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@mykola.bsky.social
· Nov 27
How To Talk About Autism Respectfully · Public Neurodiversity Support Center
A Field Guide for Journalists, Educators, Doctors and anyone else who wants to know how to better communicate about Autism.
coda.io
Hey! Bluesky! Learn you about some Autism!
I wrote this piece after a conversation with CNN's Sanjay Gupta, and it's received tremendous feedback from both Autistic people and from educators, doctors and journalists who have learned from it.
Read it!
coda.io/@mykola-bilo...
I wrote this piece after a conversation with CNN's Sanjay Gupta, and it's received tremendous feedback from both Autistic people and from educators, doctors and journalists who have learned from it.
Read it!
coda.io/@mykola-bilo...
Neurodiversity *is* queerness.
For extra spice: autism is an advanced form of gender, we really don’t recommend it for your first character.
For extra spice: autism is an advanced form of gender, we really don’t recommend it for your first character.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Neurodiversity *is* queerness.
For extra spice: autism is an advanced form of gender, we really don’t recommend it for your first character.
For extra spice: autism is an advanced form of gender, we really don’t recommend it for your first character.
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Once you earn a goth girl’s trust, you may feed her Mike & Ikes straight from your hand
November 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Once you earn a goth girl’s trust, you may feed her Mike & Ikes straight from your hand
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Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it
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> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
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lots of people know Łink from what he did to promote alt text usage here. this tip about pretending you’re describing an image over the phone has been burned in my brain since i saw it
October 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
lots of people know Łink from what he did to promote alt text usage here. this tip about pretending you’re describing an image over the phone has been burned in my brain since i saw it
…they banned *Link*?
October 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
…they banned *Link*?
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I asked a Christian baker to write Charlie Kirk on a gay wedding cake and we've been staring at each other for 39 straight hours now
October 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I asked a Christian baker to write Charlie Kirk on a gay wedding cake and we've been staring at each other for 39 straight hours now
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Claiming that an autistic person doing activism is just attention seeking is so crazy cause like have you ever tried to get us to care about anything we don’t give a shit about
October 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Claiming that an autistic person doing activism is just attention seeking is so crazy cause like have you ever tried to get us to care about anything we don’t give a shit about
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Fitzgerald said: “I thought that childhood was a game that I had to win, so I’ve been doggedly copying everyone around me. Now, everyone thinks I’m normal, except they all still seem to hate me a little bit, for reasons I can’t quite put my finger on.”
Autistic toddler hitting all developmental milestones realises she’s inadvertently fucked it
An autistic toddler who has hit all of her developmental milestones on time has realised she may have unintentionally shot herself in the foot. Lottie Fitzgerald, three, displays a number of typical…
thedailytism.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Fitzgerald said: “I thought that childhood was a game that I had to win, so I’ve been doggedly copying everyone around me. Now, everyone thinks I’m normal, except they all still seem to hate me a little bit, for reasons I can’t quite put my finger on.”
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frame: democrats are to blame for a government shutdown
negation: no, actually republicans are to blame for the shutdown
kirby:
negation: no, actually republicans are to blame for the shutdown
kirby:
There is already a government shutdown and it already has a body count, it's just not equally distributed.
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
frame: democrats are to blame for a government shutdown
negation: no, actually republicans are to blame for the shutdown
kirby:
negation: no, actually republicans are to blame for the shutdown
kirby:
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I can make the following statement because this is what multiple studies have shown:
If your child has is on the autism spectrum, it is NOT because you took Acetaminophen while you were pregnant.
ACETAMINOPHEN. DOES. NOT. CAUSE. AUTISM.
There’s no proven causal link. There is NOT.
If your child has is on the autism spectrum, it is NOT because you took Acetaminophen while you were pregnant.
ACETAMINOPHEN. DOES. NOT. CAUSE. AUTISM.
There’s no proven causal link. There is NOT.
September 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I can make the following statement because this is what multiple studies have shown:
If your child has is on the autism spectrum, it is NOT because you took Acetaminophen while you were pregnant.
ACETAMINOPHEN. DOES. NOT. CAUSE. AUTISM.
There’s no proven causal link. There is NOT.
If your child has is on the autism spectrum, it is NOT because you took Acetaminophen while you were pregnant.
ACETAMINOPHEN. DOES. NOT. CAUSE. AUTISM.
There’s no proven causal link. There is NOT.
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Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today.
Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943.
Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s.
Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.
Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943.
Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s.
Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.
September 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today.
Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943.
Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s.
Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.
Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943.
Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s.
Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.
Given that the American regime is going to be saying some stupid shit about autism today, I want to circulate this essay as a sort of inoculation. please read and, if you learned something, share it with the people in your life.
Hey! Bluesky! Learn you about some Autism!
I wrote this piece after a conversation with CNN's Sanjay Gupta, and it's received tremendous feedback from both Autistic people and from educators, doctors and journalists who have learned from it.
Read it!
coda.io/@mykola-bilo...
I wrote this piece after a conversation with CNN's Sanjay Gupta, and it's received tremendous feedback from both Autistic people and from educators, doctors and journalists who have learned from it.
Read it!
coda.io/@mykola-bilo...
How To Talk About Autism Respectfully · Public Neurodiversity Support Center
A Field Guide for Journalists, Educators, Doctors and anyone else who wants to know how to better communicate about Autism.
coda.io
September 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Given that the American regime is going to be saying some stupid shit about autism today, I want to circulate this essay as a sort of inoculation. please read and, if you learned something, share it with the people in your life.
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So I'm just looking at some of the posts I bookmarked the old fashioned way, and rediscovered this. Check it out:
Hey! Bluesky! Learn you about some Autism!
I wrote this piece after a conversation with CNN's Sanjay Gupta, and it's received tremendous feedback from both Autistic people and from educators, doctors and journalists who have learned from it.
Read it!
coda.io/@mykola-bilo...
I wrote this piece after a conversation with CNN's Sanjay Gupta, and it's received tremendous feedback from both Autistic people and from educators, doctors and journalists who have learned from it.
Read it!
coda.io/@mykola-bilo...
How To Talk About Autism Respectfully · Public Neurodiversity Support Center
A Field Guide for Journalists, Educators, Doctors and anyone else who wants to know how to better communicate about Autism.
coda.io
September 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
So I'm just looking at some of the posts I bookmarked the old fashioned way, and rediscovered this. Check it out:
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stagflation is when we don't have enough doe
*angrily slamming the encyclopedia Britannica through a glass table* stagflation has NOTHING to do with deer!
September 7, 2025 at 2:43 AM
stagflation is when we don't have enough doe
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The punchline at the end of this is definitely worth it.
It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.
September 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The punchline at the end of this is definitely worth it.
Incredible power move, no notes.
August 31, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Incredible power move, no notes.
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game genres are so fuzzy and confusing...what's an Action Adventure game?? what do you actually do in an RPG?? to fix this, i got together with loads of my lovely friends to create a much more descriptive classification system. all games can be neatly placed into the New Genres
August 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
game genres are so fuzzy and confusing...what's an Action Adventure game?? what do you actually do in an RPG?? to fix this, i got together with loads of my lovely friends to create a much more descriptive classification system. all games can be neatly placed into the New Genres
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The #HugoAward for Best Game or Interactive Work goes to Caves of Qud.
August 17, 2025 at 4:45 AM
The #HugoAward for Best Game or Interactive Work goes to Caves of Qud.
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The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco, 1980)
Perhaps the most shocking thing I've learned these last four years is that text is this occult spooky medium that becomes creepier and more mind bending the longer you think about it. It's clear what audio and video are, they have clear intuitive physical interpretations, but what the hell is text?
August 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco, 1980)
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(newsie voice) beltway brats beat big balls bad
August 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
(newsie voice) beltway brats beat big balls bad
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I lost my Mom to pancreatic cancer when I was 19. She was only 47.
My grandmother also died from it at 53.
When Mom was diagnosed, she sat me down and said she knew exactly what I was feeling because she felt the same way when her Mom was dying.
🧵
My grandmother also died from it at 53.
When Mom was diagnosed, she sat me down and said she knew exactly what I was feeling because she felt the same way when her Mom was dying.
🧵
August 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I lost my Mom to pancreatic cancer when I was 19. She was only 47.
My grandmother also died from it at 53.
When Mom was diagnosed, she sat me down and said she knew exactly what I was feeling because she felt the same way when her Mom was dying.
🧵
My grandmother also died from it at 53.
When Mom was diagnosed, she sat me down and said she knew exactly what I was feeling because she felt the same way when her Mom was dying.
🧵
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I'm afraid that humans simply can't stand the pain of having been wrong about this genocide, and that that their efforts to avoid the horror of self-reflection is having&will have horrific consequences. If I prayed, I'd pray for the ability to face myself, even when I've been catastrophically wrong.
July 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I'm afraid that humans simply can't stand the pain of having been wrong about this genocide, and that that their efforts to avoid the horror of self-reflection is having&will have horrific consequences. If I prayed, I'd pray for the ability to face myself, even when I've been catastrophically wrong.