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@pabloista.bsky.social

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I am different. That’s not less, just different. And that’s enough.” #Autistic Progressive, Pro-LGBTQ, working class, Blue Collar, NHS worker. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Trying to make sense of a world that never made sense of me.

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 6d

We’re in the far right’s crosshairs:
Immigrants. LGBTQ people. Women. Neurodivergents. Muslims. People of colour.

They’re not attacking one group, they’re testing how much hate the rest of us will tolerate. 1/3

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 2h

You don’t defeat fascism by copying its language or pandering to its voters.
You defeat it by standing firm on truth, justice, and human dignity.
That’s not radical, that’s the bare minimum of being human.

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 2h

You don’t reason with hate.
You don’t compromise with cruelty.
You face it, call it what it is, and refuse to move an inch.

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 2h

You beat fascism by standing up to it, not appeasing it.

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 3h

You don’t lose your diagnosis when you say something people dislike.
You don’t gain it when you act “sweet” or “gentle.”
We’re not a stereotype.
We are human, and that’s what makes us real. 4/4

Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 3h

Some autistic people are left wing.
Some are right wing.
Some are apolitical, spiritual, anarchist, or just trying to survive.
We are many.
And if your idea of “autistic” only fits the ones you like, you’re not seeing autism, you’re seeing your bias. 3/4

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 3h

Autism isn’t a moral category.
It’s a wiring.
The world shapes us, our class, trauma, politics, families, just like anyone else.
We’re good, bad, broken, kind, angry, loving, confused.
We’re human, not a curated personality type. 2/4

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 3h

Autism stereotypes are everywhere, online, in politics, even in activism.
If you’re kind, empathetic, progressive "that’s so autistic.”
If you’re cruel, selfish, or just don’t fit the narrative, suddenly, “you can’t be autistic.”
That’s not understanding. That’s branding. 1/4

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 21h

There are people risking their lives to help others in war zones, pulling the wounded from rubble, feeding the displaced, comforting the broken.
They don’t get medals or peace prizes.
They just keep going.

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 21h

Agree. I Hate injustice just don't hate the left or the right as they are people. Some of their ideas tho you can hate.

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 21h

I don't hate anyone.

Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 21h

Left wingers celebrating a Thatcher loving, Trump backing leader who wants to sell off her country’s oil and gas. Sure, that makes sense. 🙄

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 1d

Dear Brain,
Maybe stop overthinking everything and just… do the thing?
Yours impatiently,
Me.

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 1d

Random posts incoming.
My brain refuses to do “one thing at a time.”
It’s like a committee meeting where everyone’s shouting and somehow I’m chairing.

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 1d

How many school shootings have happened in the UK since Dunblane?

None. Not one.

We banned handguns. Our police don’t walk around armed. And guess what? Kids don’t get gunned down in classrooms.

It’s not complicated, it’s about choosing life over firepower.
We made that choice in 1996.

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 1d

Too many of us in my family were failed by an education system that didn’t understand us. This time, we’re going to make sure our wee one gets the best chance in life.

Next step: a pre assessment for ASD/ADHD. 2/2

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve known for a while that our 7yr old daughter is, like many in my family, neurodivergent.

At parents’ evening this week, the school said they believe the same, and we’re now setting up a meeting with the ASN coordinator to discuss support. 1/2

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 1d

Give it an hour and he’ll be on Truth Social claiming the Nobel Committee’s been “taken over by globalists.”

It’s wild that a man who’s spent his life dividing people honestly believes he deserves an award for peace.
But that’s Trump logic: chaos = greatness. 2/2

Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 1d

Trump will throw the toys out the pram today when he doesn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize.
The narcissistic man child strikes again.

You can already hear it:
“Everyone says I deserve it! The biggest peace! Nobody’s ever done peace like me!” 1/2

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 1d

Notorious conspiracy theorist links Jewish and Muslim religious practise to Autism. 🤔

RFK, Jr., Cites ‘Truly Appalling’ Studies to Tie Autism to Circumcision and Tylenol | Scientific American
www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...

RFK, Jr., Cites ‘Truly Appalling’ Studies to Tie Autism to Circumcision and Tylenol

Studies suggesting circumcision rates are linked with autism are “riddled with flaws”

www.scientificamerican.com

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 3d

If you want to create a docile, obedient nation, first attack the arts so you deskill children of critical thinking. Once you’ve done that the people can be moulded as their rulers please. Beware this barbarism. It’s a path to demagoguery and authoritarianism

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 1d

I’d rather focus on raising awareness of neurodivergent experiences, how we process the world, so that those on the left can better understand us.

Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 2d

If kindness, tolerance, and compassion are “woke,”
then I’ll take that any day.
Because what they call an echo chamber
might just be a safe room built by those who’ve already survived too many storms. 3/3

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 2d

They say we should “get out of our bubble.”
But why should anyone have to walk back into abuse to prove a point?
There’s a difference between avoiding debate and avoiding hate.
Between shutting down disagreement and shutting out cruelty. 2/2

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 2d

They say Bluesky is a liberal echo chamber.
Maybe it is.
But it’s also one of the few places left where people talk without hate.
Where being decent isn’t mocked.
Where difference isn’t a weapon. 1/3

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