@ashleyspencer@autistics.life
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ashleyspencer

@ashleyspencer@autistics.life

My name is Ashley Lauren Spencer. I'm an AuDHD & neurodivergent entrepreneur, writer, and owner of The Autistic Innovator and the https://autistics.life mastodon instance.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

kristiedegaris, (edited ) to photography
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Wild
Medium Format Film

JeremyMallin, to actuallyautistic
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What are the most autistic-friendly places (cities, countries, etc.) in the world to live?

@actuallyautistic

amy, to random
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Boost if you still remember how to use these 😭

mikemathia, to random
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dyani, to actuallyautistic
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Hmm is this an ND thing?

Ever since I can remember, I have strongly disliked pranks and have been against humor at the expense of someone else (making fun of them).

I know nice NT people also feel this way but I've felt this strongly since a very young age. Anyone else?

@actuallyautistic

arcadetoken, to random
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Yet another Autism post.

Nearly a year after discovering it in myself I'm still finding out cool things about it, or hearing interesting stories from community members, or striking up conversations about it.

I can't shut up about it and I can't stop thinking about it and the best part is I don't have to.

Community is nice. There's something healing about being in it. A place to belong in a sense, and one where I am not flawed.

I haven't had this before so bear with me.

arcadetoken, to boardgames
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Me as a child: I love the structure of the game is cool and there's these rules and you get to figure out how to best play in the rules and I like chess and Monopoly and Mouse Trap and...

Me in my 30's, as someone who neither drinks nor socializes: ...they're really just an excuse for people to drink and socialize huh? :(

ActuallyAutistic, to random
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5286449/ - I read this whole study sent to me by a friend of mine and I also found it interesting that autistic people we're 'disliked' because of by and large dishonest social norms and behaviors that we usually don't exhibit in our individual lives. I have to thank @WyredAlice for this article and her thoughts on this.

Uniflame, to art
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I finished a small mixed media painting over the weekend. It is acrylic paint and oil pastels. I don’t often work with oil pastels so I still have a lot to learn but it was fun to make.

Jgbird, to random

Had a pretty fun time w the macro setup. Still my first day, I have a lot to learn.

arcadetoken, to gameboy
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Shout out to the GameBoy which turned 35 today, my eternal comfort item which has simultaneously wasted so many hours of my life while providing tremendous joy and emotional and energy regulation. So maybe not a total waste?

dramypsyd, to random
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Husband is playing a video game where his character is a skeleton.

H: I got the living armor!
Me: What's that?
H: It's armor made of living cells that protects your bones
Me: So you're a skeleton covered in outer layers of cells?
H: Yes.
Me: So like a person.
H: No it's different

🤣

adelinej, to Autism
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From @Autie Comics

Alt text by the author

adelinej,
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From @Autie Comics

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alexisbushnell, to Autism
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I'm watching the Jubilee "middle ground" episode (https://youtu.be/9FCixSEjUJ8?si=DuChJz4SMpmWVCYn) about and something the mum of one of the Autistic folks said sent me off on a "maybe I'm not " imposter syndrome spiral, so I'm gonna vent my issues with it here.

Basically she was talking about Autism being "trendy" now and "the spectrum" including anybody whether they only have sensory issues and nothing else, etc.

alexisbushnell,
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I really wish more people would educate themselves on why more people are getting diagnosed as now, because it's not that anyone with the slightest quirk is getting a diagnosis, it's that many of us have struggled for years because of her attitude - because we thought we couldn't be because we don't have X thing, or we don't do Y, or we have been able to do Z.

I wish people considered that and how their words impact people who are really struggling.

Uniflame, to art
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More progress on this goldfish painting. It was my first time going back to work after 3 weeks. It was rough (I still have either an overstretched muscle or bruised rib from the bronchitis), but it was also really fun to work on this.

schoudaan, to Etymology
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Weird #etymology: 'weird' originally meant fate or fortune. It got its modern meaning from the weird sisters, goddesses of fate. Because they were portrayed as uncanny, the word weird shifted its meaning.

Further back, it comes from a root *wer-, which means to turn. The idea of turning is often used for processes of becoming and the future: something turns into something, or turns out well.

The original meaning is still present in the suffix -ward, like backward and inward.

#language

JeremyMallin, to random
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A good day in autism land…

• I haven't walked into any walls or doorknobs yet.
• I remembered to turn on and off the correct burner on the stove at the appropriate times while cooking breakfast.
• I made a phone call (I didn't actually talk to anyone, but I did leave my callback number on the system. I'm still counting it as a win.)
• So far, there are no super annoying ultra low or ultra high frequency sounds around here today.

arcadetoken, to random
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I know there's that thing where some of us "fear being perceived" which I've seen a bit on social media, like we have a fear of being scrutinized for being less than perfect or judged and thus we fear even being noticed. I have this issue offline. Is there a name for it? Is it just social anxiety? Trying to put a label to it so I can mentally categorize it.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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I have received numerous requests for more Fishy pictures, so here's one from today. Please feel free to comment your favorite thing about Fishy and I will read it to him. He may not be fluent in English, but I believe he has a basic understanding of the language. He just chooses to ignore words such as "don't eat that", "get off the counter", and "please stop biting me".

looneybyron, to random
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How on earth do you even begin to potty train twins?
Especially when one of them has a physical disability that means she might not always know when she needs to go or be able to control it and the other one is PDA autistic with bad interroception???

Any and all suggestions welcome!

18+ KaCi, to animals

I am Lumi, first of my name, king of all beagles, protector of my house, destroyer of plushies, most handsome dog ever 🐶

OneOrTwoSplines, to random

There was this moment when my therapist, who was taking me on an adventure through trauma (and who normally ends sessions precisely ten minutes early) waved the DSM in the air and said "wait: wanna just play with these criteria?"

She'd been nudging me to consider, trauma aside, that I might be autistic.

We barely got through the questions she'd prepared. I had too many ways to qualify them, too many answers.

Then there were belly laughs. Then a new adventure began.

Howdy. Happy to be here.

autisticbookshop, to bookstodon

“Ah, comfort reads- who doesn't love curling up with a feel-good (whatever that means to you) book on a rainy evening to escape the stressors of everyday life? Instead of braving your TBR, going back to the safety of a well-loved story or well-explored genre is a good coping skill to have for when life gets hard.

Some of the most common genres people look to when times get a little tougher are things like cozy fantasy, middle grade fantasy, romance, etc.“

@bookstodon

Cassandra, to random
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Channel 2 is the Aquarium Channel.

Channel 3 is La chaîne Aquarium.

It's the same aquarium but different fish.

Just thought the internet should know.

arcadetoken, to random
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ANC headphones just saved my sanity in a kid's museum today, shout out to headphones. We live in an amazing age for tech.

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