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Avery Donovan 🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @averydonovan.com · 15h

The interviewee makes some horrifying arguments, especially at the end with an endorsement of the “Cass Review” and a call for doing one for autism and ADHD. Really gave away the game there.

www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Sami Timimi: Why ‘invented’ SEND labels are disabling pupils

Diagnostic labels are medicalising young people for behaviours once considered ordinary and are contributing to unsustainable workload in schools, argues psychiatrist Sami Timimi

www.tes.com

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Avery Donovan 🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @averydonovan.com · 16h

This is one from March when multiple folks in a Discord were posting theirs. I got the high score 😂

I’d taken this multiple times over the years and the score has been similar.

Despite suspecting it for so many years, getting my diagnosis a couple months ago really hit me unexpectedly hard 🥹

Screenshot of RAADS-R results from Embrace Autism website.

Total: 198

Language subtotal: 17

Social relatedness subtotal: 88

Sensory/motor subtotal: 51

Circumscribed interests subtotal: 42

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Avery Donovan 🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @averydonovan.com · 16h

OMG the last line 😂

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 1d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings.

These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.

Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 4d

there is no substitute for coffee. If all I wanted was caffeine, I'd take a fucking pill. Coffee tastes good and I like drinking it. End of.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 4d

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

bit.ly

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Large Marge Sent Me 👻 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 8d

You can always keep fucking with your gender.

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Avery Donovan 🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @averydonovan.com · 10d

The crosswalks not only look really nice, they’re far more clearly marked than the old ones.

This is yet another blatant attack on the LGBTQIA community.

Avery Donovan 🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @averydonovan.com · 11d

The timing of the press release happens to coincide with this: www.tpr.org/news/2025-10...

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Avery Donovan 🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @averydonovan.com · 12d

🫂

I absolutely hate migraines. Mine went chronic many years ago.

I hope this episode breaks for you quickly and your postdrome is short.

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Scarewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 13d

Wow, it must be terrible being told that you can’t use the bathroom.

'Very difficult situation': Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her agents were not being permitted to use restrooms in Chicago because of opposition from residents.During a Sunday interview on ...

www.rawstory.com

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 16d

People like to claim that autistics are bad at communicating and like, my dude, the problem does not lie with us, it lies with the web of manipulation and lies and passive aggression and ulterior agendas that you weave around yourselves instead of just doing what we do, which is saying what we mean.

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Avery Donovan 🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @averydonovan.com · 17d

17 states and 1 should-be-a-state, most of which have shield laws for trans healthcare, have AGs that cared enough to tear into Andrew Ferguson’s abuse of power.

The letter is also a succinct statement, with extensive footnotes, on the well-established safety and benefits of trans healthcare.

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 17d

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.

And nobody covered it.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned

Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 18d

Being a person with autism has not been easy but the reason it hasn't been easy- is because non-autistic people are not taught how to interact with autistic people. Autistic people are expected to socially mask & neurotypicals generally don't have even a base idea of how autistic people communicate.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 19d

If Democrats cave on this, I will never, ever, ever, ever vote for them ever again. Ever.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 19d

oh look, it’s literally the thing i wrote about for @rollingstone.com happening in real time. as we speak. like exactly what i reported, like a carbon copy.

as a reminder, here’s what i said people within the party and trans care advocates believe will most likely happen next.

Pinknews: In a post on Truth Social earlier this month, the president demanded that Democrats support provisions in an appropriations bill which would ban federal funding for any hospital or medical facility that provided gender-affirming care, including hormone replacement therapy (HRT), to a patient of any age.

At a minimum, anxious Democrats and advocates believe that party leaders will capitulate on trans health care coverage in federal funding negotiations on the margins, allowing language that bans government-backed insurance plans from covering these services.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21d

Disabled people can’t “just move” to escape fascism.

Moving requires resources, money and health that most of us don’t have.

Many countries won’t accept disabled people, especially if they have universal healthcare.

People are trapped, so we must fight for them.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 22d

“If it were really that bad you would be in the hospital”.

Maybe that’s true for a non disabled person, but when you’re chronically ill you can’t run to the ER every time things are bad.

You would live there.

There’s also very little they can do to help.

Suffering becomes a constant companion.

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Avery Donovan 🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @averydonovan.com · 24d

So the clock has been rewound to harassing people on suspicion of being queer while existing in public? WTF.

They should spend that money on janitorial services and maintenance instead. The restrooms in there are horrifying.

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Avery Donovan 🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @averydonovan.com · 25d

Frustration at what?

Autism isn’t a problem; lack of accessible diagnosis and available support for autistic people is the actual problem.

Fuck Politico for posting this eugenicist garbage.

To quote Howard Beale in Network: “I’m a human being, goddammit! My life has value!”

Politico @politico.com · 25d

Trump’s Tylenol diatribe was rooted in frustration.

The president wants to stem rising autism rates even if it means pregnant patients don’t treat their pain and delay their kids’ vaccinations.

Trump’s Tylenol diatribe was rooted in frustration

The president wants to stem rising autism rates even if it means pregnant women don’t treat their pain and delay their kids’ vaccinations.

www.politico.com

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petey @peteypayless.bsky.social · 25d

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

A map titled United States High Speed Rail System showing a theoretical high speed rail system in the United States. Some lines also connect north to Vancouver or the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor, or south to Tijuana or Monterrey. The map is credited to First Cultural Industries AKA Alfred Twu, dated from February 2013, and is downloadable at www.californiarailmap.com

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 26d

Can’t help but notice that the Trump admin is obsessed with the eugenics of autistic people and surprise autistic people are more likely to be transgender.

(This is a correlation not causation statistic. It’s an “elevated co-occurrence.” But the admin doesn’t give a shit about nuance.)

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Avery Donovan 🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @averydonovan.com · 26d

The last 2 weeks sure have been a great time to even marginally pay attention to the news as an autistic trans person 🙃

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Avery Donovan 🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @averydonovan.com · 29d

I’m sure Bobby Jr’s crack team of bullshitologists have totally manufactured some “cause” that’s even less plausible than the ones those assholes have already shat out.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29d

Trump: "I think we're gonna have something very very big coming up soon on autism. Autism is totally out of control ... we're gonna have a news conference early next week on autism."

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · Sep 17

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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Avery Donovan 🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @averydonovan.com · Sep 17

In the regular session of the Texas lege, a bill was passed defining “biological sex” in statute.

Yet the bathroom bill passed in the second special session had its own definition of sex.

Legislated transphobia is hard, I guess. 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️👿

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · Sep 16

this is SO goddamn tortured because making trans identity illegal in law without also having cis people catch strays is *literally impossible*.

Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · Sep 16

to the surprise of no one, the “Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" also bans trans people from the internet in the state. calling trans and queer experiences "pornographic" has been part of the playbook for a long time