I’d love to normalise autistic and ADHD traits by being brutally honest and saying things like: “sorry I wasn’t able to do X. The problem is, it’s really boring, and I was unable to muster up the spoons or hyperfocus necessary for me to even get started. Maybe another day?”.
A new type of typeface might be beneficial to neurodivergent readers! 🤯
It's called bionic reading — the first few letters are bolded, making it easier for readers to glide through text and stay focused.
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When an autistic person is overwhelmed by something, it could be because they don’t understand it, but it could also be because they understand the matter very well but feel overwhelmed by the amount of executive function, energy, time and focus that the task requires.
no bc straight people are all like “auntie diaries is amazing” and gay people are all like “why did he say f*gg*t” and straight people are explaining to us why it was a good thing. do u see the problem here
i keep thinking back to this picture my dad took of my mom holding me while i was recovering from bottom surgery. this is what they want to take from young trans people. they want to take away the ability for our families to love and support us. they want to away our futures.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: when it comes to disability access and support, I'd rather a hundred people be able to game a lax system than a single disabled person be denied what they need by a gatekept system.
Regardless of their legal ability to do so, the political will to prosecute the parents of trans kids isn't far from the will to prosecute trans adults for being near, working with, or parenting any kid. This is what happens when you regard a kind of person as a contagion.
THREAD. I noticed something fascinating: around the same time in recent days, each major corporate news source began talking about a new crime hysteria: a supposed crisis of theft from the railroad industry. But if you look deeper, something very scary is happening.
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