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Diary of an ASD Squirrel. Day 520 , Monday 31/03/2025
Monday started just before 7am when a mix of Mrs S mooching around the house & the sun fighting its way thru the blinds woke me up.
Got breakfast & read for a little while with my coffee then cracked on with my chores.
Around 9am I finally got outside & the first job was to clamber up the ladder to fix a downspout on the guttering that had broken loose in the wind - the screw holding it in had worked itself loose so I had to re-drill the hole & use a bigger rawl-plug & a heavier screw to hold the fittings in place securely.
Having scared myself ½ to death (I don’t do heights very well anymore.) I spent 30 minutes or so cleaning some more gravel before I had to go & get ready to see the GP about my blood test results.
On the plus side every thing apart from my cholesterol levels were fine, the doctor I saw suggested trying some additional meds to try & keep it under control.
I need to get onto a healthier diet I think (he says having just ordered a pizza as a last birthday treat for Mrs S.P) but food is a coping strategy for me & my MH is still far from ideal.
I need to get out walking again as well soon, gotta fight the invisible wall that keeps me inside the house.
It doesn’t help that after an encounter with neighbours earlier in the year where they essentially judged me for not getting out of the house more I have that added level of anxiety too. It should get easier now with the lighter mornings, if I can get out immediately after breakfast then
Final Thoughts.
I need to get out walking again as well soon, gotta fight the invisible wall that keeps me inside.
It doesn’t help that after an encounter with neighbours earlier in the year where they essentially judged me for not getting out of the house more I have that added level of anxiety too. It should get easier now with the lighter mornings, if I can get out immediately after breakfast then I can avoid peopling.
I do seem to be going backwards at the moment though, although I am pleased that I managed to get that guttering fixed today.
Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 
@actuallyautistic
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves
#actuallyautistic
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I have things to do, things to figure out and I took the weekend off from them, but it’s Monday and I’m in a tizzy, I can’t move
I was about to lose all trust in myself, so I had to search up about this issue.
I think it's time for me to log off, revert to my basic profile and banner picture, and let all your feeds rest.
I spend a lot of my day reading Mastodon and anarchist media on The Anarchist @library.
As an anarcho-syndicalist, bisexual, gender-fluid, autistic individual, I also need to remember to take breaks sometimes.
Love to everyone on the Fediverse! See you in a day, a week, or whenever the mood strikes me to log back in!
EXTREMELY URGENT!! this #TransDayOfVisibility, please help octo! she is in debt from not meeting the last 2 months goals. she's barely hanging onto life, she can't afford to eat & is battling suicidal ideation.
$1590/2743 DUE TODAY
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- https://mismo.jagtalon.net/@jag/statuses/01JN1Z7PVEXEG2MW74KRWG30C1
@mutualaid @blackfedi #mutualAid #MutualAidRequest #BlackTransMutualAid #transMutualAid #transCrowdfund #queer #Fundraiser #nonBinary #BlackMutualAid #transgender #gay #tarot #LGBTQIA #plural #actuallyAutistic #bills #LGBTQ #poverty #handmade #pets #cats #catsOfMastodon #queerMutualAid #QueerCrowdfund #TDOV
Discombobulated by clocks changing nonsense AGAIN.
Gah !
[UK GMT to BST ?]
Autistics are not socially avoidant. People avoid discomfort. And people particularly avoid communication gaps.
Me: [likes several random toots in a thread]
Also Me: [goes back and likes the rest of the toots, because I don't want them to feel left out]
breaking ranks. 
Hyperfixation shmixation. Potato Potahto. Second one focusing on a "new" human over a course of 6 months. Not sure whether this is a good sign [brain finally gaining back capacities to imagine new things] or just a distraction from the current here and now.
Nevertheless it's fun! <3
Good morning my fellow #ActuallyAutistic and #neurodivergent friends! I wish you an awesome day and week. 
Which reminds me.
Doctor: I have the results for you. They show you are #autistic.
Patient: And how can you help me.
Doctor: We have a lot of therapies that will help you behave normally.
Patient: Fuck you.
Doctor: We’ve got treatments for Tourette’s too.
For more about autism & learning, you can read my academic publication "Autism and feminist pedagogy in the university classroom" (2024) [
via DOI: 10.5117/TVGN2024.2-3.013.MUSS]
April is Autism Acceptance Month:
Every person with autism needs support but people who does not fall into the categories accepted by the majority of so called normal people for "true" autism rarely receive it (even the level of support that normal people usually receive).
#actuallyautistic #autism #autistic
I mean, I can't play lead. I'll just be leaving any suggestion of Eric out of it.
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I'm a slave to politics and culture, I can't watch anything with Mel Gibson anymore, and I can't play the few Van Morrison tunes I knew or learn the Clapton ones I had hoped to. Johnny Depp's apparent acceptance by half of rock'n'roll's royalty is deeply problematic for me. And this, Clapton's friendship with George and the Beatles.
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#ActuallyAutistic
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I am not sure I am interrupting your post correctly. But one highlights trans authors for the same reason you highlight any other group that has been discriminated against, systematically silenced, and locked out of the publishing industry. The same reason you support POC authors, women authors, ASD authors, etc.
It is not necessarily because they write about being that minority; it is because they are routinely silenced. Whatever they write in someway reflects their life experience as a marginalized individual.
I fit none of the criteria you mention, yet my characters reflect the realities of being trans, lesbian, and/or asexual. Undoubtedly, it also reflects life as ASD without my being aware of it.
@elysegrasso
#Trans #actuallyautistic #Asexual #TransgenderDayofVisibility #WritersCoffeeClub #TDOV
Despite declining to lodge an official complaint, here I am, seven years later, still being ghosted (and gaslighted).
#PhD #ActuallyAutistic #DisabledInSTEM #Academia #PowerImbalance #Privilege
@fcktheworld587 i think it’s quite depended on the ‘interest groups’/social circles your post get’s shared around since there is no algorithm.
i’m quite sure there are many parts (as well as the size of these parts) of fedi i do not know of because of that, which makes comparisons hard.
for me personally, i’d say “not neccecarily” because my only other ‘social media’ is youtube and i basically only follow select creators, many of which are autistic or otherwise neurodivergent.
i’d say it has to do with the double empathy problem that one can realise quite quickly that a neurodiverse peer group is just a lot easier to navigate which then leads to “flocking” of autistic/neurodivergent people both in real life and online.
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