Allison Veteikis @pizzapizza1444

The autistic urge to prioritise and rush finishing tasks, because until something is finished, it will occupy 90% of the real estate in your head and leave you with anxiety and a foreboding sense of doom.

Hey friends, can I tell you about my spiritual practice? You see, I believe that spirits are stories and stories are spirits. They have the same logic, the same way of interacting with us. I literally believe the words to be synonyms.

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @TheRaDR

2 years ago

This is a really really good time to double down on your spiritual practice.

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Become ungovernable

A lot of autistic people’s fears and anxieties are disregarded for being “irrational”, because they would be irrational concerns for most neurotypical people to have. However, autistic people’s circumstances are different, so it may be rather rational for them to have such fears.

@AutSciPerson The purpose of neurotypical communication is not conveying information. It's establishing status. Once you understand that, everything gets much easier.

Fantastic thread on denial/delusion of the pandemic’s impact on the workforce. When was the last time 20% of employees could not work due to “fatigue” (= likely long COVID)?

Dr. Lisa Iannattone @lisa_iannattone

2 years ago

I don’t even know where to start. This has to be one of the greatest examples of pandemic denial and delusion I’ve ever read. The context: “Wizz Air has been forced to cancel flights over the recent holiday because of widespread shortages in staff" bbc.com/news/business-…

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The general public doesn’t seem to know that Covid is airborne, that reinfection is common, that the vaccinated can get it, that Covid is a vascular disease with serious neurological complications possible, that #LongCovid is common and can disable anyone including the vaxed.

A lot of well-meaning people look down on those brainwashed by Fox News but are unable to see how New York Times and other for-profit media does similar things to them. The mythologies differ, but they are just as ideological, and their role is to preserve structural inequality.

It's politically inconvenient to acknowledge the massive amount of Long Covid patients in need of treatment and financial assistance in the US because once you acknowledge its magnitude, public policies, institutions and workplaces have to do something about it. A thread.

This is inevitable.

Goof @goofxist

2 years ago

the US' allies are getting ready to decouple

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To everyone who is being told there is something wrong with you because you aren’t able to go on acting normally through all of this? Please hear me: YOU are not the problem here. Don’t let them gaslight you. It’s HEALTHY to recognize that everything around us is on fire.

Stay in your grief, America and stay stay in your rage. Stay in your anger as much as you stay in your anguish. Rush neither away. Sadness is not enough. We are seething. 🗣

Instead of recognising my autism, the system stuck labels on me which were hurtful. Like being told I was ‘dramatic’, ‘sensitive’, ‘hysterical’, and mis-diagnosing me with a personality disorder. It meant my difficulties being viewed through inappropriate lenses.

A lot of the Great Experiment of this country post the civil rights movement hasn’t been the advancement of integration and inclusion, but to see how closely they can get white people to volunteer for their own enslavement with the knowledge that they can still participate in

"some police officers wanted to get THEIR children out of the school because it was an active shooter situation"

Sawyer Hackett @SawyerHackett

2 years ago

Here’s a Texas DPS Lieutenant telling a local station that some officers breached the school to get their own children BEFORE the shooter was taken down.

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The thing I like about Beto's stunt is it shows a willingness to try anything at this point. Which is exactly the emergency stance every Democrat should be taking right now.

Americans keep experiencing unchecked trauma on a mass scale with no remedies in sight. The potential results terrify me.

one very gaslight-y thing about working in the US is that a mass shooting happens and you are expected to sort of just go on with your workday. in other places there'd be a national crisis with a period of mourning. not here. get to work.

Anyone else getting this resistance from psychiatrists/psychologists…. ‘You sensory issues aren’t real/it’s an over firing amygdala’ ‘ How you react to it is your choice’ Help! #Autism #AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic

In my notes, there are actual debates between professionals about whether my distress was genuine or not. Some from people higher up who hadn’t even met me but were making decisions about my care. Reading those notes years later was re-traumatising.