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Do you use a smart watch for disability management, and are you willing to tell me about your experience?

I'm looking for better solutions for memory offloading, task reminders, visual routines, and transitions. I don't currently have any physical health tracking concerns. I have an iPhone that's been some help to me, but I can't find a way to both brick it enough to keep it from being a distraction and keep it functional enough to actually assist me in the areas I struggle. I'm considering trying an Apple Watch, but its features seem to either support physical health or just mirror the iPhone it's paired to. Is it worth it to try it out?

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during the work day my rage metre builds up, allowing me to unleash a powerful & ill advised special attack around 4pm

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someone is certain you should never feel whole

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"Carers cant speak for autistic people!!! Autistic people can advocate for ourselves!!"

You think this because you dont listen to carers of autistic people therefore you completely shut out all the autistic people who cant advocate for themselves. Therefore you dont see the people who cant advocate for themselves. Duh.

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One of my dreams as an artist is to design playgrounds for adults, because I also need the swings to function and I can't use them unless the park is empty. I hate feeling shamed into leaving whenever I see a family walking up with a picnic blanket, and I especially hate that I can't bring toys or read children's books at the park without being clockable as a creep immediately. An adult swinging? Strange, but forgivable. An adult swinging with a plush cat in his lap? Danger to the children.

Yknow what hurts worse, though? Children's museums

something that really fucking sucks about being a neurodevelopmentally disabled (NDD) adult and I never see talked about is the fact that children's paces are eventually off limits.

like, I don't know how to explain it other than the phrase "yeah, some NDD people actually do act like children and enjoy children's things (and that's okay)" (imperfect statement but I have a cognitive impairment leave me alone)

it's really frustrating because being an adult, and especially being an adult genderqueer man, I am barred from places like playgrounds because I am seen as a predator. it also makes me really sad. playgrounds, up until I started looking way too old for them, were a source of sensory comfort for me. I used to swing on the swing sets until I stopped looking 14. you can get away with being a 14 year old on the swings, not a 20+ year old.

and this goes for so much. while most of it doesn't affect me personally, it does affect many NDD people. it is not uncommon for NDD people to behave like this and have these interests. and it just sucks that the minute you start looking like an adult suddenly you're unwelcome in the spaces that brought you comfort and joy.

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look at my forever wip

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ive heard if its all gone wrong and is fucked beyond repair you can actually use it for banana bread

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Being autistic is like screaming through a megaphone “please don’t overwork me, i WILL explode” and everyone responds like haha well. You’ll get used to it over time :)

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my comic for the 4th issue of @disquietcomics

turns out confronting yourself is difficult and weird!

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As an autistic person I struggle with the process of making friends in the sense that, I never know how or when to bridge the gap between “acquaintances” and “friends” and just kinda get stuck there

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I get really confused, and even angry sometimes at lower support needs people who don’t understand the true meaning of autonomy and when it comes to caregivers and guardianship.

I mentioned ONCE in a group about wanting to go into assisted living and looking into it. Immediately got dog piled by people saying to absolutely not go into assisted living because itd “take away my autonomy” and “I should just live with others for as long as possible.”

Assisted living, group homes, guardianship, whatever, can very much mean that someone actually GAINS autonomy. And independence. The goal is for quality of life. We should be focusing on quality of life instead of what YOU want. What YOU want as a lower support needs person because you’ve heard bad stories.

Higher support needs people often don’t get the decision. It’s life or death for them. Y’all HAVE to realize that.

Stop forcing your narrative on young higher support needs people who are looking into different options for their care. Yes. It’s SCARY to be put in a bad situation, but often times it’s trial and error for us. Y’all HAVE to realize that. We don’t have the privilege to pick and choose between if we just live independently or go in a group home. It’s group home, or death, or living in a fucked up, maybe even abusive situation already.

Stop it.

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if we had ever met would i just have felt her holding back her thoughts

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A comb jelly displaying bioluminescence. Filmed off the coast of California. From Deep Ocean EP 2- Lights in the Abyss (2016).

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time blur

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