Reposted by Margery BLooMThinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 13/10/2026Why we are always wary of 'mouse model' autism research: "Over the last couple of decades, billions of dollars have been spent on mouse-model and other non–human-animal modeling of autism, with very little to show." @ejwillingham.bsky.social In the TPGA newsletter: buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...buttondown.comMouse models of autism don't help autistic people or miceOne key reason mouse models of autism exist: to identify drug treatment targets. 45712
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026My son dropped out and is going to do an electrician apprenticeship. He watched his 55 year old father try and find a new job in tech for four years. 020
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026We coregulate all day, every day. First I correct the environment as much as possible. Then we do sensory diet work throughout the day. I also make sure my STAFF is regulated. If a full meltdown is triggered, we shift to keep everyone safe, reassure, and model strategies without telling. 020
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Dear white men, You need to intervene when your bros are showing true colors, lest you be painted with the same brush. A simple, “That’s not okay,” will start. Or are you afraid you’ll be the next bully target? #IAmJaneDoe 000
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I find myself canceling most relies and posts these days. The act of writing it is enough. I don’t need the drama of being misinterpreted/mis”toned”. I have finally reached the age of, “What the fuck are these young people talking about? They don’t make any sense.” I’m only right half the time. 000
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There are worse things that could be stuck in my head. 010
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I have a spare portable if you can come up to the 605/210 junction area to pick it up. This week will be brutal. 010
Reposted by Margery BLooMThinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 04/10/2026Your autistic kid does NOT need to learn how to tie their shoes. Velcro shoes exist. Slip on shoes exist. If tying shoes is not working, please let your kid save their energy to work on the things everyone agrees they CAN & WANT to do. (Same for autistic adults, BTW.) #dyspraxia #autism #disability 1618127
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Dear #IAmJaneDoe humans: Are we all feeling, these many years later, that all those who shamed us were the ones in the wrong. We. Were. Assaulted. Doubly. Once by the predators and again by their supporters. The only thing that changes is the level of public tolerance. Stop tolerating it. Speak up 020
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is stirring up so much for me as the survivor of a similar thing in high school. The *hardest* part was the public knowledge of my pain being treated like I inflicted it on myself because I drank alcohol and had a crush on 1 of the 7 boys at a party I’d been lured to. I hope they have daughters 010
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I lie awake, courtesy of the local police who were stopped in front of my house, lights flashing almost two hours ago, inspecting a car parked in front. I need to start parking my own car out front. Too many weird cars getting towed there lately. 000
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026BTW, it’s the aftermath that’s the worst - when they talk about it, and everyone else shames YOU and not them. So #IAmJaneDoe 010
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Similar, if not quite so awful, events happened to me in the # MeToo 80s when I was in school. It took 25 years of therapy to process what had actually happened to me vs what I thought I had done. Now reprocessing. My perpetrators? Hope they had daughters and are feeling it now. 120
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026As if it weren’t already hard enough knowing what to trust. 000
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My online PDN has been invaluable to me. I have followed many people since my first CUE where we were asked to use Twitter. 000
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I can’t make calls for me, but I’m great at officialese on behalf of others. Maybe a stranger who knows you in oddly intimate ways could be useful right now. 010
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 29/09/202637. My last year in Gen Ed, I had 37 kids in my English 9 classes. It was unsustainable for me. Now I teach 12 students in a nonpublic school. Different kind of insanity. 001
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Everyone needs a daily dose of unadulterated joy. Children are a good way to stop and take the time, but not required, though I’d imagine blowing bubbles for myself would earn some odd looks. 010
Reposted by Margery BLooMAltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 27/09/2026I just got the news Wolf 1273M of the Rescue Creek Pack has been shot outside park boundaries. Vote Like all our lives depend on it Ours and theirs 24353148
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I think about how furious my former district would get when I would set up SSTs to start the assessment referral process on high school students. I helped many ND families get answers, information, and accommodations. 020
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So. Imagine being at a nonpublic school for autism today. Because it was a month, and I’m tired. 000
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026But…I work for a nonprofit that would cheerfully take those dollars, and we DO provide services. Of course we are where the districts send them when they can’t handle the level of disability. 000
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My dog resents teacher take home work. So he brings me ALL his toys. 020
Reposted by Margery BLooMNatalia Zaitseva @nataliadraws.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Yesterday I decided to get my kid a Kinder Surprise egg even though it's an expensive treat for us. We were buying just the egg and at check out a friendly older dude in front of us saw it and asked if he could pay for it. It was such a small gesture but honestly made my day 😌✨ 49217075
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It’s why I can’t retire at 62, and have to go until 65. 010
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026With you. Chronic illness/cancer survivor, so I’m working for insurance until the bitter end. 020
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026More than a dozen surgeries in, experience says: don’t overdo. 110
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It isn’t about us. Not about our control. Not about our personal agenda, or even the state’s agenda. It’s about the human children sitting in front of us who are clearly no longer being served by the current system. Stop blaming the clients. 020
Reposted by Margery BLooMThinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 17/09/2026New research & toolkit: Professionals often miss or misunderstand autistic motor difficulties, so people do not always get the help they need. Part of the [problem] is that the types of tests we use can be uncomfortable or confusing for autistic people. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... #autismjournals.sagepub.comValid when Valued: A Community-Engaged Framework and Toolkit to Improve Identification of Autistic People’s Motor Difficulties in Research and Practice - Haylie L. Miller, Priscila M. Tamplain, Miri T...Many autistic people experience clinically significant motor differences that pose lifelong physical health risks including physical inactivity, cardiometabolic... 24312
Reposted by Margery BLooMRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953 429115964863
Margery BLooM @margeatlarge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026#AutismSchool #ClassPets #GuineaPigs Ophelia helped pick up the trash today. 0113
