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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 16h

Autistic children are more likely to experience problems with anxiety than non-autistic kids, which can have lasting effects on their well-being and development. Researchers talked to autistic kids themselves, who said that "Being understood is the safest path." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 17/05/2026

Vance threatens health funding to states, claiming fraud, but “Waiting lists are already long, & the serious fraud—which does happen—isn’t coming from [ppl] who need help, but from bad companies & lax oversight.” @lollardfish.bsky.social to @melodyschreiber.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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JD Vance threatens health funding to states that don’t comply with White House anti-fraud effort

Medicare has already paused hospice and home healthcare agency signups as potential fraud is investigated

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

There is growing evidence that supports Intense World Theory. For example, that study that shows autistic brains produce 42% more information at rest. All of that hyper-functioning of neurons produces more input to process. And autistics process information more as it is.

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Intense World Theory explains my experience perfectly. Also monotropism. Non-deficit-based theories.

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

It's possible that some autistics with forms of lesser sensory sensitivity might be experiencing a kind of sensory shut-down to find equilibrium in an otherwise intense world. I can be somewhat that way, very shut down, but also with strong sensory sensitivity. I relate very much to IWT.

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

So, there are so many different theories people have to explain autism. Lack of Theory of Mind, monotropism, Intense World Theory, and several others. Curious to know: which theories does the autistic community find relatable to experience? #autistic

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MommaT F. Cancer @mommat-4b.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

We the American people have no say in war. Democrats in Congress who supported this war WE SEE YOU!

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 18/01/2026

I spoke to the Secretary-General of NATO, Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz and Giorgia Meloni. Together we stand firm in our commitment to uphold the sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark.

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

It's often just good fortune, people stumbling upon the right thing that works for them. Luck. Make a choice or series of choices that just happen to not work out can be massively impacting. So many ND people are under-employed or not employed.

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

And this isn't at all akin to RFK Jr's fanatical health notions or his rabid anti-vax politics. I'm pro-vaccination and don't believe they cause autism. There are intelligent rational approaches to using "alternative" therapies. Just doing Tai Qi in the forest helps me feel okay in the world. 4/4

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I don't pathologize or want a cure for my autistic traits (which was the focus of the cited source). But I do want to live a healthy lifestyle, with diet, exercise, non-toxic plant-based medicine, all of which have helped me enormously cope with my existence in the world. 3/

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The cited paper mainly points out the lack of comprehensive research on these non-conventional approaches. Lack of research funding for these therapies has long been an issue, partly because no drug company is going to invest in them unless they can patent them, which often isn't possible. 2/

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

There isn't much that lessens autistic traits in either conventional medicine or (non-drug) integrative medicine which includes herbs, etc. But can some of these approaches reduce anxiety, insomnia, stress, increase well-being, help to get through a day? Yes. I know from experience. 1/

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

For me it feels like neural circuits are overwhelmed.

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Last I checked it was behind a paywall. So they propose four types? As in subtypes or are they suggesting types unrelated to each other? I've often thought there were possible subtypes that are (in some ways) different manifestations but still with the same underlying basis.

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

They follow exclusively people who identity themselves primarily by their curriculum vitae, not whom they are as real people, as revealed by their views, or what they choose to communicate. They tend to not follow anyone who isn't productive. And that has been a social peeve of mine forever. 2/

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MotherMayEye @mothermenopause.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

If you’re late dx #actuallyautistic , what was helpful for you when you were learning about your dx? I’d like to support my son and husband and there is scant info about how to do so.

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Show them you understand the autistic perspective, what is really behind autistic ways, rather than the clinical, pathologizing perspective. Ex: when autistics blurt out facts or views, don't call them rude, instead understand that autistics are often just being innocently honest.

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Oh my god, yes. I saw another video when they arrested her, which was awful, but I didn't see this one. This is so wrong.

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Joe Edwards @joeedwardsnjsw.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I promise you, you’re not angry enough. The rage I feel right now as a father of an autistic child is one that could burn down Washington. How unimaginably cruel, reckless, and inhumane. The women later lost consciousness and was rushed to the hospital. This must end. Jail these people.

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Nat @neum76.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Some autistic women suggest their anti-social behaviors are misunderstood & underneath it all they really like people. I want to be clear that my anti-social behaviors are because I don’t like (most) people. To be fair, some of that is being stuck in MAGA-ville. I was more outgoing in Maine.

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I tend to dislike the environment created by humans, and prefer the natural world of trees, woods, forests, oceans, rivers. I don't just avoid people, I avoid their entire world. But I can be very empathetic, and I will respond well to gentle, open-minded people. I live in Oregon, not a red state.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 17/01/2026

I have had to remove a few FB comments from people who demanded to know why Aliya Rahman, the autistic woman who was pulled from her car by ICE in Minneapolis, didn’t “just follow instructions.” These comments, unfortunately, reveal lack of understanding about being autistic. Here is why. 1/

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Their reactions are due to the deeply embedded deficit-based conceptions of autism that come from film and TV. We really need better autistic characters in film, since that seems to be what informs people more than anything. I see so much more going on around me than people think. I see too much.

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✨Voiceover Goblin✨ @dani-bryn.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Pro tip: you cannot outsmart your trauma. T r u s t me, I have tried. Sincerely, a smarty pants autistic human with a Psychology degree 🧠

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Not sure what you mean, but the statement resonates. My trauma isn't going away anytime soon, after all these years. I can't think it away. I can do things that calm me, and I can reconnect with myself in moments of time, but the trauma is still there.

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

It's often back-fired on me with life-impacting consquences when I've told someone (with some kind of power over my life) that I'm autistic. Most of my remaining family began treating me as if I were intellectually disabled, so there's that too.

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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 16/01/2026

I have been thinking about this a lot in the context of Autistic people at protests & risks involved with being arrested Autistic people &/or people w/ Autistic traits are SO often misunderstood, taken out of context & masking to people please that it leaves us at serious risk in an interrogation

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

It's so hard for me as an autistic person - I just blurt out the honest truth, so innocently, before I realize it's not an honest process they are using.

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Easily one of the best and most important books on autism and the neurodiversity paradigm, with great, well conceived explanations and definitions, and it's one that I go back to again and again as a reference.

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Hey peeps, this audio book by Nick Walker is worth hearing, and it's 50% off. I have it on Kindle. I'm not trying to sell it, I don't know her, but I think it's important to read and an essential part of the ongoing autistic and neurodivergent discussion.

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

One of the key ingredients to being autistic is no key ingredient to being autistic. Time and time and time again I see someone saying you need to be like this or you need to be like that. Guess what, it's a load of rubbish. Stereotypes can limit others and this sort of behaviour needs to stop.

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Gloria Preston @thetransgiant.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Tonights movie, Please Stand By. An autistic girl runs away to write Star Trek.

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Thank you, yes, I will block if necessary. This is a common experience for autistics. So I try to use these occasions to increase awareness in people. But yes, no one is engaging the two examples (besides me, that is, but I see it as so ignorant it doesn't leave much of an impact on me).

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Ppl need to know they can't make generalized assumptions about us, just because they saw a TV show with an "autistic character" (usually written by writers w/ flawed understandings) which makes ppl think they learned something. We're all different. Autism shows up in different ways for each of us.

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Aaand here's another example I found today on Bluesky. So, it's not so different here after all. Damn. bsky.app/profile/stra...

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Now this person is calling me an "incel" because, you know, "autistics are incels." Never mind that many of us are in long term relationships. It's yet another false, negative stereotype these ignoramuses of the neuro-majority promote about the ND minority. bsky.app/profile/blak...

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Here's another example of this ignorance about autism I found around the same time: bsky.app/profile/stra...

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Imagine if you substituted some other group, such as LGBTQ's, women, PoC, etc, in place of the term "autistic" in these sort of comments. Then you'll understand why it's autistiphobic.

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Imagine if you substituted some other group, such as LGBTQ's, women, PoC, etc, in place of the term "autistic" in these sort of comments. Then you'll understand why it's autistiphobic.

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I came to BlueSky to get away from this kind of oppressive hate speech that is so prevalent on twitter these days, since Musk took over. Welp, seems not so different here. I reported this post to moderation. Nothing has happened. So it's up to autistics to push back against this.

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This is the 2nd autistiphobic (meaning bigoted/hateful towards autistics as a group) comment I've found in the last hour promoting false memes and negative stereotypes against autistics. So, this person thinks autistics can't be "clever" or "street smart" simply because they're autistic. 1/

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

So, I reported to Bluesky moderation this clear example of bigotry and hate-speech about autism. No response yet. Looks like when it comes to ableism and attacks on autistics, Bluesky is as bad as twitter, which before Musk took over, would take steps to moderate this treatment of autistics.

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

"I am smarter than you." There's that autistiphobia oozing out again.

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I really don't need your condescending gaslighting and that won't work. Learn. Try to do some reading and listening to autistics about autism next time, before you think you can explain how Musk's autism has anything to do with his lack of awareness.

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Stray Autistic Cat @strayautisticcat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Actuallly, you have challenged my point from the outset, and you seem to be strangely unaware of that fact. Just saying "mute point" is challenging it. Also, the expression isn't "mute point" smart ass, it's "moot point". Maybe stop insinuating you're the smart one in this conversation?

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