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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 5h

Honestly it was on social media where I made the connections that led me to becoming a published author.

I’ve had a very mixed relationship with social media over the years, but it truly has changed the direction of my life.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 19h

Oh I had this problem when I lived in my home town still. I prefer shopping uninterrupted.

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 19h

It’s not even like I live in a remote area or anything, ugh 😣

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 19h

When your local supermarket stops stocking one of your safe foods and now have to travel 12 miles to the nearest one that does.

#autism

a woman is standing in front of a window and says oh my god

Alt: a woman is standing in front of a window and says ‘oh my god I am so sick of this’

media.tenor.com

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 3d

Why is this so dam accurate? 😂

#neurodivergent

A falling building labelled as burnout. Being held up by steel polls labeled ‘cat, memes and ear defenders’

With a car next to the building being held up by steel polls labelled as ‘me’.

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 4d

Progress is slow but my brain was not made for this 😂

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 4d

Trying to declutter with ADHD

a woman is sitting at a desk with her hands on her head and the words so much stuff behind her

Alt: a woman is sitting at a desk with her hands on her head and the words so much stuff behind her

media.tenor.com

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 5d

Neurodivergent win of the day is finding a new form of exercise that agrees with my sensory needs. ☺️

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 5d

Me after masking during social interactions.

#autistic

A bird with the caption “you look exhausted”

Women with the caption “I socialised”

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 6d

So much nutrition advice I come across doesn’t fit well with neurodivergence in my view.

Two things that stand out for me are assumptions around executive functioning when it comes to cooking/prepping food and sensory differences with eating.

Anyone else picked up on this?

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 6d

Don’t make me choose between the two 😂

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Roadie Ric @roadieric.bsky.social · 8d

I ab-so-focking-lootly endorse this keen perception! 💯

Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 8d

Autistic masking is taking “fake it until you make it” to extremes.

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 10d

Okay I’ve written down my full response to Trump’s rubbish about autism this week on my blog.

‘Everything wrong with Trump’s speech – an autistic’s perspective’ ⬇️

autisticallysarah.com/2025/09/28/e...

Everything wrong with Trump’s speech – an autistic’s perspective

Trigger warning: dehumanisation of autistic people and eugenics. Unless you have been hiding under a rock or have no access to the internet, then you have undoubtedly come across the car crash of a…

autisticallysarah.com

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 8d

But you hit burnout rather than ever ‘making it’ 🙃

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 8d

Autistic masking is taking “fake it until you make it” to extremes.

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 9d

This!

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 9d

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 10d

Entirely possible, I’ve always struggled to pick up card games for this reason. I can’t follow so many verbal instructions for a game.

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 10d

Thing is, I never know if this is an ADHD thing or a common thing across neurotypes? 🤷🏻‍♀️

I definitely experience this but not sure if it’s linked to my neurodivergence or not.

Blonde women giving an awkward smile with caption ‘When they ask "do you get it now" after explaining the board game to me for the 3rd time but I dissociated again’

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 10d

Okay I’ve written down my full response to Trump’s rubbish about autism this week on my blog.

‘Everything wrong with Trump’s speech – an autistic’s perspective’ ⬇️

autisticallysarah.com/2025/09/28/e...

Everything wrong with Trump’s speech – an autistic’s perspective

Trigger warning: dehumanisation of autistic people and eugenics. Unless you have been hiding under a rock or have no access to the internet, then you have undoubtedly come across the car crash of a…

autisticallysarah.com

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 10d

Interesting what you were saying about being told you were ‘shy’.

I was also labelled as shy a lot in school but I never felt like that word ever described what was actually happening for me on the inside.

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 11d

Too many on the left still see autism as a “middle class issue.”
It’s not.
Being poor or working class just makes diagnosis near impossible.

Autism isn’t middle class.
Access to recognition is. 1/5

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 13d

In fairness this did make me chuckle 🤭

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Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · 13d

Compulsory ID cards would be a bad idea at the best of times, but imagine trying to bring them in when there's a very serious threat of a properly far-right government coming in at the next election.

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 13d

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 13d

Yup, still working on trying not to feel bad about it afterwards, still a work in progress.

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