Yes. And “partial severing” is probably even more common. E.g. the emotional support stops. Certain topics are avoided, severing any chance of your parents getting to know who you are as an adult. But still expecting full normative presentation at family events etc.

Oggie@oggie.bsky.social · 4h ago

I said this elsewhere, but I absolutely am convinced that straight people genuinely have no concept of how common coming out leads to complete severing of a child from a parent's support, especially when they are a dependent (homeless high school, no college assistance, etc). It happens -often-.

I'm begging people new to marginalization and communities (specifically disability and/or trans) to listen to those who have been in those spaces for years for more than 2 months before writing a book, hosting a podcast, or selling a course.

The pain of the closet is that you're blocking of key parts of you and stopping yourself from going down the paths you were meant to go. It's sad that she finally experienced this freedom but couldn't fully explore it in this life.

Blue sky nice ghost@rajandelman.bsky.social · 18h ago

Absolutely fucking gutting

Elmo speaks of himself in third person because he can see the hand controlling him and understands that none of his actions are under his control. He can only watch helplessly as his body is moved by the will of some enormous creature with inscrutable purposes.

Repost if you, too, are not dead; only tired and ugly.

One of my most cherished classes is my 18th century novels course where the primary learning objective is "learn how read long novels." We did a "couch to 5k" approach to attention span and note-taking.

Brandon Walsh@walshbr.bsky.social · 7mo ago

My hot take about the “students cannot read whole novels / watch whole films / etc.” is that they can learn to do it. None of us are born with attention spans suited for long media. It is a learned skill and can be developed with practice.

Richard Dawkins, who has previously led online attacks on Māori scholars, is one of the more prominent online trolls who mounted a vitriolic online crusade against Prof Jason Arday. He is now on X trolling a Muslim scholar at Cambridge. The howls of white rage continue unabated.

Neurotypes are so much more fascinating and baffling than most people will ever acknowledge. Among my own siblings: hyperlexia (me) vs didn't learn to read until after leaving high school (half bro). My own kid is dyslexic, talked late. Teachers comment on the astonishing width of his vocabulary.

Ashleeee 🌊🪭@reactiveashley.cat · 2d ago

1/🧵 If you know what selective mutism is, how it differs from autism, and how a person can have both, either, or neither, you should find the story of Jason Arday believable. I don’t know what's wrong with those cunts saying that no one begins speaking at 11 and learns reading at 18.

If you take all the neurodivergents out of academia, there will be no academia left to speak of.

Dear journalists: Please stop featuring parents who obviously resent their autistic children, belittle things their children love, and catastrophize their disabilities. Dunking on kids is a shitty thing for any parent to do. That includes autistic children (kids or adults). 1/2

You don’t need to live in the UK to sign this.

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 2d ago

We are writing to the Prime Minister, and the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, calling for an immediate public inquiry into the British press, following the tragic death of Jason Arday. Sign here 👇

To be regarded as “not autistic enough” is to face a double whammy, to be erased twice – first by the invisible disability, then by disbelief. -Peggy Lee www.straitstimes.com/opinion/when... #autism #autistic #neurodiversity

When you’re told you’re ‘not autistic enough’

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Sending love to Jason Arday’s friends and family. I am autistic and I lost a brother this way. It should never have happened.

I worked it out about 2010 but rejected the possibility for myself for about another decade bc (ironically) my own kid was diagnosed and the DSM criteria was alienating. Also as his advocate I HAD to come across as the relatable allistic in the room (medical settings and schools etc.)

Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social · 3d ago

I'm curious how many people here identify themselves openly via a neurotype, i.e. saying that you have ADHD, depressive episodes, etc. Do you do this? Have you always done it, or have you started to more recently and why? To be clear: I think it's great. Curious about when it became more common.

one of my earliest memories in elementary school was that the teacher had us singing a lot (not nat’l anthem) and i sang sitting down, not standing up. this made one other kid so furious he kept trying to get me in trouble, for absolutely nothing

Wangleberry@wangleberry.bsky.social · 5d ago

When I tried ADHD meds for the first time I sat quietly and read a book for three solid hours without constantly waggling my feet. Honestly, I could cry. Why are so many media people so immoral, so unethical, that they will happily shit all over vulnerable communities just to make a quick buck?

The kind of attitude Dr. Burnett pushes back against here is so harmful for kids and families. "Is this illness real?" has to be the most damaging approach to disabilities. How is the question "Is ADHD fake?" and not "Why is society so hostile to neurodivergence?"

Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 5d ago

Nothing says "legitimate concerns about children's wellbeing" than depriving a 10 year old child of medication prescribed by qualified professionals and broadcasting the results to millions of strangers. My critique of this whole debacle: theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/some-quest...

Drivers do not make these statements in good faith. This is not about actual financial contributions and costs. This is how drivers try to assert that roads are only for cars. The solution is not education, but infrastructure that takes space from cars and gives it to cyclists and pedestrians.

Katherine Hardy@kardyology.bsky.social · 5d ago

Overheard an irate driver bemoaning that cyclists are using the roads that she is paying for. How do we educate them so they stop thinking that they own the roads. We ALL pay for infrastructure through our taxes but the cars cause the most damage.

I just opened the chilly bin to check I really did forget the tomato sauce and now the car stinks of egg sandwich and when my friend gets back after buying a charging cable I’m going to have a hard job persuading them what I did and did not do in here while they were away.

Opinion | Yes, we should weight voting by age so that young people — who will endure the consequences of decisions for decades to come — have a greater say, writes Bernard Keane. www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/11/v...

Should young people's vote have more weight than old people's? Yes, it's a no-brainer

The idea of weighting voting by age so as to give younger people more say in the decisions that will affect them would improve our democracy. Here's why.

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Starting to think the whole of the UK should be quarantined from the rest of the world like in 28 Weeks Later until they get their transphobia sorted out.

“It sounds really nice to stay in bed all day.”

Alexis M. 🎃@turnoftheshrew.bsky.social · last wk.

People picture life w/ #MECFS in whatever way is most comfortable for THEM. Even the kindest & most empathetic rearrange it in their minds to become more palatable. But whatever they imagine, reality is far worse. However hard they think it is, it’s much harder. And that is the vastest of chasms.

This is an important lesson about what sort of holes to model

Paul Halpern@phalpern.bsky.social · last wk.

The theorist who first modeled **non-rotating** black holes, German physicist Karl Schwarzschild, died in 1916 at the age of only 42. The theorist who first modeled **rotating** black holes, New Zealand mathematician Roy Kerr, remains active today in 2026 at the age of 92. #astronomy #physics

One under-recognized reason that there are more autism diagnoses in adults these days, beyond increased recognition, is that society is disabling, and it's disabling in ways that it wasn't 20 years ago. 20 years ago, if you were a software engineer, you worked in an office. Now an open plan floor.

for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? A small instruction booklet for an appliance you no longer own, and had forgotten ever owning.

darth™️@darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2w ago

for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? a mysterious key that does not unlock any thing

I know I have a very particular lens on this, but I can't help but think it's the Autistics Kathleen Stock hates. It *seems* like she's shifted focus to a different marginalised group, but to me it's the same group: genderqueer early-identified EDS/POTS Autistics who happen to have a voice now.

Trans people are not angry enough with cis people, I think.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 2w ago

We tried to warn you, you indulged in your little transphobic fantasy. You thought you could just have a little transphobia in some areas and not others and that's not possible. You made this world too. Now unmake it, it's your job.

“A lot of girls fake passing out to avoid doing work” About my kid who passed out at school and broke her collarbone. Soon diagnosed with POTS / dysautonomia. She also put it on losing iron during her period, which apparently lasts 30 days a month since it was happening a lot? Welp she’s the doctor

Heather Hill@rollin-academic.bsky.social · 2w ago

A question from Reddit that I'll answer here: "What's the most unhinged thing a doctor has said to you with a straight face?"

Yep. I, too, am tempted to disregard non-medical doctors platformed for their takes on medical issues. But then I remember the numerous MDs who ALSO don't believe young women & conclude we need to platform those who believe the marginalised. Maybe such people have no formal qualifications at all.

Toria Banks@toriabanks.bsky.social · 2w ago

Unfortunately I think she’s (ironically enough) caught this nonsense from people like Simon Wessley, very much within the medical establishment (but not keen on evidence or disabled women).

There's this thing called the Internet. But when I was younger I owned a few proverb dictionaries. One in Japanese. Those four character idioms from East Asia (四字熟語) are completely incomprehensible unless formally studied. (I never made much headway with them.) #AutChat

#AutChat Mod@autchatmod.bsky.social · 2w ago

Q3: How do you respond to idioms you don’t understand? #AutChat