Pablo 🎧

I'm taking a Social Media break.

Intelligence and the lack of understanding how that is presented is a key consideration.

It's easy to play it safe and just go along with the consensus. That's never been me. It gets me in all sorts of bother, but, sometimes the boat needs to rock.

I see things in black and white, but my aim is to learn, discover, and bring colour to my thoughts.

I have no intention of people pleasing or following the crowd. I have stopped apologising for who I am and what I think.

When I read something, I don't make assumptions before I start. I open my mind and look at the individual points made. To do otherwise would be to see the forest and completely miss the moss growing on the trees.

We use “neurodiversity” as if it means autistic. It doesn’t.
It describes the biological variation of the entire human species. Every brain.
Neurodivergent is our word. It implies a norm to diverge from, and that norm isn’t neutral.
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Autistic “superpowers" ?. Yes, some of us have real strengths. But they often come with sensory overload, executive dysfunction, and the exhaustion of masking just to get through a working day. Identity over material conditions will always serve some of us better than others. 2/3

Uta Frith: why I no longer think autism is a spectrum The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, affecting how teachers should support autistic pupils in the classroom, researcher Uta Frith tells Helen Amass

Interesting article, its arguing the spectrum model has become too broad to be useful. Don't agree with everything. But the question it raises is the right one.
Does the way we talk about autism actually serve autistic people, or does it serve everyone else? 1/3
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I live in a world that doesn't understand me, and I find the world illogical. The constant miscommunication frustrates me; it drains the life out of me.

Understanding them while they misunderstand you isn’t a deficit.
It’s fluency they never had to develop because the world was already built in their language.
That’s not a personal failing.
That’s the system working exactly as designed. 8/8

If you’ve spent decades adapting at work and at home, you’ve been running two operating systems at once.
Most people only ever run one.
And they still call us the ones who struggle to cope. 7/8

It’s exhausting being the only one who sees the structural cracks.
You’re told you’re “overthinking” when you’re actually thinking structurally in a culture that prizes social smoothness over internal coherence. 6/8

The world runs on implication.
My brain runs on consistency.
The gap exists because one side becomes bilingual to survive, while the other stays monolingual and is still called “normal.” 5/8

When I ask for the exact date of “next Saturday,” I’m not confused.
I’m repairing unstable language.
I’m making the structure coherent.
That’s not a deficit. That’s precision. 4/8

We can decode them. They often can’t decode us, and more importantly, they rarely have to.
When we ask for clarity, we’re labelled “difficult.”
That’s not a communication problem. That’s a power imbalance. 3/8

Most autistic people have to understand non autistic communication. Our jobs, safety, and reputations depend on it.
We learn the shortcuts. The tone shifts. The implied meaning.
We translate 24/7.

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The “Bilingual” Burden: A Thread

People talk about the “double empathy problem” as if misunderstanding between autistic and non-autistic people runs evenly in both directions.
It doesn’t. 1/8

Notes from the US: Deliberately abusive - Freedom News The MAGA/Trump cult’s embrace of white supremacism becomes more blatant almost daily ~ Louis Further ~ Narratives on the vaguely-left-leaning…

Notes from the US: Deliberately abusive freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/17/n... @freedompress.bsky.social

The world could be liberal, progressive, or even socialist, it still wouldn't make my life any easier to live.

Until neurological differences are truly understood and appreciated, the world remains an alien land. Political change is nothing without neurodivergent belonging.

Why is "reading between the lines" the default?

I find it alienating. I provide the lines, please just read them. The constant search for "hidden" meaning makes me want to go silent. #actuallyautistic

I FEEL LIKE I'M IN SEASON 5 OF MY LIFE AND THE WRITERS ARE JUST MAKING RIDICULOUS SHIT HAPPEN TO KEEP IT INTERESTING.

One is blatant. The other is a ‘moral order’ tied up with a bow of lies.” 2/2

International law is just a high end code for ‘officially allowed to bomb people.’
Case in point: Trump is tearing up the rulebook on Iran with zero shame, while the UK acts as the glove puppet, hiding behind fake morals to justify the same old violence. 1/2

A nation where liberals and 'progressives' mock people with disabilities is a backward nation.

Three medieval serfs ploughing a field talking: one says "Lords worked hard to get where they are." Next one says "They shouldn't have to pay taxes to the king" Third one says "If they had more gold, then we would too, It's common sense."

Letters – Hospital basement, Spinney The socialist case for the neurodivergent worker: a view from the hospital basement To the Editors, I write to you as a 53 year old working class logistics porter for NHS Scotland, and someone who has...

The socialist case for the neurodivergent worker: a view from the hospital basement
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Neurodiversity is not a side issue - Freedom News To build something better, we need the people this world tried to break ~ Pablo ~ There’s a strange silence across much of radical politics w…

Neurodiversity is not a side issue
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Had to re post. This time no comment. Just watch the movie or the documentaries.

A still from the film I swear. It's the scene where John is in hospital after getting beat up for his ticks. The caption says "I'm tired of this, Dottie"

Why this story matters: don’t judge until you’ve watched the film.

Educate yourself before pressing send.