amanite

[Emily Paige Ballou @epballou]

Anyway, if you're not familiar with Donna Williams, her books (starting with "Nobody Nowhere") are really worth looking up! She was a wonderful writer.

Some of the ways she talked about autism are outdated now, but some of the experiences she described...

[Emily Paige Ballou @epballou]

So this is known among older corners of the autistic community as "exposure anxiety," a term coined by Donna Williams, iirc, and I believe it is one of the most under-researched reported experiences of autism for how much stress and inertia it causes.

[໊ @wynavira]

born to be a hater but forced to understand where you’re coming from

[your cousin Vinny @muddaub]

overheard a trans friend congratulating a cis friend on her upcoming (non elective) surgery and I had to be like “surgery is actually a bad thing in their culture”

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

Still crazy to me that the AP Style Guide bans the use of the word "Palestine"

[amanite @radicalfroge]

@communoah THANK YOU i’m seeing such bad takes about this subplot from everyone. i wish @NOSeditorial still existed their analysis of this show would be so interesting.

[attractive wastrel is at AC @UrbaneUrban]

seeing “goyim” replace “normie” in online parlance is still insane to me. fash occupied culture.

[Kourra 🐀✨ bRat Vtuber @KourraVT]

Imagine telling a family friend your dad died and they send you an ai response...

[مایا @ablata_at_alba]

"epstein class" is quite possibly the worst new coinage in a year that also gave us "jestergooning"

absolute slopulist nonsense with a signal-to-noise ratio approaching zero: it could be leftist, it could be pizzagate, it could be antisemitic, basically anything really

[joanie @laracroftbarbie]

i legitimately do not know how we're supposed to live on the same planet as these people

[Emily Paige Ballou @epballou]

For the record: Some of the autistic people who've described my experiences most accurately are *much* higher-support needs than I am.

Some of the autistic people I look more like on the surface in terms of support needs? I actually have the least in common with.

[Emily Paige Ballou @epballou]

Hey, quick question:

Why are non-autistic people so obsessed with dividing up the autism spectrum?

What is *your* interest in dividing autistic people up from each other?

[Daniel M. Lavery @daniel_m_lavery]

those "what if they had transed me" articles are always such wonderful little exercises in huffy speculation. what if my papa had given me away to the circus and I fell from the trapeze? I might never have walked again...!

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The difference is by design.

[Lake Eater @lakeeater]

at the library rn and there's an old guy watching democracy now on one of the desktops just head in his hands... felt that brother

[anna !!! :)) 🇵🇸🌸✨🌸🇵🇸 @frogs4girls]

i’m so sick of america soaking this planet in blood

[manny @mannyfidel]

incredible couple of sentences for a story that uses Zohran as its lead image