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Sienna Red

@siennared.bsky.social

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#AuDHD #BlueSkyTherapists #AutumnAvenger 🤜🏾🤎🧡🤛🏻🖤🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️💙

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Sienna Red @siennared.bsky.social · Sep 30

we should get better at holding space for people being at different levels of comprehension, awareness, processing ability & emotional intelligence. I know that's idealistic of me, that I'm asking for the impossible.

But it's suffocating & isolating us. 5/

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Sienna Red @siennared.bsky.social · 3h

A letter for personal grounding I'll never send:
#audhdwomen #boundaries #mentalhealth #neurodivergent #selfcompassion #healing

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I valued the stimulating conversations and the way you saw my intelligence during past difficult times in my life.

Yet, your needs always centered the interaction, and it cost me my peace.

I recognize the pattern of the intense, 'fun' approach followed by the self-centered monologue and subsequent disengagement until you needed validation again.

My silence is not a mood or a temporary phase; it is a permanent choice to protect my well-being.
I've done so much emotional labor sorting this cycle:

1. A burst of fun, connection, admiration → I feel alive and valued.

2. Gradually, the focus shifts - you become self-centered, I fade from the interaction.

3. I try to reach back toward mutuality → you disengage or vanish.

4. Later, you return with charm and energy again.

My nervous system rides that wave - connection → confusion
depletion → relief → hope - and each time, the first phase convinced me maybe this time will be different.

However, I can no longer participate in a dynamic where I start bright and end drained. That impact and these feelings are information. My body isn't judging or punishing, it's reporting. I choose to treat those signals as valid.

When you send emails after months of silence, acknowledging the 'awkwardness' but only sharing your big plans and not asking about my personal difficulties I've mentioned as my reason for not responding, I see it for what it is: a tactic to pull me back into your orbit without offering any genuine support or mutuality. That is an act of boundary violation, not friendship.

Your feelings and your future are now your own responsibility. My responsibility is to myself and my safe connections.

It can be true that you meant well, And that your choices and boundary pressing hurt me and are not safe for me.

This cycle is officially bro

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Wanda Carmel @wandacarmel.bsky.social · 4d

Mendon Ponds Park with vibrant colors. #photography #nature #fall #pond #foliage ##MendonPonds #NY

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Wanda Carmel @wandacarmel.bsky.social · 4d

Devil's Bathtub at Mendon Ponds Park. #photography #nature #fall #pond #foliage #MendonPonds #NY

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 4d

🎯🎯🎯

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Raven Campbell @ravenmcampbell.bsky.social · 4d

Slab camp creek trail almost to the upper gray wolf river. Started late, but still good

Cute little offwhite mushrooms popping up

Sioned going through a field of autumn yellowed vegetation

A patch of fall yellow vegetation next to downed trees

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Phantasm @phantasm26.bsky.social · 4d

Inside airy gaps
Between green leaves and branches
Powerful sun beams

#BlueskyArtShow #Inside #ColorADay #ColourADay #GreenSat #WestCoast

Arroyo Hondo Vista Point, Santa Barbara County, California, last week

Powerful rays of sunshine penetrate the gaps between the lush green branches and leaves of a large tree

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Karl Johnston @kjwj.bsky.social · 11d

It is my wife and i's wedding anniversary this week, she is also #neurodivergent, plays jazz music (12 different instruments) has perfect pitch and is also a syntheste like myself - i have graphene whereas she sees colors when music notes play. Her passion is music.

#autistic #audhd #anniversary

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Precious Petal @preciouspetal.bsky.social · 6d

bowing to the earth….. with gratitude!

#begonia #flowers #bloomscrolling #nature #gardening #bloomonpurpose #photography #flowerreport #dailyflowers #floralfriday

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Sienna Red @siennared.bsky.social · 6d

As a natural auburn I love it 💓🫶🏻🤎🧡
#redhead #newsong #redvelvet
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Shampoo

YouTube video by Palmer - Topic

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Mel from Melbourne @curiousliss.bsky.social · 8d

Bright morning
#trees #landscape #light #photography

Morning sunlight overwhelms other colours in a eucalyptus forest

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Chris Cookman Photography @chriscookman.bsky.social · 9d

Autumnal All Saints
20th October 2025

#photography #allsaints #church #bakewell #peakdistrict #autumn #leaves #googlepixel8pro #teampixel

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Sienna Red @siennared.bsky.social · 11d

#nokings #democracy #fdt

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Craig Shearer @craigshearer.bsky.social · 12d

A tranquil start to my morning with a walk across the local bridge to get a look back at my suburb at sunrise.

#photography #nz

Hobsonville Point, Auckland, NZ in a Spring sunrise

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Phantasm @phantasm26.bsky.social · 13d

Far from downtown streets
Nature's towers rising high
Living skyscrapers

#ForestFriday #Scape #WestCoast #Northwest #PNW

Golden Gardens Park, Seattle, Washington, 2024

In a forest, tall trees reach for the azure and white sky, with lush green leaves and thin, sturdy, brown trunks visible at all levels. At ground level is a variety of verdant vegetation

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Phantasm @phantasm26.bsky.social · Sep 30

As the village wakes
Imposing, dark clouds lose place
To fearless sunlight

#MountainMonday

Wolfgangseeblick, St. Gilgen, Salzburg State, Austria

Bright sunlight on the awakening morning horizon defiantly shines under the dark clouds dominating the upper skies. Fog, not yet dissipated by the fearless sun, blankets the mountainous horizon. A quiet Austrian village by a clear lake is ready to greet a new day

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Earthling @earthling5.bsky.social · 13d

A memory from late summer, while reading on a veranda overlooking Ipswich Bay. In difficult times like this, moments of peace and joy, even from small things, do wonders for our well-being and resilience! What keeps your heart strong?
#Peaceful #Places #JoyInTheStruggle #Photography #NaturePhotos

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uk-nb.bsky.social @uk-nb.bsky.social · 13d

Autism diagnosis ‘helped me launch my career’, says youth worker

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“It made me feel a lot better about myself, a lot more capable,” they added. James had felt…

Autism diagnosis 'helped me launch my career', says youth worker - United Kingdom News Beep

"It made me feel a lot better about myself, a lot more capable," they added.

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Autistic Ang @autisticang38.bsky.social · 15d

MISSION REPORT: Dared to express disinterest in small talk. Was labeled “not a people person.” Badge of honor earned.

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 14d

🚨Jim Carrey’s fresh out of fucks, and we are here for it!

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David Stevens @davidst999.bsky.social · 14d

Fly agarics (Amanita muscaria) found yesterday in a West Lothian woodland. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon #WestLothian #Scotland

The large mushroom on the right is deformed. The stem has bent as it grew forcing the cap down onto the ground.

The result is a unique horizontal view of the gills on the underside of the cap where the veil has torn away for the cap edge.

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Michael Pounds @mspounds.bsky.social · 14d

Sunset with gulls, Maumee Bay State Park, Ohio.
#landscapephotography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #birdphotography #birds #sunset #eveninglight #goldenhour #goldenhourlight #gull #seagull #seagulls

Sun setting behind distant trees. Sky is golden with some clouds. Several gulls flying, silhouetted against the golden sky.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14d

This video of reporters flooding out of the Pentagon after refusing to sign Hegseth’s authoritarian pledge that would force them to have the DOD review all their articles before publication is one of the most satisfying things I’ve seen in a while

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Disability Scoop @disabilityscoop.bsky.social · 13d

Children with #autism are far more likely than others to have ongoing gastrointestinal issues and these tummy troubles are often linked to other challenges ranging from sleep to behavior. #disabilities

GI Issues 'Very Common' In Kids With Autism, Study Finds

Children with autism are far more likely than others to have ongoing gastrointestinal issues and these tummy troubles are often linked to other challenges ranging from sleep to behavior.

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Sienna Red @siennared.bsky.social · 13d

Quote from vōx: 'Disability justice isn’t about making us productive. It’s about building a world that doesn’t measure human worth in output.'
#Disability #psychsky #blueskytherapists #disabilityjustice #disabilityadvocacy #audhd #chronicillness #socialwork #advocacy

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