What matters most about your interests is that they make your autistic self happy.
Whether other people find them productive is irrelevant.
You don't have to produce anything.
You're not a machine.
Some may like, others may not.
Your interests are for you.
Do what makes you happy.
It is @weirdpride.bsky.social 4th March
Our theme this year is Weird Pride in a Hostile World
Weird Pride is a practice of becoming. A refusal to shrink. A quiet, feral devotion to staying alive as ourselves in a world that keeps trying to make us something else
autisticrealms.com/weird-pride-...
No half-sentient person would trust Trump with a barbecue, and here we are watching him start a war to distract from his weapons grade depravity & incompetence.
If you think public spaces can be hostile for women now, wait until every man can use their Meta facial recognition glasses to identify any woman they see, slide instantly into their DMs, and then get mad when they don't instantly and positively respond.
Burn this company to the ground.
These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.
*one voice altered to disguise identity
As we mourn the murders of autistic teens Otis and Leon Clune at the hands of their parents, we are forced to again state that however difficult it may be for families to support their disabled loved ones, murder is never excusable. There are always other options. Always.
tinyurl.com/NoExcusesTPGA
Good morning and welcome to Fish For Tea Friday
Doubt has a habit of stealing dreams before they’ve even had a chance.
Be kinder to yourself.
Believe in yourself, even when your voice trembles.
I'm not saying Trump is a Russian asset, just that I can't think of anything he'd be doing differently if he were.
"The concept of ' #profoundAutism ' is deeply problematic. It risks reinforcing dehumanizing assumptions—that the absence of speech equates to an absence of thought, agency, or interiority, & that Autistic people with CSN are–as the Lancet Commission claims—'unable to advocate for themselves.'" 1/2
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
I grew up in the 70s and 80s.
If you weren't there, just a little clarification on that Spectator piece.
Literally, NOBODY admired Hitler. Apart from nazis.
Hope that helps.
- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
The sound that polystyrene makes when it's handled in any way. Ick.
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
🚨On Halloween, ‘concerned citizens’ in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, shot fireworks at a hotel housing asylum seekers and encouraged residents to commit suicide during a protest, showing the ugly face of anti-migrant hate.⬇️
An autistic woman is reportedly so good at masking she is frequently mistaken for a neurotypical – while the monstrous portrait in her attic withers and decays at an alarming rate.
"Autistic people are not a special kind of people set apart from all other people. We are just one of many kinds of people, and oppression and injustice take depressingly familiar shapes." -Mel Baggs, rest in power.
web.archive.org/web/20150329... #autism #autistic #disabillity
I've seen the UK and Australian ones. The latter was a slightly different format, as it forms part of an autistic-focused University course, I think?
“Facts Matter. Verifiable, testable, provable facts.” – Stephen Fry
This #GlobalMILWeek, let’s champion reliable info and critical thinking.
See how Full Fact’s building a better information environment: fullfact.org
#CelebrityTraitors
When the far right invents or exaggerates bad behaviour by their foes - see ‘cancel culture’; threats to free speech; anti-fascist violence; financial corruption; cronyism etc - they do so to preemptively excuse their own far worse & blatant abuses in exactly the same spaces.
Being autistic is being told why didn’t you ask for help.
Because asking required social scripting, shame buffering, tone analysis, and a risk assessment.
"Wonderful Life" by Black and "What's Going On?" by 4 Non-Blondes.
At a time when patriotism can feel as as contested as ever, this is a bloody lovely ode to so much of what we love about Britain from @sofiejenkinson.bsky.social in @renewaljournal.bsky.social.
Well worth a read 👉 renewal.org.uk/blog/mr-blob...
Tylenol is NOT linked to autism: “What one person who isn’t a trained scientist or physician believes should not get the same weight as what scientific evidence has found through rigorous study.”
Also please stop demonizing autistic people. Autistics > fascists.
www.thetriangle.org/news/drexel-...
The legend Jason Flemyng, who starred in ITV’s The Walk-In inspired by HOPE not hate’s true story, is backing the Weekend of HOPE. 💛
ARE
YOU
PAYING
ATTENTION
YET?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
REVEALED: bombshell evidence of the link between Tylenol and autism.
