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Autistrain , to ActuallyAutistic group
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People should let go. It's important to have joy.

For example, it was raining a lot today. I went for a walk in the forest under the rain. It was very peaceful with nearly nobody. You have small streams of water on the edge of the paths. With everything that the streams could carry, it went to small dams creating 'tiny lakes'.

What I like to do since I'm a kid is breaking the dams to see the water flowing, building some rudimental embankment to redirect the flow.

I was there in the forest walking. I stopped and broke some dams and built some embankments. I had a lot of fun and joy.

This is a good thing to remember to let go, do what we like and give us joy.

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I feel you. Snow is also peaceful. It's nice to be in the middle of nature with the snow around.

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"in modern humans, language is a tool for communication, contrary to a prominent view that we use language for thinking.",

" language does not appear to be a prerequisite for complex thought, including symbolic thought."

"it plausibly co-evolved with our thinking and reasoning capacities, and only reflects, rather than gives rise to, the signature sophistication of human cognition"

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07522-w

Sadly, paywalled. But, it gives good points to counter the narrative that if we don't have a language, we can't think, etc.

Edit: If you want to read it:
https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/linguistics/2024-fedorenko.pdf

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Autistrain , to ActuallyAutistic group
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This essay somehow resonates in me. Since I can remember, I never understood genders. It's simply not a thing for me. Why should we be restrained and oppress ourselves with a binary choice? It doesn't make any sense in a world of diversity. It's a purely social construction that doesn't feet my view and who I am. We are all humans.

“Autistic people aren’t being fooled into being nonbinary. We see past the binary that fools you.”

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/06/autistic-people-arent-being-fooled-into-being-nonbinary-we-see-past-the-binary-that-fools-you/

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I received a message with a link to a local newspaper speaking about autism.

  1. As always they need education on the topic

  2. I had to kindly explain the article about the promotion of aspie supremacy. What bring us to point 1.

We need to better educate journalists on the topic. I see all the time bad and pathologising articles on the subject of autism. It's like autistics aren't human or we have to be cured. It's not fine at all.

On aspie supremacy:

Elon Musk’s Autistic Anti-Patterns
https://oolong.medium.com/elon-musks-autistic-anti-patterns-5a96111ef28f

Mad supremacy:
https://criticalneurodiversity.com/2024/02/19/mad-supremacy/

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@GreenRoc

I doesn't like either when the see us as not human and that we should not exist how we are. It's the same narrative that you could read in the 1974 article on Lovaas in Psychology Today. (I have a pdf copy if needed).

The other type of article I dislike are the one depicting each initiative of an autistic and/or autistics as good, nice, adorable, minion. They don't do they research on what's behind what is said and done. They are multiple ideology and not all of them are nice one. You end with promoting bad ideology based on segregation, white supremacy, etc.

Both of them are damaging the community by sending the wrong picture of us to the people.

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It's also impacting my mental health and wellbeing when I read too many of these articles. It's not a good thing to read too many.

Furthermore, it would be nice if the society will be informed about how we live in reality. The propagation of the stereotype and misinformation about autism and autistic has to stop. We are valid human how we are and we deserve respect.

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Those who build their lives around helping others & put others first will often find themselves put last when they need help themselves, abandoned by everyone, with no true solidarity given.

If you’re feeling that, know you’re not alone.

Don’t let it stop you from being you.

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@theautisticcoach

This is where I learn the hard way two main things. The first is to put limits. There are limits to my help. I can't save the world, and I have a limited amount of time and energy to help the others. We have to give us time for ourselves. Free time is also taking care of ourselves.

Limits are not just the amount of help. It's also what we receive for it. We all have to make a living. It can't be free all the time.

The other point I learned this way is to say "no". Sometimes, we can't do it for whatever reason. We can't risk a burnout for the confort of the others. We have to take care of our mental health.

Self-care is important. We as autistic often forget about it.

I will still help people who need help. I'm happy to do it. There is not issue about it. I do it for free when I can do it.

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The Autism Industry must paint humans in a certain light in order to justify their products and abuse.

Those of us who believe in the Neurodiversity Paradigm are a threat to their commodification of our bodies and minds.

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@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic
Yup!

Autistrain , to ActuallyAutistic group
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If there are people liking physics here in the ? I was doing my walk and spotted this nice example of refraction of the light with stones on the river bank. The stones look flatter on the right due to the refraction of the light.

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