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BernieDoesIt

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

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TonyStark, to random
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I’ve said this before but apparently it hasn’t sunk in but if you say “Biden has lost my vote”, don’t expect anyone to listen to you or be surprised he’s not out gunning for it. The election is 6 months out. If there’s no way you’re voting for him, nobody fucking cares what you want.

You can enjoy likely a 7-2 or 8-1 conservative SCOTUS that will be grinding down our rights for the next generation or three. Enjoy that.

BernieDoesIt,
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@Snowshadow @TonyStark This is really not a great example of foreign interference unless you think that they had managed to infiltrate the semi-official Bernie slack I was a part of in a major way, because what happened is that someone posted the original in one of the major channels in response to a lot of public pressure that they endorse Clinton, and by a few days later it had snowballed exponentially in what seemed like a pretty authentic pattern to me at the time.

ashleyspencer, to actuallyautistic
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I googled “autism and traumatic brain injury” hoping to find something about living with both at the same time.

ALL the results were studies done to see if TBIs cause autism. 😒

Not one article, reddit post, quora post, was about living with both. Ugh.

@actuallyautistic

BernieDoesIt,
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@ScruffyDux @Tooden @ashleyspencer @actuallyautistic It's well known that Peter Pan was autistic.

BernieDoesIt,
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@Tooden @ScruffyDux @ashleyspencer @actuallyautistic Oh, was that the one that ended up blaming everything on a meltdown? I was lurking occasionally back then.

pathfinder, to Autism
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@actuallyautistic

No matter how well I learnt to mask, no matter how well I learnt to get on with people, if not in any deep and meaningful way, at least superficially. There has always been one skill that I have never mastered and that is simply the ability to not upset people and especially without having the slightest idea how.

Or that I didn't for a long time, anyway. It was only when I realised that I was autistic and that the way I looked at the world was in some ways substantively different from the way many allistics looked at the world, that I began to understand something. Allistics tend to find validation externally, through feedback from the group or the part of society that they identify with, whereas autistics tend to find it within themselves, in their own reason and sense of worth and value.

Now I must stress that in many respects this is a generalisation and obviously there will be a lot of variation and degree in how true this is. But in its more extreme forms, it could very well explain many of the experiences and difficulties that I've had.

Because if someone's self-worth, the value they see in their life and actions, is almost entirely based on their interactions with the dynamics of the group they identify with, or the society they live within and not from their own judgement, then this could lead to certain choices and reactions that are quite frankly alien to someone like me and that I could easily end up in conflict with and all without really trying to.

For example, if the value of a child reflects back on its parents. Then in the extreme case the values and behaviour expected from that child, are not those of the child, but of the parents in terms of the group the child is meant to be representing them in and how well it is doing that. So any sense of divergence from that or criticism of that child, no matter how slight that might be, could easily be seen as an attack on the parents and reacted to accordingly, irrespective of how reasonable or just it was.

Equally, of course, worth, praise, or rewards, can also become divorced from any sense of reality. All that matters is that you, whether that's through your children or not, are being valued, not whether there is any justice to it. Because the truth or validity of it, is not based on how you see yourself, but only on how others see you. And in the extreme case, it doesn't even matter how they came to this view, as long as they have it. So worth can become something to be manipulated and played for and how you really are and how you actually feel about yourself becomes almost irrelevant to this process.

That people could even be this way, that everything could become how you're being perceived and anything that effects that negatively can be something to be attacked, is still something that I struggle to understand. It is so foreign to my nature. But, it certainly explains so many of the times that I've upset people, because I wasn't playing this game, or seeing the world the way I should and didn't even realise it.


BernieDoesIt,
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@EVDHmn @pathfinder @actuallyautistic I dunno about that. I'm a lot harsher on myself than I'd ever be on anyone else. The idea that maybe I don't have to be harsh with myself is really something pretty new to me. I've only been trying for a few months.

BernieDoesIt,
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@pathfinder @EVDHmn @actuallyautistic For example, I was pretty blunt with myself because I knew I could've possibly offend myself. It never really occurred to me that I might be hurting myself.

BernieDoesIt,
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@pathfinder @EVDHmn @actuallyautistic I just never saw the point before. I knew I could take it.

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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@i_gvf @FantasticalEconomics Hmm, I'm still not convinced that pro-revolution protests by students isn't a reliable sign that the current government is terrible and a new one is needed. On the other hand, no one seems to be a good judge of who is really going to make a government that's a lot better.

BernieDoesIt,
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@FantasticalEconomics @i_gvf But they did the thing that was most visible to the US, so that's what counts, right? 😉

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.

TonyStark, to random
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Let’s do this:

Many people are comfortable throwing rocks at AIPAC. As a result, other people have spoken out about this type of rhetoric and how linking the discussion of $$$ and Jews controlling things is rife with antisemitism.

MANY Democrats and Republicans receive money from AIPAC. It is an American organization run by Americans which is a thing that happens.

Now I’m getting it in my replies from people who should know better. AIPAC doesn’t control the U.S. government. Cut it out.

BernieDoesIt,
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@TonyStark @CatHerder Does New York have universal healthcare? The answer might tell you whether the Greater New York Hospital Association controls the government.

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BernieDoesIt,
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@janisf @x00001 My advice as an ND is to be very careful about projecting your own values onto someone who thinks very differently from you. The questions you should be asking yourself are what genuinely is going to make him happiest long-term, and then if he's not going in that direction, how can you convince him to change?

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 actuallyautistic
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My Autistic Pony: Friendship is Overrated

@actuallyautistic

BernieDoesIt, to Futurology
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Servers defederating from isn't going to make new users think "Wow, is evil!" They're just going to think that the rest of the is unreliable.

BernieDoesIt, to random
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I'm not surprised that no one cares about people like me, but I'm sad no one cares about people like me.

BernieDoesIt, to actuallyautistic
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@actuallyautistic I just realized I thought about one of my triggers and then didn't immediately chastise myself for thinking about it. I'm making progress.

BernieDoesIt, to actuallyautistic
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Can we talk about grocery shopping while ? It's bad enough that my level of supplies changes. My time blindness says I already bought paper towels so I shouldn't have to do that again.

@actuallyautistic

BernieDoesIt, to random
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says that the Bible teaches that refugees should assimilate into the culture of the country that takes them in. I'm not sure where he gets that from. There's an obscure story in the Bible about a group of refugees that don't assimilate and are greatly rewarded by God. You might have heard about it. It's called the Book of Exodus.

BernieDoesIt, to ADHD
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@actuallyautistic I'm in the process of switching one of my meds to another one because my inattention was starting to get bad. I was really apprehensive because it's switching from one selective reuptake inhibitor to another, and withdrawal symptoms for that can be pretty intense. But within a few hours of the first dose I could pay attention to things again and my thoughts started to seem more related to each other. No withdrawal symptoms yet (knock on wood). I'm just so happy about it!

BernieDoesIt, to random
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@deadtom @tofugolem To be fair, fifty years is a long time for a constitution to hold for a country in decline.

BernieDoesIt, to random
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"I independently reinvented Hitler's rhetoric" really doesn't make it better even if it were true.

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-said-he-is-not-a-student-of-hitler-2023-12

BernieDoesIt, to actuallyautistic
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@actuallyautistic This , take a few minutes to think about how drab NTs report their world is like, then feel sad for them for a bit.

BernieDoesIt, to actuallyautistic
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It turns out that elephants are allistic.

@animalculum @actuallyautistic
https://scholar.social/@animalculum/112417052768543901

BernieDoesIt, to actuallyautistic
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@actuallyautistic I did some back-of-the-envelope math, and about 50% of people with PTSD are autistic. That's really incredible when you think of how many more allistics there are.

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