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Benny @mutantboy.bsky.social · 44m

Little boy I do some extra phonics work with likes to chat between every word. Today he was telling me about his dad keeping everyone awake with his snoring (he didn't know the word, so did an impression). Then he said when he's big & a dad he'll keep his kids awake by *impression of loud snoring*.

Benny @mutantboy.bsky.social · 3d

A little bat pup came to help us give out treats to trick-or-treaters. She liked my curio cabinet and also the magen david from the plant stand. Cutest, funniest little being.

Benny @mutantboy.bsky.social · 3d

You are. You're kind, you're talented, you're interesting. People might not always recognise or value it enough, but that doesn't mean you don't have lots to offer. Not that you need to put your many positive attributes to a practical/measurable use in order to be worthwhile, of course.

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Benny @mutantboy.bsky.social · 4d

Look, ppl, if you scoot a little & I scoot a little we can work together to make walking down the street less shit. Instead of refusing to move at all or not bothering to look where you're going. (I also didn't take my ADHD meds today so I felt like I was literally going to expire from frustration.)

Benny @mutantboy.bsky.social · 4d

Braving Selfridges itself to check out the Frankenstein merch was horrendous. It was too hot, too busy, difficult to find the merch, and the merch was ridiculously expensive (£85 for a t-shirt!). Braving the streets to get to the art show was also pretty horrendous.

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Benny @mutantboy.bsky.social · 4d

Went out and did things, today!

The Frankenstein: Creating a Tale Eternal exhibition at the Old Selfridges Hotel was great. It's made me all the more excited to watch the film!

Wes Lang's Thank You G-d art show was also delightful! Birds and skulls, what's not to love?!

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Benny @mutantboy.bsky.social · 9d

London: Time and Tide photography exhibition at Art in the Docks. I collabed w/ Briony Campbell on ‘Pieces of Me’ & ‘Distance is Nothing’ (film originally for Out of Touch Festival, shown at Bloomsbury Theatre!)

Briony’s pieces are collabs w/ Autistic ppl about our experiences/relationships.

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Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · 12d

It takes 2.6 seconds for me to go from “there’s something beautiful in every human being” to “get me off this planet”

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Benny @mutantboy.bsky.social · 19d

And we both turn and walk away from each other and then I hear, 'BEN!' and I look round and he shouts across the hall, 'WE MISS YOU!' And I had to mention it somewhere because I am actually really chuffed.

Benny @mutantboy.bsky.social · 19d

He chased me out. 'Ben I like your shoes! And I like your hands. And your shirt!' My hands?? Think he was grasping a bit! Very cute, though. So I thanked him and chatted to him a bit more and he was bouncing around all happy (he's normally not that happy). Then I said bye again...

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Benny @mutantboy.bsky.social · 19d

Had a different reading group this week and clearly it made my usual group appreciate me more because one little boy was like, 'Ben I made you something, come look!' So I looked at his building block structure and complimented him on it. Then said bye and left the class...

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Benny @mutantboy.bsky.social · 20d

Wins this week: Bro's dog (extreme firework fear) slept through fireworks when I was dog sitting. AND the TV was muted (I was reading)! Situationally mute girl who's in one of my groups is always visibly VERY anxious and I've never seen her smile EVER but she proper beamed when she saw me today.

Benny @mutantboy.bsky.social · 23d

I got called daddy/dada three times this week. And a little girl who wasn’t feeling well (she got overheated) said, ‘Can you read me a story and I’ll feel better.’ Then, ‘Can you read me another story and I’ll feel better.’ My heart!

Benny @mutantboy.bsky.social · 23d

Kids. When they’re not handing me bogies or coughing in my face or repeatedly shouting ‘chicken banana’ or trying to climb fences or shoving each other or repeatedly asking for something you’ve already repeatedly said yes to (???), they’re quite cute.

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Benny @mutantboy.bsky.social · 25d

Seeing Atreyu on Friday was ace. Being a(n autistic) teenager mostly felt very shit most of the time but somehow listening to music from back then still feels good. So seeing Atreyu perform The Curse was like revisiting my teens in a good way. I hate leaving the house but I proper enjoyed myself.

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Benny @mutantboy.bsky.social · Oct 1

G'mar Chatima Tovah.

Benny @mutantboy.bsky.social · Sep 17

Interesting article! Informative. Worth reading in full. Makes it clear how idiotic/fascist the whole thing is. The EHRC basically renders itself unfit for purpose. How can someone create pseudo-laws it would be unlawful to actually enforce? How are people this incompetent in such important roles?

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · Sep 17

"They’re doing an awful, evil thing based on a self-evidently foolish strategy, one that has repeatedly failed for them. And they’re doing it without even the pretense of values. One day they believed in trans rights, the next day they didn’t." www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Britain’s Bathroom Ban

The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Benny @mutantboy.bsky.social · Sep 5

I won’t let her wait on me, she’s had a tough week and was sobbing yesterday with hypermobility related pain. But how lucky I am to be so loved and cared for.

Benny @mutantboy.bsky.social · Sep 5

I’m proper overstimulated and unwell (last night my gf asked me which hot dog buns I wanted for dinner and I covered my ears like, ‘no no no’ because choosing was Too Much - this is the level of overloaded I am this week). And today her messages: