Actually Autistic

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Actually Autistic community on the Threadiverse, backup for the other group.

#actuallyautistic is a hashtag made for autistic people to talk for themselves. The community is not against self-diagnosis, the point instead is to talk about and among ourselves instead of people talking for us.

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The perfect use for spoons in the "bad spoon" drawer (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 days ago by BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/actuallyautistic@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/31416567

... eating ice cream directly from the pint.

It always destroys spoons eventually, might as well use ones too sharp, too tinny, too light, the wrong shape, or with just the wrong bend in them already.

Edit: for all the head scratchers out there, it's a trait some of us neurodivergent folks have. Some forks or spoons or whatever are nice to hold, and some are actually upsetting to use.

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[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My question is.... why do you have any bad spoons? I just wouldn't buy spoons I didn't like. Or is this because of minor differences between pieces in a set?

[–] BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Excellent question!

See cross-posts above I guess. "Actually AuDHD", specifically the ADHD part. I have lots of good ideas, but relatively few (though increasing, thanks to meds!) follow through to carry them out