@StandingHannah Maybe an overview of what you might see before you go, and check ins on how she's feeling during your visit? And a signal if she needs a break, or if she's at her limit. Drawing from ttrpg safety tools for horror game settings.
@BlondeHistorian It has to do with the fact that the sense of smell is processed by the amygdala and hippocampus, the regions that also handle emotion and memory respectively. https://t.co/FhRcqlNkB8
@StandingHannah I think the original intent was 'don't be ashamed to be autistic/have autistic kids'. Which is great, having a disability isn't shameful. But for some reason people have gone to 'never say anything negative about autism ever' which isn't reality.
@Texan_Reverend thank you! Maybe I'm just too disabled and tired, but it looks like a lot of work to switch servers... But I realized because I have no followers, I can just delete my https://t.co/4qC6kgIUE2 account and remake it on https://t.co/JJ8mmA7nS9 ๐
@Graham_LRR@matt_alters Can you move easily? Last I looked into it it was a big process ๐ I'm desperately trying to get the hang of Mastodon, since everyone LRR related is moving there and you're my favourite internet community, but Masto is not super plug and play, from my experience...
@StandingHannah@meredithheron@OttCatholicSB I'm torn between 'the mods had to have seen this coming' and 'maybe the mods never thought they'd have to put a filter in place for this because they're from MIT and the vaccine/autism thing has been so thoroughly debunked that it never crossed their mind'
@adamfare1996 Having mental illness symptoms dismissed as 'normal'. Namely bipolar, cause its 'normal' to feel down one day, and energetic the next. ๐คฆ๐ผโโ๏ธ