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elm
@autistickynotes.bsky.social
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stories from a BIPoC, queer, autistic, and adhd lens. direct, unfiltered, and rooted in lived experience.

https://www.instagram.com/autistickynotes
https://autistickynotes.substack.com
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autistickynotes.bsky.social
what grows when you slow down?
a pineapple, yes. but also trust, presence, & a rhythm shared between a parent & child.

a story of joy, tending, & learning to let life unfold.

read it here: autistickynotes.substack.com

#actuallyautistic #parentingjoy #blackjoy #audhd #slowliving
Rooting for us
Four years, two pineapples, and a reminder that everything grows in its own good time.
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January 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
autistickynotes.bsky.social
read grief has a good memory on substack. for the ones who feel it all.
for those learning not to rush the healing.

this new piece is about the stories that live in the body long after they end.

#actuallyautistic #AuDHD #autism #adhd
Grief Has a Good Memory
Sitting with what the mind refuses to release.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
autistickynotes.bsky.social
something small, a handshake, lit up my whole body. not confusion. not envy. just a knowing kind of anger. wrote this in the fall. still feeling it.
#writingcommunity #blackwriters #neurodivergent #autisticwriting #culturalappropriation #art #audhd
elm (@autistickynotes)
i wrote this back in September or October, when something small, a handshake, hit my body like a warning. i didn’t write it to explain. i wrote it because i was full. because there’s a kind of anger ...
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December 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
autistickynotes.bsky.social
honesty shouldn’t feel dangerous. but for many of us who speak plainly, who name what’s real, it often does.
this piece is about what it means to be autistic in a world that rewards politeness over truth and what becomes possible when we choose to slow down and stay real.
what honesty asks of us
truth is a new beginning
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December 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
autistickynotes.bsky.social
truth is a kind of care. even when it is uncomfortable. well, especially then.

i shared this because it speaks a truth i am learning to live. may it resonate with something true in you too.

#AuDHD #Honesty #Autism #ADHD #Allisticcommunication #neurocomplex #neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic
elm (@elimose)
truth is a kind of care. even when it is uncomfortable. well, especially then. telling the truth of what i feel or what happened is not something i need to apologize for. it never was even though it...
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December 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
autistickynotes.bsky.social
this piece came from a quiet moment that reminded me how grief and tenderness live side by side. on this day of mourning, i wrote what my body is carrying. it’s up now on Substack.

#AuDHD #actuallyautistic #dayofmourning #gratitude #stay #tendernessisstrength #queervoices #transjoy
elm (@elimose)
this moment, this hand, reminded me what it means to belong. this reflection moves through mourning, memory, and the quiet power of gratitude.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
autistickynotes.bsky.social
Some thoughts don’t arrive with answers.

This piece is a trace of my inner weather of what it means to feel deeply, live slowly, and unmask in a world that often misunderstands.
I wrote it to stay present with myself. Maybe it helps you stay, too.

#ItsOkayToNotBeOkay
#AuDHD #autism #depression
Playing human
Disclaimer
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November 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
autistickynotes.bsky.social
the only way is through. this is how hidden love finds the sun. through grief, through breath, through small rituals of care.

#TheOnlyWayIsThrough #LoveMadeVisible #AutisticVoice #JoyfulMotherfuckers #TendernessInPractice #AuDHD
The Only Way Is Through
Finding love in the light
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September 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
autistickynotes.bsky.social
i never dreamed of being a parent. i said yes to it with fear and regret. and still, parenting gave me a love I never thought possible.

#Autism #ADHD #AuDHD #Family #Healing #Love #Parenting #Queer #BIPoC
For Those Who Never Saw Themselves as Parents
On regret, resistance, and discovering a love I could not have imagined
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September 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
autistickynotes.bsky.social
the other night my friend and i stared at this for what felt like hours. holding joy and silence, imagining people not being terrified to exist. a summer without ice indeed.

#meltice #beaconhill #satx #asummerwithoutice
This is a mural painted on the side of a building. A child, smiling with popsicle dripping down their face, is holding a melting popsicle in one hand and a toy truck in the other. The text says, “Un Verano Sin I.C.E.”
September 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
autistickynotes.bsky.social
This piece is about eating again, and it is also about survival, family, grief, and the stubborn hope of still believing in people. I am learning to write from that place. I invite you to read, and maybe walk this journey with me.

#AuDHD #writingtoheal #autistic #BIPoC #BLM #transjoyistesistance
Eating, Trust, and the Work of Believing
Notes on family, survival, and still choosing to believe in people
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August 31, 2025 at 9:19 PM
autistickynotes.bsky.social
my first post on Substack feels like opening a door. it’s my voice, unmasked, beginning to imagine out loud.

this is an invitation for you to listen and journey with me, too.

#audhd #adhd #autistic #bipoc #imaginingpossibilities #transjoy #unmasking
Another world is possible
Before I began writing here, I gave this speech to youth development professionals.
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August 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
I think this is the most horrifying post I have ever read.
85% of Gaza’s population have entered the "fifth stage" of malnutrition — the most critical and dangerous phase, which is often irreversible even if food becomes available in the future.
July 19, 2025 at 4:17 AM
autistickynotes.bsky.social
@abelouise.bsky.social has the feature, poem-a-day, on the Academy of American Poets! It is beautiful.

Here is a link to her reading it: megaphone.link/POETS2185059...

#poemaday #abelouiseyoung #queerartists
Abe Louise Young: “Who” by Poem-a-Day
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July 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
autistickynotes.bsky.social
call your representatives. have hope that your call will do something. this is absolutely catastrophic. people will die.

#5callsapp #savemedicaid
rollingstone.com Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · May 19
A whopping 76 percent oppose significant cuts to Medicaid.

The tax bill that Republicans ultimately pass — public opinion be damned — will make life more difficult for millions of low-income Americans.

Here’s everything you need to know ⤵️
Trump's Plan to Kick Millions of Americans Off Medicaid, Explained
Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress are imposing massive cuts to Medicaid in order to fund tax breaks for the richest Americans.
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May 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
autistickynotes.bsky.social
start it around 22 sec. when i get lost inside myself, i watch this on repeat. we live in a world that is so beautiful. we just need to pause and look.

#blm #transjoyisresistance #mdd #cptsd #siponjoy
Murmuration
A chance encounter and shared moment with one of natures greatest and most fleeting phenomena. Facebook: Islands And Rivers For licensing information contact…
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May 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
autistickynotes.bsky.social
my heart hurts.
"the stars have time to burn / while winking at us"
The Ball
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May 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
autistickynotes.bsky.social
More of this
Beverly on Substack
Powerful! Perfectly articulated. This man is to be appluaded.
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May 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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geauxgabrielle.bsky.social
Shoutout to Iberville Parish having a BALL lmaoooooooooooo
3 Black girls taking selfies outside of the burnt remains of Nottoway Plantation
May 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
autistickynotes.bsky.social
ancestors are celebrating today!

#blacklivesmatter #fafo
lesliemac.com Leslie Mac @lesliemac.com · May 16
🧵The largest plantation in the South burned down this week.
And the way white folks—especially wedding vendors—are mourning “memories” and “brides who won’t get to have their special day there”?

It’s giving cognitive dissonance.

Because let’s be real...
A large, two-story Southern plantation-style mansion engulfed in flames, with fire consuming the upper floors and thick black smoke billowing into the sky. The mansion features tall white columns and a grand staircase at the entrance. In the foreground, several firefighters in yellow helmets and protective gear work to manage hoses and battle the blaze, while a white fence separates them from the burning structure. The scene is chaotic and dramatic, with intense fire and smoke dominating the image.
May 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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yasmeen.bsky.social
Today is the day of the Nakba, the beginning of the genocide and displacement of the Palestinians.

The Nakba never ended. It’s been 77 years of ongoing Nakba.
May 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
autistickynotes.bsky.social
…cuts on that scale would “reduce the number of people with health insurance by at least 8.6 million” across America #powertothepeople #savemedicaid
May 15, 2025 at 1:23 AM
autistickynotes.bsky.social
$880 billion cut to medicaid. Call your representatives. Find out if they know what the cut to this program means for communities. From this video, doesn’t seem like Blackburn does. #savemedicaid #5calls #callyourrepresentatives
Calling GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn about Medicaid
Call 202-224-3121 and demand answers from your reps!
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May 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
autistickynotes.bsky.social
“It’s no wonder people died there. The wonder is people survived there”
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · May 10
“They tell me from above that they call Sde Teiman a cemetery,” said the commander of the facility.

A former guard at the Israeli torture camp testifies to the horrific conditions there in this translation of a Haaretz oped.

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I saw a detainee die before my eyes – he was sitting next to other detainees, with a flannelette over his face, and at some point we just realized that the man was dead. I saw the commander of the facility gather everyone and try to calm down the daily routine of abuse, the psychological use of force, and the barbaric conditions in which the prisoners are held. I heard him explain that “they tell me from above that they call Sde Teiman a cemetery,” and that “this needs to stop.” I saw people enter this facility with war injuries, then starve for weeks without any medical care. I saw them peeing and shitting on themselves because they weren't allowed to go to the bathroom. I remember the smell to this day. Many of them weren't even Hamas terrorists, just Gazans who were detained pending interrogation and released to their homes after severe abuse, when it turned out they were innocent. It's no wonder people died there. The wonder is that people survived.
May 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
WASHINGTON (AP) — Up to 1,000 openly identifying transgender troops will be moved out of the military immediately under new Pentagon order.
May 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM