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William Weber
@yannash.bsky.social
Proud Okie, public servant, husband, historian and member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Unapologetically autistic, unapologetically pro-democracy
https://open.substack.com/pub/yannash?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4t7a6j
Well, Oklahoma so both.

I also wake up at like 6am every morning, have to drive 40 minutes and have seasonal depression so my grudge with DST is pretty personal.

[I also have firm inflexible sleep schedules that tend to be stronger about when I wake up, but that's just autism+ADHD]
April 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Spoiler alert: It's not, the worst thing about having autism for me personally is all of the bullshit I have to listen to from non-autistic people about autism.
March 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Spoiler alert: It's fucking not, the worst thing about autism for me is the sheer bullshit I have to endure about autism from non-autistic people.
March 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We've been waiting for years. Why didn't the National Dems help us before we got to this point?
March 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I am autistic. And you're the one who came onto my page to start a fight because I said something you didn't like. You're acting very neurotypical right now.
March 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I'm sorry that was your experience. Hasn't been mine, but one side of my family is secular and autistic, and the other side is indigenous, so I'll admit I haven't had the most typical experience of the state.
March 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Did I say that it's something to be proud of, or are you doing that thing that NTs do where they extrapolate more from what's said than what was actually said?
March 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Yeah, sure, the gay indigenous person in Oklahoma is a racist southerner because I made a point about turnout, poverty, voter apathy etc.

Are you even a person of color, or do you just try to speak for us?
March 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Counties don't vote, people do, and only ~49.2% of all voting aged people voted (1,535,812/3,120,689).
March 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I'm aware. I only used PA as an example because it's a prominent swing state, no other reason.

Rural turnout (and urban turnout as well) is quite low in most of the very impoverished states, but wealthier states like PA might be different. Suburbs here are the high water of turnout.
March 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Most of them haven't voted. Voter turnout where I live specifically is regularly ~30% of the adult population. And many of those who don't vote don't think that their votes would change anything. And if they do decide to vote, because most everyone else like them won't, it becomes self fulfilling
March 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I'm sorry, are you implying that autistic oversharing and communication styles are mansplaining? I didn't know your gender.
March 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Should be, totally agree, and it is in many places in this country, but not where I live.
March 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
That's a great question! They're focused on winning swing states, and close elections, and that's it. Dems here try, but there's only so much we can do with the scraps national Dems throw us (if we're lucky)
March 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM