Dr. Alyssa (they/them)

Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading

btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)

Changing the clocks is always a good time to remind people that the entire concept of regulating time by clocks was driven by British colonial efforts to regulate labor practices & extract wealth from the colonies using railways (which required coordination). The clock has continued to play ...

I'm not saying that we should stop shitposting: the shitpost performs some valuable rhetorical functions across different communities. What I am saying is that the affordances of the platforms have funneled our communicative transactions into increasingly narrow modes, exacerbated by uptake.

Friendship and expectations – autchat View past chats on this topic: Aug 23, 2016 and May 19, 2019. Today’s #AutChat is about friendships and expectations. Friendships can involve expectations for time commitments, types of activities, et...

@yesthattoo.bsky.social
@tuttleturtle.bsky.social
@autisticb4mmr.bsky.social
@endeverstar.bsky.social
@projectenigma.bsky.social
AutChat on BlueSky in 1 hr, Sun 1pm Pacific / 4pm Eastern / 20:00 UTC / 8pm GMT. Topic: friendship and expectations. autchat.com/friendship-a...

I think a lot of people will read 3000 words, but I don’t think everyone who writes 3000 words needed 3000 words to write the thing they were writing. Those are the pieces that people won’t read to the end.

I’ve started sayin “He’s wearing a wire!” when I see these glasses.

One man overheard and pulled them off. 😭😭😭

This is so true. A bunch of the outlets that featured this kind of writing have disappeared, and many of the still-existing publications that used to pay people to do this kind of writing killed off those sections.

“.. I don't ‌have any concern about it," he said, when asked about the higher prices at the pump. "They'll drop very rapidly when this is over, and if they rise, they rise, but this is far ​more important than having gasoline price go up a little bit."

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/business/ene...

This is 100% the correct approach. John Quincy Adams brought down Congress’ “gag rule” (which prevented members from discussing the abolition of slavery) by bringing abolitionist petitions to the floor *multiple times a day*, against House rules. Every day the House was in session. For years.

Autism and the Pseudoscience of Mind The theory-of-mind-deficit explanation of autism proposes that autistics lack a theory of mind, that autism comprises a theory-of-mind deficit (strong version); or, that autistics often have diffic...

Just published in Psychological Inquiry!

I offer a sustained philosophical and empirical critique of the theory-of-mind-deficit explanation of autism.

The ultimate conclusion is that the research programme has become degenerative—and therefore pseudoscientific.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

OUT NOW: The highly controversial issue of Psychological Inquiry (Vol. 36, Issue 4) is live!
Are we rethinking everything we know about autism? In our newest target article, @travislacroix.bsky.social argues that the "Theory of Mind" paradigm in #autism research is actually pseudoscience. 🧠 🧵👇

"He is bilingual but saw that the wait time for speaking to a customer service representative in English was long, so he hit “two” for Spanish."

from one bilingual person to another, I respect that hustle lol

You won! You got what you wanted! Nobody has to mask anywhere, even in medical facilities around the most vulnerable patients. Moreover, nobody even feels obligated to, because we don’t owe anything to each other. You got everything you wanted, so just leave us alone and let us mask in peace.

Where to Find Black-Owned Bookstores Across the U.S. From books to puzzles and stationery, these shopping destinations also serve as gathering places in communities across the country.

Where to find Black-owned book stores in the USA...

capitalbnews.org/black-owned-...

#Books #AmReading

🧵Storytime? Storytime!

It's no secret that I like #TTRPG s. What isn't as obvious is this is an interest my wife and I share

We both like tabletop games: boardgames, TCGs, and of course, TTRPGS. So when a friend of a friend invited us to a one-shot, we were absolutely thrilled and said yes (1/X)

Minneapolis isn't an especially sweary place but there are so many houses that have homemade "FUCK ICE" signs and I've had multiple conversations with parents about how we're okay with our kids using that word in this context because sometimes it IS okay to swear and this is one of those times.

i am so tired of screaming from the rooftops that we have a looming, avoidable crisis of evictions brewing.

everyone knows it, but yet government and philanthropy have no solutions. unpaid volunteers of rent funds are doing the work that the people who control the purse strings refuse to do

I'm following the lead of the most impacted by this when I say this: Black people should not have to endure having racial slurs screamed at them on an international stage.

With an intersectional lens toward disability justice, it is important to recognize the impact that outburst has on those men.

A3: I'd say it costs me help I need, but I don't get that help when I *show* how I function & ask for help either because then I usually get disbelieved instead.

Rare exceptions but usually there's just no path to that help

#AutChat

Q3: What are the costs of hiding how you function? The benefits? #AutChat

It's kind of like, I'll hear people say something like "help me understand" or "walk me through this" or something similar, and I'll do my best to do that...

And if they can't deeply empathize or relate to what I'm describing, they just flat out don't believe me.

#AutChat A2

A3 #AutChat The price is high, overstepping own boundaries, feeling a bit like having no distinct personality.

Right?!?!?

It's surreal... because places like the Job Accommodation Network all talk about the idea that deciding on potential reasonable accommodations should be based more on whether or not they're reasonable, not whether or not an authority person thinks they're strictly necessary!

#AutChat

AT THE SAME TIME, respect for Black women should not be conditioned on credentials, institutional affiliations, or other markers of 'prestige.'

A2: A lot of educational ones, mostly.

Outside being a student I usually had more ability to tell people to bug off about it.

#AutChat

A1 Not recently, but in school I had teachers not like it when I did stuff like:

1) Apply the law of the lever to mixture problems
2) Do non-visual ways of thinking about anything they visualized for
3) Find it harder to Do Paperwork or Organize Things than almost anything else...

#AutChat

Q1: Have you had to hide how you function? If so, what have you had to hide? #AutChat

@yesthattoo.bsky.social
@tuttleturtle.bsky.social
@autisticb4mmr.bsky.social
@endeverstar.bsky.social
@projectenigma.bsky.social
AutChat on BlueSky in 1 hr, Sun 1pm Pacific / 4pm Eastern / 21:00 UTC /9pm GMT. Topic: having to hide how we function. autchat.com/having-to-hi...