Dandelion Disaster

he/they/she/it dissociative neurodivergent tired, busy, a little bit all over the place and not quite one person

[Dandelion Disaster @DandelionDisas1]

If anyone is interested in commissioning a set either message me here or send an email to [email protected] and we can decide what your set will look like. 2/2

[Dandelion Disaster @DandelionDisas1]

Hey here's a example of some custom earrings I've made I'm selling them for $40 in a matching coffin case with bag as shown in the purple example. 1/2

[Dandelion Disaster @DandelionDisas1]

@wildestdreams_3 @BALUCIAGA Weapons against self and others is what I was told as the reason when I worked in psych hospitals

[Dandelion Disaster @DandelionDisas1]

@shainybugg @BALUCIAGA @mo_ellll At every psych hospital I've worked at they had plastic utensils (or one unit had normal metal ones) but people with unsafe behaviors related to utensils or severe risk will be put on finger foods only until deemed safe by the lead team member assigned (usually a psychiatrist)

[Dandelion Disaster @DandelionDisas1]

@Ratchet912 @Tr1zz So people on vacation can't buy alcohol?? Why isn't foreign ID valid?

[Dandelion Disaster @DandelionDisas1]

@KAHALA123Y Since you asked, you are "crazy." I would have reported you to HR too.

[Dandelion Disaster @DandelionDisas1]

@KAHALA123Y You're expecting too much. A real lunch with separation from the work environment is important for mental health and maintaining productivity.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A hamster eating a mini egg in his own little chair is too wholesome

[hex @thectrldevil]

she cheated on me with my best friend and gaslit all of my other friends into taking her side I’m soo okay not hearing from her

[Dandelion Disaster @DandelionDisas1]

@novaisntmyname This is so wasteful it makes me so angry

[Dandelion Disaster @DandelionDisas1]

@documense I get gender euphoria when people ask my pronouns or say they can't tell what gender I am

[Dandelion Disaster @DandelionDisas1]

@TrishtheSkeptic @rkylesmith Service dogs often are there to alert to impending medical episodes. Idk about you but I'd like to know if I was about to have a medical emergency when I'm trying to do routine exercise.

[modern day sisyphus 🌈☁️ @deliharrr]

I got mad so I made this image. I’ll start using it from now on

[Dandelion Disaster @DandelionDisas1]

@HiyyihRicky @mlaurencechen @NYCMayor My middle school did this but they gave us a sledgehammer

[one guy. maybe more @documense]

friend: oh hey so i have a question actually and i- wait are you a guy who knows about DID right now
me: i dont know yet, ask me the question and ill let you know if i have any answers

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

“listen to your body”

my body: quit your job. disappear from society. befriend the crows. abandon everything and become one with the trees

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

If someone on disability buys themselves a treat, they didn’t get extra money.

They sacrificed.

They went without something.

They made concessions.

They’re not taking “your tax dollars” to spend on luxuries.

They’re just trying to survive.

[Riley @RileyYote]

*bites you* hey
*bites you* hey you
*bites you* give me attention
*bites you* hey
*bites you* hey you attention

[Libriscent @libriscent]

the autistic experience of saying “I could be wrong, so don’t quote me” right before giving an airtight, thesis-level, explanation that was researched for weeks out of sheer curiosity.

[Dandelion Disaster @DandelionDisas1]

Help me get a service dog!
I am in contact with a service dog trainer. The dog I've been matched with is named Hazel. She is an 8 month old poodle who has already learned a lot.
Please donate what you can. https://t.co/kdgsftu8KF

[Sick @sickdotdev]

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Within 10 seconds of meeting an autistic person, strangers rate them as awkward and lose interest in getting to know them. Show those same strangers only a written transcript of what was said, with no audio or video, and the bias completely disappears.

That finding came from a 2017 study at the University of Texas at Dallas, led by psychologist Noah Sasson and published in Scientific Reports. The bias came entirely from how autistic people sounded and looked.

For 40 years before that, scientists had been treating autism as a brain that couldn’t read other people. Diagnostic manuals listed it as a “social communication deficit.” When communication broke down, the autistic person was the broken link.

That whole frame has been coming apart over the last decade. The replacement is called the double empathy problem. Damian Milton, an autistic researcher, named it in a 2012 paper. When autistic and non-autistic people don’t understand each other, Milton argued, both sides are missing something. Autistic people don’t always read non-autistic people right, and the reverse is just as true. The breakdown belongs to both sides.

Catherine Crompton at the University of Edinburgh tested this with a telephone game in 2020. She lined up 72 adults in three kinds of groups: all autistic, all non-autistic, or mixed. The first person in the chain heard a story, then passed it down to person 2, then person 3, all the way to person 8.

The all-autistic groups passed the story along just as accurately as the all-non-autistic groups. The mixed groups lost the most details. People in the mixed groups also rated each other as feeling less connected.

In 2025, Crompton ran the whole thing again across Edinburgh, Nottingham, and UT Dallas with 311 participants. Nature Human Behaviour published the result. Same outcome.

Brett Heasman at the London School of Economics looked at families in 2018. He found that autistic people could usually guess what their non-autistic relatives thought of them, even when they disagreed. The non-autistic relatives, meanwhile, kept overestimating how self-absorbed their autistic family members were. The relatives were the ones missing things.

About 5.4 million American adults are on the autism spectrum. For most of their lives, the official story said their wiring was broken. The newer evidence puts the breakdown in a different place: between two brains trying to understand each other.