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ADHD | Autistic Self-Advocate | ICF ADHD/Autism Coach. Nonbinary. They/he. 🏳️‍🌈Bi/pan. Married. Header is art by @kayas-kosmos.bsky.social

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · Nov 14

I see why people were doing reintroductions now.

I am an ADHD/Autism self-advocate and researcher. I skeet these things sporadically ADHD/Autism/AuDHD science, local Aotearoa (NZ) politics, my own personal experiences with AuDHD.
I also skeet a lot of shitposts, and reskeet cool art I love.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 9h

I have never been more invested in someone cutting chives more in my life.

Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 12h

People picking up stuff out of the ocean that looks cute is wild to me.

A lot of the world's deadliest animals are cute ocean things.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22h

Young Republicans say they love Hitler. But what does that tell us about their politics?

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 13h

Do what you can when you can to improve things for others, but getting locked into 24/7 news cycles of global events is a recipe for severe negative consequences with prolonged exposure.

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 13h

Limiting your time on social media for your own mental health isn't selfish. Looking at content regarding global events you have little influence over isn't going to change the reality of those situations. There are limits to empathy that can be burned out, usually from isolation with these things.

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 13h

One of the worst things about nearly every other social media place but here is the lack of ability to control what you see.

Worse still is that engagement is what matters to social media companies, so feeding people constant content of atrocities or people experiencing trauma makes money.

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 13h

Vicarious trauma is a pretty significant mental health modifier in the age of social media.

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 4d

well, there you have it

A graph that asks "DOES FAST FASHION CAUSE AUTISM?*" with an orange and a blue graph rising over time. The blue graph is generally a few deviations above the orange line. The blue line represents SHEIN SALES and the orange one is AUTISM RATES except *No, this is a fake graph. from @audhd-psychnp.com

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 15h

The IPCA does the absolute minimum to hold police to account. This is just laughable though.

Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 15h

We take these matters seriously, we put him in a new team.

Ok...

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 15h

“The behaviour is unacceptable, and we take these matters very seriously, however for privacy reasons I am unable to comment further around specifics of the process.

“I can, however, confirm that the member involved has since been moved to another role with different responsibilities,” Hooper said.

Senior police officer accused of bullying, and sexist and derogatory remarks to team

Police watchdog finds a senior officer’s actions amounted to serious misconduct.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 1d

A meme showing a soldier kneeling protectively over a sleeping child in a bed. The soldier is being struck by bullets and is on fire, shielding the child from harm. Text labels identify the soldier as “the noise boys,” the bullets and explosions as “the cold inescapable reality of how bad things are,” and the sleeping child as “me.”

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 1d

nancy no!!!!

(recipe: Hamburger Steak with Onions and Gravy)

recipe review

Nancy Wood
1 star

Do NOT use vanilla in place of sherry! I just made this exactly as written and used vanilla since I didn't have sherry. It is now down the disposal. The smell alone was a huge indicator of what it would taste like. Whoever thought of vanilla with meat? Nasty.

(5 people found this helpful)

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 1d

The subreddit for this content is one of my favourites.

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 1d

things bullets say

Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 1d

Almost every time I go thru JFK something weird happens.

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 1d

Meme using a scene from the TV show Friends where Phoebe and Joey are talking.

Panel 1: Phoebe says, “Conversion therapy is bad.”
Panel 2: Joey replies, “Conversion therapy is bad!”
Panel 3: Phoebe says, “Conversion therapy was based on ABA.”
Panel 4: Joey responds, “That is a fact.”
Panel 5: Phoebe says, “It’s good that conversion therapy has been banned in many places.”
Panel 6: Joey replies, “Of course.”
Panel 7: Phoebe concludes, “So we should ban the use of ABA on Autistic people.”
Panel 8: Joey, suddenly smiling, says, “It’s the gold standard of ‘early intervention.’”

The meme critiques the inconsistency of condemning conversion therapy while continuing to endorse Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) for autistic individuals.

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 1d

Non-Autistic ally: "We support you! Autistic people deserve to live with dignity and respect!"

Autistic people: "Help us to ban ABA then!"

Non-Autistic ally: *crickets*

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 1d

If I can't see it, it doesn't exist. The only things I have in drawers are utensils that I rarely use, and they are in the rarely used utensil drawer.

The amount of times people have "helped" people with ADHD by trying to get them to have neurotypical brains is wild.

Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 1d

"Your kitchen organisation was chaos, and it made the place look cluttered so I've reorganised it so everything is in drawers"

The story of how I ended up living on take out food and eating directly from the fridge for three weeks.

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 1d

It wasn't the gutting fishing regulations for corporates, opening up gas and oil mining, marking large areas of conservation land for mining (including coal mining)... that also signalled this ?

This has been the most anti-climate government we've ever had.

Scientists fear weaker methane target signals wider retreat from climate action

After cutting methane targets, New Zealand has a choice: shoulder the burden at huge cost - or cause more warming to the planet.

www.rnz.co.nz

Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 2d

Best ending and yet still so hard to watch.

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Stephanie... In New Zealand @bootstheory.bsky.social · 2d

"We dismantled all the social support structures and then people sought out the only social support structures available, this is a mystery" - Mark Mitchell, apparently

Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 2d

Gang numbers reach record highs under National - but could be even higher, as police can no longer easily identify members.
Meanwhile gang profits double too. Too bad most Kiwis will never realise in the absence of right wing media dominance & not enough funding on the other side #nzpol #kiwi

Police Minister says record high gang numbers "highly concerning" July 29 1News article

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 2d

“Do you believe Auckland CBD has become an uninviting destination for the public beset by anti-social behaviour and neglect?”

Pretty sure that question absolutely destroys any credibility of this poll.

Herald poll finds 97% believe Auckland CBD anti-social and uninviting, amid accounts of public sex and ‘meth-fueled rage’

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 2d

Just want less Cookers representing us.

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