autistitch ∞🏳️‍🌈♿️😷 (it/its)

don't waste time doubting your own value

whoever wants to talk to me better start doing it on the corporeal plane before i lose my mind

isolation will make you crazy. don't forget to spend time reaching out to talk to people directly

see pinned in the bad place

i knew him when i was younger, and now i know i do not know him anymore, and i probably should have left well enough alone

Bob is not a safe person. if you followed him because of me, i was mistaken and you're probably at risk.

i'm tired of everyone being weird

butts!

img description: big truck with stickers reading STAY HOME IF U SICK and COME OVER IF U THICC and then CDC GUIDELINES and CDC is the official organization logo. lmao

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

you too can start your new year with The Originalism Trap, btw

it's not too late, for either your 2026 reading goals or democracy !

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i managed to survive despite all odds yet again

economy of language such that a word becomes a filing cabinet

my mind is all over the place & i can't decide whether to keep trying to make up for past mistakes or ignore them or try to explain myself or give up on hoping or run for the hills & it always ends in the same Roadrunner skit where i'm Wile E. Coyote slamming face first into the side of a mountain

he was preying on you. it's intentional manipulation meant to draw you into a spiral. glad you broke out!

some of you don't know the definition of the word Faustian and it shows

just kidding. remembering you doing that made me laugh

flu-induced asthma hitting me & Penny really hard right now. struggling.

you can have my old purple '84 chevy beretta, it's still moldering in my back yard

my brother does that. asshole

same here. i'm still having a meltdown that started in 2024. i'm just concentrating really hard on being extra kind to myself

buzzwords like "pivoting" chasing ghosts in my brain, and suddenly i find myself patient, so patient, with myself, having realized that all along i've been doing exactly the right things in the wrong places and now i have hope and i hope and i hope and i hope

Looking down on the city port Skopelos on the island of Skopelos, Greece. The white buildings are arranged in an amphitheater way, climbing one of the mountains. The sea is met with a large retaining wall. Lush green forests fill the landscape. The movie Mama Mia was filmed here so I watched that shit on the flight home. Meh.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead

Pic of the day

#photography

Map of the Western US showing earthquakes that have occurred in the last seven days. Off the coast is a large red dot showing the location of the magnitude six earthquake.

M 6.0 earthquake off the coast of Oregon

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

new expanded version. 18+

hurricaneautistitch.blogspot.com

finally

unpopular children's rights opinion: attention-seeking is normal childhood behavior. a child who gets healthy attention is a child who survives

I have a pet theory that adults who engage in "planned ignoring" have unresolved trauma around being told they are "too much" and are terrified that someone else's "too much" will erase the work they put into being less

autistic adolescents meet peer-average socio-emotional developmental metrics by adulthood, but most or all plateau at some point and finish maturation later, all at once

dolphin

i remember the texture of your skin under my fingertips.
i remember the way you let me touch your tattoos, my fingers trembling and tracing the lines as if i were scared they were going to run away.
i remember you telling me you were doing this to me because you love me, and i believed you.