Nentuaby🏳️‍🌈 @Nentuaby@wandering.shop

Please avoid puzzle piece symbolism. The idea that we are 'missing pieces of oursevlves' or that we are a puzzle for 'normal' folks to solve is heavily embedded in that symbol and extremely dehumanizing. We are NOT puzzles for you to solve, we are ourselves, thank you very much. Nor are we, as one autism 'expert' said, "missing a core aspect of what it is to be human".

We have our own symbol, the rainbow infinity. Please use it.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Infinity_Rainbow_%2824075520546%29.png

#actuallyautistic

Related to this, please share and promote the voices of autistic folks. We are the only ones who understand #autism from inside, the only ones who can tell you what it's really like and what really helps US, as opposed to what helps hide our differences.

Be very careful what you share that isn't written by autistic people. Many of the memes, articles, etc, about autistic people are dehumanizing, infantalizing or erasing. Autism Speaks has a particularly bad history of this.

Awareness isn't enough. You try to be aware of a pile of dog poo on the sidewalk so you can avoid stepping on it. It's still a pile of shit.

What we need is your ACCEPTANCE. Part of that is accepting that we have a right to a voice in our own advocacy. So please promoting autism ACCEPTANCE this April and use the #RedInstead hashtag, which was created by and for autistic folks.

#actuallyautistic

A Thread on Being #Autistic in April and How You Can Help

#Autism Awareness makes April a hard month for autistic folks. A lot of autistic folks take a break from social media in April just to avoid it.

This year is worse. Social distancing and shelter-in-place affect us too. We may be more affected because of how difficult change is for us.

A social media breakh this April will be impossible for many of us.

Please read this. Learn how to make this month easier for us.

#actuallyautistic

TIRED: physical transition
WIRED: fixing the titty hitbox glitch

TIRED: HRT
WIRED: endocrine system total conversion mod

okay this rules

RT @danielradosh@twitter.com

It's genuinely insane that from country to country, and now from state to state, every single hotspot says "We should have acted earlier" while every place that hasn't been hit yet says, "But we don't have to act now because it's not a problem here."

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/danielradosh/status/1243295209921937409

I have found the perfect food for Mastodon

Sequel: "Here's the video of the bison I shot once I got a safe distance away lol" https://twitter.com/DeionNBCMT/status/1242965245414391808

In case you all haven't seen this yet…this TV news reporter demonstrates perfect wildlife encounter technique:

🔁 @DeionNBCMT@twitter.com: There was a herd of bison walking right toward me at Yellowstone NPS today! https://twitter.com/DeionNBCMT/status/1242910540105576450

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Programming languages are just sports teams for nerds

This article is sticking in my mind and refuses to leave, I uncover new levels of the absurdity of the human condition each time I reconsider it, this is my L'Etranger, this nameless journalist is my Camus, this is the impetus for my existentialist awakening

RT @ihmerst@twitter.com

Someone translated Dracula into Icelandic and it took over 100 years for anyone to point out he just made a fanfic-rewrite of what he wanted the story to be.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ihmerst/status/1043595121894125568