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   Emily Moran Barwick (emilymoranbarwick@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 21:56:47 JST Emily Moran Barwick

   Hey. I don’t know how to share this here. I don't know how to "frame" it for Mastodon...

   But I want to share it. Because I know other people out there hurt. I know how isolating it is.

   So, this isn't snappy & well-packaged. But neither am I. And neither is pain.

   I hope this somehow helps someone feel less alone in their pain: https://fromemily.com/open-letter-to-my-body-and-public-apology/

   @actuallyautistic

   #ChronicIllness #HealthCare #ChronicPain #spoonie #ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #blog #writing #MentalHealth #FromEmily

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 21:56:44 JST Miakoda

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     @filmfreak75 @EmilyMoranBarwick @BernieDoesIt @actuallyautistic I've only read a paragraph thus fr - it points out what I already knew. Autistic people are more likely to be exactly who the show themselves to be in public. Everyone has secrets, sure... But if an autist seems kind and caring in public, it's unlikely they'll stab me in the back months later. If they're a shit person, and some are, you'll know it fast.

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     Sean C. (filmfreak75@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 21:56:45 JST Sean C.

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     @EmilyMoranBarwick @BernieDoesIt @actuallyautistic article on point

     https://neuroclastic.com/autistic-people-care-too-much-research-says/

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     Emily Moran Barwick (emilymoranbarwick@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 21:56:46 JST Emily Moran Barwick

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     Yet further examples of how many #ActuallyAutistic people are hyper-empathetic to a debilitating degree…

     …and how perversely absurd and damaging the conception that “#Autistic people lack empathy” has been and continues to be…

     @actuallyautistic

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     Bernie Pridefully Does It (berniedoesit@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 21:56:47 JST Bernie Pridefully Does It

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     Quote:
     At my core, I'm still the little five-year-old who cried herself to sleep thinking of all the injustices and suffering in this world—asking to take it all into her tiny little body if it would bring relief to everyone else.

     Relatable. So very relatable. And not just to me. One of my mini mes is this way too.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 22:18:49 JST Miakoda

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     @pathfinder @filmfreak75 @EmilyMoranBarwick @BernieDoesIt @actuallyautistic This is why I get fired from sales jobs so fast. I CAN'T pretend to be excited about a product. If it's not in my special interest, or a tool that changed my life, I won't be able to muster enough of a shit about it to meet corpo standards. ....and if I dislike the product, there is 0 hope. I cannot upsell, and that's a deficit I actually have some pride in. Yeah, no, you do not need the security package offered.

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     Kevin Davy (pathfinder@beige.party)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 22:18:51 JST Kevin Davy

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     @hellomiakoda @filmfreak75 @EmilyMoranBarwick @BernieDoesIt @actuallyautistic
     What you see is what you get. Mostly, because not only don't we understand being performative, but it is not how we communicate.

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     Sean C. (filmfreak75@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 00:44:44 JST Sean C.

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     @pathfinder @hellomiakoda @EmilyMoranBarwick @BernieDoesIt @actuallyautistic the NTs at work talk in riddles to maintain power and control of every situation so they can never be in the wrong

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     Sean C. (filmfreak75@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 00:44:46 JST Sean C.

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     @pathfinder @hellomiakoda @EmilyMoranBarwick @BernieDoesIt @actuallyautistic performative has been my word of the year for the past 2 years since my workplace is riddled by it

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     Kevin Davy (pathfinder@beige.party)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 00:44:46 JST Kevin Davy

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     @filmfreak75 @hellomiakoda @EmilyMoranBarwick @BernieDoesIt @actuallyautistic
     Most NT communication is riddled with it, mostly for bonding purposes. But, it is always prone to going toxic.