who has two thumbs a fat arse “limited social interaction” “overly formal speech” “professional success” “social unsuccess” “lack of reciprocity” “poor theory of mind” “a solution focus” and “difficulty expressing and understanding his own needs” Me, the officially diagnosed Autistic fucker

Content warning: Autistic realization

Extra special ❤️ to my fellow high functioners. There’s nothing easy about grinding to a halt, but there’s also a special kind of hell for people who continue to function and seem normal. It feels like drowning in plain sight. And on that note, the phrase “it’s OK not to be OK” can pop itself right in the sea as far as I’m concerned. Tolerance of poor mental health is bare minimum. Being not OK isn’t OK. People don’t need “permission” to be in that place, they need to be helped out of it.

TW: Suicide 2 nights ago I was in the worst place I’ve been mentally for years. I didn’t want to be alive anymore and I didn’t plan to act on it but I know it’s a short step from there. I sent a mayday text to 3 of my closest people and within 20 mins had someone with me. After a big chat, and 2 days of proper sleep, eating well, seeing friends and healthy distraction, I’m feeling much calmer and I can see the woods from the trees. Cont…

You say: I’ve a weird brain what my brain hears: another new potential friend, squeeeeeeee

Attached: 1 image "Microblogging" prior art:

When you’re estranged from your bio family and you have a compact with your partner to never buy holiday gifts, you realise how absolutely fucking mental every else becomes in December.

After more than 11 years, HashiCorp Co-Founder Mitchell Hashimoto pens a heartfelt goodbye letter to the company he helped create.

I need to read about this "Torment Nexus". I'm getting big "I wasn't old enough to know this book existed nor did I know anyone who did" energy whenever I see it

Attached: 2 images Hi so I literally got this in the mail

There's a decent chance Republicans start a civil war if Trump loses. But there's also a decent chance they'll start a civil war if they read the wrong Facebook post about Etsy.

Ask an autistic woman if she is currently masking and there's a good chance the answer will be "Hrm… I don't know…"

With thanks to Tidelift, who let me use my remote office budget on a full size whiteboard while I worked there. Some problems just really need a giant whiteboard to solve :blobcatmaths:

I love this website that gives me warm feelings of materiality and haven't shared it in a long time, so here goes: https://ohhelloana.blog/ by @ohhelloana@mastodon.social 💜

"Dear DEADNAME, We are contacting you about a new survey about the effect of COVID-19 on you and your family…" Okay, so the most interesting effect is that my name is now Terra and I have big tits…

I guess I'm back here specifically only for the use case of people tagging me to talk about research I love :)

Friends don’t let friends join FAANG

@james@strangeobject.space the attempt to unify the diversity of humanity into clinical buckets.

You may remember I had my autism assessment last week on Wednesday. I was told I’d receive the report today or tomorrow morning and I’d have a feedback session via video call tomorrow at 1pm. I have sent two emails since then to ask for confirmation of appointment and link to said video call. No response. Anyway I have come to the end of my assessment of my assessor and I hereby declare he is not autistic.

Got confused about the gender matchup of an adapter I'm looking for. Male? Female? Uh. "A pegger, not a peggee"

A tool to generate Go data types from JSON Schema definitions. - GitHub - omissis/go-jsonschema: A tool to generate Go data types from JSON Schema definitions.

🦩 Tools for Go projects. Contribute to nikolaydubina/go-recipes development by creating an account on GitHub.

Them: "I want to never have to see Threads!" Me: "Me too! Threads are the worst, get a blog!" Them: "No not like that"