People who say autistics have no empathy have no empathy for autistics.
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Need some help with a writing project and would appreciate #actuallyautistic for their feed back.
Swapped #zines with @marisa@mastodon.scot and received these beauties documenting our bad times and ways to fight them.
Help me show how grateful I am with a boost 🙂 ?
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) altered in children with autism
"Tregs act as immune system "brakes," calming inflammation to prevent overreaction. They are often decreased in autistic individuals."
"‘Betrayed’: Families are dealing with dashed hopes after pivot on autism treatment"
"Joyce says 5-year-old Jose Morales-Ortiz started taking leucovorin last year. The child was nonverbal before treatment, he said, but slowly improved. Joyce attributes that to the drug and said Jose can now say eight words."
I would attribute this more to development than a drug. A lot of autistic kids learned to speak late in years. Also, early intervention can help a child speak sooner as well.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/11/health/leucovorin-autism-fda-what-to-know
A question for gen x.
When I was a kid in the seventies and early eighties there was this black tablet that when you lit it on fire expanded into an ash snake.
Does anyone remember what they were called.
UPDATE Thanks to those who responded. Magic snakes or black snakes seems right. I’m thrilled I wasn’t going through a Mandela Affect 😝
Sometimes I drive or walk around the city and can still smell those snakes. Major sensory memory going on
Didn’t do much writing this week or anything artistic. The last week and the next two are filled with various medical appointments, yearly events, and stress related to my wife’s troubles. With any luck I hope to do some word collage. Months ago I cut up all the words from last year’s campaign mail. About a years worth.
I want to write. I want to do my verb novel. But I should wait until life settles a bit.
What I love about practicing Buddhism, if you practice it long enough you’re no longer a Buddhist.
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@DrSafariBoob
Holy crap!
Hm a rocket was launched to the moon and it didn’t explode. Guess it wasn’t a Space X launch
The Peoples Manifesto For Writing Creative Fiction
The Peoples Manifesto For Writing Creative Fiction Capitalism has colonized fiction. From the major publishers to the small press, all seek to mimic what characters and structures written before to make money. This is a dead cycle. Writers must counter structured and rigid corporate fiction by writing through improvisation. Improvisation is creativity. Confronting nothingness leads to improvisation which taps into the subconsciousness which leads to creativity.
If neurotypicals can help me with a writing project I would greatly appreciate it.
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@cesarpose
Yep. Therapy, speech therapy, works. My daughter had a similar path. She fazed out of it at sixth grade and is interested in other languages.
All authority is a joke. There are no experts anymore, unless you count those jerk offs on social media that say they’re experts without paying dues and learning from their mistakes or being obsessed with their field and wanting to add innovation to it, which is the current administration.
Fucking Brilliant Notebook #138
Doubted. Trusted. Executed. Systematic damage done. © 2026 Mike Purfield
https://mepurfielddotcom.wordpress.com/2026/04/17/fucking-brilliant-notebook-138/
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@cesarpose
Looks to be a good indication. It would certainly explain my IBS.
Sesame Street: Twelve Angry Men | Monsterpiece Theater
Researching 16-page one-sheet zines. I love how tiny they are. Think it would be a good format when I print the best of Fucking Brilliant Notebook this summer 🤔
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@CMRosens@social.horrorhub.club
Deep Red is king. It has so much to say.
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@jwtownshend
No prob 🙂
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@irina
The difference in sexes is also a red flag for me. But these things usually have a long way to go.
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@AncTreat5358
Ha! So far so good. 😉
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@SrRochardBunson
Hmmm maybe magic snakes.
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@AutisticInnovator
I believe you can still buy a laptop with a disc drive but it costs twice as much without one. Then there are desktops.
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@AutisticInnovator
And yet most people won’t buy from indie artists or distributors that offer ownership 🤷♂️
Fucking Brilliant Notebook #135
Margaritas. My false manner. Your heaviness. © 2026 Mike Purfield
https://mepurfielddotcom.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/fucking-brilliant-notebook-135/
Fucking Brilliant Notebook #176
Her walk walked. His heart disarrayed. © 2026 Mike Purfield
https://mepurfielddotcom.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/fucking-brilliant-zine-176/
If you don’t know Mojo Nixon
The #fediverse needs some fixin
Fucking Brilliant Notebook #137
3 window cleaners. 10 dead bodies. © 2026 Mike Purfield
https://mepurfielddotcom.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/fucking-brilliant-notebook-137/
Fucking Brilliant Zine #136
Wasted skin. Sick. Nonsensical. Highly influential. © 2026 Mike Purfield
https://mepurfielddotcom.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/fucking-brilliant-zine-136/
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@noodlemaz
Oh I see 😊
Fucking Brilliant Notebook #140
Oddball rolled over capitalists. Apocalypse now. © 2026 Mike Purfield
https://mepurfielddotcom.wordpress.com/2026/04/19/fucking-brilliant-notebook-140/
Listening to the new Edvard Lewis (Wire) and writing a #zine about story and how it became a whore.
Fucking Brilliant Notebook #119
File downloaded. Opened. Corrupted. Slaughtered. Rejected. © 2026 Mike Purfield
https://mepurfielddotcom.wordpress.com/2026/03/29/fucking-brilliant-notebook-119/
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@noodlemaz
Dunno if I would consider them fireworks. There’s no explosion or fuses. They had to be used outdoors because of the smell 🙃
Julio Cortazar’s Hopscotch is quite the mindfuck. The ideal way to read it is perfect for ebook. Critics may be right that it’s up there with Ulysses.
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@mrfigtree
Wish I didn’t know what that is like 😝
Fucking Brilliant Notebook #139
Dirty looks. Threats. Dog pound gas. © 2026 Mike Purfield
https://mepurfielddotcom.wordpress.com/2026/04/18/fucking-brilliant-notebook-139/
A short and nifty animated vid about James Joyce's life and work.
It's all standard, common knowledge but calling him the starter of Stream-of-Consciousness has been argued.
It has been recorded that Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf are the forebearers of SOC.
Since both women were in Paris during the Modernist expat period as Joyce was, it is possible he might have been influenced by them. it would explain why Stein didn't care for Joyce much. It would also make sense artistically. He might have read their works and been inspired by them.
Combined with the works of Jung who was also a big influence on the Modernists of that time, he might have been overwhelmed with influence and inspiration. As what makes a good artist. He could have thought 'What if...'.