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Shawna Spain

@likesevenspoon.bsky.social
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She/her #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #AmbulatoryWheelchairUser taking a lot about games & pets & #Accessibility - oh also fountain pens - all opinions are my own.

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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Went with Husband to pick up an “edge sander” (huge, heavy, piece of equipment) for him aaaaand Apple Butter from a little place on the side of the road for me. I definitely win that trip lol. Solidly an adult, to think of that as a fun little adventure. 😂😂
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I warned my new EDS specialist Doctor of Physical Therapy doc that I am autistic and I WILL follow every directing she gives me ESPECIALLY if it’s written down. She gave me an app. 😂 and had to edit some of the instructions to make sure I didn’t over do the exercises haha
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why do Maine coon kittens scoop up their dry food with their enormous murder mittens and then clatter it into the floor before eating it?!?
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Aaaaand had another doctor listen to me. Still feels weird when that happens. Let’s see if this new treatment helps. Such a fun year I’m having. Yay? Maybe?
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Husband just said “Because of you, I own more books than I have ever owned. This is your fault.” Over a stack of woodworking books he was taking out to his workshop. Whoops. 😂
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There are five fluffy cats in this house (don’t ask) and NONE of them are cuddling me. Despite me not being able to move from this bed. How dare. Why even have cats.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’m so used to moving every other minute, even when I’m sleeping, due to joint, spine, and muscle stressing or whatever. Having a procedure that restricts my movements is so uncomfortable. Heck.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
When the procedure might be worse than the symptoms is treating…sigh. Cross your fingers for me folks.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Gave up and built a friggin symptom tracker to track my symptoms before, during, and after a procedure this week - because NOTHING exists like I need, dang it. I know my brain fog is going to be so bad I need a button clicking simple tracker to get ANY useful information during all of this!!!
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Sad how surprising it is for a new doctor believing my description of my symptoms. Like. Now what? Oh right, they order tests to confirm. The novelty. And after that? Oh a back up plan for handling symptoms if the tests are inclusive? Weird. Just…weird.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Rolled into a new doctors office expecting to roll out with one 3-letter-abbreviation diagnosis. Instead rolled out with two additional 3-letter-abbreviation probable diagnosis. And they’re both terribly exciting. Sigh. Answers are always good, I keep telling myself.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Okay. The ridiculous real bird noises need to STOP lol - messing up my understanding of the movie I’m watching. Weirdly distracting.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
My team really needs to stop letting me borrow their spell slots to upcast Hunger of Hadar. Enabling the creepy murder is not good for this character lol.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I don’t often switch the main novel I’m reading in the middle of the book, but heck when Martha Wells newest Murderbot book comes out, here we go!
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Sigh. More and more confirmation that I stop breathing without realizing it. Sigh. SIGH.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I just told my husband he is wrong about very few things, relatively, and he asked for that in writing. So here we are.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Apparently. While asleep. I declared the bed a boat which had ghost cats and magic librarians.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
INTERNET tell me how to keep my salt count up heck pots the hecks
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Could not tell if the noise we were hearing was Maddy growling or the noise the motor on the toy was making as Maddy put strain out it but pulling. Turns out it’s Maddy. Little goofball.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
My new terrible - TERRIBLE - habit is cheerfully saying “Vibes!” With absolutely no other context when I don’t feel like answering a question. Better or worse than cheerfully saying “Reasons!” <— previous terrible habit. Only you can tell.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Somebody ridiculous referred to me as an AI expert today. So. It’s happened. Again. My suspicion driven research and unprompted Rants and Opinions and Fact Spouting have once again manifested in my being mistaken as An Expert. Sigh.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Normalizing pain should not be a thing.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
When someone says “I think I’ve seen that” but I’m talking about a BOOK I sort of glitch out for a second. (No, not books that are ALSO movies or whatever. Just. Book. Book book.)
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Told A. I’d had a dream where he kept replacing the toilet seats - just with regular toilet seats, nothing fancy or out of the ordinary. And wouldn’t talk about it “let’s talk later” he’d say, in the dream. But I found out he’s been hanging them on the side of the barn. The side I couldn’t see -
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
When I wake up in the morning, I can not see the beautiful sunrise on the mountains visible thru our bedroom window (no glasses). So I ask husband if the sunrise is pretty, and he points his phone at it, and zooms in with the camera. So I can see it too. Without glasses. Isn’t that adorable?
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Wish I’d thought to hire someone to explain any and all math to me before I took this course.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
BOTH of us put honey in the tea this morning. This is what comes of helping. 😂
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
“So you want me to do math to remember our bank location? Which is just a horrible building FULL of MATH? Thanks, you know me SO WELL” as my husband cackles with glee.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I know I refer to myself as pedantic all the time but I forgot how much it hurts when someone yells it at me as an accusation. :(
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Husband decided to wake up this morning and ruin ice cream for me. No. I won’t tell you how. (And no it wasn’t intentional lol)
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I absolutely. Can not believe. That one of my best friends. Could somehow get me to do 3 hours of MATH for the first time in my entire life without paying attention to time AT ALL. No, it was not fun - but she still engaged me despite my rage at stupid math.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
We have this kitten cat, who screams at you the instant you come downstairs in the morning. Over and over. There’s nothing wrong with her - we’ve asked the vet, multiple times. She has food, water, litter box. She just seems to want to be pet. But while she’s screaming at you…she’s also running away
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Sigh. The Maine Coons are learning more, every day. Like how to ignore what they learned the day before…little smart monsters.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Every now and then I get the same feelings for my husband that I used to get when I was first learning how I feel when I started to like him a whole bunch.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Watching a full grown man following a tiny baby princess kitten who is crying plaintively at him, to see what she needs help with, gentle steps to make sure she doesn’t feel hunted, gentle questions to help her feel heard, is such a nice way to start the day.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
“Never send a husband to do a best friends job” indeed.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
When one of the kitten cats who can not stop being annoying while you eat your breakfast is missing and you realize they must be stuck somewhere. When the handsomest kitten cat doesn’t grumble for his morning pets and you remember he has left this realm and it feels like you forgot to breathe.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 05/12/2025
“Looking happy isn’t meaningful if you’re rewarded for affecting happiness & punished for looking visibly distressed. Making the best of a bad situation isn’t consent.” This is a post about ABA therapy specifically & special ed in general, by Real Social Skills: realsocialskills.org/2015/07/17/a...
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Appearing to enjoy behavior modificiation is not meaningful – Real Social Skills
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George Potter 🔶 @georgepotter.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This. Space is a *terrible* place for data centres. Let's start with the fact that the biggest issue for data centres is shedding heat, and that shedding heat into an actual vacuum is really, really, really hard.
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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
#VaccinationsSaveLives and they help prevent debilitating diseases like polio. One of the best reasons for scientific research/advances is to cure what ails us. Why would we ever choose to revert to a time when no cure existed? (See photo of children in iron lungs.) #ScienceIsReal #BelieveInScience
Photo of rows of children encased in iron lungs as treatment for polio before scientific advances created a vaccination that would free children globally from suffering from it. Vaccinations save lives. Photo credited to the British Science Musuem archives.
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Dr. Rachel Kowert @drkowert.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
✨ ICYMI ✨ I wrote a book series that celebrates the power of the everyday kid, doing everyday things, with their everyday abilities. The books and audiobooks are FREE to download (avail across platforms) Explore the world of Cloud Canyon here: www.talesfromcloudcanyon.com
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Tales From Cloud Canyon | Dr. Rachel Kowert
A series of short stories celebrating everyday children, doing everyday things, with their everyday abilities.
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Vee Mus'e (she/her) @veemuse.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
There is something so frustrating being sick when you're off work and then having to work when you are starting to feel better. It's even more so when it's now two weekends in a row.
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
If I put a tiny free library in the middle of no where is that ridiculously pointless???
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Steady increase in flaring symptoms culminating in very bad pain / mobility day, immediately followed by a day of several inches of snow. But no, there’s “nothing wrong” with me. They say. Clearly I should “just” exercise more. (Old complaint but grumpily relevant today)
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Shawna Spain @likesevenspoon.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
It always amuses me when I pull a crispy iced rice pack out of the fridge and put it on my blazing hot joint and a mere minute later the pack is warmer than room temperature where it touched the joint.
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
What I want to say about Alice is this: we have not decided as a society that we want people like her to live as human beings. Currently, the regime under which she lived & died is closing off the elements that made her extraordinary life possible. Her work is literally being erased.
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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
If you're just stumbling across everyone's posts about Alice Wong ( @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ) today, she was an active writer and editor, in addition to her work as a disability visibility advocate with disabilityvisibilityproject.com
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Disability Visibility Project
"Creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture"
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
So I did the thing before I chickened out (or came to my senses) and threw up a GFM as a stop gap measure. I hate doing it more than anyone will hate seeing another fund raiser. gofund.me/f5615787f
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Donate to Chip in to help with the cost of existence while I job hunt., organized by Tanya DePass
Like many of those in the games industry, I was laid off back… Tanya DePass needs your support for Chip in to help with the cost of existence while I job hunt.
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Nix~🍉 @punklenix.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
eh? EH? EEEEHHHH? Shiny! I have a shop full of SHINY! Shiny for gift giving, shiny for self! Multi purpose SHINY! *All proceeded from shiny go towards survival and MAYBE if I'm lucky, a nice turkey sammich ko-fi.com/mcetching/shop
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Visit Nix's House Of Glass's Shop!
I've opened a shop. Come take a look!
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