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to live strictly by the guidance of your own magic isn't privilege, it's choice; a courageous choice at that
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Kate Faust retweeted
Imagine if bands had to do a press conference after every performance, like they do in sports
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Lightworker dialectics, competition, and natural selection:
“I’m here to debunk the false light of inauthentic lightworkers with my pure, fierce, uncompromising lightwork.”
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“Weaponized autism”
This is a term you hear a lot on the chans. Many QAnons refer to themselves as “autists.”
Just a matter of time before the “QAnon Shaman’s” lawyer adds this concept to his legal defense.
Happy #NationalRescueDogDay to my pup Scout. After being left on a stranger’s porch somewhere in AZ and cared for by several foster fams, she made it to LA and into my arms last year. She is very protective and very selective. And *hypersensitive*
I don’t think of my autistic brain as logical. It’s pragmatic. I think having an intense sensory experience is part of the reason why: sense making becomes very elemental. Not all of that kind of info is rational, but it is extremely practical.
My experience of social performance is: I can perceive it and I know intellectually it has value and meaning. But it doesn’t add up with the sensory emotional info I’m getting, so I can’t get it to load into my sense making brain.
NTs often want to perform their reveal of emotion and need and decide how they reveal it to you and non verbally indicate what they want. My autistic ass is just out here already on step 5. I get why that can feel like an invasion of privacy. 🤣
Sense making, for me, is emotionally pragmatic moreso than it is socially pragmatic. I prioritize genuine emotion and sensory needs- my own & the other person. That can be jarring and seem rude. It gets right to the point.
One thing that messed w/ my confidence was that I could deeply tune into other ppl’s feelings, but I felt completely lost in understanding how they behaved. Ppl often do the opposite of what they feel in the social arena. I couldn’t make sense of that.
One of the biggest things I’ve come to understand about Autism is the difference between feeling emotions and then performing them in the socially accepted way. We feel *all* the things. We just interpret and perform differently.
I think a lot of ND women, trans, and non binary people struggle with how to perform “feminine.” But then... I think NT folx do too.