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A flight spent 10 minutes with no pilot when the first officer collapsed while the captain was in the bathroom After returning from the bathroom, the Lufthansa flight's captain found he was initially unable to get back into the cockpit.

The increase in medical emergencies and loss of consciousness on planes, on television and in daily life seem to be growing every day.

It’s shocking what we’ve begun to normalize and how most people still won’t ask “why”

Why are people collapsing more often? Sick more often? Perhaps it’s the covid

Why My Friends Don’t Mix I don’t mix my friends. I don’t create shared group chats. And I definitely don’t expect harmony from people who are only connected through me. This isn’t fear—it’s architecture. And for autistic, mul...

Some think it’s weird when your friend groups don’t mix. But mine don’t on purpose.

I’m autistic. I’ve held people who couldn’t hold each other. Just because I can translate them doesn’t mean they can connect.
1/3 🧵

#ActuallyAutistic #FriendshipBoundaries #Neurodivergent

🧵 I often get networking meeting requests. People want to set up a "quick 30 minute call" and the dance of do I lie? do I decline? do I ignore? God, those were SO many mental jumping jacks.

Now: "I'm sorry, but synchronous calls outside my routine make me anxious. I make a great pen pal, though!"

A 2 panel comic strip titled FUTURE The first panel says THEN... A man is asking a child who is holding a sketchbook, WHY DO YOU WANT TO BECOME AN ARTIST? THERE IS NO FUTURE! WHY DON'T YOU GET A REAL JOB? The second panel says NOW... The same man who is older now says I'M SELLING A PROMPT WRITING COURSE! Α.Ι. IS THE FUTURE! Another character at the back is overpraising the person!

When we expressed that we wanted to pursue art we used to be told there is no future in that particular field.

But the machine that's scraping from artists' works is the one they believe has a future.

#viensart #createdontscrape

Endurance Or, Beginner Runner Discovers Pacing — an essay that’s not really about running but is about how not being in loads of pain might be good…

I wrote a piece about running, growth, being pushed beyond our limits, therapy training, and how "it's meant to be hard" or "it's meant to hurt" can be quite damaging messages

medium.com/@sonnyhallet...

Catching up with backlog podcasts and course subscriptions.
Have yet to start on the hundreds of books in my reading list.

One at a time. One at a time.

I always wonder how people seem to be on so many platforms everyday and manage to sound coherent when they post or share something.

Even writing this took me some time 🤷🏻‍♀️

I'm not even on XHS 🍠 yet, which sounds fun.

I don't know about other people, but I struggle to keep up on social media.

I take my time reading or watching insights, articles, jokes; admiring art pieces, photographs etc.

Always no time or head space to add my own thoughts.

When you encounter something new to you, try and turn off that need to say/think, “I’m reminded of [familiar thing]” and take that new thing for what it is…and then see how your world expands.

As @yatil.yatil.social.ap.brid.gy writes in the post, "… alternative text is an art more than a science, and sometimes you’ll leave out essential information. My litmus test is 'would I picture an approximation of the image when it was described to me over the phone using the alternative text.'"

An alt Decision Tree Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

For beginners, it can be difficult to know what to put in alt text, as well as when alt text is needed and when it isn't. This decision tree helps you determine what to do, based on specific situations.

www.w3.org/WAI/tutorial...

A common question about alt text is how to determine whether alt text is "too long" or "too short." The answer to this is that it depends on context. That's not always a comforting answer to people just want a prescriptive "yes" or "no," but there is no one-size-fits-all answer.

Autistic Masking isn't about acting less Autistic. It's about feeling safe in our environment. Sometimes this looks like being more obviously Autistic.

We mask to feel safe, not to hide who we are.

We hide who we are, because who we are is not safe in our current world.

If we want Autistic people to not mask so much, we need them to feel safe.

#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticMasking #autism #MentalHealth #neurodiversity

Image of Neurodiversity Celebration Week logo and Autistic Realms logo. Text reads: Neurodiversity Celebration Week Autistic Realms March 17 - 23, 2025 www.neurodiversityweek.com

Lots of free neuro-affirming resources for families and professionals with a focus on supporting Autistic children with burnout, barriers to education and developing a better understanding of Monotropism (a strength-based theory of Autism)

Find out more: autisticrealms.com

#neurodiversity

Questions for an Industry: Are You Disregarding Harm and Profiting From Our Misery? What on earth has been going on, in experimentation on our autistic loved ones? Who on earth thought we were no more human than a lump of clay?

Questions for an Industry: Are You Disregarding Harm and Profiting From Our Misery?

stimpunks.org/research/harm/

Evidence-Based I think we’re just going to have to let the term “evidence-based” go. There seems to be an inverse relationship between the extent to which a practice is described as evidence-based, and the quality…

Frankly: The evidence base for behaviorist therapies such as ABA and PBS is a pile of trash that reeks of conflicts of interest, private equity, and ableist bigotry.

Behaviorists are profiting from our misery.

Yup. I've been online for 30+ years and the point I make frequently is that the version of me you see here is tuned for being online: It's me, but certain aspects of my personality are dialed up and others are dialed down, and some parts of my life don't make it online at all. Not false, just tuned.

I would like to stay informed, but I’d also like to not be so overwhelmed by everything

Really don't know how to balance helping people shift their practice without correcting their language.

Sometimes I feel bad for harping on language.
Because everyone uses language differently, with unique cultural differences. Especially if the language is not their first language, and polygots.

But I also know how language hurts and harms. I've done that myself.

Those who want to work but unable to because of:
- care responsibilities?
- limited spoons?
- inaccessible housing and transport?
- ableist assumptions?
- discriminatory hiring practices?

Really, think before proposing or using any labels on people.

Unproductiveness

Who defines that?
How do you define that?

Those unemployed?
Those who seem to contribute little or none to the economy?

Those who didn't have opportunities to learn skills due to systemic exclusion and discrimination?
Those excluded from discriminating workplaces?

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Text: Autism, Counselling and psychotherapy, Neurodiversity Autism in therapy: Monotropism, meditation and autistic flow River Marino with their chapter from 'On Being an Autistic Therapist, edited by Max Marnau and published by PCCS Books. 26 February 2025. Image of book:ON BEING AN AUTISTIC THERAPIST EDITED BY MAX MARNAU

Hurrah - this is great!

www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

A friend recently encouraged me, that I might write a story about my own journey one day.

I don't think I will. I know I won't.

There are things so intimate and private we will not breathe outside our family.

It is our story to tell.
Not just mine.
Most importantly, mom's.

So, no.

It's interesting how grief is a better bedfellow than anticipatory grief.

It could be that anticipatory grief prepares one for grief.

Or because the accompanying anxiety and fear, sharing the person's struggles are out of the equation.

No immediate scolding.
No immediate nagging.
No immediate blocking or revoking his access.
No immediate confiscation.
No immediate grounding.

Of course, if it's something illegal and harms another person, the above doesn't apply.

And let him decide for himself the risks he is willing to take.
While keeping an eye out and maintaining open communication.

And pray very very hard that he will come to his senses and make the right decisions for himself.

He may be wrong, in our eyes, some of the time.
But he needs to be the one to take responsibility for his own actions, his own words, his own mistakes.

We can only point out what's right/wrong, good/bad, safe/unsafe, the hard boundaries.

Many will disapprove of how I handle bro's "mistakes".

Definitely will disapprove of the things I let him do.
May even blame me for giving him that much freedom.

But...

He's an adult.
Yes, he needs a lot of guidance to distinguish between right and wrong, good and bad.