LT
@laithin5.bsky.social
Neurotypical sibling to a neurodivergent adult;
Dementia care partner (graduated);
Disability inclusion and inclusive education advocate;
Social media hermit.
Dementia care partner (graduated);
Disability inclusion and inclusive education advocate;
Social media hermit.
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The increase in medical emergencies and loss of consciousness on planes, on television and in daily life seem to be growing every day.
It’s shocking what we’ve begun to normalize and how most people still won’t ask “why”
Why are people collapsing more often? Sick more often? Perhaps it’s the covid
It’s shocking what we’ve begun to normalize and how most people still won’t ask “why”
Why are people collapsing more often? Sick more often? Perhaps it’s the covid
A flight spent 10 minutes with no pilot when the first officer collapsed while the captain was in the bathroom
After returning from the bathroom, the Lufthansa flight's captain found he was initially unable to get back into the cockpit.
www.businessinsider.com
May 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The increase in medical emergencies and loss of consciousness on planes, on television and in daily life seem to be growing every day.
It’s shocking what we’ve begun to normalize and how most people still won’t ask “why”
Why are people collapsing more often? Sick more often? Perhaps it’s the covid
It’s shocking what we’ve begun to normalize and how most people still won’t ask “why”
Why are people collapsing more often? Sick more often? Perhaps it’s the covid
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Some think it’s weird when your friend groups don’t mix. But mine don’t on purpose.
I’m autistic. I’ve held people who couldn’t hold each other. Just because I can translate them doesn’t mean they can connect.
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#ActuallyAutistic #FriendshipBoundaries #Neurodivergent
I’m autistic. I’ve held people who couldn’t hold each other. Just because I can translate them doesn’t mean they can connect.
1/3 🧵
#ActuallyAutistic #FriendshipBoundaries #Neurodivergent
Why My Friends Don’t Mix
I don’t mix my friends. I don’t create shared group chats. And I definitely don’t expect harmony from people who are only connected through me. This isn’t fear—it’s architecture. And for autistic, mul...
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May 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Some think it’s weird when your friend groups don’t mix. But mine don’t on purpose.
I’m autistic. I’ve held people who couldn’t hold each other. Just because I can translate them doesn’t mean they can connect.
1/3 🧵
#ActuallyAutistic #FriendshipBoundaries #Neurodivergent
I’m autistic. I’ve held people who couldn’t hold each other. Just because I can translate them doesn’t mean they can connect.
1/3 🧵
#ActuallyAutistic #FriendshipBoundaries #Neurodivergent
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🧵 I often get networking meeting requests. People want to set up a "quick 30 minute call" and the dance of do I lie? do I decline? do I ignore? God, those were SO many mental jumping jacks.
Now: "I'm sorry, but synchronous calls outside my routine make me anxious. I make a great pen pal, though!"
Now: "I'm sorry, but synchronous calls outside my routine make me anxious. I make a great pen pal, though!"
if you spend way too much time writing an email, preparing for a conversation, or winding down from a social interaction, chances are your camouflaging behaviors are throwing you into Autistic burnout
Finding ways to communicate authentically is a game changer for energy & stress
it takes TIME tho
Finding ways to communicate authentically is a game changer for energy & stress
it takes TIME tho
Me being autistic means spending at least an hour writing a “quick” reply because tone + honesty + neurotypical expectations = emotional calculus.
May 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
🧵 I often get networking meeting requests. People want to set up a "quick 30 minute call" and the dance of do I lie? do I decline? do I ignore? God, those were SO many mental jumping jacks.
Now: "I'm sorry, but synchronous calls outside my routine make me anxious. I make a great pen pal, though!"
Now: "I'm sorry, but synchronous calls outside my routine make me anxious. I make a great pen pal, though!"
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When we expressed that we wanted to pursue art we used to be told there is no future in that particular field.
But the machine that's scraping from artists' works is the one they believe has a future.
#viensart #createdontscrape
But the machine that's scraping from artists' works is the one they believe has a future.
#viensart #createdontscrape
May 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM
When we expressed that we wanted to pursue art we used to be told there is no future in that particular field.
But the machine that's scraping from artists' works is the one they believe has a future.
#viensart #createdontscrape
But the machine that's scraping from artists' works is the one they believe has a future.
#viensart #createdontscrape
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I wrote a piece about running, growth, being pushed beyond our limits, therapy training, and how "it's meant to be hard" or "it's meant to hurt" can be quite damaging messages
medium.com/@sonnyhallet...
medium.com/@sonnyhallet...
Endurance
Or, Beginner Runner Discovers Pacing — an essay that’s not really about running but is about how not being in loads of pain might be good…
medium.com
May 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I wrote a piece about running, growth, being pushed beyond our limits, therapy training, and how "it's meant to be hard" or "it's meant to hurt" can be quite damaging messages
medium.com/@sonnyhallet...
medium.com/@sonnyhallet...
Catching up with backlog podcasts and course subscriptions.
Have yet to start on the hundreds of books in my reading list.
One at a time. One at a time.
Have yet to start on the hundreds of books in my reading list.
One at a time. One at a time.
March 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Catching up with backlog podcasts and course subscriptions.
Have yet to start on the hundreds of books in my reading list.
One at a time. One at a time.
Have yet to start on the hundreds of books in my reading list.
One at a time. One at a time.
I don't know about other people, but I struggle to keep up on social media.
I take my time reading or watching insights, articles, jokes; admiring art pieces, photographs etc.
Always no time or head space to add my own thoughts.
I take my time reading or watching insights, articles, jokes; admiring art pieces, photographs etc.
Always no time or head space to add my own thoughts.
March 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I don't know about other people, but I struggle to keep up on social media.
I take my time reading or watching insights, articles, jokes; admiring art pieces, photographs etc.
Always no time or head space to add my own thoughts.
I take my time reading or watching insights, articles, jokes; admiring art pieces, photographs etc.
Always no time or head space to add my own thoughts.
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When you encounter something new to you, try and turn off that need to say/think, “I’m reminded of [familiar thing]” and take that new thing for what it is…and then see how your world expands.
March 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
When you encounter something new to you, try and turn off that need to say/think, “I’m reminded of [familiar thing]” and take that new thing for what it is…and then see how your world expands.
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As @yatil.yatil.social.ap.brid.gy writes in the post, "… alternative text is an art more than a science, and sometimes you’ll leave out essential information. My litmus test is 'would I picture an approximation of the image when it was described to me over the phone using the alternative text.'"
March 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
As @yatil.yatil.social.ap.brid.gy writes in the post, "… alternative text is an art more than a science, and sometimes you’ll leave out essential information. My litmus test is 'would I picture an approximation of the image when it was described to me over the phone using the alternative text.'"
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For beginners, it can be difficult to know what to put in alt text, as well as when alt text is needed and when it isn't. This decision tree helps you determine what to do, based on specific situations.
www.w3.org/WAI/tutorial...
www.w3.org/WAI/tutorial...
An alt Decision Tree
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
www.w3.org
March 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
For beginners, it can be difficult to know what to put in alt text, as well as when alt text is needed and when it isn't. This decision tree helps you determine what to do, based on specific situations.
www.w3.org/WAI/tutorial...
www.w3.org/WAI/tutorial...
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A common question about alt text is how to determine whether alt text is "too long" or "too short." The answer to this is that it depends on context. That's not always a comforting answer to people just want a prescriptive "yes" or "no," but there is no one-size-fits-all answer.
March 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A common question about alt text is how to determine whether alt text is "too long" or "too short." The answer to this is that it depends on context. That's not always a comforting answer to people just want a prescriptive "yes" or "no," but there is no one-size-fits-all answer.
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We mask to feel safe, not to hide who we are.
We hide who we are, because who we are is not safe in our current world.
If we want Autistic people to not mask so much, we need them to feel safe.
#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticMasking #autism #MentalHealth #neurodiversity
We hide who we are, because who we are is not safe in our current world.
If we want Autistic people to not mask so much, we need them to feel safe.
#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticMasking #autism #MentalHealth #neurodiversity
March 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
We mask to feel safe, not to hide who we are.
We hide who we are, because who we are is not safe in our current world.
If we want Autistic people to not mask so much, we need them to feel safe.
#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticMasking #autism #MentalHealth #neurodiversity
We hide who we are, because who we are is not safe in our current world.
If we want Autistic people to not mask so much, we need them to feel safe.
#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticMasking #autism #MentalHealth #neurodiversity
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Lots of free neuro-affirming resources for families and professionals with a focus on supporting Autistic children with burnout, barriers to education and developing a better understanding of Monotropism (a strength-based theory of Autism)
Find out more: autisticrealms.com
#neurodiversity
Find out more: autisticrealms.com
#neurodiversity
March 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Lots of free neuro-affirming resources for families and professionals with a focus on supporting Autistic children with burnout, barriers to education and developing a better understanding of Monotropism (a strength-based theory of Autism)
Find out more: autisticrealms.com
#neurodiversity
Find out more: autisticrealms.com
#neurodiversity
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Questions for an Industry: Are You Disregarding Harm and Profiting From Our Misery?
stimpunks.org/research/harm/
stimpunks.org/research/harm/
Questions for an Industry: Are You Disregarding Harm and Profiting From Our Misery?
What on earth has been going on, in experimentation on our autistic loved ones? Who on earth thought we were no more human than a lump of clay?
stimpunks.org
March 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Questions for an Industry: Are You Disregarding Harm and Profiting From Our Misery?
stimpunks.org/research/harm/
stimpunks.org/research/harm/
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Frankly: The evidence base for behaviorist therapies such as ABA and PBS is a pile of trash that reeks of conflicts of interest, private equity, and ableist bigotry.
Behaviorists are profiting from our misery.
Behaviorists are profiting from our misery.
Evidence-Based
I think we’re just going to have to let the term “evidence-based” go. There seems to be an inverse relationship between the extent to which a practice is described as evidence-based, and the quality…
stimpunks.org
March 18, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Frankly: The evidence base for behaviorist therapies such as ABA and PBS is a pile of trash that reeks of conflicts of interest, private equity, and ableist bigotry.
Behaviorists are profiting from our misery.
Behaviorists are profiting from our misery.
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Yup. I've been online for 30+ years and the point I make frequently is that the version of me you see here is tuned for being online: It's me, but certain aspects of my personality are dialed up and others are dialed down, and some parts of my life don't make it online at all. Not false, just tuned.
I think I heard Hank Green in a video once say "all of whats on line is really me but NOT all of the real me is online." And I wish more people realized that about themselves and others. Its healthy to have parts of your life not online.
February 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Yup. I've been online for 30+ years and the point I make frequently is that the version of me you see here is tuned for being online: It's me, but certain aspects of my personality are dialed up and others are dialed down, and some parts of my life don't make it online at all. Not false, just tuned.
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I would like to stay informed, but I’d also like to not be so overwhelmed by everything
March 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I would like to stay informed, but I’d also like to not be so overwhelmed by everything
Sometimes I feel bad for harping on language.
Because everyone uses language differently, with unique cultural differences. Especially if the language is not their first language, and polygots.
But I also know how language hurts and harms. I've done that myself.
Because everyone uses language differently, with unique cultural differences. Especially if the language is not their first language, and polygots.
But I also know how language hurts and harms. I've done that myself.
March 6, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Sometimes I feel bad for harping on language.
Because everyone uses language differently, with unique cultural differences. Especially if the language is not their first language, and polygots.
But I also know how language hurts and harms. I've done that myself.
Because everyone uses language differently, with unique cultural differences. Especially if the language is not their first language, and polygots.
But I also know how language hurts and harms. I've done that myself.
Unproductiveness
Who defines that?
How do you define that?
Those unemployed?
Those who seem to contribute little or none to the economy?
Those who didn't have opportunities to learn skills due to systemic exclusion and discrimination?
Those excluded from discriminating workplaces?
Who defines that?
How do you define that?
Those unemployed?
Those who seem to contribute little or none to the economy?
Those who didn't have opportunities to learn skills due to systemic exclusion and discrimination?
Those excluded from discriminating workplaces?
March 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Unproductiveness
Who defines that?
How do you define that?
Those unemployed?
Those who seem to contribute little or none to the economy?
Those who didn't have opportunities to learn skills due to systemic exclusion and discrimination?
Those excluded from discriminating workplaces?
Who defines that?
How do you define that?
Those unemployed?
Those who seem to contribute little or none to the economy?
Those who didn't have opportunities to learn skills due to systemic exclusion and discrimination?
Those excluded from discriminating workplaces?
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February 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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February 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
A friend recently encouraged me, that I might write a story about my own journey one day.
I don't think I will. I know I won't.
There are things so intimate and private we will not breathe outside our family.
It is our story to tell.
Not just mine.
Most importantly, mom's.
So, no.
I don't think I will. I know I won't.
There are things so intimate and private we will not breathe outside our family.
It is our story to tell.
Not just mine.
Most importantly, mom's.
So, no.
February 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
A friend recently encouraged me, that I might write a story about my own journey one day.
I don't think I will. I know I won't.
There are things so intimate and private we will not breathe outside our family.
It is our story to tell.
Not just mine.
Most importantly, mom's.
So, no.
I don't think I will. I know I won't.
There are things so intimate and private we will not breathe outside our family.
It is our story to tell.
Not just mine.
Most importantly, mom's.
So, no.
It's interesting how grief is a better bedfellow than anticipatory grief.
It could be that anticipatory grief prepares one for grief.
Or because the accompanying anxiety and fear, sharing the person's struggles are out of the equation.
It could be that anticipatory grief prepares one for grief.
Or because the accompanying anxiety and fear, sharing the person's struggles are out of the equation.
February 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
It's interesting how grief is a better bedfellow than anticipatory grief.
It could be that anticipatory grief prepares one for grief.
Or because the accompanying anxiety and fear, sharing the person's struggles are out of the equation.
It could be that anticipatory grief prepares one for grief.
Or because the accompanying anxiety and fear, sharing the person's struggles are out of the equation.
Many will disapprove of how I handle bro's "mistakes".
Definitely will disapprove of the things I let him do.
May even blame me for giving him that much freedom.
But...
He's an adult.
Yes, he needs a lot of guidance to distinguish between right and wrong, good and bad.
Definitely will disapprove of the things I let him do.
May even blame me for giving him that much freedom.
But...
He's an adult.
Yes, he needs a lot of guidance to distinguish between right and wrong, good and bad.
February 3, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Many will disapprove of how I handle bro's "mistakes".
Definitely will disapprove of the things I let him do.
May even blame me for giving him that much freedom.
But...
He's an adult.
Yes, he needs a lot of guidance to distinguish between right and wrong, good and bad.
Definitely will disapprove of the things I let him do.
May even blame me for giving him that much freedom.
But...
He's an adult.
Yes, he needs a lot of guidance to distinguish between right and wrong, good and bad.
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For the January/February issue of @motherjones.com, I wrote a column on the importance of making walkable cities accessible, especially as disabled people are more likely to not drive and take public transit. www.motherjones.com/environment/...
Do car-free zones hurt disabled people? We asked experts.
City planners and advocates are seeing "accessibility used as a political football."
www.motherjones.com
December 17, 2024 at 7:27 PM
For the January/February issue of @motherjones.com, I wrote a column on the importance of making walkable cities accessible, especially as disabled people are more likely to not drive and take public transit. www.motherjones.com/environment/...