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I’m Tired of Autistic Infighting

I am kinda old, I got my diagnosis late because when I was in grade school, no one talked about autism, I was just "special" I was passed grade to grade because I would "catch up eventually" I grew up through a lot of change, I saw the LGBTQIA+ community go through something very similar to this. When we were allowed to "come out" and be less scared the community was so tribal. The gay men didn't want the lesbians around and vice versa, no one believed bisexuals existed, and you were only transexual on the weekends to make money. Or that was the thinking then.

Now we, for the most part, see the value of working together, the strength in numbers, we have shed some of the internalized homophobia and found a collective voice to fight against the attacks from the outside and stop perpetuating them internally.

This seems the same tribalism we are seeing in the nurodivergent world right now. There will be a time to come together, and fight the attacks from the outside, a time to raise our voice together and protect our own, but for now, each individual that see this as problematic must begin the cry to end the infighting and strengthen our group and show what we can do collectively.

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With tears and a lullaby, a rural Alabama hospital stops delivering babies

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I am not one to ask for trust from strangers on the Internet so take this as you will. I have seen true triumphs in the adoption/foster system, but much more often it goes very badly. I have seen good families destroyed, and individuals broken, I don't mean to poison that well, I want that system to work, but right now they are so underfunded and understaffed that there is no way for them to be effective, and the religious route is laughable at best, those organizations are charitably described as preditory, I have other words but they don't belong in polite conversation.

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I think Lennybird may have worded that in an unfortunate way, but there is a point, the MAGAt crap is designed to exploit mental illness and nurodivergence. The thought process it takes to believe the junk that comes from them is truly magical, and that level of mental gymnastics requires an amount of breakdown of skill or deep religious belief, and while that is not All mental illness I can see where someone on the outside could look into that camp and see only mentally ill people and just put together a very very bad and frankly hurtful phrase.

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Cyndi Lauper, no matter how bad it got for me when I was little, and it got really bad. I could count on her to be "right there waiting, time after time" and to see my "true colors" I know that sounds stupid, but I would get my tape and my walkman, go and hide in the dog house with Tramp, he would sleep next to me, and Cyndi would sing to me and I would sing with her, and it was okay for a few minutes, I was safe. Nothing existed but Cyndi's voice and the warmth of Tramp's body, it was almost like it could be okay.

So Cyndi Lauper, she was always inspiration to keep going, it could be okay if I could hear her voice.

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Speaker Mike Johnson Condemned by Far-Right for Comments on His Black Son and George Floyd: ‘Undercover Democrat?’

I am absolutely in love with the show about the Fascist party ripping itself apart, I am appalled by the carnage left in it's wake. The no-true-scottsmanism that is showing is just another sign that the divide is getting deeper. If you ever said anything, thought anything, voted for anything, or posted anything that doesn't toe the party line exactly you owe a debt forever. That is what it's about though, what can I hold over you to control you.