Platonic friendships across genders has to be one of the most clear green flags, for anyone.

Just had the hospital follow up for a referral, made two years ago.

Not sure why people preferred to be disappointed in children rather than angry/upset with them. Got to be one of the most damaging things to hear a lot.

Think what I love most about The Odyssey is that it reminded me of the 'magic' of film making. When so many parts are practical effects instead of CGI, that is truly impressive and awe inspiring.

When Argos shows up early in the Odyssey. 😭

Schools give out pen licenses, but seem to nearly never check for dysgraphia for kids who can't seem to get it.

Wonder if having the wrong emotions constantly ascribed to you might factor into alexithymia. "No need to get mad" "I'm not?"

A frequent but not guaranteed traumatised neurodivergent experience is rationalising someone hurting you by placing it in the context of the systems they exist in... rather than being justifiably angry or upset with someone who caused you harm.

Very distressing how often I interact with neurodivergent people who fundamentally don't believe they are deserving of having good things happen to them, or to seek out those experiences, or that they even deserve to like themselves. It's the bare minimum we deserve.

Madeleine Sami is so funny in Deadloch.

Top comment at the end of this is peak cis-hetero-man. This is a comic I often discuss with people in relationships, because usually one person is carrying the mental load.

You should’ve asked

Here is the english version of my now famous “Fallait demander” ; now available as a book with other stories : Orders available here or here or here ^_^ Thanks Una from unadtranslation.…

english.emmaclit.com

So fucking frustrating that CBT is advertised as the "best" solution for people with ADHD, when in my professional and personal experience, it often acts as a short term band-aid while often invalidating people's experience. Not all CBT is bad, but a lot of it is.

In the process of reading this, and will have a review. Caroline Maguire's first book for children "Why Will No One Play with Me?" is a resource often referred to by other coaches I work with, and it is great to see her work on one for adults which was highly requested.

an oldie

Sam Neill 😭 Goodbye to one of the best people this country had to offer.

When disabled people are empowered to participate fully, our democracy becomes fairer, stronger, and more representative. Together, we can create systems where everyone belongs and every voice matters. 💙 📽️ Catch the full webinar recording here: linkly.link/2lIdY

"You don't seem autistic" "Thanks, it's because I deem you/this situation as a threat, and I dont feel safe being myself around you."

These ideas are great in a theoretical utopian society, but fall apart instantly when you add the predatory nature of capitalism to the equation.

A new proposal for organ donation sparks concern

Should patients who choose euthanasia be able to die by having their vital organs removed for donation? The ethical concerns are substantial.

npr.org

Look as a trans person who has processed thousands of submissions as well as hundreds of OIAs, LGOIMAs, letters to the minister etc please do give parliamentary staff a chance to process these submissions before getting worked up. Just because the government sucks doesn’t mean public servants do.

My submission on the definitions bill is missing.

Love papers like this, sans the weird autism section. The intersection of philosophy, science, and psychedelics is so interesting.

REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelicss

This paper formulates the action of psychedelics by integrating the free-energy principle and entropic brain hypothesis. We call this formulation relaxed beliefs under psychedelics (REBUS) and the ana...

pharmrev.aspetjournals.org

The most effective productivity solution I managed to implement for ADHD, wasn't some system, it was addressing and repairing my constantly negative internal self-monologue. Because when you don't spend a lot of time ruminating and blaming yourself, you have time to achieve instead. This was hard.

Shit on AI a lot, but I am actually impressed at the podcast feature in Notebook LM to break down documents and make them into a podcast. It's the only resource I have seen that seems to get intonation right, and sound somewhat not-uncanny valley.

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

"Non-autistic scientist discovers thing about autism that could have been discovered by simply asking autistic people" is the worst genre of science.

What always baffles me is how he was knighted for services to autism, when his research has done such vast amounts of harm societally to autistic people.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism@thinkingautism.com · 4w ago

"Any time in the last 20 years, Simon Baron-Cohen could have asked the autism community or looked beyond his own biases at the existing literature […] but he was too busy being galaxy brained about autistic people." @ejwillingham.bsky.social on SBC, in our newsletter. buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...

"Any time in the last 20 years, Simon Baron-Cohen could have asked the autism community or looked beyond his own biases at the existing literature […] but he was too busy being galaxy brained about autistic people." @ejwillingham.bsky.social on SBC, in our newsletter. buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...

Simon Baron-Cohen has entered the chat again

This time in a Guardian piece in which he (sort of) retracts some previous assertions about autistic people and tees up a new multimillion dollar project.

buttondown.com

National going to be in their stagflation era...

I know he's talking about how he could do other things, but also I feel like this statement sums up how he has been as PM. "I don't need to do this job" explains his whole approach, he's been sleepwalking through his entire time as PM.

Julie Blommaert@drjulieb.bsky.social · 4w ago

Don’t then?

Don’t then?