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BernieDoesIt

@BernieDoesIt@mstdn.social

I just want to stop as much human suffering as possible. I don't think that's too much to ask. #ActuallyAutistic

Profile picture: A much younger Bernie Sanders picking up trash in a public park.

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dgar, to random
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I have a joke about trickle down economics, but 99 percent of you won’t get it.

BernieDoesIt,
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@dgar I have a joke about alexithymia, but I'm not feeling it.

RickiTarr, to random
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What animal do you think best represents you?

BernieDoesIt,
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@RickiTarr I'm going to be a turtle today.

RickiTarr, to random
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Why are you like this?

BernieDoesIt,
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@RickiTarr the alternatives were all worse.

RickiTarr, to random
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What if the weird thoughts I have popping into my head are animals trying to telepathically communicate with me?

BernieDoesIt,
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@RickiTarr Great, now I have to set my "days without an annoying intrusive thought" counter back down to zero. Thanks a lot, Ricki!

BernieDoesIt, to random
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Someone should pass a law saying that you have to use thoughts and prayers to buy a gun.

RickiTarr, to random
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Are you the person you always thought you would be?

BernieDoesIt,
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@RickiTarr In some ways very much. In other ways I'm working on it.

RickiTarr, to random
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It is bizarre to me that somehow Jesus Apocalypse Doomsday Preppers and Hippie Anarchist Homesteaders have somehow ended up in the same Anti-Vax group.

BernieDoesIt,
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@RickiTarr @GrimmReality This is so true! The right has great recruitment strategies at the organizational and individual level and are very welcoming on a personal level, while some very toxic ideas about persuasion have caught on among the left. I feel like "You're a bad person and it's not my job to explain to you why" is considered the best way to do it by far too many people.

GottaLaff, to legal
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Via Will Sommer:

Bad news for blundering right-wing operative Jacob Wohl — he now has to pay $1.25 mil for a racist robocall voter suppression scheme, as part of an agreement with NY AG Letitia James.

BernieDoesIt,
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@GottaLaff Whoever is giving Jacob Wohl all this money should give it to me instead and I'll use it to make the world a better place.

RickiTarr, to random
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I just love an old abandoned house, there's something about how quickly nature takes over that is fascinating.

A kneeling chair and some kind of large adding machine on a dusty floor
Wider shot of the same white cottage

BernieDoesIt,
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@RickiTarr I so thought that was a Super Nintendo before zooming in.

robwil, to random
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Enshittification on sale at Temu 😂 @pluralistic

BernieDoesIt,
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@robwil @pluralistic 90% off is a pretty good deal!

Alice, to random
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I think it's funny that a test for autism lists a lot of questions that are virtually impossible for autistic people to answer due to the binary nature of the options.

https://embrace-autism.com/raads-r/

BernieDoesIt,
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@RickiTarr @elverkonge @Alice Most of the questions on that test are designed so that NTs will answer "what, no, never!" but a decent amount of them are written so that autistic people will say "I thought everyone did that." They're there to catch people who are so used to mimicking what NTs do that they believe everyone does what they do.

There are a few "reverse scored" questions where the NTs are supposed to answer true and autistics are supposed to answer false.

futurebird, to random
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This MR segment on MAGA demographics is important.

When people say "why do they vote against their own interests?" (assuming MAGA folk are poor, rural) I'm just like "they aren't!"

Planned retirement communities with restrictions on who can move in are... questionable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ3svFXdkL8

BernieDoesIt,
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@futurebird I've always found the "voting against their own best interests" framing to be patronizing. Like, who is the speaker to be telling someone else what they should be most concerned about.

RickiTarr, to random
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Would it really be so bad to be a Borg?

BernieDoesIt,
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@biscuit_tornado @RickiTarr In my headcanon the Borg were accidentally created by some Ferengi that got lost in the Delta Quadrant. They managed to elude their creation for quite a while after it went rogue but they were eventually assimilated.

BernieDoesIt, to random
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COVID is the leaded gasoline of our time.

BernieDoesIt, to random
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At this point I've come to realize that if someone famous dies and @GottaLaff doesn't say how nice they were to work with then they must have been a total jerk.

BernieDoesIt, to random
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go ahead and live your best life!

BernieDoesIt, to random
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Donald Trump wants to hurt people you love.

BernieDoesIt, to twitter
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pathfinder, to Autism
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@actuallyautistic

I once wrote about how it was not unrealistic, to think that there was no such thing as an un-traumatised autistic. About how so many of us have known bullying and persecution simply for being different. Not even always for what we may have said or done, but often for simply standing out; in all the ways that we didn't even know we were. How just simply being, was so often an excuse to be attacked or punished. That our very existence, even as hard as we tried to mask, whether we knew that was what we were doing or not, was the cause of so much pain.

All the scars we carry from misreading situations. Or from believing in something, or someone, and being burnt as a consequence. All the times we've tried to stand up for ourselves, or as often as not for others, and been dismissed and ridiculed. All the misjudgements and disbelieve and times when our intent and purpose have been seen in the ways that were never, ever, meant. The sheer inability for others to see us as we are, or to judge us accordingly. But, always to seem to want to see the worst and to base everything else on that.

But the more I learn and understand about being autistic. The more I realise that so much of my trauma and the scars that were left, came not just from this overt pain, but from the covert well-meaning of others as well. From my parents and relatives, from friends and teachers. From all the advice and instruction I have received over the years that was meant to shape me in the right way. As a child, to teach me how to grow up, how to behave and act. What was expected and what wasn't. And then, as an adult, how I was supposed to be and how a successful life, with me in it, was supposed to look. All the rules I was supposed to learn, all the codes I was supposed to follow. How to act, how to speak, what to feel, when to feel it. What I was supposed to do and how I was supposed to be.

Not in any unusual way. Not in any way that you weren't supposed to raise a child, well a normal child anyway. That's what makes this so covert. If you were trying to do this to a child knowing that they were autistic, then it's overt abuse. It is ABA, it is infantilising and punishing a child for always failing to become something, that they had no more chance of becoming than a cat has of becoming a dog. But for those of us who didn't know we were autistic. It was simply the constant hammering of the world trying, without even realising it, to fit a round peg into a square hole and all the pain and disappointment that came from their failure to come even close.

For me, what made this worse, was that it wasn't as if I didn't know that I was different, not in my heart, but that I thought that I shouldn't be. That I should be able to learn what I was being taught, that I should be able to follow the guidance. That I wasn't any different really from anyone else and so if I failed to act in the right way, or react the way I should, for that matter, then it was my fault. All the patient sighs and familiar looks, simply became just another reinforcement of my failure. Even being told off for the simplest things, became a reminder that something that I should have been able to do, was beyond me and always for the only reason that ever made any sense; that I was broken, that it was my fault somehow.

Is it any wonder that so much of my life has been about trying to justify myself in the light of this, of trying to become that "good dog". Of judging myself against an impossible standard. A constant lurching from one bad to choice to another, and always because I thought they were the right ones. And for each new failure and inability to even come close, another scar, another reminder of what I wasn't. Further proof that my self-esteem was right to be so low. Of how I was such a failure and a bad person. That I was never going to be a proper son or brother or friend. Because I couldn't even be what I was supposed to be, let alone what I should become.

Looking back, I can't help thinking about how much of my life I spent living this way; of trying not to repeat the sins of my past. Of not repeating the actions or behaviour that led to those past failures and trauma. Of, in fact, all the effort I put in to not being myself. Because that, I realise now, was what I was trying to do. I was that round peg and trying to hammer myself into the square hole. Because everything I had learnt had taught me to think that this was how I had to be. That this was how you grew. And in so many ways, I can't help feeling angry about this. About the wasted years, about the scars I carry that were never my fault. About the way I was brought up, even though none of it was ever meant, but only ever well-meant.


BernieDoesIt,
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@glen @pathfinder @Tooden @actuallyautistic Have you taken an autism test? Maybe you should. On this one, you should treat "maybe", "sometimes", and "sort of" as yes.
https://embrace-autism.com/raads-r/

BernieDoesIt, to random
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remove the tag and see what happens.

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FantasticalEconomics, to random
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Important question: when have large-scale student movements been on the wrong side of history?

I may be biased by my progressive leanings (no, scratch that, I'm definitely heavily biased by them) but it seems like we can reliably look to the young to see the direction we should be moving.

I don't care where you stand politically or your views on the fucked up situation in Gaza, everyone should be standing up to loudly support the rights of students across the globe to protest.

Full stop.

BernieDoesIt,
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@i_gvf @FantasticalEconomics Maybe revolutions aren't the best thing to be judging student protests by. There's plenty of evidence that most revolutions don't turn out the way their supporters hope they will.

BernieDoesIt,
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@GreenFire @FantasticalEconomics @lednaBM Sometimes the rules need to be broken because people are more important than convenience of property. Cops aren't automata, and they're doing the morally wrong thing in my name and on my dime. I don't feel bad about not accepting it when they do that.

seachanger, to random
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once an alaska economist on twitter unfollowed me because I disagreed that “construct more houses” was the only way out of this housing crisis and suggested we may have some regulatory leverage as well

https://www.businessinsider.com/nar-settlement-antitrust-lawsuits-agent-commissions-affect-home-prices-2024-3?amp

BernieDoesIt,
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@seachanger But building makes Line Go Up so it has to be good and solve all problems.

ideogram, to Autism
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The reason autistic people identify as LGBTQI more than allistic people is a mystery still but the theory that we "just don't give a shit" is strongly endorsed in the comments.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Y2ufJMLzFUM?si=rdvnw_Mxz6hXDvxF

BernieDoesIt,
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@olena @ideogram Gender is easy to understand as an . There are two sets of unwritten rules. One of them you are supposed to VERY MUCH and the other one you are supposed to NEVER. This is supposed to be very important to you for reasons and it's supposed to be obvious to you which set of behaviors you want to do. Violating these unwritten rules is punished even more severely than violating the regular unwritten rules because these are more important.

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