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Laura Heilman

@lheilman.bsky.social

“What I need to be is a candle flame on a rainy day With no will but to burn.”

51 Followers  |  76 Following  |  21 Posts  |  Joined: 14.01.2025  |  1.6452

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This Autistic ADHDer is able to work, pay taxes and even write poetry, but there are many who cannot and may never be able to. They deserve just as much respect and care as those who do. Autism is not a disease. Nothing infuriates me more than neurotypical people speaking on this with ignorance.

17.04.2025 22:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Watercolor on Procreate by me 💜
#protestart #joyisanactofresistance #resist #protest #digitalart #watercolor

06.04.2025 01:22 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Here’s how you can fight back - Autistic Self Advocacy Network The past three weeks of the Trump Administration have been incredibly difficult. Marginalized people are facing attacks on our rights, the programs we depend on for survival, and our existence itself....

"Marginalized people are facing attacks on our rights, the programs we depend on for survival, and our existence itself. Our communities are understandably scared, and that fear is what people in power are trying to create. But we are not powerless."
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/02/here...

19.02.2025 22:18 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WATCH: Trans Rights vs. Trump | A4TE

Consciousness raising has its place, but the next step is always moving towards solutions and fighting back. Heartbreak is not sustainable and must be tempered with hope.
transequality.org/news/watch-t...

19.02.2025 22:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How to Dismantle the Anti-DEI Machine | American Civil Liberties Union Free speech on campus, book bans, education gag orders, the overturn of affirmative action, the resignation of former Harvard president Claudine Gay. All of these issues center on one hot-button topic...

"Snapbacks, while disheartening, have been commonplace throughout history. Alvin (B. Tillery) knows this both from history books and his own life. He says DEI isn't going anywhere." Kendall Ciesemier
www.aclu.org/podcast/how-...

19.02.2025 20:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

this is powerful

19.02.2025 20:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I feel this way too and this is such a good depiction of it, thank you for this

19.02.2025 20:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Watching the old Dungeons & Dragons cartoon with the kitties…spoiler alert…..I don’t think that’s Merlin.

13.02.2025 21:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s the libraries that are a safe harbor, a sanctuary away from home. #libraries

13.02.2025 02:43 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$:

Protected 30M football fields of tropical forest in Africa to stop China from exploiting the minerals that fuel our world youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

09.02.2025 22:36 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$:

Slowed the flow of migrants to our borders by providing job training to 50K people in Central America youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

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09.02.2025 22:35 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$:

Bought 29K tons of produce and vegetable oil from American farmers to feed people, reducing mass migration youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid

09.02.2025 22:34 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$:

Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year. Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID

09.02.2025 22:33 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Creek with small waterfall

Creek with small waterfall

Mental health in shambles, but a bike ride to running water is good. #Autistic #Adhd

03.02.2025 22:26 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Three happy dogs

Three happy dogs

One very excited dog

One very excited dog

A few of my babies…happy that I am home.

03.02.2025 22:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Birthdays are weird...happy birthday! I love you!

29.01.2025 04:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you 🥰💙🦋🥶

26.01.2025 23:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#art #artwork #artists #creatives

26.01.2025 23:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The recent cold snap made me think of Skadi. I wanted to honor her for keeping us safe and warm. ~Skadi~ “Shining bride of the gods”, Norse Goddess of winter in her beloved mountains. #digitaloilpainting #procreate #digitalart #oilpainting #skadi #norsegoddess

26.01.2025 19:21 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The cheek!

24.01.2025 00:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So precious <3

22.01.2025 00:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I absolutely struggle with any kind of change, anything unexpected, it just throws everything off

21.01.2025 04:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Character study of one of my daughter’s OC’s. #digitalart #art #oilpainting

19.01.2025 08:11 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Little green in the ice 🌱

17.01.2025 14:55 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Winter lacework

15.01.2025 03:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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