#AutismSpectrumDisorder

2025-05-23

Sensory-friendly children's room at Canberra Hospital a 'game changer'
By Emmy Groves

For neurodivergent children, going to the emergency department can be overstimulating so the Canberra Hospital has introduced a sensory-friendly room in the children's emergency area to make the experience less overwhelming.

abc.net.au/news/2025-05-24/act

#AutismSpectrumDisorder #EmergencyCare #EmmyGroves

2025-05-15

#Autism #AutismSpectrumDisorder
#Autistic #ActuallyAutistic
#OnTheSpectrum /\

:::: “The poet, the artist, the sleuth—whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely “well adjusted,” he cannot go along with currents and trends.” — Marshall McLuhan, “The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects”, March 1967 ::::

::::: “A strange bond often exists among anti-social types in their power to see environments as they really are.” — Marshall McLuhan, “The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects”, March 1967 :::

themediumisthemassage.com/the-

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:::: "There are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize — I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to — segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self-defeating effects of physical violence." - "Social Justice and the Emerging New Age" address at the Herman W. Read Fieldhouse, Western Michigan University (18 December 1963), #MLKJr ::::

:::: "I never intend to become adjusted to the madness of militarism, and maybe the great need of our nation and our world today is for a society of the creative maladjusted, men and women who will be as maladjusted as the prophet Amos, who in the midst of the injustices of his day, could cry out in words that echo across the centuries, "Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream." As maladjusted as Abraham Lincoln, who had the vision to see that this nation could not exist half slave and half free. As maladjusted as Thomas Jefferson, who in the midst of an age amazingly adjusted to slavery could cry out in words lifted to cosmic proportions, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. As maladjusted as Jesus of Nazareth, who in the midst of the fascinating and intricate military machinery of the Roman Empire could cry out, "He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword," and also, "Love your enemies; bless them that curse you, pray for them that do spitefully use you." And I believe that such maladjustment will help us emerge from the bleak and desolate midnight of man's inhumanity to man" - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ::::

:::: "The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace, and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific, and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. In any cause that concerns the progress of mankind, put your faith in the nonconformist!" - Chapter 2 : Transformed nonconformist. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ::::

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#DearWorld
#SOS #SOSToTheWorld

Dear World:

The United States of America has become two major cults in May 2025. Right now, this is the "mass mind" #MassMind of society:

1. Those who love the hate and self-harm of Donald Trump

2. Those who hate and praise hate of Donald Trump.

Both of these cults are built upon hate and adding more hate teaching and "Hate Harder" #HateHarder machine messages to the world. Both cults right now in May 2025 USA are spreading hate messages, hate teaching, hate as religion, hate as faith system. #HateAsFaith

Dear World:

All Americans care about is that they can join the Total Mockery of Donald Trump. That they can say "orange skin", "poop diapers", "dumb / stupid / idiot / crazy / insane / fat / McDonald's / golf course" over and over on social machine systems. The cult is a media cult, the cult is social media cults, of reacting and taste-testing every turd that Donald Trump releases. Elon Musk too, reacting and taste-testing every turd shit by Twitter shit-birds.

Cults of media systems are real. Cults of Rupert Murdoch media systems are real. Cults of science fiction storybooks are real. Cult behaviors to people react-commenting and taste-testing the latest turds of Donald Trump are very real. #TurdTasteTesting

Every mental health professional in the world needs to rescue the United States of America population from "hate as faith", that "more hate" will make the world better.

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::::: “People will come to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985 :::

2025-05-14

#AutismSpectrumDisorder #ActuallyAutistic
#GenderSpectrum #FWakeGenderRoles
#FWakeOvertonWindow

I think there is a "Overton Window" that is why so many #Doctorates can't nail down exactly what "Autism Spectrum" is, and "ADHD Spectrum", and a whole slew of related issues.

I was reading the postings on Facebook the author of this book:

"Context Blindness: Digital Technology and the Next Stage of Human Evolution (Understanding Media Ecology, 10)" – January 25, 2022
by Eva Berger (Author), Lance Strate (Series Editor)

#EvaBerger has brought #MediaEcology right into the topic of autism.

#NeilPostmanWasRight1985 "Neil Postman was Correct in year 1985" - I think the medical community / psychology industry / psychiatry industry has entirely failed to study Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman's work.

I think that our lifestyle high in electric media content could be exposing genetic differences that have made #AutismDiagnosis a battleground between:

1. Hardware. genetics / DNA

2. Microcode. RNA Conformation / #RNAConformation / "Environmental Influences on Gene Expression"

3. Firmware. Religion, languages, education, parenting, clergy, school, wartime vs. peacetime. Oceanside vs. inland, etc, etc.

3. Software. books, television, social media, films. Acquired knowledge, experience, mentors, teachers., friends, family, parenting, marriage

The "Overton Window" of behavior, and even how a nation may behave towards autism spectrum symptoms in one time period say 1985 vs. 2025. Different nations ("When In Rome, Do as the Romans Do" metaphor), different education in the community, wartime / dictatorship vs. access go information from across the world, etc, etc, etc.

2025-05-14

#Autism #AutismSpectrumDisorder
#AspergersSyndrome
#ActuallyAutistic

Study of autism, world travel, media ecology study and experience has lead me to some very different conclusions than what most clergy / teachers teach about #TheBible #HolyBible #BibleLiteracyCrisis

In particular, #SarahLawrenceCollege professor Joseph Campbell's equations of all #religions being true, I think he under-emphaiszes one important thing that people don't seem to discuss about #JamesJoyce / #FinnegansWake and Joseph Campbell's foundation of a lifetime of work based on Joyce...

1. Religions are metaphor languages (Campbell emphasizes this)

2. Religions have common human brain / human biological roots like languages do.

3. You can translate religion to religion at metaphor level. Similar to how written and spoken human languages can be translated.

4. Some things don't translate because they are unique experiences. For example, a spoken / written language for cooking a food that does not grow in other parts of the world. There may be language words for that food, to describe that food, tools to cook that food - that do not simply translate to a language from another part of the world.

5. The Tower of Babel metaphor is also applicable to "Tower of Religions", #FWakeForkBomb forking of religions into branches. Shia vs. Sunni / Catholic vs. Protestant (sub-branches, Lutheran Christian vs. Baptist Christian, etc, etc).

6. Marriage shows that people raised in different languages and different food systems and different religions can marry together and work as a family. That it is indeed possible to translate religion to region at metaphor level. If Love and Compassion are treated as "common ground" between religions, people can do choice marriage. #FWakeChoiceMarriage

EMPHASIS point, back to start of this post: Autism Spectrum Disorder

Tower of Babel, Tower of Religions, is very much an experience like "Autism Spectrum", how hard it is to describe what autism has been since 1940. The ever-changing diagnosis criteria and global differences in comprehension and understanding across time (such as "Asperger's Syndrome" not being translated to English and popular topic until early 1980's).

A lot more I've said on the hashtags of these subjects.

RoundSparrow 🐦RoundSparrow
2025-05-07


When I read comments like this, how people dehumanize each other, the social sport of organized hate is even more a nightmare to me. How people behave towards communications.

old.reddit.com/r/woahthatsinte

2025-02-18
I have autism.
I am autistic.
And so are many others.

But we are not the same. We face very similar struggles and wildly different ones. Autism doesn't have 'a look', we might look nothing alike. Yet we're all human.

I figured I'd start a trend to show the different #FacesofAutism. Because we're all beautiful 🥰

#actuallyautistic #autism #neurodivergent #ass #autismspectrumdisorder #autismawareness

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