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You know how neurotypical people talk about how they make and hold eye contact?
It’s a lie. They do no such thing. I can do it on ADHD meds and if you don’t look away it really freaks them out.
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I’m on a tiny instance and don’t always see all comments so maybe this has been answered already.
IIRC, it’s not so much about •staring• into someone else’s eyes, but about the patterns with which NT and ND people scan faces. What parts we look at and when, in which order, and how often etc. That’s usually intuitive, and those patterns differ.
So when I talk to some NT person, they feel I’m kind of strange, or even dishonest. They may not even realise why they feel it, or they may think I’m avoiding to look at them the way they instinctively expect.
And when I talk to other autistics or auDHD people, I feel more comfortable around our interaction as well. So it goes both ways, of course.
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Last year Zoe and I commenced operation “Oui Oui Baguette” to move our boat, Scarlet, from Gosport to La Rochelle in France. This was interrupted by a small engine fire which left us stranded in the Brittany port of Quiberon over winter to make repairs.
Anyway, we moved the boat to La Rochelle a month ago. Today we commence “Operation Churro”. We plan to leave La Rochelle shortly and in a single leg of 36-40 hours in the Bay of Biscay arrive at Hendaye on the French/Spanish border.
The orcas were attacking boats in this area about a month ago but since then seem to have moved west and are now heading south from Galicia to Lisboa so we should be safe from them (fingers crossed). Weather looks ok. We will probably be motoring for the first part with the hope we can sail from later today.
If you want to track us, you can follow us live here. marinetraffic.com/en/ais/detai…
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Given where we are going on bathroom bans, each and every #UK Labour Party member and supporter on the #Fediverse might want to think on this deeply, and consider how many minorities you are prepared to sacrifice ...
Your move.
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I suspect instead of male and female symbols use "mascs" and "femmes".
The UK has spiralled into a kind of isolated madness since Brexit imho
An academic, an arrogant minister and a fight for equality that has gone horribly wrong
Mary-Ann Stephenson has been appointed – with “utmost confidence” – as chair of the Equality and Human Rights CommissionIan Birrell (The i Paper)
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“What you gonna do when you randomly have 12 months supply of HRT sitting around in your drawer, Sarah?”
“Build Oestrohenge!”
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@Christine Burns MBE 🏳️⚧️📚⧖ See the little spray bottle in the middle?
That's more than a third of the E in that picture.
And none of that bottle came from a pharmacy of any kind 😉
This, right here, is what I look like right after the Elvanse wears off.
Sad, isn’t it?
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🧵1/2 "A Brussels court has ruled in favor of a 51-year-old transgender woman in her dispute with the UCI, Le Soir reports. The transgender woman was previously banned from women's races but is now allowed to compete again. The judge ruled that the exclusion was unjustified.
The UCI had refused to renew her license in the "Women's Elite" category because she did not meet specific requirements for transgender participants. According to the court, these rules are discriminatory, as cisgender women are not required to meet these requirements
While protecting women's competitions is a legitimate goal in itself, the judge finds the UCI's measures disproportionate. According to the ruling, there is a lack of convincing scientific evidence that the current rules are necessary."
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Belgische rechtbank steunt transgendervrouw tegen UCI-uitsluiting
De rechtbank van Brussel oordeelt dat UCI-transgenderregels discriminerend zijn. Lees hoe deze uitspraak vrouwenwedstrijden kan veranderen. Meer weten? Klik hier!Jeen de Jong (Wielerflits)
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Belgium is extremely trans friendly from memory. Eventually the cracks or lack of due diligence (or both) will emerge in the pseudo science used to ban trans folk from sport, it's just time.
At some point in the last 4 months since starting ADHD meds the state I regard as normal has swapped over.
I’m currently in the post medicated state and I feel like some confused scared shadow of a person terrified of her own emotions which she doesn’t understand and bemused by the world.
This used to be who I was all the time.
That’s a lot to come to terms with.
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If you’re a UK resident and/or a UK citizen, please make sure you sign this petition. It’s at almost 80k signatures and it’s got 3 weeks left to get to 100k.
‘Legally enshrine the right of adults to physically transition using NHS services’
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Petition: Legally enshrine the right of adults to physically transition using NHS services
Introduce a law to legally protect the right of those aged 18 and over to transition using NHS services.Petitions - UK Government and Parliament
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So what’s it like being on amphetamine?
Well it’s a lot like being on HRT except you’d have to detransition every day before bed.
Racing Thoughts In ADHD & How To Calm Them
Imagine your mind is like a web browser with dozens of tabs open, all playing videos or music at the same time. For many people with ADHD, this is what everyday thinking feels like.Olivia Guy-Evans, MSc (Simply Psychology)
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I’m having a custom corset made because I’m worth it. Went for the fit test of the mockup today (the final thing is a sumptuous red with black lace detail).
Anyway, she’s gonna take it in another 2-3cm at the waist and give me more push up in the bust.
Exciting!
Me? I don't know how up you are on things ooop North.... I could talk about my wonderful partner @psotle , our travels and adventures, finding a job that feels *right*, we had a second cat for a few months...
I'll settle for life is good, I'm in a good place and really exciting adventure to come later this year ☺️
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Selfies. One medicated, one unmedicated.
I feel like I’m leading a weird dual existence. Not two people but one person who has a consistent personality but two very different ways of being.
It’s so odd.
I honestly did not expect starting ADHD meds to result in me seriously considering almost completely giving up alcohol.
Almost seems a shame. Whatever. Gotta move on.
@Alexa Devreux-Swift I was mostly using it to relax.
But it’s kinda crap at that compared to amphetamine.
So, bit of a problem and it’s a nice problem to have, but still a problem.
The ADHD meds are working better than I’d dared hope.
I’m almost functionally neurotypical on them.
I have no neurotypical socialisation though. I’m a neurodiverse person cosplaying but not masking. Ok. Bit odd. Whatever.
Pretty much all of my friends are neurodiverse.
This appears to be fine amongst the ones who are ADHD and medicated.
The ones who aren’t though; I really need to stop making eye contact because I think I’m freaking them out.
Sorry everyone x
ADHD meds are dangerous! They cause hypertension! You must not take them! - some wankers.
The “hypertension”
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This blows my mind. My sleep data from Apple Health over the last 6 months.
The green line marks the point I started amphetamines. It doesn’t make a lot of difference.
The red line: I read Sisters of Dorley
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I honestly never dreamed my life would go in the direction of having to manage the duality of being a functional adult who can do adult things in the daytime and is sensible and all that stuff, and a chaos goblin by the evening.
The transition I saw coming from a long time before, if I’m being honest. But while neurodivergence was always obvious to anyone who met me, finally getting the actual answer and following it through to Planet Amphetamine and all that implies has blindsided me a bit.
These drugs are very very weird to be on.
But they may have saved my life.
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Having my first day off Elvanse.
Plan is all about self care. Avoid stressful stuff. If there is ANY hint of pushback against anything that needs doing, then I will make it a problem for future Sarah.
I feel like there’s a lot of reverse ableism with people telling me that the REAL problem with ADHD is that I am “traumatised” by a world that isn’t adapted to my needs and that were it not for this “trauma”, I would be able to function just fine.
If it’s trauma, why does a single pill that raises my dopamine levels switch it off like a light switch and turn me into an emotionally stable adult with executive function?
I had a shower and thought more (as you do) and maybe it's just the usual problem of people projecting their own problems. Also medication only works for about 70% of people with ADHD and not everyone has the glorious epiphany you have (congrats tho!)
Also I wonder, like in my case, my DMN is rather strong and annoying... Combined with high empathy (confirmed medically kinda now due to the stupid ASD screening) it's a rather hard-mode life for me.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •You can't expect much from the UK government. They only just let a guy back into the UK after leaving him trapped in Poland for 26 years! Banal evil.
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I hope it doesn't take even 2 years to overturn this.
'I went to Poland and was trapped for 26 years, it took until now to get home'
Ros Wynne Jones (Daily Mirror)nflux back in exile
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EDIT: Fixed typo. No others.
Don't take your own life? I didn't think that part needed explaining to another trans person. That's the outcome they want. Therefore, defying it by simply continuing to exist is an act of resistance. When this shitstorm eventually passes we will need to reconnect and rebuild our communities. We will want every mind turned to that crucial task.
So every one saved is a gain.
Thus: Live!
leah & tigers & bears, oh my!
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I don't recall adding visibility as a criterion for existence. I said what I meant to say: existence (each of us continuing to live) is an act of resistance.
As to being locked up, it might be good to always bear in mind that your fear of the hypothetical imprisonment as a queer person might find common ground with a much older trans woman who had actually been locked up and repeatedly assaulted for being queer in the military in 1985, just to pick a year out of the air, if you didn't go in making unneeded assumptions about her meaning, and lecturing her like a just-cracked egg about, y'know, how her own lived experience might affect someone?
Dunno. Just pulling ideas from my silly old mind. Don't mind me.
Neat. One long sentence, that big para. Autistic bingo.
leah & tigers & bears, oh my!
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Too many people in this world get off on making others' lives miserable. ((((((BIG HUGS))))))