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   Poloniousmonk (uair@autistics.life)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 23:36:57 JST Poloniousmonk

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   I just make shit up, but I'm pretty good at it.

   I've been doing my own thinking all my life. I've got a head full of state secrets, and nobody ever told 'em to me. I never signed no NDA. I just figured that shit out on my own.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 23:36:53 JST Miakoda

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     @Mux @punishmenthurts @Uair @angelastella @emily_rugburn @me @autistics The only thing I'd want unlimited power for is to use it to make sure everyone is ok, and end as much harm and suffering as I could. Ya know, outlaw bigotry, tax the rich, feed and house the poor, support the disabled... all that stuff. Power would exhaust me to death, likely literally... but it'd be worth it to do those things.

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     Mux2000 (open set) (mux@swingset.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 23:36:55 JST Mux2000 (open set)

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     @punishmenthurts
     We end up with allists in power because the ones willing to hurt others in the pursuit of power usually aren't autistic.

     None of the autists I know show the slightest draw to power. The most I can say is that we're driven to find influence by a sense of injustice.

     An autist will (in my limited experience) gladly give up a position of power (e.g. give a patent away or give up copyright) if it benefits the world.
     @Uair @angelastella @emily_rugburn @me @autistics

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     Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama (punishmenthurts@autistics.life)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 23:36:56 JST Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama

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     it doesn't necessarily fit in my system, where we were here first. And so far, it seems their type show up in charge, not taking advice from anyone, but
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     if that scenario ever happened, warrior king with an Autistic prime minister or consigliere, it would suggest that when the warriors showed up, some of us foolishly thought we could keep them and use them
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     and I was fantasizing that the Neolithic people understood at least breeding if not evolution, and would know not to do that
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     😲 😂

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 23:48:40 JST Miakoda

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     @Mux @punishmenthurts @Uair @angelastella @emily_rugburn @me @autistics ...if I had that power, I'd strongly prefer nobody knew it was me. I don't need nor want my name on that stuff, I just want people to be ok. Seeing people happy and safe would be all I want out of it.

     This topic makes me tear up. We have all the resources for everyone to be ok, and we, as a species, just don't do it for some reason.