Sharing from a friend who saw this in one of their discords
> I'm Lloyd May, an accessibility researcher from Stanford University working with Prof. Emily Wang at Oberlin College.

> We are currently running a research study on centralizing video game accessibility settings. If you play video games and identify as disabled, Deaf, and/or neurodiverse, we'd love to learn more about your experiences over a 1-hour online interview. You would also receive a $35 gift card as a thank-you for your involvement in the study after the interview.

> If you, or anyone else you know, are interested, please fill out this short interest form: https://forms.gle/ijawa9SpiUvr5zvs5

> Note: This a purely academic research study. We are in no way affiliated with any corporate partners. Everything we work on is free and open-source

Everyone who has autism should not be ashamed to ask for help or ashamed to receive it.
-Eva Erickson

https://youtu.be/CbgXyK9CHZ0?si=5LLgyXyeX9t6Jkjt

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True ADHD story…

For a good hour I was working on consolidating the tabs in my browser.

I closed lots of them. But when I finished there were actually more than when I began.

People always say ADHD is a superpower. It some ways it is. But in other ways it’s a lot of WTF moments.

The sketch at 14.43.

I think we're supposed to think that Rich is rude and Sam is being treated badly, but I can't see it like that. Rich obviously had a plan to only meet Andy, and Sam is just imposing himself on Rich when he's told no.

I mean Rich could have been more tactful and polite, definitely, but Sam should have just taken no for an answer! Also, I think yes the world would be better if people were more honest!

What do you think?

John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme - Series 5 - Episode 2
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b06vmzdy

Transcript here (look for wrong friend)
https://j-f-s-p.livejournal.com/7440.html

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I only have 64k of RAM. Someone was informed that that was enough for anyone, so that's all I got. That's why I find it so hard to retain and process information.

I need to be able to write to disk to be able to learn. I did get a lot of disk space though!

It's why I did well at school, but I'm really struggling with on the job learning with bike repair. Not enough RAM!

It's why I have such difficulty navigating, because I can remember one turn, and that's it. The next turn will push the first one out my memory. Not enough RAM!

It's probably why I suck with learning faces. Not enough RAM!

I wonder what operating system I run on? SoloOS, maybe. I hope that's not already a Linux distro.

I kind of feel like my output is an LLM. I used to be a SLM until about 2016.

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How does one recognize whether or not what one experienced was narcissistic abuse?

It's not like one can ask the hypothetical abuser. They will deny it. Is learning about the patterns of narcissistic abuse and subsequently recognizing them as how they show up in one's lived experience the best one can do?

I find that a very unsatisfactory conclusion but it does seem like the best one can do. I probably lived in a relationship with at least narcissistic abuse patterns. And the unsolvable ambiguity of it all bothers me.

I feel this must be a deeply autistic experience: the disbelief when people actually try to convince you that they didn't mean what they said. And I'm not talking subtext, I'm talking about the grammatical meaning of their verbatim words and sentences.

And then you ask them to clarify and through a convoluted sequence of justifications they end up at "see? And this is why I couldn't possibly have meant this!".

Like wat? Why did you say/write it then in the first place? So fucking confusing. But maybe the explanation really is that autistic people choose their words much more carefully. It's certainly our lived experience.

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Schizoid PD vs. Autism - Neurodivergent Insights
https://neurodivergentinsights.com/schizoid-personality-disorder-vs-autism/

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Autistic community, tell me where are you at with "high functioning labels" and the term "Asperger" why are you against these or for them?

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#CallForProposals

We are now accepting proposals to the main conference programme for Autscape 2025: “Evolving Autistic Space”, held Mon 4th – Thu 7th Aug 2025 at The Hayes, Swanwick, Derbyshire, UK.

Read the Call for Proposals at:
https://www.autscape.org/2025/proposals/cfp

Submission deadline: Monday 31st March. Presenters will be required to attend in person.

The hardest part about unmasking is developing the courage and resilience to act against the interest of another person (usually by upholding a personal boundary you've ignored so far) and to then strike the right balance in determining who deserves an explanation (because they actually want to listen) and who is a lost cause and just wants you to admit that you're wrong.

It's a really odd thing to go through when so far you've tried to please everyone. Who are you to put your judgement over the judgement of other people?