Sonny Hallett

The poster for Wayward, with Toni Colette's Evelyn looming like the creepy psychologist she is, and Mae Martin and various other actors, around a door. It's a Netflix show. The tagline is 'We think you'll be very happy here'.

Wow. So. Wayward.

...huh.

Damn.

Here’s the other one bsky.app/profile/ferg...

Excited to finally be able to share these animations I’ve been working on with @fergus.oolong.co.uk , @iara-abigalil.bsky.social , @autisticrealms.bsky.social and other team members not on here. Particularly pleased to get my favourite image that I use of “thinking in constellations” in there ✨

YouTube video by Thriving Autistic Discovering You're Autistic

First up is Discovering You're Autistic, about the experience of realising you're autistic, and the things we've found most valuable for anyone starting out on that journay.

Realising that there are many other people out there with similar experiences is so powerful.
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YouTube video by Thriving Autistic Discovering You're Autistic

Hurrah!
We can finally share the animations I have been working on with @thrivingautistic.bsky.social
First short film is: Discovering You're Autistic
Please do let us know what you think and share if you find valuable!

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One or more onions are sending shoots out of a wooden vegetable box, through cracks in the side and out of the open top.

A break for freedom.

Created by animator Iara Abigalil, @autisticrealms.bsky.social , @fergus.oolong.co.uk , @scrappapertiger.bsky.social , @jessicakdoyle.bsky.social , Laura Buckland Mason and music by @somebodysomeone.bsky.social
Join us for our launch:

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If anyone has a clue WHY Dagny Holm (who would later design the models for the original Legoland) caricatured Thorvald Stauning (the first Digital Democratic Prime Minister of Denmark) as a bird, I'd love to hear about it!

I made a sculpture for @scrappapertiger.bsky.social's birthday based on it…

Wasp clinging to outside of train window as greenery rushes past

Another photo because the video quality was terrible

On a trip to Denmark, saw this wasp outside the train window as the train picked up speed. It held on for an impressively long time before being flung off. Those little antenna 🥺 I hope it’s ok

A large wooden toy - body shaped like a black bird, wearing brown boots, head shaped like a bald man with glasses, moustache and a reddish nose

Visited the Lego House recently and can’t stop thinking about this early Lego product

How I love this dog

BBC news currently has no article on this. According to organisers, it broke their own records by far and was the biggest trans rights events in the world.

Otoh the BBC does have coverage of far right anti-refugee protests which were much, much, smaller.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Kifl hides part of her face behind her folded paws, and looks out of the corner of her eye in a way that is extremely cute but make her look kind of anxious.

I hope Kifl is okay

That’s so great to hear!

Same! I read it the first time trying to parse it that way then I was like, ‘Ohh, maybe this is monster fiction?’ and tried to parse it again before I realised it was an actual kitchen incident (and presumably not metaphor for anything) 🙃

*forgotten 🤦

Neurodiversity Is About Everyone — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM Understanding the difference between neurodiverse and neurodivergent is much more important than just splitting hairs over linguistics.

In my hurry to repost this I’d gotten that there is a version with image descriptions. Sorry about that!

Version with image descriptions:
thinkingautismguide.com/2024/07/neur...

Neurodiversity Is About Everyone — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM Understanding the difference between neurodiverse and neurodivergent is much more important than just splitting hairs over linguistics.

Update: version with image descriptions thanks to @thinkingautism.bsky.social

thinkingautismguide.com/2024/07/neur...

Time to re-share this piece I made a year ago today about neurodiversity and neurodivergence, and why the important distinctions between them is not about grammar/linguistics.

Small dog pawing at my leg insistently on the sofa as I try to rest

Came home exhausted, flopped on sofa, but:

Small dog pawing at my leg insistently on the sofa as I try to rest

Came home exhausted, flopped on sofa, but:

Neurodiversity is about Everyone A comic about why the difference between neurodiverse and neurodivergent is important.

...and the importance of understanding that neurodiversity is about everyone:
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Being comfortable in my body There’s been a lot of talk about gender and being non-binary lately, and what that means, and I wanted to share a quick post about my…

...and getting comfortable in your body, in a society that militates against that:
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Gender *gestures vaguely* I recently watched Man for a Day (2012; currently available on Netflix), a documentary following artist Diane Torr running her…

Going to share some of @scrappapertiger.bsky.social's relevant thoughts here about normativity, gender, neurodiversity and all that:
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There's an analogy here with gender normativity. Expecting people to conform with gender norms is pretty much universally bad.

Maybe for some, the convenience of putting people in boxes, in a hierarchy, outweighs the cost; it certainly doesn't for most people.

For some, it's relentlessly harmful.

This is right.

Society is neurodiverse: people vary a lot in how we experience and process the world, and having things set up as if there was just one 'normal' type of brain is harmful in general, because there just isn't.

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So curly!

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