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The more time goes by, the more aware I am that I am autistic. I’m grateful for all the autistic people who have shared their experiences—I feel like I’m not alone anymore (unless I want to be). ♾️🌈
#WorldAutismAwarenessDay #Autism #Autistic

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Light from unseen windows

#Photography #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday

Photo looking up at an angular honey-coloured stone building, at least eight storeys high, on a sunny day. In the middle of the wall a narrow, sharp extension sticks out, perhaps around a staircase, with, on every floor, windows either side of the point. There are also windows on either side as well as on the wall's chamfered edges. The whole face of the building, which would otherwise be shadowed towards the right, is dappled with green and white bands of light reflected from the windows of another building, probably behind the camera. Around the top is a bright blue sky.

#WindowFriday #FensterFreitag
Last window standing

Mostly torn down building, only a Graffiti painted wall sheathed in corrugated metal with one small open rectangular window seen through bars.

Reposting a favorite for #ThickTrunkTuesday

Two trunks emerge from a joined base on a hillside in a forest. These are eucalyptus trees.

Letting the light in for a long climb. #WindowFriday #FensterFreitag Matosinhos, Portugal 🇵🇹

White stone facade of a lighthouse tower studded with small rectangular windows. Taken on a sunny day with a clear blue sky and a passing seagull flying by.

#WindowFriday #FensterFreitag in Portugal

A barred window is topped by two medieval-looking fish whose tails are touching.

#ThickTrunkTuesday 3350-year-old olive tree near Abrantes, Portugal still produces fruit. https://dolival.pt/en/news/the-oldest-olive-tree-in-portugal/ Photo credit: NoNeZ

Ancient, giant olive tree dwarfs surrounding rock wall

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday making the best of a bad situation

Tiny window in a rundown building with thorny vines in the foreground.

Two tiny windows in a rundown building on a sunny day.

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday in Portugal

Looking straight up ##WindowFriday #FensterFreitag

View looking up from the hotel lobby to the skylight far above surrounded by each floor’s balcony.

Holy Sycamore, Batman!

(Aveiro, Portugal)

#ThickTrunkTuesday

Thick trunk tree with a hole in the bole.

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Autism research is not always a cheering thing for autistic people to read about. One way to keep up with positive developments in it is to set up alerts so you hear about it when particular researchers are cited.

For example, yesterday saw an unusually large crop of promising papers citing Damian Milton, the #ActuallyAutistic scholar best known for identifying the 'double empathy problem', who has also worked on monotropism and flow, among other things:

* "I Am Human, Just Like You": What Intersectional, Neurodivergent Lived Experiences Bring to Accessibility Research
* The potential for successful autistic aging: Proposing a lifespan developmental psychology approach
* Barriers and facilitators to ethical co-production with Autistic people with an eating disorder
* A qualitative investigation into autistic adults' perspectives on intervention goals for autistic children
* Understanding autistic camouflaging: The use of online community discussions and stigmatized identity research
* Therapeutic Residential Interventions for Harmful Sexual Behaviour-A Theory of Change
* Autistic Self-Advocacy and the Neurodiversity Movement: Implications for Autism Early Intervention Research and Practice

One way to keep up with such developments is to 'follow' researchers on Google Scholar, using a Google account. You have the option to hear about new articles by them, new citations of their work and/or 'related' publications.

Here is Damian Milton's profile, just as an example. From here, you can also see where each paper has been cited.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=V_V1SlcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

#ThickTrunkTuesday