$65/$299 raised for my medical tax forms, physical, and phone bill! Thanks for all the support and especially the kind words

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Crowdfunding is going very poorly. I had to dip into the money I saved in order to afford necessities like groceries, menstrual products and transit fare.

I have $38/$299

I'm exhausted
Anything helps

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

https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/neurodivergent-people-have-always

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

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
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Disability checks go out a week from now, and I could really use some help getting by until then.

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$25/$99 bills
$85/$200 bills

Thanks for all the sharing and support

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Are content warnings for pictures with eye contact "performative allyship"? Honest question.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/18x1rdm/eye_contact_cws_question_to_autistic_people/

$25/$99 for my phone bill tysm
I’m at $85/$200 for med bills

Please share anything helps

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National Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval
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Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism. Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

https://www.propublica.org/article/national-cancer-institute-flagged-topics-vaccines-autism-rfk-jr?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

hoped to stay quiet for a while to give others w/ more urgent needs some room to post but my phone bill has reminded me my quarterly low income check for April is being garnished by the government. Any help is appreciated

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Tuesday is my workshop on tips for telling people you’re autistic. Totally free. Info here.

https://www.autismchrysalis.com/events/

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

$69(nice)/$200! Do so much for the help getting out of the negative. factory raising money for my doctor's bills.

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I'm getting a lot out of the Neurodivergent Insights newsletter by Dr. Megan Anna Neff. For example, this post about the overlap of ADHD and autism:

https://neurodivergentinsights.com/misdiagnosis-monday/adhd-vs-autism/

Dr. Neff is herself AuDHD who turned her hyperfocus on her neurotype into a PhD in psychology. She's also raising a neurodivergent kid with strong PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance, which she calls Pervasive Drive for Autonomy):

https://neurodivergentinsights.com/blog/pda-or-demand-avoidance/

Good afternoon everyone. I'm $10 short of closing the negative balance in my bank account. After that, I'll be able to focus completely on raising $200 again.

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Still at $11/$200 for my doctors bills. I also desperately need help paying my getting out of the negative

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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.

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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