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I’m in my twenties and still keep my stuffies in my bed, where else are they supposed to live? They spend my entire childhood being there for me, so how could I abandon them to the cold darkness of an attic? They get to retire in comfort

Having Plushies is Normal, Don't Let Anyone Say it's Not

As someone who has lots of plushies in her bed, and plushies attached to her backbag, it should be normal to have plushie and still cuddle with them.

Even my other friend had lots of plushies in her bed while she was past the age of having plushies, and so did i. I still have plushies in my bed, even my old kitty plushie from back when i was young. It really comforted me and made me feel so not alone, especially during thunderstorms.

So, let me tell you this, Plushies work and they work fine. It should be really normal to have plushies past the age of childhood and well into your adulthood, i tell you this as a teenager with autism that it is fine.

Stuffed animals comfort you? Good, use them. They are so cute and won't harm anyone, despite what haters may tell you on the streets. They work for you and they can work for anyone else as well, don't let haters keep you.

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COVID-19's long-term effects on the body: an incomplete list

COVID’s effect on the immune system, specifically on lymphocytes:

NYT article from 2020 (Studies cited: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.18.101717v1, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.20.106401v1, https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/32405080/Decreased_T_cell_populations_contribute_to_the_increased_severity_of_COVID_19_, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.08.20125112v1)

 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.10.475725v1

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abc8511 (Published in Science)

 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9057012/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2022/04/14/sars-cov-2-actively-infects-and-kills-lymphoid-cells/

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2022/10/in-cleveland-and-beyond-researchers-begin-to-unravel-the-mystery-of-long-covid-19.html

SARS-CoV-2 infection weakens immune-cell response to vaccination: NIH-funded study suggests need to boost CD8+ T cell response after infection

https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/hematology-and-oncology/leukopenias/lymphocytopenia

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/11/07/COVID-Reinfections-And-Immunity/

Dendritic cell deficiencies persist seven months after SARS-CoV-2 infection

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.1034159/full

https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Lauterbach-warnt-vor-unheilbarer-Immunschwaeche-durch-Corona-article23860527.html (German Minister of Health)

Anecdotal evidence of COVID’s effects on white blood cells:

 https://twitter.com/DrJohnHhess/status/1661837956875956224

 https://x.com/TristanVeness/status/1661565201345564673

https://twitter.com/TristanVeness/status/1689996298408312832

Much more if you speak to Long Covid patients directly!

Related information of interest:

China approves Genuine Biotech's HIV drug for COVID patients

COVID as a “mass disabling event” and impact on the economy:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/report-says-long-covid-could-impact-economy-and-be-mass-disabling-event-in-canada-1.6306608

https://x.com/inkblue01/status/1742183209809453456?s=20

COVID’s impact on the heart:

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/deadly-virus-could-lead-heart-31751263 (Research from: Japan's Riken research institute)

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/unlike-flu-covid-19-attacks-dna-in-the-heart-new-research-20220929-p5bm10.html

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/12/1/186

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-mild-covid-effects-cardiovascular-health.html

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/covid-and-the-heart-it-spares-no-one

https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/coronavirus-and-your-health/is-coronavirus-a-disease-of-the-blood-vessels (British Heart Foundation)

COVID’s effect on the brain and cognitive function:

https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/article/brain-infection-by-sars-cov-2-lifelong-consequences/171391/

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-shows-covid-leaves-brain-injury-markers-blood

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/08/warning-of-serious-brain-disorders-in-people-with-mild-covid-symptoms

Cognitive post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) can occur after mild COVID-19 

Neurologic Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Transmitted among Dogs

https://journals.lww.com/nsan/fulltext/2022/39030/neurological_manifestations_and_mortality_in.4.aspx

https://www.salon.com/2023/06/17/new-evidence-suggests-alters-the-brain--but-the-extent-of-changes-is-unclear/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-virus-may-tunnel-through-nanotubes-from-nose-to-brain/

https://neurosciencenews.com/post-covid-brain-21904/

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(22)00260-7/fulltext

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-08-covid-infection-crucial-brain-regions.html

https://news.ecu.edu/2022/08/04/covid-parkinsons-link/

Covid as a vascular/blood vessel disease:

https://www.salon.com/2020/06/01/coronavirus-is-a-blood-vessel-disease-study-says-and-its-mysteries-finally-make-sense/

https://www.salon.com/2023/12/27/brain-damage-caused-by-19-may-not-show-up-on-routine-tests-study-finds/

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/sars-cov-2-infects-coronary-arteries-increases-plaque-inflammation

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/12/6/2123

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211004104134.htm (microclots)

Long Covid:

Post-COVID-19 Condition in Canada: What we know, what we don’t know, and a framework for action

 https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/more-than-two-years-of-long-covid-research-hasn-t-yielded-many-answers-scientific-review-1.6235227

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/cause-of-long-covid-symptoms-revealed-by-lung-imaging-research-at-western-university-1.6504318

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/long-covid-study-montreal-1.6521131

https://news.yale.edu/2023/12/19/study-helps-explain-post-covid-exercise-intolerance

Other:

- Viruses and mutation: https://typingmonkeys.substack.com/p/monkeys-on-typewriters

Measures taken by the rich and world leaders

Heightened risk of diabetes

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2805461

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00912-y

Liver damage:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/46-of-covid-patients-have-liver-damage-study/articleshow/97809200.cms?from=mdr

tl;dr: covid is a vascular disease, not a respiratory illness. it can affect your blood and every organ in your body. every time you're reinfected, your chances of getting long covid increase.

avoid being infected. reduce the amount of viral load you're exposed to.

the gap between what the scientific community knows and ordinary people know is massive. collective action is needed.

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8 Thing You Need to Know About Autistic People

Pete Wharmby, Autistic Author

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I’m a boy and I kiss other boys.

I’m a boy and I was not born a boy.

I’m a boy and I use unconventional pronouns.

I’m a boy and I want to live as a boy.

I’m a boy and I want to be free to say that out loud.

I’m a boy and I want to live without fear of being hurt.

Just like the other boys.

My friend is a girl and she likes boys.

My friend is a girl and she was not born a girl.

My friend is a girl and uses she/her.

My friend is a girl and she wants to be called a girl, not a slur.

My friend is a girl and she should be allowed to live as a girl.

My friend is a girl and she shouldn’t be assaulted because she is a girl.

Just like the other girls.

My sibling is nonbinary and they like every gender.

My sibling is nonbinary and they were not born that way.

My sibling is nonbinary and uses whatever pronouns they feel like.

My sibling is nonbinary and wants to be perceived as a person too.

My sibling is nonbinary and should be allowed to choose what they call themselves.

My sibling is nonbinary and shouldn’t be shoved under the rug because their gender identity “doesn’t make sense”.

Just like other people.

WE ARE PEOPLE.

TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.

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i love sometimes grieving the moments when i realize i will never be “normal” about anything bc im neurodivergent. that my emotions are already set to be more extreme bc my brain is wired differently. that things that don’t upset other people may trigger me in major ways. that every day i lay exhausted in bed from masking all day. i just want people in my life who can make all of that a bit more bearable. if for just a moment.

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Also wear your mask in public spaces (if you can). Stop spreading it. Protect yourself and your community. Be punk- wear a mask

COVID IS NOT JUST A FUCKING COLD. IT'S NOT A COLD.

getting COVID multiple times does NOT decrease your risk of serious complications.

COVID is SERIOUS ILLNESS that can KILL you, even IF you're perfectly healthy beforehand.

you CANNOT rule out whether serious complications will happen to your our others.

if you're sick MASK UP, and STAY HOME whenever possible.

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The tendency of people like me, lower support needs, white and with a certain financial stability, to forget people that do not fit that category hurts all of us. We’re used to being centered in conversations because of our privileges. So let’s use those privileges to build a platform for more marginalized people instead of overshadowing

Saw a TikTok video, so let’s talk about it.

Video said “Lower support needs people are ruining the conversations” and then the sound was like “how about you shut the fuck up”. Don’t know exactly what they were talking about, but this is just my interpretation.

Now I don’t usually get involved with the TikTok autism community cause it’s just…gross. However, I decided to see what’s been going on and scroll for a bit.

I want lower support needs people to realize that there is enough space in this community for EVERYONE. Including them. However, lower support needs people also need to realize that they are drastically overstepping about 80% of the time in the autism community. Low support needs autistic people are constantly talking over the voices of higher support needs people. From using our terms, to speaking over us, to speaking for us, the list goes on and on of all the terrible shit that low support needs people do.

Sometimes, us higher support needs people do just want to say “shut the fuck up. Let us speak.” Because we deserve to speak. We deserve to say what we want to say. We deserve to have ourselves heard. TikTok has centered primarily white, late diagnosed, low support needs people, and it sucks!! While these people could be using their platforms to educate on autism issues and include higher support needs people’s voices, they are instead using their platforms to talk over us. It’s annoying and hurtful.

Sometimes, we do gotta say “listen. You’re ruining the conversations” because they are! The constant fighting. The constant ableism. The constant everything is ridiculous.

There’s enough space for all of us. So why is the low support needs people taking up so much space?

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Understanding the Spectrum

I CAN Network Ltd

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I love all Yellowjackets relationships so much like they are beyond romance. Nat and misty are an old sick master and her devoted guard dog, still pulling her stumbling master along by the leash and attacking anyone who walks by. Shauna is Jackie’s well loved cat who is locked in the apartment with her corpse, destroying everything before (literally) eating her face. I mean that before Jackie even died in the show, and that Jackie died the second Shauna voted to go to the lake. Jeff is Shaunas organ donor; he keeps giving and she keeps taking, both of them desperately trying to sustain her the way she is but her body keeps rejecting the parts. Shauna also thinks she’s Jeff’s prisoner, but in reality she chained herself to him and holds the key in one hand while she gnaws at the skin around the restraint. Callie ran away or hid when she caught Shauna staring at her, until she realized Shauna wasn’t seeing her but at her first baby and Jackie. Now Callie is tearing herself to shreds to become something that will gain her mothers attention. Van is mania for a bipolar Taissa; Tai has to keep order and structure, keep herself sober, keep a strict sleep schedule, and just dull herself, because as soon as her mental health wavers, she slips right back to Van and whatever irrational and dangerous decision she convinces Tai to do. Adult Lottie and Van are like some sort of insects in heat; Van can function without her, but her body will fail her over time. Lottie gives off a pheromone that makes Van erratic and obsessive and devoted so that Lottie can tear her head off at the point of climax. Shauna and Taissa are two sisters that survived an abusive household, having increasingly complicated and painful relationships with those around them, so that in comparison their own relationship is simple and pure. They have little in common besides sneaking into each others rooms at night to clean each others wounds and hiding under the blankets to block out the screaming downstairs. Ben and Natalie are survivors of the zombie apocalypse, until they’ve finally reached the bunker and he notices the bite she had been hiding from him. Good show

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site that you can type in the definition of a word and get the word

site for when you can only remember part of a word/its definition 

site that gives you words that rhyme with a word

site that gives you synonyms and antonyms

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It’s such hard work. But I’m understanding my brain and my character so much better now than let’s say at 17. I finally allow myself to like silly things again and refuse to feel shame anymore.

Being cool means watching Avatar last airbender for the tenth time in a row and stimming

i love constantly evolving into a cooler version of myself

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I swear if another person tells me I’m nothing like the small autistic child they know and therefore I couldn’t possibly be actually autistic I’ll start biting people.

I’m a grown ass person, not your little cousin or whoever.

Same goes for people I’ve known for ages who change their way of communication with me after I share me being autistic with them. I don’t need you to talk to me like I’m a toddler. I need you to listen to what accommodations actually help me.

I will say this once again, with feeling...

Autistic adults don't owe you cutesy, flappy hand behavior or quirky personalities

Autistic adults don't have to be a bunch of kiss asses to others if they don't want to

Autistic adults can act like adults do, even if there are parts of their behavior that is usually seen as "childish"

Autistic adults are adults, not people to be treated as children

Autistic people can be assholes if they have reasons to be so (whether it's justified or not depends on the person, but shouldn't be anyone else's business but their own)

Autistic people stimming is a natural instinct that can occur to them in different ways (especially in more harmful ways) and y'all gotta respect that

Autistic people can see the errors of their ways when they make a mistake

Autistic people are capable of fixing their own problems (whether they need help or not depends on the situation)

No two autistic people are alike

You can't compare a small, autistic child who's barely experienced life to a grown, autistic adult who's been through a lot in their own life

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Hearing constantly about gifted autistic kids and people seeing it as THEE autistic trait has completely disregarded those who aren’t gifted and made a HUGE divide in the community. Seeing constantly “yeah autistic people are usually gifted” is so annoying because a VERY large chunk of autistic people, aren’t actually gifted and media has just put the gifted people at the front because they’re more palatable. The “autistic gifted kid burnout” has become more so a trend than anything and I’ve seen a lot of people assume they’re autistic because they are the “gifted kid burnout person” when that isn’t even a requirement for an autism diagnosis. You don’t have to be gifted to be autistic. You don’t have to be!!

Start putting the people who struggle more in the spotlight. Those with intellectual disabilities, those with learning disabilities, those with cognitive disabilities, those who are just generally stereotypically “dumb” and embrace it!

We need to have a very big discussion about this as a community and it needs to start today.

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I need non autistic people to realise meltdowns are a real debilitating thing that has a serious effect on your mental and physical health NOWWWWW!!! The way its been trivialized and lessened pisses me the fuck off. It's not a tantrum and it doesn't come from "being too weak-willed" it's painful and it's embarrassing AND MOST OF ALL IT'S INVOLUNTARY!! Don't claim to be an ally to autistic or disabled people and then make fun of people who have meltdowns. Literally get the hell out of my sight

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I love painting watercolour dinosaurs ~

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Autistic Book Recommendations

Littlepuddins.ie

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An Autistic Check In

Neurodivergent_lou