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@Rory29 @bmacDonald94

I suspect that he was AuADHD like me. Very bright, engaged with social justice issues etc (Idi Amin was a brutal Ugandan dictator), & got into drugs of all sorts in his late teens. Personal ethics not as admirable as his broader ones - he bullied me. He managed to get his life together, qualified as a nurse, married & had 2 kids, but was awfully arrogant & life fell apart in his early 40s. Homeless on & off, neglected his health, died of bowel cancer a few years back in his early 60s. (Family history, but he took no action to monitor or his own risk.) I saw him once a few months after his marriage ended, & briefly just before he died. Did that mainly in memory of my mum. He wasn’t a nice person, but I realise that he suffered a lot & might’ve turned out so much better under different circumstances.

@bmacDonald94 @Rory29
Uganda? Libya was Gaddafi.

@bmacDonald94
I remember when my brother flipped out in a drug related psychotic episode. He was going to fly to Uganda to assassinate Idi Amin, then to the US to ask Carter to tell everyone to put uranium back into the ground. 1977.

When I was a kid, I spent a lot of time on the land across the road, formerly 2 holes of a golf course bought by the education department before I as born, for a tech school that did t open until I started high school. Big gum trees between the 2 former fairways, ti-tree scrub along the back & a virgin bush are at one end, sand bunkers that were the scene for our “list in the desert” games… My friends & I climbed & jumped out of trees, spotted lizards & butterflies, got lost in the jungle & played ball games on the fairways. My own kids had access to similar if smaller reserves & a linear park along a creek. So much fun & adventure. #childhood

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-09/risky-play-teen-mental-health-crisis/103939412?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

@bmacDonald94

I’ve been told that I have an overdeveloped conscience & care too much. She’s really not my people.

@bmacDonald94

I absolutely loved Morgan Freeman’s reading of Douglass’ letters in Ken Burns’ Civil War.

@bmacDonald94
😂The video! Great share.

@bmacDonald94
Pretty amazing. Was it one of those Covid times productions?

@treleanor @bmacDonald94

My oldest is there & here. The numbers are bigger there, which is good for an author trying to promote their work, but they enjoy their interaction here too.

@bmacDonald94

My partner is still on the latter because of a core group of followers, but his feed keeps flooding with pornbot posts. His group need to do a group migration.

@Melissabeartrix @bmacDonald94

What he said. 😁

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic

As in “how good is my mental health?” or “how do I measure my mental health?”?

@taurus @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic

😂😂😂I wondered at the time, but couldn’t resist.

I forget who drew my attention to this, but thank you! It’s very long, so I suggest you stop at each break, (a chapter heading is displayed) & consider whether you want to come back to it later. I’d prefer it to be broken into several videos because it would be useful to share with allistic people, but I don’t expect them to watch a video thats over an hour long. @actuallyautistic #actuallyautistic #ADHD

https://youtu.be/WA9B4_e6sS0?si=6djOdxA4lOru4XxR

@melissabeartrix sigh. I saw recently that they’re finding microplastics in human placentas.

@mina @melissabeartrix

We can’t deny the convenience of plastic to ordinary people. I remember when just about all liquids were sold in heavy, fragile (but easily reused/recycled) glass. It’s not just big greedy companies that totally embraced the use of plastic. It’s most human beings. Simply blaming big companies relieves all of us from the responsibility of looking for & using (& paying for) alternatives.

@allenstenhaus@toot.site @VirginiaMurr @luckytran

I actually don’t think about it. Before handling food, small children, after toilet, dogs, handling anything sticky or dirty, gardening…

@ScriptFanix @actuallyautistic
Now you know that it was a mismatch, not because of flaws in you. While some allistics are good with autistic folk, some aren’t. It’s no one’s fault, just a mismatch. I hope you work through this & feel better soon.

@noracodes
It’s an anti people attitude. Sometimes technology relieves people of the need to do boring or dangerous jobs. If those people can then be employed in safer & more engaging employment, that’s great, but it’s usually just about cost cutting. If people are thrown out of jobs they love by technology used to produce an inferior product, or even a product as good or better, how does that help anyone but the capitalists? What’s the point of an “economy” that doesn’t benefit people? And can an economy be healthy if too many people can’t afford to participate in it?

@mo To behave like fascists?