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stevenray

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Photographer, sound artist, poet. Former sys admin. Political progressive, Left Coaster. Red wine yes, nationalism no. Pro dogs & cats & strange music.

I have never been older than I am right now. That happened yesterday, too

neurodiv, probably

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@stevenlouisray (b&w fine art photography)

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errebe81 , to photography group Spanish
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Tranquilidad | Tranquility.

@photography

stevenray ,
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@errebe81 @photography very beautiful. Great light & composition!

LehtoriTuomo , to ActuallyAutistic group
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I love Unmasking Autism. I've now read almost the first half and there's this constant flow of "that's me!", "oh!" and "wtf?!" from my part.

Part about learning certain characteristics being unwanted and masking by overcompensating for them was especially revealing. Things that really resonated:

"Pretending I didn't know the answers to questions" and "Keeping silent when people said things that weren't true" in order not to appear arrogant.

"Solving problems by myself" and "Not getting 'too excited' about anything, including good things" in order not to appear annoying and loud.

"Nodding or laughing, even when I have no idea what's going on" in order not to appear clueless and pathetic.

"Not voicing my needs" in order not to appear sensitive.

I'm in this picture and I don't like it... It's not that I recognize ever being certain things but I recognize overcompensating.

@actuallyautistic

stevenray ,
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@LehtoriTuomo @actuallyautistic hey, I’m seeing multiple books with that title. Could you tell me the name of the author?

stevenray ,
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@H2O @LehtoriTuomo @actuallyautistic that's great, thanks so much!

yourautisticlife , to ActuallyAutistic group
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@actuallyautistic

I had a strange experience last night.

Usually, when I fall asleep there are gaps in my consciousness. It goes: awake, gap, dream, gap, awake.

In other words, there is no continuity of consciousness between the wakeful state and the dream state.

However, last night there was a continuity. I was able to have conscience of myself falling asleep, entering dreamland, dreaming, coming out of dreamland, and being awake again. This cycle repeated itself three times.

Previously, the closest I came to this was that sometimes I'd be conscious of pulling back at the last minute. In this case, I wouldn't actually fall asleep, I'd progressively go towards sleep, but pull back at the last minute.

I wondering if it has anything to do with autism.

stevenray ,
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@yourautisticlife @actuallyautistic @pathfinder it could, but I can tell you that we’re supposed to have periods of deep sleep, REM (when we dream) and light sleep, along with maybe some awake time. I’d think the time you describe as gaps would be the deep sleep. It could be that you didn’t get much of that on the night in question. Here’s a image from the app which tracks my sleep, in case that helps.

mondoweiss , to palestine group
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In the first such divestment action by a major Christian denomination, the General Conference of The United Methodist Church has voted to divest from Israel bonds, and those of other countries carrying out prolonged military occupations.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/united-methodist-church-votes-to-divest-from-israel-bonds/


@palestine @israel

stevenray ,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel gonna guess they don’t have a problem with the 800 military bases that the United States has all around the world.

Good for them to divest, but they could do more.

mondoweiss , to israel group
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Netanyahu's plans to turn Israel into a regional transportation hub connecting Asia with Europe has just suffered a major setback. The reason is the maritime and land blockade against Israel in response to its genocide in Gaza.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/the-land-and-sea-blockade-against-israel-is-working-as-israel-takes-a-strategic-hit/


@palestine @israel

stevenray ,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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