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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · 12d

“neurotypicality is an ideal, a culturally oppressive standard that harms most people”

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#adhdblacksky #audhdblacksky #autismblacksky #neurospicyblacksky #neurodivergentblacksky #Autistic #AuDHD #BlackSky

An Update

This is an update to my post Neurodiversity 101

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🧡 [ BAMBII ]🔻🏴🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ildeenach.bsky.social · 5h

The same people that brought blood letting as a medical venture lmao ... Western imperialist society is steaming 💩 .. it's it's own delusion it's exceptional

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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · Jul 7

believe what I'm told about Western history, or about history too cool it's reinsured, but I know better. What I want to convey here is not so much that I know better, it's that you—all of you—know better. And I know you know better because you produced me."

— James Baldwin

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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · Jul 7

"The reason that Plato wanted no poets in his Republic is because the writer is, by definition, a disturber of the peace. He has to be. He has to make you ask yourself, make you realize that you're always asking yourself, questions that you don't know how to face. I would like to

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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · Jul 8

“Yet, what the memory repudiates controls the human being. What one does not remember dictates who one loves or fails to love.”

— James Baldwin

Yet, what the memory repudiates controls the human being. What one does not remember dictates who one loves or fails to love. What one does not remember dictates, actually, whether one plays poker, pool, or chess. What one does not remember contains the key to one's tantrums or one's poise. What one does not remember is the serpent in the garden of one's dreams. What one does not remember is the key to one's performance in the toilet or in bed. What one does not remember contains the only hope, danger, trap, inexorability, of love—only love can help you recognize what you do not remember.

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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · Jul 3

This fight begins, however, in the heart and it now had been laid to my charge to keep my own heart free of hatred and despair."

— James Baldwin

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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · Jul 3

it goes without saying that injustice is a commonplace. But this did not mean that one could be complacent, for the second idea was of equal power: that one must never, in one's own life, accept these injustices as commonplace but must fight them with all one's strength.

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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · Jul 3

"It began to seem that one would have to hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first idea was acceptance, the acceptance, totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are: in the light of this idea,

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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · Jul 4

"White people oppress me, yes indeed, but they destroy themselves in the act. That's the crisis. I am not the victim here. I have the advantage, after all. I have nothing, whatever, to lose."

— James Baldwin

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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · Jul 3

"It is not a matter of prejudice. It is a matter of cowardice. It is easy to blame the N*gg*r or the Arab or the Jew or the dyke or the faggot—anyone that isn't you. You don't want to see that you could be that person; that, in some way, you are that person."

— James Baldwin

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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · Jul 10

"I cannot give you a blueprint. I'm not a politician, I'm not a legislator. And if I could give you a blueprint, if I had one, I wouldn't give it to you because if you don't figure out how to do it yourself it would not be done."

— James Baldwin

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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · Jul 31

"Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

— James Baldwin

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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · Jul 4

“I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one's own moral center and move through the world hoping that this center will guide one aright.”

— James Baldwin

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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · Jul 31

this question lives in the mind. It is a question which can paralyze the mind, of course; but if the question does not live in the mind, then one is simply condemned to eternal youth, which is a synonym for corruption."

— James Baldwin

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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · Jul 31

exhaling, that the self one has sewn together with such effort is all dirty rags, is unusable, is gone: and out of what raw material will one build a self again? The lives of men—and, therefore, of nations—to an extent literally unimaginable, depend on how vividly

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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · Jul 31

always has the power to blow the provisional self to bits.

It is perfectly possible—indeed, it is far from uncommon—to go to bed one night, or wake up one morning, or simply walk through a door one has known all one’s life, and discover, between inhaling and

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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · Jul 31

the labels change, the terror is constant. And this terror has something to do with that irreducible gap between the self one invents—the self one takes oneself as being, which is, however, and by definition, a provisional self—and the undiscoverable self which

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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · Jul 31

"It has always been much easier (because it has always seemed much safer) to give a name to the evil without than to locate the terror within. And yet, the terror within is far truer and far more powerful than any of our labels:

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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · Nov 8

“The logic of despair isn’t for me.”

— James Baldwin

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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · Jul 30

"[Force] does not, for example, reveal to the victim the strength of the adversary. On the contrary, it reveals the weakness, even the panic, of the adversary. And this revelation invests the victim with passion."

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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · Jul 30

we’re damned for making mistakes and damned for not making mistakes, and cops *love* instigating these “mistakes” as a power trip

however, as James Baldwin once said:

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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · Jul 30

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there’s a level of perfection that people expect from marginalized people—especially poor Black autistic people—that’s always incredibly revealing of how racist, white supremacist, anti-Black, antisemitic, Islamophobic, misogynistic, queerphobic, transphobic, fatphobic, ableist, etc. they are

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Just An Autistic Voice From the Void 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 ($0/$1650) @jaavftv.bsky.social · Aug 23

"People think that my danger makes them safe . . . they're in trouble."

— James Baldwin

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King Sock | Comms Open! @sockandcrownart.bsky.social · Aug 22

Going back and redrawing some of my favorite old Oc's <3
Meet O'Lea Twig! I ended up shortening her hair for this which I sort of regret, but her hair canonically goes down to her ankles!

#artist #art #ocart #myoc #oc #artistonbluesky

O'Lea lies contentedly curled up under the shade of many trees.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18h

Time to roll some of that green stuff

Old Russian recipe book open to the page on cabbage rolls.

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Wolf Studios Art @wolfstudiosart.bsky.social · 18h

Salty Sally lost me like 20 followers over on IG, hopefully you guys like her better because I think she’s cute

Cartoony illustration of a cute tattooed woman with a big bushy blonde beard and a red woolly sailor hat. She’s wearing a nautical themed tank top and shorts. An old timey compass against a blue backdrop is behind her.

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