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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 6m

Canada moves slow & misses things and that's our saving grace.

Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 6m

The Canadian government is surveying Canadians about "how to remain competitive with AI" and I think this fundamentally misunderstands Canada's place in the world. We didn't weather the 2007-08 financial crisis by "remaining competitive on subprime mortgages".

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 11h

This really resonated for me as an autistic person. I know I live with anger, shame and trauma but I don't know where it comes from because my experiences all seem so normal to me. This helps me understand.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 11h

Yay, I'm glad it resonates! 😊😊😊

Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 15h

I guess it could be odd if you haven't done it before! My partner brainstorms with me a lot - things like home renos or purchases we should make. There are always more ideas than dollars (😭) so I just keep them with my budget spreadsheet so I know what's on our "wish list"

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 15h

We were all taught that surfaces should be tidy & things should be put away but this is NOT the vibe for us. Things he uses often need to be out: food, products clothes. I corral items on countertops with trays, clear bins and open baskets so he can see it all but it doesn't look cluttered.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 15h

When we need to sort through clothes or other items, I sort everything first based on what I think we'll end up getting rid of or keeping. I'm mostly right and this batches the decisions so most of them are easy. Saves him from decision fatigue.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 15h

THEY OPEN THE LOOPS

WE CLOSE THE LOOPS 💪

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 16h

- I keep the money in a spreadsheet because that's how I need it. But secretly one of the main functions of the spreadsheet is to boil things down to easy decisions. Can we impulse buy something we've been wanting? Order pizza? Take on a lil home reno project? I tell them what the tradeoffs are.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 16h

- I remind them of things they wanted to do. This doesn't always work because I forget too! And I CANNOT be assigned to remember things, that's not fair. But if it pops into my head I will remind them they wanted to take their vitamins after dinner or whatever.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 16h

- I put away their leftovers before they forget. We often make different meals and I know they love leftovers but sometimes they forget & leave things out overnight. If I remember I will swing by and put the food away myself.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 16h

- I facilitate their good impulses even they they disrupt my carefully laid plans. Want to go to the grocery store to get ingredients for a homemade dinner instead of ordering takeout? 1) who are you but also 2) off you go. Want to clean at 9 pm? I left the broom out so you can grab it.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 16h

Ways I (autistic) care for my ADHD spouse:
- I make lists of all their ideas. I make no attempt to act on all the ideas (that would be crazy). But I list the things & then read the lists to them sometimes so they can remember how smart they are.

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 17h

well, there you have it

A graph that asks "DOES FAST FASHION CAUSE AUTISM?*" with an orange and a blue graph rising over time. The blue graph is generally a few deviations above the orange line. The blue line represents SHEIN SALES and the orange one is AUTISM RATES except *No, this is a fake graph. from @audhd-psychnp.com

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 20h

This is the BEST.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 23h

Yes this! This is the vibe!

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

OX GALL

Imagine having to ask around about ox gall. Desperately trying to sound normal & totally not witchy

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

Istanbul / Constantinople (I'm singing this answer)

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway I saw a post going around about what social media did for you and this is it, for me. I got diagnosed with autism and found other autistic people and went from being a sad lonely misfit to realizing I wasn't alone. The difference after 6 months of that was noticeable to my colleagues.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

We get to be confident now, educated about our differences, with communities of people who have those differences too. It's wild. We all went from being the one weirdo in our town to having an online flock of like-minded weirdos. Do you know what that does for a person??

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

When I wanted to learn about makeup, I only had magazines. They only covered 3-4 "types" of complexion, eye shape, colouring, etc. Nothing ever applied to me perfectly. I didn't learn about hooded eyes (mine are hooded) until makeup tutorials became a thing.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

& now entire professions and sub-professions exist just for the edge cases and niche interests that uses to not be worth covering in any of those other ways. It's such an abundance and it makes our lives so different.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

I know this makes me old but I remember when if you wanted to know something you had to hope it was in an encyclopedia or you'd have to look it up in that library card system we had to learn. Or maybe there was a magazine devoted to it but they still might not have the answer to your question.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

he knows ball

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

p.s. it's this account www.instagram.com/reel/DPW9TV3...

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