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Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 21m

The life expectancy is not under 40, that's a misinterpretation of research that was spread around.

Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 12h

Antivaxxers think autistic people are generated by AI, hence the stereotypes about autistic people being robotic
(joke)

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Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 12h

Drone shows should entirely replace fireworks.
Drone shows look cooler while also not disrupting my ability to think or sleep.

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Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 14h

Hey you are me last night!
(seriously though that sucks ass)

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 16h

"If you removed our autism you would remove us. Everything you love &hate about us would be gone. We'd fundamentally be completely different ppl. So if you love an autistic person, their autism is part of what you love about them." By @autiebiographical.bsky.social:

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Autie-biographical Comics

You can't love someone but hate their autism. It's a part of who we are. Yes, you can dislike parts of our autism, like I'm sure there are parts of other people you don't like. However, the parts of.....

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Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 1d

I'm increasingly annoyed about how people so easily blame voters (which, fuck trump voters) but refuse to criticize the way the dem's campaign.
Because I'm still thinking the Dems might of lost intentionally this time, why else ditch marginalized groups constantly and appeal to trump's base.

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Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 1d

tbh
not sure
help exists
at least, now

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Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 1d

It can be incredibly difficult to access mental or physical healthcare as an autistic person.

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Blast Professing @gaymerherb.bsky.social · 2d

btw

A picture of a big ice machine that says "ICE" in red letters on the side where someone wrote "fuck" above it to the left

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Fallon | find me on disabled.social instead of this nazi bar @fallonturing.bsky.social · 2d

alt text version

News clipping from 1899 NYT. "Conference of Zionists: Elect Delegates at their meeting in Baltimore. WE WILL COLONIZE PALESTINE. Rabbis Gottheil and Wise were chosen members of the international executive committee."

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Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 2d

Like if you'd stop hyper fixating on our genitals like a bunch of damn perverts who watch too much porn, stop accusing us as a collective of random ass violence, not spend more time thinking about us than we do, and stop trying to limit our rights-
-Most of us wouldn't give half a shit.

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Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 2d

I wish someone would explain to the transphobic people that I and a lot of us trans people genuinely do not give a shit if they think we are "really" our gender, we just want them to mind their own business.
Probably wouldn't be friends with them, sure.
But leave us alone and no one cares.

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Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe instead of trying to divide autism in two crudely with a chainsaw, we could actually focus on making sure we and our families get the supports we need.
But no, some people would rather argue with autistic adults about how they don't know "real" autism, and must somehow never struggle.

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Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 2d

I hate the way some people's understanding of autism has been flattened down so much. Even if we accepted (I do not think we should, as they do a disservice to most autistic people) functioning labels, too many people can't even acknowledge
"moderate" as an option. 🙄

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Joelle Maslak @jmaslak.bsky.social · 2d

Schools are more accommodating of parents who hate LGBT people than they are for disabled kids.

That's wrong.

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Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 2d

Same
Got so many sticky notes everywhere
all end up crumbled up and forgotten
Tried to journal as a kid
every time I'd get three pages in
then lose the notebook

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Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 2d

Still am really proud of Greta Thunberg

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Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 2d

-Assuming people are faking can do a lot of harm when you are wrong. It's really easy to be wrong. It's a safer bet to correct misinformation rather than claim people are faking.

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Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 2d

-real or fake off of short-form media. If you neither know someone or are their doctor, you've no way to know their stims or meltdowns are fake. Or really anything about their lives other than what they curate for social media. And autism is really variable in different people.

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Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 2d

Look I get that some people are annoying, I've personally had my fill of anyone claiming, "Autism isn't a disability" or "Meltdowns/self harmful stims aren't autism" and shit, if autism isn't disabling at all for someone they aren't autistic.
Still there is no way to know if someone's autism is-

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Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 2d

3/3 Even when it comes to directly killing people, *most* would do so in circumstances it is normalized in.
Otherwise, people wouldn't be able to go to war, and the military would be trying to recruit rather than screen out mentally ill people.
That's also why whole societies can assist genocide.

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Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 2d

IMO the reason people always want to blame mental illness is it gives them an "out" from considering how they themselves might be capable of harming others.
Everyone can harm people, and anyone can become a tool of systemic or interpersonal violence, no illness needed. 2/3

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Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 2d

This goes for all mental illness (including personality disorders)
Evil doesn't come from illness.
For example billionaires aren't sociopaths, they are protecting their class interests which happen to go against the interests of most humanity. They are protecting their "role" in the system. 1/3

🪲johnny🪲 [1 WEEK TO SURGERY] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 3d

stop. calling. evil people. psychotic.

ppl in psychosis are far more likely to be harmed than to harm others. ppl in psychosis make up a LARGE portion of ppl killed by cops. mentally ill ppl aren't your scapegoats. use your words and call this what it is instead of throwing us under the bus.

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

im going to go out on a limb and say, this is psychotic

it's instructive to ask, what would have stopped them from doing this? what could anyone have done differently that would have led them to conclude this extraordinary thing was unnecessary? and the answer is nothing

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🪲johnny🪲 [1 WEEK TO SURGERY] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 3d

stop. calling. evil people. psychotic.

ppl in psychosis are far more likely to be harmed than to harm others. ppl in psychosis make up a LARGE portion of ppl killed by cops. mentally ill ppl aren't your scapegoats. use your words and call this what it is instead of throwing us under the bus.

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

im going to go out on a limb and say, this is psychotic

it's instructive to ask, what would have stopped them from doing this? what could anyone have done differently that would have led them to conclude this extraordinary thing was unnecessary? and the answer is nothing

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 3d

So, to no surprise, 'brand new ABA' is still barely considering whether its goals are relevant to autistic people.
Sigh.

Michelle Dawson @autismcrisis.bsky.social · 6d

In the recent (2020-24) ABA literature, 176 articles reported on functional analyses, of which a total of 20 (11.36%) included any assessment of their social validity?--& "no articles... assessed client preferences for functional analyses"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... autism-relevant

A concise review of social validity assessments during functional analyses of challenging behavior

This concise review summarizes the trends and outcomes of social validity assessments specifically related to functional analyses published between 2020 and 2024. Results indicate that very little da...

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