One of my absolute favorite songs ever

Dont forget JFK jr making a list of all autistic people in america.

Yes, this is what I meant by worrying about being able to travel to the states.

I’m kind of in the same place. I’m on a waiting list for an assessment. I have two therapists (one individual, one couples) and they both operate under the assumption I am AuDHD. One is autistic herself so I take that as peer review lol.

Here are my pros and cons:

Pro:

• Possible workplace accommodations. Work is very chill about needs but I would feel less guilt about asking for something someone else told me would help.
• Help identifying what accommodations I could use
• Giving me a “reason” for why I am the way I am - justification to make life changes to be more healthy and happy (vs being an absolute failure who deserves to work myself into an early grave).
• I am in a leadership position in my industry - I feel like it’s my duty to let my freak flag fly, so to speak, to allow others to know they are not alone. Diagnosis would be validating and make me feel comfortable saying to a wider audience “I’m autistic”. Lets be real, the ND% in my industry is well above average (extremely niche engineering discipline) but it would be nice to see people be more open about it.

Cons:

• My boss’s boss is ableist as fuck although I suspect she’s ND as well. I don’t want to leave my job but I will not put up with any of her shit if she decides to comment on this. She’s already made ableist comments to me about people being ND without knowing I am ND.
• I worry about the ability to immigrate in the future. I have no plans to, but I know that I wouldn’t be able to move to my current country if I had a diagnosis. (I don’t think it needs to go on my medical file as it’s done outside of the health care system but IDK).
• I worry about the ability to travel to the states. I have no desire to do so currently (even though there are so many trains I want to ride and so many nature I want to see) but I do have aging family there. I was already nervous going last year with my ADHD meds but we drove and it didn’t come up, but I feel like border crossing is only going to get worse.

I’m so happy for you and your new friends!

Succulents are super dangerous lol. I bought two on the weekend with no real plan on where they should go.

I miss grass. It’s coming back soon, I’m sure. Things are starting to bud at the potato house.

Pixelfed is kind of annoying on my phone (it’s hard to comment or reply to comments) so I’m down for whatever. I don’t know enough about the fedverse to be able to suggest something.

I’m always happy to see your memes - you excel at shitposting 👑

I’ve been trying to take better care of myself and my family and we’re going to try and make dinner together on Sundays instead of just hobbling together each meal from various parts around the house (i.e. bulk cooked beans, rice, etc.). I’ve also started taking my B12 daily because I am old and not invincible anymore and no longer knocking back energy drinks like I used to.

As for gardening: We have some seeds started but it’s time to start planning in earnest, I need to get the annuals started soon or they won’t be big enough to plant when it’s time. I generally don’t plant before June 1 due to frost risk. Things like peas should be getting out there now, maybe I’ll try and get some in tomorrow.

But I’m just going to smoke weed and eat greens for the rest of the night 🤷🏻‍♀️

Nope, just blended chickpeas.

Hell yeah

They really are extremely fuckin neat

My tool kit for antivegan comments is the delete button 🤷🏻‍♀️

Happy birthday pocket vegans 🎉

My favorite kind of lib hypocrisy is how it’s cool and based to join an extra-governmental freedom fight it’s in the service of an established and recognized nation (e.g. paramilitary units in Ukraine), but not voting is literally a war crime and murdering brown people just living their lives is unavoidable because of idk…reasons?

No war but class (and thus also anti speciest) war ✊

When we win the war on drugs (and capitalism) perhaps we will be able to collectively address the tainted supply issue and material conditions that lead to harmful use of drugs.

Until then see you in the trenches - I’ll bring snacks 🫡

I can’t ignore that I have an insane amount of privilege and luck. It’s actually astonishing.

But yes, a better future is possible. If we destroy ableism and embrace our differences and strengths. And most of all, stop making people’s value dependent on their productivity.

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Thank you! I’m blossoming into a wonderful weirdo, even at my advanced age 💕

Please refrain from critique as it is explicitly again this community’s rules. Thanks!

Seems targeted lmao

You’ll stop craving carnist ‘food’ over time, I promise! I think the best bet is to find recipes you like that are not trying to replicate something but are delicious as their own thing.

Plant milks are the only thing I buy regularly, but I’m not sure I would really consider that a substitute. People make their own for very cheap but I don’t use enough that it feels worth it to me. I go through a small container a week for two people, just to splash in our coffee.

I had some giant jars of commercial salsa in the basement that were going to expire so I dumped them in the EPC with some soaked chickpeas, veggie stock and oregano.

Soup was not the goal but it was a happy accident.

Naw fam, it’s speciest as hell to put human feelings before animal lives.

Thanks for sharing this. We don’t do PBC in our house (for the most part) but I’ve had trouble expressing to my spouse how “demonstrating demand” isn’t really a thing.

There are so many variables that go into a business decision to make vegan products, and with these companies so heavily invested in animal exploitation, the demand for the products is << so many others. Even if people are buying the products, they could suddenly decide they aren’t as profitable as animal bodies, or they want to use those machines to process animal bodies for a while, etc. No amount of consumer demand is going to outweigh the return on animal exploitation for companies that are built around it.