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@sleepingexplorer @filmfreak75 @actuallyautistic I've been thinking of that myself. Many Neurodivergent people are fortunate enough to live in supportive cultures, allowing them to feel safe explaining themselves openly. But what about those who would prefer somewhat more privacy? If there was an #autism-themed #XMPP private chatroom, would anybody join it? That would be the Fediverse way to do it, IMHO. XMPP chatrooms have a reputation of being more durable and stable over time, as compared to #Matrix chatrooms.

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Much of the difficulty in realising and accepting that we are autistic much later in life comes, in part, from the fact that we have been exposed to so many ableist stereotypes of it through our lifetime. The rest from the reality that much of the information we may have, is either outdated, or such that we struggle to see ourselves in it. It means that we have to spend a considerable amount of effort both in digging out and dealing with our internalised ableism, a somewhat ongoing process for many of us, and also educating ourselves on the reality of what autism is.

Such education quickly reveals that what it mostly is, is a spectrum of difference. It really is true that no two of us are alike. It may only be in the difference in which something affects us, its intensity, or the degree to which it affects our ability to function or cope. Or it may be in the aspects that we experience that others don't and vice versa. We also have to realise that whilst autism is often described by the way that it manifests, in terms of the various traits associated with it. That doesn't mean that you have to manifest all those traits to be autistic. Nor does it mean that there is one and only one way that those traits can look. Each of us, in this, really are different.

To further muddy these waters. The older we are when we begin this process, the longer we've obviously lived. In other words, the longer we have lived with what being autistic meant for us. Not by name obviously, but in terms of the ways we've learnt, as often as not the hard way, what we can and can't do, how we struggle, when we don't, our strengths and our weaknesses. And we haven't just ignored this, as much as possible we've built our lives around it. Obviously not ideally, we didn't always have the knowledge to be able to set the right boundaries, or the paths we should, or shouldn't walk down, regardless of what others wanted from us or even how we thought we should be. But still, as much as we could, we walked a path that was a reaction to what we were. That meant that over time we could learn to hide and compensate, to try and take advantage of our strengths and fear our weaknesses, adjust and compensate. In fact to continually layer the products of false awareness and understandings, of guess work and trial and error, over our behaviours, like papering over a crack, until the original could hardly be seen any more and we could at least get by.

This is why it can be so difficult to realise that you are autistic and everything about it now. So much of what is described is the cause of our behaviour today, but not the behaviour itself. And seeing past that to the root of the behaviour and the way we are and that it can still be different from how others are, is the reason why it takes so long and why so much of it, is still an ongoing process.

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#ActuallyAutistic

Scientists led by a team from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark have found a "strong link" between Western-style diets and neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The researchers' analysis also "identifies specific nutrients and foods that could serve as the foundation for improved dietary guidelines and preventative strategies," says food scientist David Horner. Read more at @ScienceAlert:

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ScienceAlert · Maternal Diet in Pregnancy Linked to Child's Risk of Future DisordersScientists led by a team from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark have found a "strong link" between Western-style diets and neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Is Guided Access on iPadOS stable? I know someone who wants to restrict an iPad for an autistic child to only run a single assistive tutorial app focused on speech learning.

Guided Access is designed for things like this. But is it stable or another example of a feature that gets added by Apple and then ignored as it bitrots?

support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/

Apple SupportLock iPad to one app with Guided AccessWith Guided Access, you can temporarily restrict iPad to one app when you let a child use your device or when you want to stay focused on a task.

Neurodivergent people have always been there (we just weren't 'looking' before)

theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.

The idea that the neurodiversity is a 'recent development' and hasn't been shaping all of human society forever is as wrong as it is unhelpful

My latest post explains

The Neuroscience of Everyday Life · Neurodivergent people have always been there (we just weren't 'looking' before)By Dean Burnett
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@peter_sc In my therapy for dealing with #autism we used both the #act model (do what you can and accept what you cant) and also the handicap model (you cant do or dont want to do all things other people can and will assume you can too)
I have found a place that accepts my handicap, but myself accepting it needs work sometimes

Neurodivergent people have always been there (we just weren't 'looking' before)

theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.

The idea that the neurodiversity is a 'recent development' and hasn't been shaping all of human society forever is as wrong as it is unhelpful

My latest post explains

The Neuroscience of Everyday Life · Neurodivergent people have always been there (we just weren't 'looking' before)By Dean Burnett

Update on my broken paw.

I saw the physio today. All seems to be healing as well as can be expected and he gave me exactly what I wanted. Which was a series of exercises to help my hand. He did seem slightly mystified as to why I was still wearing the wrist brace, which, as I already knew, is not necessary and seemed somewhat confused with my explanation that it helped me to remember that the hand was injured. Further explanation that I'm not always aware of pain and that I've never met a door frame yet that I haven't eventually bumped into and that I wore it for added protection, for some strange reason, didn't seem to help.

On a further note, coming up to three weeks off work means that I have almost completely lost track of what day it is. I spent all last Tuesday utterly convinced that it was Monday. As a consequence, waking up the next day to find out that it was Wednesday, meant that part of me was utterly convinced that somehow I had been robbed of a day.
All I can say is, given that I spend so much time on here, which one of you bastards did it?

(Although, my money is on that bloody armoured squirrel.)

#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic

Neurodivergent people have always been there (we just weren't 'looking' before)

theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.

The idea that the neurodiversity is a 'recent development' and hasn't been shaping all of human society forever is as wrong as it is unhelpful

My latest post explains

The Neuroscience of Everyday Life · Neurodivergent people have always been there (we just weren't 'looking' before)By Dean Burnett

Since I moved to a new instance, here's a little #introduction about me. My name is Purple, a #retrogaming nerd mostly into platformers, FPS games, and survival horror. I'm also nonbinary and on the #autism spectrum. In addition, I take interest in animation, mostly stuff geared towards adults.

As of now, my current media hyperfixations consist of:
Super Mario
Sonic the Hedgehog
DOOM
Half-Life
Silent Hill
Resident Evil
Life is Strange
Five Nights at Freddy's
South Park
Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss

I have once again been nominated for a National Diversity Award in the Catoegory of Positive Role Model- Disability

If you would like to vote for me, do so below, and remember to check your emails and junk for the link to verify your vote.

You can vote for multiple people

nationaldiversityawards.co.uk/

#ActuallyAutistic #autism #NationalDiversityAwards #ADHD #neurodiversity @actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy @neurodiversity @mentalhealth@newsmast.community @mentalhealth@a.gup.pe