Notices by Kevin Davy (pathfinder@beige.party), page 2

@Kuniti_shino @hellomiakoda
I can't say I've ever noticed. But, then, I've never looked for it. Interesting.

@hellomiakoda
I didn't even know there were colour-blind assistance options, so no idea.

@hellomiakoda
Yikes!

@hellomiakoda
A wise choice. I'm always careful about who I let follow me, too. Mostly because I'm aware it will give them access to those I follow and interact with.

@hellomiakoda @Gorfram @Alice
Sound, speech and music, is something I actually struggle to remember. Or, perhaps, it's more that I can't really access the required memory to repeat it. The way words or phrases feel, is what I latch onto when I find myself repeating them.

@Alice
Classic echolalia. 😀

@Gorfram @Alice
It's repeating words, phrases, or sometimes just noise. A common comorbidity of autism.

@hellomiakoda
Me too. But gumming ineffectually at it, really isn't really the same. 😔

@hellomiakoda
I could go with that. Because virtually everything you techies say, is basically gibberish to me.

@hellomiakoda
Hatred or raging anger?

@arisummerland
Sounds like a plan. Orcas have also started giving gifts of food to scuba divers. Although, again, no one knows why and what the purpose is, except possibly fun.

A word to those of you who might be new, or thinking about following me.

Whilst this place obviously runs on algorithms, it doesn't have one to push content onto your timeline. To this end, this place is all about being active. You have to go out and find the content you want. In terms of following the accounts of those whose posts you want to see and also in terms of following the various hashtags that interest you. There are also groups, who solely boost anything posted that tags them, such as @actuallyautistic a group for all autistics and even those who think they might be and not just those officially diagnosed. Follow enough of these things and your timeline can quickly fill, with all that interests you.

However, this is an ongoing process. People come and go. The nature of what they post might vary and no longer interest you. For this reason, unfollowing someone is not a cardinal sin here. Unlike other places, where how many people following you determines your reach, here it really doesn't do anything. Other than affect the quality of your engagement and how many boosts, which do determine reach, and favourites any given post of yours may have.

There are also, always, new people you might want to follow. Or new hashtags that you become aware of that interest you. In fact, over time, you can quite easily end up with an unmanageable timeline. Learning how to use lists, can help you here, separating your various interests into more manageable chunks. You can also hide the boosts of anyone you follow, so that you only see their posts, but not the huge amount of other stuff they might be prone to boosting. But, even with these things, there may come a time when you realise that something has to give and that you can't follow everything. Or, that what you are following is not quite right and that you may need to refresh everything with new follows.

It is, as I said, an ongoing and active process being on here. Both of weeding out the old, or unwanted, and in tending the new. It therefore requires an amount of constant work that puts some people off this place, but which, for most of us, is the beauty of it, once you get the hang of it.

To that end, I therefore do not automatically follow back everyone who follows me. It may be a trick people have learnt in other places and even considered good behaviour because of that. But, as I've explained, it doesn't do much here, where it's all about managing and curating your own timeline. So, if I don't follow back, please don't take offence. I, almost exclusively, wander the #autism spaces and simply like my timeline filled accordingly.

@hellomiakoda @murdoc @AutisticInnovator
That is bad.

@hellomiakoda @murdoc @AutisticInnovator
Considering how many times I fell down the stairs from an early age onwards, a lack of brain injury may be moot in my case. 😆 However you're an idiot if you ride any sort of bike or motorbike without any sort of helmet. And in the case of a motorbike, definitely a full face helmet. This from the person who flew of his and landed chin first and walked away with only scratches and gravel rash and a completely fucked up helmet.

@AutisticInnovator
When I was 12 I wanted a particular book from the library. But, as it was in the teen section, I knew I couldn't have it yet. And ditto, to the autism being missed.

@hellomiakoda
I have no idea what you were talking about, because as usual it was in the techno-wizardry speech so common on here. But, if it's basically a delayed dead-man's switch can't you test it with sending out a, please reply to this if you have received it? Before, loading the actual info?

@hellomiakoda
Go up to her. Stand, blush and perhaps mutter something incoherent, that part is optional, and then hand her a note saying. Help, I'm autistic and fancy you and have no idea what I'm doing. If you include your phone number with a request to please text me, then running away is then also optional.

@hellomiakoda @minego @dave
That is not the actions of anything even close to a friend.

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

@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.