CIRCLE WITH A DOT

"Late‑diagnosed adults describe finally learning they are autistic as both relief and grief: relief at having a name and community that fit, and grief for all the years spent fighting the unnecessary battles."

Yes!!! But not so much "grief" as RESENTMENT, for how unnecessary it all was and is.

Epistemic Injustice: The Great Gaslighting of Autistic Lives

Epistemic injustice is the assumption that people, usually those with less power, are unable to correctly understand their own lives. It takes a tragic toll on autistic lives.

Psychology Today (www.psychologytoday.com)

"Beavers are not going to solve climate change, but our research shows these natural engineers can quietly help river landscapes store more carbon for decades to come."

#Beavers #Wildlife #CarbonStorage

Beavers can turn streams into carbon stores – we measured how much

As beavers reshape rivers, wetlands become a natural storage system for carbon.

The Conversation (theconversation.com)

@P__X @bluebabbler @jensorensen

I thought "woke" was yet another version of "PC" — politeness. How does it become racist?

The 'therapies' offered to ND folk are to:

- make us less inconvenient or upsetting to NTs.
- make us functional work units and tax-payers.
- reduce or stop the benefits we 'scrounge'.

None of them are to help us with ... anything.

#Autism
#ADHD
#AuDHD
#neurodiversity
#neurodivergence

@RebeccaBredin Yes, Trump is a monster, but this isn't his fault. ( ) Instead of being given the care and treatment he needs/needed, 100,000,000s of Americans voted to place him in a position of great power, where he could do great harm.

Other lunatics, in other countries, also have great power, placed there by their voters.

The problem is a *WISH* to move away from caring, decent, politics toward ... something more violent. This is seemingly what we all want.

[ #AuDHD too.]

What do ND folk feel about Trump's conquest of a sovereign nation, & executing its leaders? The same as all decent people, or do we have an ND perspective of our own?

I suspect we're with "all decent people", but interested to hear other comments?

#Autism
#ADHD
#AuDHD
#neurodivergence

@holdenweb Me too. I've been a socialist since I became old enough to vote, and Zack and his crew are the only socialists currently in British politics. So they have my vote.

Green + Socialist = Home + People.

"To be clear, the Greens aren’t saying you should be able to buy smack from a vending machine. They’re proposing a system in which drugs are treated seriously, but are available for people to partake of in a controlled fashion. Under Keir Starmer, you can buy crack from a guy called ‘Spez’ and OD under a motorway bridge.

Which sounds more grown up to you?"

https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026/02/22/greens-attacked-labour/

#RationalDrugsPolicies

The #WarOnDrugs failed decades ago.