying "I got banned for simply saying good things about Elon Musk and Donald Trump. While others are allowed to say nasty, vile things about them. This app is definitely another leftist dump"
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@Gargron Done. My review is "Elno is an evil idiot".

@confusius@mastodon.de avatar confusius , to ActuallyAutistic group German

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I stumbled over this papers abstract:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-017-3158-5

It's a view on Franz Kafkas work and biography through the perspective of autism.

Especially this quote catched my interest:
"The function and use of parables are also discussed to support this autism hypothesis..."

I always create metaphors and comparissons to make my point, but never considdered this an autistic thing.

Does anybody know more about that?

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@Jobob @confusius actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group It's just another excuse. We can see through their sweet little efforts at subtlety so easily, and we often forget that they & other NTs can't. So they have to find another way to shore up their belief that we are the ones who are disabled.

@dramypsyd@ohai.social avatar dramypsyd , to ActuallyAutistic group

Question for my actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group friends! Writing an article on the Double Empathy Problem. If you're open to sharing:

  1. Name/pronouns to use for you in the article?
  2. What's your experience with communicating with non-autistics?
  3. How have you had to modify your communication style as an autistic person?
  4. How can NTs better accommodate and understand autistic communication?
  5. Anything else you want to share?
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@dramypsyd actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group 1. He/him
2. Like I'm communicating in a language that isn't my first one. I'm fluent in NT but it takes a noticeable effort.
3. When I learned to speak I tried to do it as well as possible - to my tiny awareness that would take care of the communication issue. That meant talking like James Dibble (ABC TV newsreader in the 60s). Very clipped consonants etc - and a large vocabulary. This got me into strife as you can imagine. So I learned to "vernacularise" my spoken communications (i.e. not using words like "vernacular" lol)
4. For me personally, a good first step would be for NTs to recognise the difference between actually autistic people and some who've claimed the label as an excuse for sociopathic behaviour. I know a few auties and they're all rather nice and bewildered like me. No a-holes among them; I reckon if you're looking for an excuse to be an a-hole then you're an NT, and probably dark triad at that. You know the rest.

@alice@lgbtqia.space avatar alice , to ActuallyAutistic group

Is autism self-diagnosis valid? Yep. 💜

Hey all, after reading dozens of research papers, and meta-analyses, and living through it, I made a thing!

I'd love it if you'd check it out! 🥰

https://codeberg.org/alicewatson/asd-self-dx/src/branch/main

Update: I've added a lot of new stuff to the project.

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AI painting of maze-like pathways through a forest, representing obstacles to getting a formal autism diagnosis.
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@Tooden @ideogram @alice actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group Because they are existentially terrified of us