@transponderings
AuDHD trans dysfunctional human being. She/her. Scribbler of words, music and pictures. Meds reminder. Erstwhile linguist etc. *Please connect if we knew each other on the bird site.* Blog: transponderings.blog Mastodon: @transponderings@eldritch.cafe
Senior author of classic theory of mind & autism paper (Frith) minimizes autistic ppl's sensory issues. www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
Yet hypersensitivity is in original (Sukhareva, Asperger, Kanner), autistics' accounts. Interaction happens *btwn* ppl. More in sensory-1st paper:
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Frith seems out of touch, and much of what she says in that interview is quite frankly insulting to Autistic people. (But then, what would I know? I’m probably not one, according to her.)
Strange to see this just now, having literally started migrating my WordPress blog to 11ty yesterday!
We cannot stand by while yet another catastrophic regional war is unleashed. The Iranian people deserve safety and dignity — not to be trapped between the brutality of their own regime and the reckless aggression of Trump and Netanyahu.
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The courage and resilience of these young people cannot be underestimated.
These young folk are facing unprecedented anti-trans hostility in the UK.
I commend them. I salute them 🫡
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What an absolute cunt he is.
Hope Wins! Scottish Greens.
Greens beat Reform! 💚
Congratulations to Hannah Spencer and our friends @greenparty.org.uk on their historic by-election victory in Gorton and Denton.
We will never let the politics of hate divide us. The Greens will always put people and planet before profit.
Charles Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as King.
Hopefully soon.
I can see why these two (at best) paedophile-adjacent people might want to hang out, but yes, I’ll sign the petition. While we’re stuck with a monarchy, I’d rather limit its capacity to fuck things up for the rest of us.
For those who missed it, I wrote about “Wuthering Heights”, uncanny Yorkshire accents and Hollywood sidestepping Northerners
Calling a person racist because they have a condition that makes them shout expletives is frankly ridiculous. What they shout during a tic has no baring on the person they are and what they believe.
John is a national hero. Let us not forget that!
sophie-molly-reports.beehiiv.com/p/stop-unfai...
In my recent experience, it’s more like:
Part of brain that wants things done: we should make a plan
Part of brain that plans things: nah
Part of brain that actually does things: 💤
I watched it a couple of days ago, and just when I thought everything was getting pretty grim – ‘it gets worse’.
AI-generated photo of a man and a woman struggling with an uncomfortably low-looking armless chair. They’re ostensibly on the landing of a house, but the man is standing with his legs inside the wall, an oddly extended banister pinning him there. There’s also a second chair, of the same type, just floating near the ceiling, as they sometimes do in such properties.
Utterly terrifying! 😱
I can see why they’d want to move out – I’d definitely get the professionals in.
I don’t know whether getting sucked into the wall or standing underneath floating furniture is more dangerous.
How long are puberty blockers typically used? Children who are prescribed puberty blockers to treat precocious puberty typically take the medication until they're at least 8 or 9 years old. There are cases of people presenting with signs of precocious puberty as young as 1 year old who then use this medication for 7 or more years, explains Osipoff.
The pause comes after legal action was launched against the government after politicians and public figures including Harry Potter author JK Rowling expressed their opposition. The Cam Revie Baroness Hilary Cass carried out an earlier review into chilfor next gender services (Yui Mok/PA) 3 Swipe article The writer, who has campaigned to repeal transgender rights in the UK, described the trial as "an unethical experiment on children who can't give meaningful consent".
Odd that there no concerns that children as young as one are put on PBs, children who most definitely can't give “meaningful consent", yet they claim a 10yo trans child is unable.
This won’t end here: this will bring an attack on Gillick competence in general, with an intent to remove it.
Joanne ***King Rowling just can’t stop being evil.
It seems she’s managed to get the MHRA’s completely unnecessary trans-only puberty-blocker trial paused.
She really disgusts me. I feel so sorry for the trans kids who are being treated with such cruelty.
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
Tried hard mode too, and got 35.03.
22,557th of 23,723! 😂
Score 41.42 out of 50. Five coloured squares shown below the score – the ones I had to remember and recreate. Tagline: ‘Annoyingly good. It doesn’t make you interesting, though.’
That was fun. Not bad for someone who’s aphantasic (though I don’t know if that makes a difference!).
I would love men as a whole to understand that you don't have to come in with a contradiction or a correction in order to join a conversation.
You can actually just say "I agree" and not be one-upping anyone
Having just woken up after far too little sleep because I was awake (and on my phone) till six hours ago, this is frustratingly relatable.
Sadly, I can no longer use lisdexamfetamine (Elvanse here) and I can only dream of having Dusty’s energy levels! 😂
Okay gang
*youth pastor chair rotate, serious face*
We need to talk about IQ. i had my IQ tested when I was very young. It came out wicked high, because I am very good at maths and even better at pattern recognition.
IQ is eugenicist bullshit.
Literally - Cass used the fact that children diagnosed as trans enough to be put on puberty blockers continued to be trans as they adolesced, as proof that puberty blockers were a problem. They were hoping more children at the service would stop being trans and looking for a means to make it happen.
basically, we've utterly erased the rights & healthcare access of a vulnerable minority because a very small group (of apparently very well-connected) of people became fanatical about it & the (also very small) group who decide press coverage decided they needed relentless coverage
a clinic that provided services to 12,000 people being closed on the basis of 8 complaints perfectly captures the nature of the uk 'trans-debate'
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
Our investigation has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK
https://goodlaw.social/2l1y
As a kid I used to play with my cousin's magic 8 ball and I thought that asking it questions really got me meaningful if sometimes confusing answers.
The problem with the Turing test is that we as a species are really happy to discover and interact with other intelligences and fill gaps in meaning.
✨ Take your meds (if you have them). Future you says thank you. 💊 #FaerieGodmother
Trans adults fight for kids to have access to HRT because most of us never had that opportunity, and now it's killing us.
If you want to know what's best for trans kids, ask the people who used to be them, it's that simple.
A vote to ban trans healthcare for minors is a vote for dead kids.
