All Cats Have Autism

This is a blog for anyone on the/wanting to learn about the Autistic spectrum. I do post other disability and lgbtqia things, (as well as stuff I think is really funny/neat). If you need anything tagged ask me. (Just having a list on your blog won't be any good for me). I run two events from this blog stimmysaturday and special interest Sunday. You can submit stuff for these any time. header by shaneisadragon. Main blog/insta: theunseeliemperoress

[asdcats]

Some people asked to see the presentation I wrote for my mum to show at here meeting so here it is

(keep in mind this is autism 101 that had to fit within a time limit so I couldn't cover everything)

[bungoustrayfrogs]

Being an otherwise somewhat-functional autistic adult is HUMILIATING because. Yeah I can go out and work a real actual job with minimal difficulty most days. Yeah I can interact with other human beings and force myself to appear mostly normal. Yeah I can do adult responsibilities like grocery shopping and cleaning and cooking and laundry when necessary with little difficulty.

But. Every single night. I am faced with my greatest nemesis, the one thing I cannot bear to endure:

Taking A Shower.

[slowburnlover]

Mel and her ED friends, the two black cat coded sarcastic assholes that are softer with her and hate each other 🤝🏻 Trinity and her ED friends, the two blondes that look like victorian sickly children who can't catch a social cue or pop culture reference to save their lives

[autiebiographical]

Constant aches I can handle. The pains from just living in this body are in the background for me. It's other pains that send me overboard.

[jackabbot]

THE PITT 2.12 • 6:00 P.M.

[qbeez]

Im a sucker for this ship man, in fact, Im a sucker for any ship with Prowl no joke ✌😔

I miss drawing so much, this new job on top of going to school is KILLING me. I barely have time to do even doodles. I can't wait for summer break!

[melking]

Really glad you're with us, Dr. King.

[sharonccrter]

Are the pitchforks gonna come out if I say this is mainly Robby's fault? Both Santos and Langdon deserve support, and neither are getting it the way they need to because Robby couldn't pull his head out his ass long enough to give Al Hashimi a proper hand-over. Yes she came a shift early, but let's be for real. This is his last shift. He was never going to answer her emails, or give her the proper hand over she needed. And in the end, it's the people underneath him who suffered for it. Who he has a duty of care to. He is the boss. I know he has his own shift going on; so I'm not saying, "Robby is a horrible person." What I'm saying here is he fucked up and likely made an uncomfortable situation much worse.

[detailspecialist]

Dr. Melissa King + Dr. Trinity Santos in

THE PITT S2

[superfluous-juggler]

Did somebody say more StarProwl

[goryhorroor]

130 favorite horror movies: (43/130)

"11:55, almost midnight. enough time for one more story. one more story before 12:00, just to keep us warm. in five minutes, it will be the 21st of april. one hundred years ago on the 21st of april, out in the waters around spivey point, a small clipper ship drew toward land. suddenly, out of the night, the fog rolled in. for a moment, they could see nothing, not a foot in front of them. then, they saw a light. by god, it was a fire burning on the shore, strong enough to penetrate the swirling mist. they steered a course toward the light. but it was a campfire, like this one. the ship crashed against the rocks, the hull sheared in two, masts snapped like a twig. the wreckage sank, with all the men aboard. the the bottom of the sea, lay the elizabeth dane, with her crew, their lungs filled with salt water, their eyes open, staring to the darkness. and above, as suddenly as it come, the fog lifted, receded back across the ocean and never came again. but it is told by the fishermen, and their fathers and grandfathers, that when the fog returns to antonio bay, the men at the bottom of the sea, out in the water by spivey point will rise up and search for the campfire that led them to their dark, icy death."

-the fog (1980) dir. john carpenter

[japril]

I see why you like him.

[irate-iguana]

No, y'all, the solution to Mel's crash-out is not for Mel to get a romantic partner so that she doesn't feel left out. The solution is for her to ask herself why she got so upset about Becca's new boyfriend, and to unpack how her own struggles (caretaker's fatigue, isolation) have led to her not respecting Becca's autonomy. While I absolutely agree that Mel needs to start building relationships outside of Becca, I think that suggesting she get a boyfriend so she's "even" with Becca kinda misses the point of her crisis. Mel needs to realize that Becca is an adult who should be allowed to live her own life, without Mel immediately putting that life in competition with her own. And the solution to Mel's own social isolation isn't to get a significant other (one person)—she needs a community.

[monsterpotion]

"You can now sort your likes from oldest to newest on web and iOS. Do you remember what your first liked post was?"

oh dear

[monsterpotion]

oh its bad back there.

[klematista]

burning ice

another art for rus tf fanzine

[prayantis]

Another piece + drawing based on a dream I had

[kawuli]

random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google

I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)

[yomikoreadsbooks]

Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines. 

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted. 

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy. 

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden. 

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching. 

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar. 

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results. 

https://www.mojeek.com/ 

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. 

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/ 

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine