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she/her | both the smartest and dumbest person you will ever meet

[ashleigh @ashleighfare]

everyone loves to talk about autistic people being fussy eaters… which is true but can we also talk about the fact that if I have my favourite food for dinner I’m so elated like a tasty curry or pesto pasta is basically a drug to me

[ashleigh @ashleighfare]

this is so April Ludgate coded

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

New details on the Willy Wonka Experience disaster

• Script was '15 pages of AI-generated gibberish'

• Made up a villain called The Unknown — 'an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls'

• Event had no chocolate — kids were given a single jelly bean & a cup of lemonade

[ashleigh @ashleighfare]

got a new mantra for myself it’s: you can’t buy everything just because it has strawberries on it

[ashleigh @ashleighfare]

when are they gonna make a sequel to aquamarine though?? they could be grown up and claire reunites with hailey and aqua in australia and it would be so cute

[ashleigh @ashleighfare]

this literally took me less than a minute to fill out and send to my MP btw and it’s so important

[ashleigh @ashleighfare]

The government is attacking our #righttoboycott. Join me demanding MPs vote against the toxic 'anti-boycott bill' on the 10th Jan. Send a message using @PSCupdates online action https://t.co/cQXFNIlzZD

[ashleigh @ashleighfare]

The government is attacking our #righttoboycott. Join me demanding MPs vote against the toxic 'anti-boycott bill' on the 10th Jan. Send a message using @PSCupdates online action https://t.co/cQXFNIlzZD

[ashleigh @ashleighfare]

me literally on the 1st January: 2024 is gonna be my year I can feel it!!!

24 hours later I’ve got the norovirus.

[Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈🍉 @theBrianaMills]

I don’t think many able-bodied people realize how much they benefit from disabled accessibility. Elevators, glasses, texting, home devices that control lights and make calls. Making things accessible for disabled people makes it accessible for everyone.

[Censored Men @CensoredMen]

🇷🇺🇮🇱 Will Israel receive the same treatment as Russia?

Russia's war with Ukraine has been going on for nearly 2 years at this point.

Russia is estimated to have killed around 10,000 civilians during this period.

Russia has been banned from:

⁃The World Cup

⁃The Euros

⁃The Eurovision

⁃Wimbledon

Etc.

So will Israel receive the same treatment?

Israel have killed over DOUBLE the civilians in less than 3 months.

Israel have indiscriminately bombed Gaza, displacing millions and killing tens of thousands.

Israel have targeted hospitals, churches, mosques and schools.

Israel have committed MULTIPLE war crimes.

So will we see consistency in how these rules are applied, or is it one rule for Israel and another rule for everyone else?

[Dr Charlotte Proudman @DrProudman]

Having suffered the horror of being spiked, I’ve spent years campaigning to make it a specific criminal offence. The Home Secretary has undermined our work when he laughed at spiking — giving perpetrators a green light. RT if you agree he should be fired.
https://t.co/yGu1qQ2c64

[ashleigh @ashleighfare]

@tashfielding maybe it’s just my pre-frontal cortex almost done cooking but it suddenly seemed so depressing to me like we never stop performing

[ashleigh @ashleighfare]

I just remembered in school and uni my girl friends and I would ask each other what one makeup product we would bring if we were stuck on a desert island… the beauty standards are so ingrained that we were wondering what makeup we *had* to bring when NO ONE would see us

[ashleigh @ashleighfare]

every so often I remember that I’m getting huge chunks out of my paycheck every month for 1 semester of an MA course that I had to leave because my lecturers were ableist and bullied me off the course and it makes me fuming to think about

[ashleigh @ashleighfare]

americans don’t know how lucky they are to have a dryer in their homes because I’m housesitting and they have a dryer (rare for the UK) and I am so excited to do laundry!!! I can put a wash on and I don’t have to wait a week to wear those clothes again!!

[ashleigh @ashleighfare]

fantasising for the billionth time about leaving corporate life and working in a little bookshop somewhere away from here

[ashleigh @ashleighfare]

@elliemidds I’ll claim it when it comes to knowing exactly which spot to get on the train/tube so I’m by the exit when I get off

[ashleigh @ashleighfare]

nothing’s actually more embarrassing than when someone asks you about your special interest and you get too excited and start rambling and you can see them regretting mentioning it but you can’t shut up

[ashleigh @ashleighfare]

same actually applies when I’m reading too, I read the description of a facial expression and then I have to try and make it myself before I know what it’s meant to express

[ashleigh @ashleighfare]

an unexpected struggle that I have as an autistic writer is trying to describe facial features. I literally have to sit here making the faces myself and I still find it hard to put them into words

[ashleigh @ashleighfare]

still on target with #NaNoWriMo - 18,370 words so far! today was a bit of a slog but it helps when you’ve got a cute cat to sit with you for moral support