Or not so friendly, whatever it takes.

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: from my FB some years back

written from my personal experience

And yes, NTs will talk about you like you're not there.

#AspieLife #experience #observation #neurallyatypical #actuallyautistic #residentalien #theweirdkid

#TraumaCleaners clean spaces that no one else will touch – hoarder sites, meth-labs, murder scenes, deaths and suicides.

They clean the homes of some of society’s most vulnerable people – the neglected, the lonely, the addicted, and the mentally unwell.

This documentary #Clean shows us that life is more fragile than we might think, but there is hope and reassurance in human connection.

https://youtu.be/5LG3XjVncOo

#RecluseRecommends

just sayin...

You know, it’s really expensive to be poor.

Prince - Purple Rain
#cosomusic
https://youtu.be/S6Y1gohk5-A

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My take

4/ When I say, “I’m #autistic,” I’m not saying, “That’s all I am.” Of course it isn’t, but it is a very important part of what makes me me — probably more so than any other label that could be applied to me, except (maybe) “human”. That label helped me to finally make sense of my life to a degree I hadn’t previously thought was possible.

And yet, there are many people who think I should distance myself from it, because of the misconceptions they have about what it means.

3/ In other cases, it’s because THEY associate certain negative stereotypes with that label.

Here’s thing, though: you don’t fight stereotypes by avoiding a label. That rarely works because the stereotypes just attach themselves to the new label over time. Often, it’s better to embrace the label and show people that it doesn’t mean what they think it means.

#humor #funny

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Cheeeeese🧀

1/ Thinking today about labels. Specifically, when people say “I hate labels” or think people should distance themselves from certain labels.

Labels are just words. Nouns. Adjectives. Nouns and adjectives don’t imply that other nouns and adjectives can’t also apply to the subject. They’re just descriptors relevant to the topic at hand.

#caturday

#LGBTQ++

Slovakian woman visits lions she raised as cubs.Their mother was in a circus and rejected them at birth