#autism
Oh my, I just started a blog on my website 🤪. Who even am I? 😂
In future it will be filled with tips and tricks about photographing in the world whilst living with autism, and creating art as a queer trans man wanting community unity.
I hope you drop by, share with your folx, and find it mighty helpful. 😍
Many thanks to Tanya Adkin for laying out her concept of "meerkat mode" in this article.
I think a lot of people will relate to it.
https://emergentdivergence.com/2023/06/06/what-is-meerkat-mode-and-how-does-it-relate-to-audhd/
@actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy
#actuallyautistic #autism #autistic #adhd #audhd #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #autisticburnout #atypicalburnout #schizophrenic #psychosis #mentahealth #schizophrenia #ptsd #mentalhealthawareness #eatingdisorders

There are many high school students who say, “I will take university entrance exams for the time being.”
In Japan, many students try to enter universities at the age of 18, and for some reason I (or rather, my parents) do the same without thinking too much about it.
In the future, it would be good to enter after finding out what you want to learn as you get older.
I tell my son that too.
@servelan @hosford42 @actuallyautistic I started using a Day-Timer decades ago (when I knew about my #ADHD but not about #autism). I know it won't work for everyone, but for me it has become an indispensible tool for daily living.
Brand NEW Item! - Coffee Mug with "delicious Normie Tears" printed on it.
#normal #selfhelp #expression #tears #social #mentalhealth #Psychology #liberation #mental #bold #delicious #LGBT #autism #adhd #abnormal #disabled
#boldness #behavior #autismawareness #smartass #coffee #mug
https://funhouseradio.myspreadshop.com/delicious+normie+tears+black+text-A647f8094d1f2076a3a4c0751
One of the groups I work with are women and girls on the #Autism spectrum. I love helping this population as they work to understand their own unique challenges and strengths. more information at https://www.hqpsych.com/autism
New #BlogPost today! Janko Nešić proposes an ecological-enactive account of #autism spectrum disorder http://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2023/06/ecological-enactive-account-of-autism.html
@philosophy @philosophyofpsychiatry @psychiatry
A lil’ bit about our mission from our founder. Give us a follow on TikTok for more!
https://TikTok.com/@dreamzillaorg
#neurodiversity
#neurodiversityrocks
#neurodivergent
#bigbadself
#autism
#autistic
#adhd

Some highlights from our first event, a #sensorysafe paddock tour at during the GT World Challenge America race at @COTA
Read the recap at https://dreamzilla.org/blogs/news/dreamzilla-hosts-sensory-safe-paddock-tour-at-circuit-of-the-americas

Hi new people.
I'm autistic & adhd: Just a reminder, if I'm switching thoughts and ideas rapidly and its giving you whiplash. (This isnt a flippant joke. I really am.)
I mean its giving me whiplash too but I'm kinda used to it after 3 decades. Kinda...🙃
I struggle to stay on the same thought for more than a minute, and the thought can come back anywhere within hours to years.
So, that's just how my posts and artwork will be.
I have done O N E good coping mechanism
I shall reward myself with T H R E E bad coping mechanism
As a treat.
A week later, @autismcrisis shares: ... retraction notice for egregious baseless "autism tsunami" paper claiming dire consequences ("a serious threat to the economic future of the U.S.") if autism is not prevented
And a reply, from @KatyCycles: Gosh, best not tell them that Autism has already happened and they probably wouldn’t have modern software & data security let alone any number of other brilliant contributions to the world without it.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-023-06016-4
If you have an interest in psychosis, this article is a "must-read"
Co-authored with Tanya Adkin
@autisticadvocacy @actuallyautistic #autistic #autism #adhd #audhd #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #psychosis #schizophrenia #schizophrenic #mentahealth #mentalhealthawareness #autisticburnout #atypicalburnout

"We must begin the process of making #Cork an #autism-friendly city... The majority of towns and villages have few if any public #toilets. The situation in #CorkCity is no different.
The provision of #toilet and #seating facilities is an #equality issue: For older persons, those with young children, those without money to spend in private enterprise, and those with a #disability, #access to a toilet can be the difference between #communities being #accessible or not.”
https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-41155252.html
I think it's almost impossible in Japan to change a school from the inside.
School supremacy will change if we do not create an organization outside the school, centered not on the school but on the board of education, etc.
And under the board there should be options of usual schools, free schools, alternative schools, and home schools.
I'm autistic, mentally and chronically ill, not a CHILD.
Next up: "The Gays 🌈"
Link doesn't speak, but damn, that boy can think up some very unwoke stuff 🧠 It's okay though, he's only racist during sex.
#blacked #bbc #shota #yaoi #faggot #gay #caption #goon #autism #humiliation #thelegendofzelda #link #LGBTpridemonth #pridemonth #lgbt

I have just launched a new campaign and would love your support 🙏💗
We need to ensure all people can live a participatory life in their communities & the time to act is NOW!
Sign the petition here 👇
#CovidIsNotOver #disability #autism #vulnerable #online #springst #auspol #aslongasittakes #inclusion #isolated #petition #covidisntover #aslongasittakes #maskup #wearamask #stayathome #disabilityinclusion #adhd #anxiety #depression #support #wematter
The mother bringing autism out of the dark in Iraq
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-65754100
#Baghdad #Iraq #Babylon #MiddleEast #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Stigma #Taboo
I snagged this link from a friend of Facebook for my blog, but thought it might resonate here too. It's about one woman's experience growing up autistic without the diagnosis and why that's more common than generally believed. #autism #MentalHealth #WomenWithAutism
https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/theres-no-one-way-to-be-autistic/p0fqdsrd
The school counselors at the elementary and junior high schools when my sons stopped going to school, all talked about "how to get my sons back to school," and my wife and I were heavily blamed. .
In October 2019, the Japanese government announced a new "how to support school refusal".
Has the current support changed?

People asked me to talk more about my experiences with psychosis. So I did!
"Autistic people may be less likely to receive support for psychosis"
https://emergentdivergence.com/2023/06/04/what-is-unique-about-being-schizophrenic-and-autistic/
#actuallyautistic #autism #autistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #psychosis #psychotic #schizophrenia #Schizophrenic #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness

AUTISTICS, CHOOSE YOUR FORK! | #Autism Memes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVoxCnaeNRI
#spectrum #autistic #adhd
We all have blind spots, because no one can live through all possible experiences. But people can make choices to either find and reduce them or to pretend they don't exist.
#Autism #autistic #ActuallyAutistic #AutismAcceptance #Acceptance #Understanding #Advocacy
Does anyone know what it actually means when people say "early interventions" for autistic kids?
Until I've got my head around what it means, I don't think I can even hope to answer the question of whether they're good or not!
#RubyBridges was more progressive at 6 than #Kamala will ever be. I voted for the neolibs because #fascism.
Kamala is a cop at heart. She pandered to #cannabis users. I use it for #PTSD, #autism, ulcerative colitis. I DESPISE her for mocking me. Joe #Biden is a corporate #Delaware (tax haven) ghoul. He won with a promise of helping with #studentdebt, medical cannabis. I paid off my child's loans 42K and they got #creditscore hit.
Why do YOU think poll numbers are low?
You heard me right! Barnes & Noble and Waterstones are now stocking my books!
Please reblog this!
Waterstones https://www.waterstones.com/book/unusual-medicine/david-gray-hammond/9798364119001
Barnes & Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unusual-medicine-david-gray-hammond/1143364087
@actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy @bookstodon #autism #autistic #autisticauthor #author #neurodiversity #neurodivergent

Asking #allistic about #autism is like asking fishes about #Birdism: being scared about breathing under water. Ducks are highfunctioning-birds and hummingbirds low-functioning.
Because they judge "functioning" by the ability to accept having the head under water. The longer, the more functioning.
Showing fear of drowing is a symptom, that can be reduced by exposing the bird to water again and again. The best way to (dis)solve the problem, is to "teach" the bird to be under water.
Part 140: False Starts And Big Pauses
In this week's blog; Sia and the BBC. Also, some important information about the future of the blog. The link is in my profile.
#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic
#Sia
Autistic people experience psychosis far more often than you would realise.
We have to start talking about it.
I'm Schizophrenic, and I will not be ashamed of that.
https://emergentdivergence.com/2023/06/03/autism-and-psychosis-the-elephant-in-the-room/
#actuallyautistic #autism #autistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #mad #madness #adhd #audhd #schizophrenia #Schizophrenic #insanity #stigma #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #psychosis #psychotic #ableism #saneism

In tomorrow’s blog, Sia in the news again! Plus, some important news about the blog and my writing. It goes live Sunday 4th June at 08:00 GMT, here:
https://darrenscothern.com/blog/
#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic
I stole this quote from a social research textbook years ago and framed it. Little did I know I was struggling with this aspect of my autistic experience. I need, even expect, people to explain their intentions when they communicate with me or anyone else.
#Autism #Sociology

I just heard about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathological_demand_avoidance and by God it's me. Anytime I'm told I "should" do something, it immediately takes 5 times more energy to do it, whether I wanted to do it or not. I thought it was a traumatic response from my mom who still insists on giving me her "suggestions"; didn't think of it as an autism thing. #Autism #AuDHD
Monotropism and the Double Empathy Problem are two of the biggest and most important things to happen to autism research. Get in touch with modern autism science in this issue.
Stimpunks Guide to the NeurodiVerse Issue #5: Redefining Autism Science with Monotropism and the Double Empathy Problem
Wow!
"Emerging research has implicated inflammation and immunological dysfunction as potential players in a variety of neuropsychiatric conditions, including #schizophrenia, #depression and #autism.
#Lupus
https://www.facebook.com/8002724/posts/pfbid0WWhjLcsWyTGnhdBEG82pMfgyYBJtZrn4fp4ymMRU8gvnV4pnZpoG6sBWcTbH5ASJl/?sfnsn=mo&mibextid=VhDh1V
K1 möchte vor dem Einschlafen noch ein bisschen im aktuellen Lieblingsbuch lesen. Es holt die Formelsammlung. Weissde Bescheid. 🥰 #autism
Autism Advocates Are Dreading a Campaign Season of Insinuations About Ron DeSantis - POLITICO https://apple.news/ABTvzz5mIQei3ueaSp9sTUA #autism #autistic
New instance, new #introduction!
My name is Elizabeth (she/her) & I'm #ActuallyAutistic. I have an #autoimmune disease that messes w/ my hands but you usually can't tell because I talk a *lot* 😆
I also have a cat named Moon, too many unread books on my Kindle, a flower garden taking over my apartment balcony & I get ridiculously excited about #Halloween.
A few interests: #Birding, #Gardening, #HousePlants, #Books & #Horror (books, movies & TV).
Feel free to say hi! 🤓
Here's an interview I had the pleasure of doing last month with Anne Borden King (https://a4aontario.com) on autistic self-advocacy through the generations. It was my first time being out as autistic and out as trans at the same time, and on camera, and answering questions, so I was pretty nervous. I want to thank NUAbility for putting this #NationalAccessAbilityWeek conference together.
#DisabilityJustice #Autism #TwoSpirit
https://youtu.be/-0Gi_X48iDg
"Children and adults with disabilities have continued to suffer from painful and dangerous electric shocks. We urge you to end this abuse."
- @autselfadvocacy
Click the link below to read more.
https://progressive.org/latest/smart-ass-cripple-the-right-to-not-be-shocked-ervin-20230531/
"Priscilla exists in a strange time capsule... drag queens were coming out of the ballrooms and into the living rooms of regular families around the world for lost little neuroqueer kids like me to stumble upon..." you can read more here⬇
https://autcasts.substack.com/p/you-can-make-a-fine-living-in-a-pair
#autism #actuallyautistic #ADHD #neurodivergent #movies #films #priscilla #suburbia #growingup #pride #pridemonth #queer #neuroqueer #neurokin #neuropride

I'll also plug that both our #cargobikes are electric, and e-cargobikes can be helpful for some disabled people. I, for example, get sore and tired easily due to Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, and I find driving sensorily overwhelming due to speed because of Autism and ADHD. Electric cargobikes go slower, can carry all the things I need, and help me move even if I'm too tired/sore to walk or pedal an analog bike. They are barrier removers, and mobility devices. #Autism #ADHD #AuDHD #YEGBike
My cancer, which was in my brain stem, and the treatment I got for it lessened my ability at masking my pansexuality, desire for polyamory, desire for BDSM, and my autism. I wrote an article about it:
https://medium.com/prismnpen/did-my-cancer-turn-me-queer-and-autistic-e49678766e1a
#lgbtq #lgbtqia #queer #ComingOut #cancer #CreativeNonFiction #sex #BDSM #autism #ActuallyAutistic #pansexual #pansexuality #polyamory #polyamorous #divorce #lymphoma #PCNSLymphoma #CNS #PhysicalHealth #MentalHealth #BrainStem #chemo #StemCellTransplant #masking
Speaking as an #autism historian, this is ridiculous harmful nonsense. But because Elon is a billionaire, the media has to pretend that it's a serious idea. https://reuters.com/science/elon-musks-neuralink-gets-us-fda-approval-human-clinical-study-brain-implants-2023-05-25/

I'm trying to put together a short list of the basic concepts that are essential to understanding the #ActuallyAutistic experience of life. These can be helpful for explaining things to allistics/neurotypicals, but also for seeing ourselves from our own perspective instead of how we are failed NTs. I think it's just a few (albeit big) concepts. Here's my basic list:
- #DoubleEmpathyProblem
- #SocialModelOfDisability
- #Monotropism
- #VariableCompetency
- #CPTSD
#AskingAutistics Do you have your own short list of concepts for understanding or explaining #autism? What are the big ideas that shape your experience of #autistic life?
I was just driving into town (it's dark here) and was getting SO annoyed that every car coming the opposite way had their high beams on.
..and then I remembered I'm #autistic and they don't have their highs on, I'm just completely sensory overloaded after today.
Managing Stress: The Needs of Autistic Adults in Video Calling
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3359236
Video calling (VC) aims to create multi-modal, collaborative environments that are "just like being there." However, we found that autistic individuals, who exhibit atypical social and cognitive processing, may not share this goal.
I feel like I could write an essay about this...
#psychology @psychology #autism @actuallyautistic
Feds Say Deputies in Louisiana May Have Violated Law in Death of Autistic Teen
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Officers sat on the 16-year-old’s back for nine minutes before he died. They claim they needed to do so because he posed a threat.
#Louisiana #Police #Autism #Autistic #CriminalJustice #Teens #DOJ
My autistic adult son had a nice chat with Rose this afternoon.
私の自閉症の成人息子は今日の午後、ローズと楽しくおしゃべりをしました。#autism #ヤギ #goats #GoatsOfMastodon

I'll be frank. I need more people reading me on #Medium and more people subscribing on ko-fi.
I'm #disabled from my #cancer, but also from the fact that my #cancer caused me to lose my ability to #mask my #autism. Maybe I'll be able to find myself in place in the workplace, but right now I'm not seeing it.
#Subscriptions on ko-fi start as low as one dollar a month. At that level you're supporting me and you get to direct message me if you want to.
My wife got her test confirmed! She is #AutHD! #Autism #ADHD #neurodivergent
A group of us are brain-storming about forming a neurodivergent collective, where we share skills, inspiration, and create a pipeline for new creatives, new voices in #autism have an easy, free platform to publish articles, podcasts, videos, and more.
As part of this effort we're exploring tranisitioning my successful AutisticAF Out Loud blog, podcast, and YouTube channel from my personal effort to a resource and publishing pipeline for all neurodivergent creatives.
8 of us... so far... are beginning to divide up tasks and kick around ideas toward a Mission statement.
If you have an interest... join the converstation:
https://join.slack.com/t/afolcollectiv-5w81325/shared_invite/zt-1w8mg9okx-6XoRlUAtDhFfzgxTHp_Wzw
@actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #AskingAutistics #neurodivergent #neurodiversity
My wife is having her #AuDHD evaluation today and I'm here supporting her! #neurodivergent #Autism #ADHD :flan_strong: 🧠
The removalists packed almost everything today, including my meds because telling them not to pack a specific box and putting a giant neon pink sticky note on it wasn't enough.
They're all in a box inside a truck inside a locked security area in another suburb.
I at least have some insulin because that's kept in the fridge. But my 3 anti-hypertensives, 2 diabetic meds, fibromyalgia meds, pain relief, adhd meds and migraine meds are all packed in a box.
New Substack Post:
Accepting My Differences & Limitations as Self-care
Part 2: Neurodivergence & Dysregulation
"Just observing what was happening in my body and making some connection as to why or seeing what might help make my life easier (no matter how weird it might look or feel) made all the difference in how I show up or take care of myself."
#autism #adhd #amwriting #essay #disability #writing #trauma #cptsd #ptsd #photo #photography #mentalhealth

@rabia_elizabeth @actuallyautistic
I am the thoughts I choose to cultivate and express. The older I get, the more I have to take responsibility of what I am, because every moment is another moment when I get to make choices that build who I am.
Like all beings in this reality, I am both fragile and finite and an infinite part of World All. My Ancestors are behind me, and I will be behind of some things that will be after I am gone.
And where does #Autism fit in all this? 5/
'I asked people one question: Who are you?
Almost unilaterally, non-autistic people began describing themselves in terms of their relationships to others– if they were a parent, a spouse, what their career was, where they lived, what their religion is, and what their roles were related to others (sister to a Senator, military brat, pastor’s wife, soccer mom, etc.).
And, almost unilaterally, #Autistic people described themselves as what they loved to do, what their values were, and what they had experienced. Many even said this, having intuited the basis of the theory. Among the answers were, “I am a verb,” or “I am what I love,” or “Who I am is what I do.” Autistics would answer, “Lover of Justice,” or “Dreamer,” or “One who values autonomy.” Some would describe themselves as a “lover of” or “obsessed with” an intense passion, like trains, lichen and fungi, or theoretical physics and black holes.'
A group of us are brain-storming about forming a neurodivergent collective, where we share skills, inspiration, and create a pipeline for new creatives, new voices in #autism have an easy, free platform to publish articles, podcasts, videos, and more.
As part of this effort we're exploring tranisitioning my successful AutisticAF Out Loud blog, podcast, and YouTube channel from my personal effort to a resource and publishing pipeline for all neurodivergent creatives.
8 of us... so far... are beginning to divide up tasks and kick around ideas toward a Mission statement.
If you have an interest... join the converstation:
https://join.slack.com/t/afolcollectiv-5w81325/shared_invite/zt-1w8mg9okx-6XoRlUAtDhFfzgxTHp_Wzw
@actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #AskingAutistics #neurodivergent #neurodiversity

I'm so incredibly stressed with moving that I can't even explain it. And friends keep explaining to me "yeah, moving is stressful but you'll be ok."
What if I'm not? Like I'm agoraphobic and I literally have people in my house touching all my things and the safe space I'd usually retreat to to help with that doesn't exist because it's packed in boxes. And it feeling safe on the other end of the move is months and maybe years away because it's not going to be MY safe space for a long time, it's just going to be "the new house".
Please stop telling me that I'll be ok when I very much might not be.
Said it before and saying it again:
"The eyes are windows to the soul" makes a LOT more sense if you think about how
1. windows are primarily for letting visual information IN for the inhabitants of the house
2. when other people look at your window from outside, they mostly just see their own self projected onto it
#autism #thoughts
#neurotypicals
#illogic
#IAmBetterAtMetaphorsThanYouThink
Please tell people about this, it really helps me out!
My book "The New Normal: Autistic musings on the threat of a broken society" is currently available on kindle on the UK and US for ⅓ of it's usual price.
You can use the links below to get it. If not, a share is appreciated.
US Link https://a.co/d/e1DuZrd
UK link https://amzn.eu/d/8ikPYke
#actuallyautistic #autism #autistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #autisticauthor
I'm so close to meeting my fundraising goal of $3500 by my birthday! This will allow me to completely clear one of my debts!
#mutualaid #gfm #crowdfund #debt #BlackMastodon #birthday #disability #Autism
Can we stop using mental illness as a label when talking about police brutality and white supremacy?
No, they aren't psychopaths. They're racists.
They aren't sociopaths. They're racists.
They aren't narcissists. They're racist.
If you label them as being mentally ill, you're:
a) being shitty towards those of us with mental illness
b) giving them an excuse for their bullshit.
Please stop it.
#Disability #audhd #autism #adhd #Ableism #racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #anarchism
My obsession with The Dude, is a complicated, a lotta ins, a lotta outs and a lotta what-have-yous!
I wrote about surviving the square world as an #ActuallyAutistic person, work and adulting woes, comfort viewing and Echolalia in The Big Lebowski!
https://autcasts.substack.com/p/the-bums-will-always-lose
#autism #actuallyautistic #ADHD #neurodivergent #neurokin #neuropride #autcasts #diagnosis #autismdiagnosis #outcasts #movies #films #thedude #coenbrothers #jeffbridges #adulting #work #echolalia