Quite happy with my first conference paper presentation on 'Constructing Language(s) and (Neuro)Divergence in Haden Elgin's Native Tongue' at #bsls2026 - naturally including #conlang and #autism talk! Anyone interested feel free to visit autistic.conlang.org, although it's still quite empty...
I wonder how that would have affected or changed my relationship with my (very conservative) catholic school I went to for all of my teenage years, plus some
So living with my parents abruptly became unsafe (mentally/emotionally) and I'm leaving ASAP. I have somewhere to go, but it's out of state. I'm packing now but I have to register my car before I go and that's $500. Anything helps. 🫀
Venmo: probablyharmless
PayPal: theohillwriter at gmail
I am admittedly being quite inconsistent with using my pen name in online spaces!
My 'adolescent romp' (previous rejection by unnamed market) 'The Scent of Lightning', a fungal-horror coming-of-age story, is out in Chthonic Matter Quarterly 11 (Fall 2025), along with stories by other amazing writers such as @horrorsong.blog 😀https://chthonicmatter.wordpress.com/chthonicmatter/
It is done 🥳I at last submitted my MA diss last night - referred to as a diss cause I'm dissing Simon Baron Cohen, the pathology paradigm and misconceptions about divergent languages such as sign languages
It might be more accurately described as pulling out your own teeth!
Probably like editing...
Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok
One of my favourite stories I ever wrote, in a beautifully designed and edited book 😊
He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...
It was in Germany, and we might have been bit behind the times there - though even as an eight-year old, I felt kinda wise to the act... though eight-year olds always feel they are, I guess!
#OTD in 1993 I visited a child psychiatrist who missed that I was autistic despite my seeing (specific different) dinosaurs in most Rorschachs
Congrats Mathew!
If thats Buchanan Street Bus station I've been there a lot but never noticed, which doesn't really speak for my situational or spatial awareness!
Not to add to the author's intellectual insecurity, but the German in parentheses is wrong (wrong article and adjective declension) 🫣
Wait, is that new, or did I never notice? 🤔
Graphic with a purple check bacground. It says 'Pride in our community! Holyrood Park 21st June - 11am-12:45pm" at the top. Below this is a white box which says "On our stage you'll hear from:" Followed by the Living Rent, Trans Kids Deserve Better, Exhale Glasgow, AMASE, Unison, Queer Disabled Edinburgh and Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh logos. "Alongside speakers from the community!" At the bottom are the Equality Network and Scottish Trans logos.
Graphic with a purple check background. In the middle is an illustrated map of Holyrood Park showing the location of the event on the left side of the park close to the palace wall and the car park entrance. Above the map it says: "Holyrood Parl 21st June 11am-12:45pm" "How to Find us!" There is an arrow pointing to the Education Centre on the map with a box that says "There will be pride crafts and a chill out zone with EN staff in the Holyrood Park Education Centre." At the bottom of the graphic it says "Level access to Holyrood park is available from the main car park at the Palace of Holyrood House."
Tomorrow (the 21st of June) is Pride in our Community, in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh.
AMASE Chair @fergus.oolong.co.uk will be one of the speakers, talking about the indivisibility of the struggles for queer, trans and neurodivergent liberation.
Sharing this here to get the word farther
That's the spirit!
I would love to take part as I might have an idea but no time or spoons most likely :(
"End Credits" is one of the best songs on the whole soundtrack, agreed!
Happy Autistic Pride day to all. We hope you all get time to do something you love today and if you’re in Edinburgh why not take a selfie of yourself with the Autistic Pride Day flag outside St Andrews House and tag us in!
This is the 20th year of Autistic Pride: a time to reject shame and celebrate
Oh, I think that's pretty easy for me, at least until I think of an important one I've forgotten!
Is it for a flash fiction contest by any chance? 😬
"The Swords", "The Same Dog" and "The Hospice" are all great imo!
Very happy that this slightly off-kilter story of mine found a great home with the amazing God's Cruel Joke!
Audiobook cover, white background with black text reading "Empire of Normality: neurodiversity and capitalism, Robert Chapman, Elliot Fitzpatrick". There is a silhouette of a sideways face, with an image of birds instead of a face.
Comrades! Now the audiobook's finally out, I have five codes for free audible copies of *Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism*. If you want one just like and share/quote this post. After 48 hours I'll pick five sharers at random to send the codes to.
Exciting news: this year's Weird Pride Day (4th March) is 47 days before the first Sunday after the first full moon following the Spring equinox - and you all know what that means, right?
Yes, folks... this year, #WeirdPride Day is *also* PANCAKE DAY!
Next Weird Pride Pancake Day isn't until 2087.