Today in unsurprising news and research revelations:

ABA Therapy’s founder, Ole Ivar Lovaas, was a local leader of A Norwegian WWII fascist youth movement, and "he and his family were Nazi collaborators."

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Part of my autistic experience is my emotions are often very “big” even/especially when I am internalizing them. I don’t know that there is a way for me to communicate “how much” I truly feel. And it’s kinda a bummer. If I ever share my feelings with w/you, know that it’s really like x10, at least

Been really struggling lately with “the system” and the overall collapse of my country, decay of human kindness, and the ability to feel safe in any or all of my identities. How y’all doing out there?

I never thought I would spend my entire adult life searching for “home”.

This world has me so tired and sad. Like for fucks sake, do we all hate each other this much?

Adults will be so incredibly violent to the smallest most vulnerable humans, who literally know nothing of the world but what they are taught by those adults, and then blame the child.

Pros to being my friend: I will be just as interested in something the first time you talk about as the 10th
Cons: I probably don’t remember all the other times we talked about the thing.

"When we ask for accommodations, we are not asking for special treatment or being selfish. We are simply advocating for our needs to be met so that we can fully participate and contribute to the world around us." -The Autistic Teacher.

www.facebook.com/autisticteac... #neurodiversity #autism

I am willing to do so damn much for this world and it feels like no matter how much I try the barriers make it all but impossible. It’s no wonder so many people give up on their dreams. Fuck

Alright all - I'm stepping away for this evening. I'll be back in later tonight to see if there's any more updates.

Stay safe, if you're trans, stay with us, we are not giving up.

And most of all... these EOs are not law, they are not passed by congress, do NOT comply.

I’ve been feeling so disconnected lately. I miss connection.

I’ve always figured I’d be alive during the fall of America. It just made sense given *gestures to all the bullshit of the last 20 years.*
Now that it’s actually here, I’m not as confident I’ll make it through to the other side as I used to be.

What can you do?
👇👇👇👇👇👇

I know that my gender is real and valid regardless what the government, or anyone else, “recognizes”.

I have that sickening sinking anxiety, the kind that makes your stomach get hot and your blood run cold when something bad is headed straight for you but you can’t tell from which direction.

👇 This