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Hi! I'm Michael, or Fubsepude.
I'm a #blind #autistic music and tech-enthusiast from Denmark.
I love listening to and creating music, computers and just hanging out and meeting new people.
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@FediTips It might be worth pointing out that not only people with visual and/or auditory impairments benefit from #AltText. It can be useful in many other ways, too.
To me, as an #autistic person whose perception and information processing work in quite different ways, it is not always clear what the point of an image is. Some good alt text can help a lot.
Some clarifying background info in alt text can also be very useful for the general public (which helps to normalise the use of alt text).
Among many frustrating things about being #autistic at work (but also everywhere) is when some NT person tells you "This thing is optional", you take them at their word that it's optional, then months later learn through back channels ... It wasn't actually optional, they've been silently giving you demerits since you didn't participate in the optional thing.
One of the weirder aspects for me when I didn't have friends and tried to tell people that was that people usually just
Refused to believe me
And kinda assumed that I somehow just "didn't know" who my friends were.
I dunno why for sure, maybe neurotypicals just find it so easy to make friends that they genuinely can't conceptualize not having any? But I've always had to work hard for friendships, the friendships I have now are ones I really had to work toward and go out of my way for
Eeek my book is in print! So beyond thrilled with how beautiful it looks. Asked for gold letters as it's a book by #Autistic people and Au is periodic symbol for gold.
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Hot take:
Masking mostly only exists for the sake of neurotypicals' comfort, and letting them go about life without putting in any work interacting with neurodivergent people, allowing them to in the back of their minds basically pretend we don't exist.
It's a special accommodation for the majority.
Neurotypicals get all this accommodation, expect all this accommodation, for our mere existence, and we get none for our actual difficulties and disabilities. This is bad; it ought to be the other way around.
Instead of, “I can’t unmask because no one will accept me,” what if it’s, “I must unmask because people already aren’t accepting this masked me?”
What if it’s, “I need to find out who will accept the real me.”
My AuDHD brain essentially has three scripts for.meeting new people and basically none of them are what one might call "socially appropriate"
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In my experience, when I have told an NT person that I am #autistic, they tend to take it to mean one of two things:
1. They think if I am self-aware enough to know I'm autistic so that I could tell them about it, that implies I know the difference between autistic and normal behavior, so I can just do the normal thing, because that's all it takes, knowing what the normal thing is. They think I'm informing them that I've got it handled, so they can just carry on as usual without any adjustments. Maybe they think I'm bragging or asking them to be impressed? Who knows.
2. They think I am informing them of an insurmountable barrier to communication, and conclude it will be too hard to have a relationship (of whatever kind), so there's no point in trying.
The frustrating thing is that they don't realize there is a third option: They could meet us halfway. They could learn to do their part in bridging the #DoubleEmpathyProblem communication gap. They could cut us a little slack when we unintentionally mess up and break one of their mysterious social rules that are impossible for us to learn, because part of the rules is that they always lie about what the rules really are. They could try to understand that we see the world differently than they do, that the way we see things is just as valid as theirs, and we shouldn't have to do all the work to bridge the communication gap without any help from them.
And beyond frustrating, they appear to think the way to support me is to "help" me adapt to NT social norms. They tell me what I'm doing is wrong, even without me asking. They "guide" me toward NT standard behavior, which usually feels like bullying because then they punish me when I don't conform. It feels like everyone thinks it's their job to be an ABA therapist and gently torture me into normality.
There are, thankfully, some people who I'm close enough to that I can lead them to the third option. But that's always hit-or-miss, and is never easy. I'm really grateful for the handful of people who really do accept me, and even if they don't understand me all the time, they cut me some slack for not being able to perform NT.
But you don't look #autistic!
I made the mistake of telling a couple of colleagues way back when I realised how much I matched aspergers (as it was called back then), and I got a fair few of these. I never made that mistake again.
Be who you are. Be only who you are. At all times. You can try to be a better you, but make sure that you are still you.
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#Introduction with a billion #hashtags...
I'm Alba, a #trans #nonbinay #bisexual #autistic #vegan #antifascist #activist from #Nijmegen, #NL. In addition to my #autism, I've also got #ADHD, #hyperlexia, related auditory processing and executive function issues, #aphantasia and #SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory). I'm an IT #tech at a large #international company, a volunteer for the #radical #intersectional #anticapitalist #political party #BIJ1 and a freelance #translator. I speak #Nederlands, #français, #English, #Deutsch and #Esperanto. I play #saxophone - I have a bari sax, a tenor sax and a soprano sax. I also have a #flute and a #ukelele but I don't play those nearly as well as the saxes. I love playing #TTRPG like #DnD5e and #PF2e, and I have two #cats, an orange slonk called Hobbes and a void chonk called Nita.
I used to hang out on mastodon.lol until early 2023 when that instance shut down. I then moved to todon.nl and recently decided to hop on to blahaj.zone 
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> The foreword to the landmark 1980 DSM-III was appropriately modest and acknowledged that this diagnostic system was imprecise - so imprecise that it never should be used for forensic or insurance purposes. As we will see, that modesty was tragically short-lived.
- The Body Keeps the Score (p. 33) by Bessel Van der Kolk
WHAT THE FUCK?! EXCUSE ME?! THE DSM DID _WHAT_?!
And yet here we are. LOLOLOLOLOL
If I come across anyone who invalidates self-diagnosis again then I'm gonna smack them with this quote so hard that they get knocked out of our solar system. -Vox
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We need to stop asking why neurodivergent people struggle so much, and start making meaningful change to society.
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Making a mistake is not evidence that I’ve failed at being a person, or a painter, or a good friend, or a responsible adult, or whatever the case may be. It is evidence that I have lived and tried things.