This is true for some autistic people, and symptoms vary a great deal. Many autistic folks have amplified sensitivity to sound, touch, smell, light, color, eye contact, rejection, and/or other perceptions. Others do not. It's a spectrum. The point, I think, is that it does occur for some of us. ❤️

I link meds to a thing that I do everyday at the time I need to take the meds. This helps a lot on the days that I have a regular schedule and I link it to something I like doing which helps as well. I use a weekly med organizer with removable sections for each day so I can take meds with me.

I'm doing so, and forgiving myself for having those narratives still knocking around in my head!

So true! A few years ago a many decades-long friend and I became estranged. It was inevitable and I miss her.

I'm currently recovering from surgery and realized that the voice saying I'm too boring to ask people to visit is hers. I can let go of the idea I have to be fun to be worth being with. ❤️

I'm pretty sure my father never played music in the car, and he'd never think of sharing his music with me. My mum would listen to the radio.

Everything I've read and heard from medical professionals says that if you test positive you are contagious.

My point was that all residential buildings should be required to have accessible parking for tenants based on number of units. Most codes base the number of accessible spots on the total amount of parking provided so if there is no off street parking there is no accessible off street parking.

All mandates? Does that include no accessible parking?

Some of us are lame, indeed; I use a walker or crutches due to being lame.

I love dogs and try not to be an inadequate or awful human, unlike too many humans.

My brain, once I've noticed the joy in how someone's voice moves in sounds, often loses the ability to put the sounds into meaning.

I once had to buy the text version of a book whose audiobook narration was waves of sounds hitting the beach on a calm day. Lovely, but couldn't focus! Brains 🤷

and in your 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s! It's all so beautiful. ♥️ to all trans folks. We exist and we matter.

It's very very good!

Morning glory isn't too invasive in that it's an annual, but it's twin bins weed is sadly beautiful and invasive in a lot of climates.

So glad fleabane is native where I live!

Denaturalization isn't going to affect those with money to hire lawyers and will not target folks for white collar crime. It will target primarily folks who are already marginalized.

They chose a nonbinary child abuser to target first in order to equate LGBTQIA+ folks with child abusers.

Today as I weeded I thought about whether I'd be killed by a right wing transphobe I knew or one I didn't. I just want to be my authentic chaotic gardener self and curse the snails who eat my hostas, not fear for my life. Happily my Sweet Williams bring much joy.

I also just can't do gloves! I'm old school and use a nail brush, though I also have been seen using the end of the file part of nail clippers or the end of a sharp knife.