Happy autism day to meeee🌻🎊🎂 Today is really important to me so I wanted to make a post to commemorate it! I’m very proud of who I am today and how far I have come since being diagnosed last year. Receiving my diagnosis completely changed my life for the better 🥹
I went 27 years knowing something felt very “wrong” with me, and having no solid answers. I thought I had my answer when I was diagnosed with traits of Borderline Personality Disorder, but that never sat right with me based on what I was experiencing (autistic women are commonly misdiagnosed with BPD).
I used to have obsessive thoughts about my identity, gender and sexuality, and an unstable sense of self (caused by autistic masking). I believed I was a lesbian for years, looked into having my breasts removed as I genuinely believed I was non-binary (I identify as gender fluid today), I cycled through many different “identities”and relationships, and used to abuse alcohol, nicotine and prescription medication. I couldn’t figure out basic things about myself like how I wanted to dress, how I wanted to cut my hair, or what my favourite colour was.
A year ago today I was diagnosed with ASD and C-PTSD (complex post traumatic stress disorder). My entire life finally made sense‼️🤯😭🎉
Autism isn’t a disease or mental illness and it also isn’t curable. It is a neurodevelopmental condition that a person is born with. It is not caused by vaccines or taking Tylenol during pregnancy, and it’s also not a funny, quirky and cute condition to live with.
Autism is recognised as a disability and autistic people all have different support needs, sensory experiences, boundaries, interests, self-regulating techniques, ways of stimming, executive functioning difficulties and so on... So, if you’ve met one autistic person, you’ve only met one autistic person. We are all different and that’s why it’s a spectrum.
Thank you for reading my post and for enjoying my artworks! 🌼 Please be kind to yourselves and others and remember that you are not alone in your struggles 🫂❤️
we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason
i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3
unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it
i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map
i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs
this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.
crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.
not enjoying this thing the apps are starting to do where when i try to take a screenshot they flash up the share this post interface - sometimes so fast it effectively prevents screenshotting
something something user retention, i know, but jesus christ fuck off
part of ryan goslings charm as an actor is he doesn’t take himself too seriously. just always flailing and screaming and throwing himself around. this is a Trojan horse post. if u liked his performance in project hail mary go watch nice guys 2017 NOW
Yeah if you like pathetic Ryan Gosling, Nice Guys 2017 is just non-stop pathetic Ryan Gosling. His character is bad at every single thing. All of them.
hey!! are you familiar with return to freedom? it’s a wild horse conservatory where the actual model for spirit lives !!
i am !! recently, return to freedom hosted a birthday event for donner (the model for spirit) who was born may 9th
production for spirit stallion of the cimarron began in 1998, donner (later renamed spirit) was just three years old at the time
in april 2002, after production was complete, donner was gifted to return to freedom horse rescue sanctuary to live with wild horses
the event was called “ spirit of the horse “ and raised funds to help feed and care for the rescued horses and burros at the sanctuary
there was even a special healing ceremony for spirit (donner,) the horses, the land, and all of those in attendance led by Diné (Navajo) healers. a friendship circle and a traditional song and dance followed
after 24 years, it’s beautiful to know that spirit’s platform is still helping wild horses and letting indigenous voices be heard
i got a fucking. advertisement on youtube. from google ai. saying. without sarcasm and with complete sincerity. "if shakespeare is too hard for you, you can always have our ai explain it to you." im gonna throw up. im gonna throw a molotov cocktail. if i see that ad again im reporting it for hate speech. how fucking dare you. i will kill you with my bare hands. with my exit pursued by a bear hands. i will tear google headquarters down brick by brick. im going to start biting people.
i do think the negative interpretations of "im probably nonbinary but i have a job right now" are kind of reaching. it's obviously a waste of time to theorize the op's intended meaning, so instead i think it's better to recognize how the phrase can be a useful framing device to criticize how much of a fucking hassle it is to get gendered correctly. "but i have a job" e.g. will face discrimination that could threaten livelihood; e.g. don't have the mental bandwidth to explain gender to others; e.g. don't have the time and energy for the soul-searching necessary to confirm. all three of these are labor issues. yes you could interpret it as "but being nonbinary isn't important enough to worry about", despite that being a blatantly bad-faith read. it's more useful to interpret it as "but being publicly nonbinary requires a lot of social effort that, in many cultural contexts, will create more problems that you can't afford to deal with". like cmon it's a really good jumping off point for productive conversations about queer labor rights