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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The relentless gaslighting of autistic experience

Edward the Blue Engine looking sad, with the caption 'when someone yet again tells you that actually it's not too hot in here at all, and to stop being silly'

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I see things like this and I can't help but think that giftedness was a nice way to tell wealthy American parents that their kids were autistic

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Jo Billington @drjobillington.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

My favourite Gary Larson panel ever.

Image of a cartoon young boy inside a wasp nest. 2 wasps in trenchcoats are talking about the holes in the nest, which appear to have been made by stones thrown from inside the hive. They haven't noticed the young boy.

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A reminder that the whole autism vaccine myth depends heavily on the fact people would rather their kids died than be autistic.

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Grim Art Group @grimartgroup.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

You can't get micro-machines any more so how the hell am I supposed to protect my home from burglars

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Such a sad loss, last year 😔 This one, definitely among my favourite picks from the great man’s canon 😍 Night and Rooftops by Harold Riley (1934 - 2023) #Art

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Grim Art Group @grimartgroup.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Ordsall Lane, Salford by Steven Scholes (b.1952) #Art

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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 08/12/2024

Seeing a lot of standing stones amongst the herons, pizzas and autism on my feed. Now I'm hoping for forlorn, abandoned industrial architecture. More forlorn, industrial architecture please Bluesky

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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 08/12/2024

There's not enough coffee in the world to make December worthwhile

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Raven @cyber-raven.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I swear this is what Lego thinks of all of us lmao

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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 08/12/2024

I'm sorry but the Japanese cover of my book Untypical is the best cover I've ever seen.

Japanese cover of Untypical with a large black moomin shaped thing drinking tea on a backdrop of trees

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Good luck everyone in the South West tonight and tomorrow. Looks like it's going to be rather windy.

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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I think this is a parody image but my god it goes hard

Reddy Kilowatt, the US electricity mascot from the 1920s, pulling a knife on a child with the caption "remember kids, electricity will kill you"

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🚨🚨🚨 Enormous news: the Constitutional Court of Romania has unanimously decided to cancel the presidential elections, G4 Media reports. The electoral process for the election of the Romanian president has to be re-run in its entirety, with the government setting a new date.

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My feed is packed with herons and pizzas and I'm not sure why. Either the algorithm knows something I don't, or everyone is taking photos of a presumed heron infestation and then celebrating with a margarita

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I believe most people would have a picture of a person (probably a child; probably male) in meltdown, or stimming to calm, or holding hands over their ears. Rather than, say, a contented autistic person deep in hyperfocus having a great time. This tells us a lot about society in general, I think.

When people imagine autism, they imagine autistic distress. This is damning of society, isn't it?

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Writers have been using neurodivergent archetypes in film, TV and literature for centuries. The world has always been aware of us, but either put us on an impossible pedestal or (more commonly) laughed at us.

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What's that you say? More Thomas neurodiversity memes? Sure, I have a tonne....

Donald and Douglas from Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends both looking grumpy, with the caption 'when autism wants to read this book and ADHD wants to read all the books'

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My mum and dad are getting me Luigi's Mansion 3 for Christmas. I'm 12.

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*very depressed. Goes to doctors in desperate need of help.* Doctor: "So how are you?" *People-pleasing small talk script activated* Me: "I'm great, how are you doing?"

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I'm playing Skyrim and spending all my time collecting alchemy ingredients, so I'm mostly just picking flowers and catching butterflies. Any dragons that appear I just run away from cos I haven't got time for that.

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You need my neurodivergent Thomas memes in your life, Bluesky.

Picture of Edward the Blue Engine looking very upset with the words 'When you're feeling awful but you have no idea why because of alexithymia and interoception differences.'

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Getting dopamine rewards for completing things *is* why humans are motivated to do anything at the most basic level. If that reward isn't there, and it often isn't if you're ADHD, then motivation ceases to even be a thing, biologically. No wonder I can't even put the kettle on.

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💜🌟🌈 My neuro-affirming starter pack includes a collection of wonderful individuals and organizations dedicated to supporting autistic individuals and effecting positive change. Please follow and share. 💜🌟🌈 go.bsky.app/9N5UEUC

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Oops my hyperfocus on Mt St Helens is back everyone

Mt St Helens before and after the eruption of 1980 - half the mountain has gone

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Hello new followers. I'm an autistic ADHD writer and public speaker who posts often about neurodiversity.

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Why are people so desperate for their music streamer of choice to tell them what they've been listening to all year?

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New lego minifigures representing autistic people are on the way. Surprised by this as all my minifigures are already autistic

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Telling autistic kids that they play 'wrong' is just so cruel and unnecessary.

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