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Geeky Science Mom
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Educator, #ScienceGeek, disability rights advocate, and all around nerd. Cats, cats, cats. >^..^<. My blogs - Autism Unfurling http://autismunfurling.wordpress.com and https://geekysciencemom.tumblr.com/?source=share #ActuallyAutistic #ProudMama
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The song "This Woman's Work" by #KateBush has always hit me hard. Today, as I write this, the song hits me even more. I still have work to do.
#ActuallyAutistic #CancerSurvivor #SensoryOverload #Grief #FindingNemo #FindingDory #JustKeepSwimming #Rest
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Even Fish Have Their Version of Rest
Content Warning: Referencing cancer, suicide ideation and death. When you are discussing cancer treatment with your doctor, you are told to expect fatigue, nausea, and a variety of other symptoms d…
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November 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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“We Didn’t Start the Fire” was released when I was a freshman in high school. What happened in the 36 years since the song was released? As a Gen Xer, this is my contribution to the #song starting with my timeline.
#ActuallyAutistic #History #BillyJoel
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We Didn’t Start the Fire – Continued
As with most songs, there is story behind Billy Joel’s song “We Didn’t Start the Fire”.  The idea spawned from a conversation Billy Joel had with a friend of Sean Lenno…
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October 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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--Hands Off protest (April 5, 2025) - 3 million people
--No Kings protest (June 14, 2025) - 5 million people
--No Kings II protest (October 18th, 2025) - 7 million people

Trump’s approval rating dropped to 37% as “No Kings” protests drew millions around the country.
#NoKings #SaveDemocracy
October 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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tRump admin is cutting $1.7 trillion from the disability infrastructure. From early intervention to Medicaid to Meals on Wheels. This is a massive attack on the disability community. People with disabilities need to run for national, state, & local office.
#YourVoteMatters #ProtectDisabilityRights
October 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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I want to dance. I want to feel free to move my body as it needs to without judgement. I want to know, truly know and believe, that I won’t get yelled out or shamed for just being me.
#ActuallyAutistic #Dancing #Healing #MentalHealth
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I am no “Monster” – Let me Dance – Part 2
Something changed as I was writing. Part 1 and 2 were originally written together all in one sitting as one single essay. As I was typing, processing was taking place and there was an unconscious s…
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September 21, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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I have been wondering how many late diagnosed autistics grew up believing that they were monsters and were fearful of themselves.
#ActuallyAutistic #LateDiagnosedAutistic #therapy #healing #MentalHealth
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The Belief that I am a “Monster” – Part 1
Something changed as I was writing. Part 1 and 2 were originally written together all in one sitting as one single essay. As I was typing, processing was taking place and there was an unconscious s…
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September 21, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Universities need to fight back with everything they have. If left unchecked, #tRump will destroy all the progress that took decades to make. His administration only wants heterosexual, cisgender, able-bodied, white, Christian Nationalist men will have access to #HigherEd.
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Trump vs. Higher Education: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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September 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Cabal Anthropology
#ConspiracyTheories #Antivaxers #MoonLandingDeniers #Birthers #9\11Truthers #FlatEarthers #ChristianNationalists #QAnoners #CabalAnthropology #Fear #Isolation #Community
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Cabal Anthropology The level of fear and arrogance of antivaxers is appalling. They are full of fear of something they don't understand and they think they know better then people…
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August 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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tRump's cabinet meetings are revolting. They are not just boot-licking & ring-kissing. They are ball-licking tRump. What they do each time is the most nauseating display of shoving their heads so far up tRump's a** that integrity and honor don't exist in this 2nd tRump administration.
#tRumpCabinet
August 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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I recently learned of a phrase “Dark Night of the Soul”. It can be used informally to describe an extremely difficult & painful period in one’s life that may endure for a long time.
#ActuallyAutistic #Trauma #ExistentialCrisis #Grief #Depression
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Dark Night of the Soul
I have often asked about how depression presents itself. I understand anxiety, it has been a never-ending presence in my life. Depression, on the other hand, has not been. Backing in October 2015, …
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August 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Over the years, I have written a lot about being exhausted and burned out. I seem to live in this perpetual state of some level of burnout. I find myself once again facing deep burnout. #AutisticBurnout #Autism #trauma #healing #Stress
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Enervated Yet Resilient
Over the years, I have written a lot about being exhausted and burned out. I seem to live in this perpetual state of some level of burnout. I find myself once again facing deep burnout. I was alrea…
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August 18, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Processing - This began as a typical writing process, then things changed. I triggered myself. Please listen to the song that I included.
#ActuallyAutistic #Therapy #ABA #AppliedBehavioralAnalysis #Healing #MentalHealth #GenXer #Trauma
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The Monster I Fear & the Longing to Be Free
Content Warning: Discussion of generational trauma, ABA, and emotional neglect. Imagine being born into a home where both parents are trapped in their own generational trauma. This generational tra…
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August 3, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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This EO criminalizes homelessness, having substance abuse disorders & severe mental illness. Instead of programs targeting root causes, the most at-risk are being targeted. This is about locking people up in long-term institutions. #CrueltyIsThePoint #Trump #EO
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Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
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July 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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#ActuallyAutistic #Poetry #Healing
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Painting with Words (Part 2)
THE BATTLE Hot and searing Like a hot spear impaling and tearing The muscles pierced deep The shocking pain catching breath Throbbing yet wave-like Bracing against the onslaught Afraid to move Exha…
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July 13, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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This piece began as a poem, but turned into something more. The structure is that of a long poem that is telling the continuation of a story of healing using strategies that are found in trauma therapy. #ActuallyAutistic #Healing #Trauma #Poetry
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She Persisted
Content Warning: This piece began as a poem, but turned into something more. The structure is that of a long poem that is telling the continuation of a story of healing using strategies that are fo…
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July 13, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Trying something new. I wrote some poems. #poetry #processing #Healing #Recovery #ActuallyAutistic
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Painting with Words
THE ACHE The Ache The Ache bleeds The Ache steals joy The Ache choaks the throat The Ache numbs out the passion The Ache is the heaviness that drowns The Ache is the inertia that keeps stillness Th…
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June 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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The Gilded Age was a period of flashy materialism and overt political corruption in the United States during the 1870s. The "Golden Age" as declared by tRump has brought back that same flashy materialism and overt political corruption. History is repeating itself.
#corruption #tRump #GoldenAge
May 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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MAGAts produce a net drain on this country. They bash, mock, blame & attack anyone who is different from them & refuse accountability for their own choices. They are not patriots, they are Christian Nationalists. This cult is dangerous & full of incompetent people who lack a moral compass.
#MAGACult
May 21, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Biden is not a bitter resentful incompetent man full of grievances out for revenge unlike the 🍊a**hat. Biden served this county for 50 years. He has suffered so many personal losses. Yet the MAGA ghouls seem to only be able to bash and mock him. It is disgusting.
#Biden
Four cartoon drawings of Biden's personal losses: top left - younger Biden kneeling down with flowers at the graves of his baby daughter and first wife. Bottom left - older Biden standing with his hands on his son Beau's coffin with a US flag draped over it. Middle - older Biden walking his son Hunter into a drug treatment center. Last on right - older Biden receiving his cancer diagnosis with him saying "Been through worse . . ." Artist is Mike Luckovich. Daye 5-21-25
May 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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My newest blog!

"Content Warning: Discussing cancer, dysfunctional families, politics

“Share your color, make them see, guard your honor, dare to dream, one day we don’t have to run no more.”
#ActuallyAutistic #Cancer #Politics #HoldTheLine
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My System is Overwhelmed, Yet Still Fighting
Content Warning: Discussing cancer, dysfunctional families, politics “Share your color, make them see, guard your honor, dare to dream, one day we don’t have to run no more.” How …
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May 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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From the The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide, “EVERY authoritarian, totalitarian and fascist regime in history eventually failed, thanks to the PEOPLE.” – With love, your Eastern European friends #LearnFromEurope #AuthoritarianRegime #HoldTheLine #FightBack
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The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
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May 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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"The U.S. is stepping up its intelligence-gathering efforts regarding Greenland, drawing America’s spying apparatus into President Trump’s campaign to take over the island, according to two people familiar with the effort." #Greenland #tRumpAdministration #Spying
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Exclusive | U.S. Orders Intelligence Agencies to Step Up Spying on Greenland
The push underscores the seriousness of President Trump’s intent to acquire the island from Denmark.
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May 7, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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This is how we rise up! Resist!! Skillet lead singer/bassist John Cooper believes “The Resistance” is about telling us that “we can make the world the way we want it to be. There’s so much hatred and evil, but there is also love and hope."
#Music #Resistance #Hope #Skillet
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Skillet - "The Resistance" [Official Lyric Video]
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April 9, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Data provided shows that fired staff were working on 6,896 cases, leaving thousands of students in unsafe learning environments, or out of school entirely, without any clear plan for resolution. Caseloads for remaining investigators are expected to increase by more than 200 percent. #OCR #DeptOfEd
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April 8, 2025 at 5:16 AM