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Very late diagnosed #ActuallyAutistic, still trying to make sense of it.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People aren’t faking their disabilities, they’re faking being well. We know society hates us. We know we will be judged for using assistive devices. Many of us take years to get the courage to lean in to accommodations. Stop judging. Help us build a more inclusive world.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Every week the richest man in the world, who is both an unambiguous white supremacist and the largest Republican donor, posts heinous racist and antisemitic slop to the social media network he controls. Every week, reporters fail to treat this as a scandal worth their readers' time.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 16/08/2026
Please read this if you can. And thank you to @racheledini.bsky.social for sharing this. 💔
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 14/08/2026
RFK the Lesser said "something must have happened in the 90's" as autism rates have since 'spiked.' Actually, Robert, the DSM-IV happened in 1994. It added the Asperger's diagnosis. Suddenly, people who hadn't been eligible for an autism diagnosis ... were. This is not a mystery. Or a conspiracy.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
James Talarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves. And it worked.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 02/08/2026
What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.
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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.
Man yelling into bored woman's ear in nightclub meme captioned 

I can summarize that for you
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Shannon Rosa @shannonrosa.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
Autistic-led org in the Netherlands is fighting back against ABA therapy: "75% of the complaints it has received are from youngsters who have found the experience to be traumatic. And more than 90% of them have been diagnosed with post traumatic stress.”
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Parents call for action on controversial autism therapy ABA - DutchNews.nl
Parents of children with autism are calling on the government to ban a controversial treatment known as ABA, which some have compared to gay conversion therapy, Trouw reported on Thursday. So far 2,50...
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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
One of the quieter forms of ableism is expecting disabled people to do all the relationship-building. To ask. To follow up. To remind. To chase. To accommodate. To make everyone else comfortable.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Truly demoralizing to be repeatedly told "work hard, be nice, and things will work out", only to watch unqualified people keep failing up because they are good at making bosses and rich conservatives feel great about themselves.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 27/04/2026
Yes. We have known this for a long time
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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Happy World Autism Day
A meme based on Lucy from Fallout 

Lucy in the Vault: "Gifted" Kid
Lucy at the end of Fallout: Burned out Autistic Adult.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Brutal.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION
WILL DIE TONIGHT
My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools.
Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's
"keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's
"we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight."
It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before.
"It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time.
A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead.
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Mukad A QuBoy
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Jade Farrington (she/her) @jadefarrington.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
What happens when the inevitable tide of change comes crashing in and you're left staring at a smashed sandcastle? I feel like “a couple of times” is probably a gross understatement, particularly if you’re neurodivergent. jadefarrington.substack.com/p/when-the-i...
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When the Inevitable Tide of Change Comes Crashing In
Rebuilding your sandcastle
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 21/03/2026
🧵 don’t know who needs to hear this but if your loved one is diagnosed Autistic, PLEASE don’t say “oh now you’re autistic suddenly everything is all about autism” I get that it’s hard to understand what it’s like to be in our shoes let me try to paint a picture: your whole life nothing made sense
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Science Magazine @science.org · 28/01/2026
The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office. A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: scim.ag/4boPkq8
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This week's cover @thelancet.com
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 07/12/2024
There's a nearly universal experience of workplace trauma where Autistics experience exactly this: hired for your attention to detail praised for being thorough resented for your nitpicking admonished for not letting something go & leave because burnout rinse. repeat. variations on a theme.
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 24/02/2026
“the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building.” @mckay4senate.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...
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What Elon Has Done
Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/02/2026
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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Reuven Blau @reuvenblau.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
"About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments." www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...
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'Reminds me of Anne Frank': Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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Sorry, Wrong Planet @sorrywrongplanet.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
'Any path back to political stability in the United States ... will require, as a precondition, investigations, prosecutions and tribunals to assess and punish those responsible for these actions.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Masked government thugs snuffed out Alex Pretti’s life in broad daylight | Moira Donegan
If they’re trying to eliminate witnesses, they cannot eliminate us all
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Jason Dove Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Oh, you know, just a metro daily newspaper running a service journalism roundup of munitions the government has used against its own people
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It wasn’t about the right to bear arms against tyranny. It wasn't about states’ rights. It was about arming white nationalists and using federal power to crush any state that refuses to submit.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Kuba @kayes67.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I don’t think a state that is threatening wars of territorial aggression and has random death squads wandering about its mid-tier cities assassinating civilians should be hosting the World Cup
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Matthew O'Toole, leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) in the Northern Ireland Assembly. ✊
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I was struck, seeing this on the tube, by the contemporary resonance of Auden"s Epitaph on a Tyrant in this phase of the global projection of Trump’s sociopathic narcissism
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 10/01/2026
This is Minneapolis: -drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents -go to brunch with your wife -get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt -get groceries as helicopters roar overhead -deliver food & this vehicle passes you
Photo through the windshield of a car showing an armored police vehicle driving on Nicollet
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Tired
I am so tired of waiting,
Aren't you,
For the world to become good And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two - And see what worms are eating
At the rind.
Langston Hughes
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Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @nicolefilippone.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Internalized autism is being held to neurotypical standards because you look completely "normal," failing to meet those standards because you're literally disabled... and being told incessantly your entire life that your behavior is unacceptable and you should have known better.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 15/11/2025
bringing this statement over from Alice’s Twitter. it appears the below was Alice’s last post before passing. I am heartbroken
This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing.
Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin.
We need more stories about us and our culture.
You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 10/11/2025
No health care, no deal.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 31/10/2025
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Being autistic in a capitalist world means you’re constantly asked to prove your humanity by performing productivity. And then they wonder why we burn out.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I did not expect this post to resonate with so many people, but it makes sense considering how many people have been laid off or are going through layoffs rn. Gen X and Millennials were also taught to prioritize work and our careers, only to see homes become too expensive to buy and wages stagnate.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Venice Bakery is remembering those that have died in ICE custody this year by adding them to their community altar for Dia de Los Muertos. By @eltragon.bsky.social
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Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @nicolefilippone.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I don't know who needs to see this, but autistic accommodations include anything that would reduce autistic anxiety. Examples... Travel anxiety... asking for a seat with extra room, pre-boarding a flight, asking for a different hotel room if the one you were given triggers you.
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Sorry, Wrong Planet @sorrywrongplanet.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Joy.
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chrishboyd.bsky.social @chrishboyd.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
ICE took a mother from our school today. She went to support her son at hearing. ICE took her for good measure. The bus driver knew mom was kidnapped. She always picked up the kids. Mom used her one phone call to beg Principal to save her children from ICE. We are a country run by a cruelty cult.
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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
love this! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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A new start after 60: I realised I had autism – and suddenly my life made sense. I have never been so happy
After decades of loneliness and depression, Cathleen Caffrey had come to think of herself as a bad person. Then she learned about others who had struggled to fit in …
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