Yes, I'm allergic to soy. I'm used to seeing "contains soy." Though I do read every ingredient in case because some of my allergies don't tend to be highlighted like that.

They contain soy, which is listed in their ingredients, but not in the shorter allergens list.

Most think they are (and expect to be treated as) heroes.

As an AuDHD survivor of conversion therapy myself, one of the biggest challenges I still face is convincing my "allies" that my abusers are not "heroes." Their jobs are not more important than the autonomy of anyone.

#AntagonistApril

#TimeTravelAuthors April 2026 1. Introduce your story (opt. as a knock-knock or other joke) 3. What kind of coffee/caffeinated beverage do your characters like? (suggested by Candace Hill) 5. Games in your story 7. How seriously do they take time travel? 9. Will your characters admit they're wrong? 11. Saturday excerpt (opt. word: point) 13. Silliest character 15. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (opt. word: sink/sank) (suggested by NaraMoore) 17. How do you feel about story structure? 19. Any authorities in your story? 21. Repost or reply to another #TimeTravelAuthors participant's post 23. Do your characters test time travel? 25. Saturday excerpt (opt. word: alert/observe/observant) 27. Message/moral of story 29. Author's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn.bsky.social or @juliebihn.mastodon.social

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 1

Screams of Undead Dreams is a queer dystopian romantasy with magical time travel. After losing his best friend Flip discovers he can rewind time (but can't control it) and spends a significant part of the book trying to return to a timeline where his love still lives.

So, I am writing a time travel romantasy novel.

After Flip loses his best friend, he discovers he can rewind time. But he can't control it and spends a significant part of the novel trying to return to a timeline where his love still lives.

#AwesomeCharacters

I like to call it whimsical dystopian.

Flip is demisensual aroace
Glade is ace
Hugsley is greyromantic ace
Smile is demiromantic ace
Vale is demisexual aro

#QueerPrompts

Thanks, I hope it's worth the wait.

#QueerPrompts

Yes.

How it starts: forbidden love within conversion therapy

How it ends: HEA

#QueerPrompts

Many of the characters are neurodivergent (mostly ADHD, autistic, AuDHD)

Flip is AuDHD, & Plural
Glade is ADHD
Hugsley is AuDHD
Plaid is ADHD
Smile is Autistic
Vale is Autistic

I'm Bit, a transmasculine nonbinary AuDHD aroace that recently finished my first draft.

Screams Of Undead Dreams is a queer dystopian romantasy inspired by my experience growing up in ABA.

#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticAcceptanceMonth
#QueerPrompts

Videogame I've been excited for years for finally comes out and I'm too busy watching the One Piece trailer again.

As an AuDHD survivor of ABA, I'm wondering...

If ABA is "science" then would fiction about growing up in ABA technically be Science Fiction?

#askingautistics #actuallyautistic

Any other ABA survivors? How do you write creatively?

I keep not being able to. Being able to finish writing something is my best hope at getting away from my abusers and I keep shutting down and everyone tells me I need to feel safe, but I'm not safe.

#askingautistics #actuallyautistic

I wanted to play a game so badly I made characters for every subclass. With all the character sheets and notes I'd need to play any at a moment's notice. Years later I lost most of my TTRPG related notes, including everything I had prepared for that game. Still hoping to play the game eventually.

The genre I write the best, is the genre I want to avoid the most. I've tried to focus on my favorite genre and it's taking me forever to write anything. More of my abusers are becoming successful authors. The worst abuser is the most successful, and that's in the genre I'm avoiding the most.

I get this when I'm organizing. I try to remember which ones were next to which and keep them together, so they don't lose their friends.

Nor do we see diagnosis as validating. Being diagnosed with ADHD directly lead to us growing up in conversion therapy.

Those who make a big thing about diagnosis being positive don't tend to show up to make a difference for survivors like me/us.

I/we don't want diagnosis anyways.

Some systems are born plural. Some identify as endogenic for that reason.

We are valid. We don't need trauma to be valid, and we are endogenic.

I/we are the Bit Rebellious Lapidarym. I/we grew up in conversion therapy.

I/we were tortured for saying "we" but still don't qualify for diagnosis.

It is hard to make a difference on that. In high school, I had to read Hamlet and Oedipus back to back in English class. They both had a similar experience to me, but the way it was discussed in class... the teacher missed a chance to make students like me feel safe enough to talk about it.

Don't forget the long history of ABA being gay conversion therapy. (The UCLA Feminine Boy Project in 1970s)

I'm a trans man that grew up within ABA, being tortured for being trans for years before autism diagnosis.

NY State eventually passed a law to require insurance to pay for ABA done that way.

As a CSA survivor myself, thanks, most don't talk about these things.

But also, sometimes it's the parents.

Queer history needs to include survivors/casualties of conversion therapy (under all it's names).

ABA is conversion therapy. Always was, the two are indistinguishable.

I'm trans. I was tortured for being trans for years (within ABA) before being diagnosed with PDDNOS (a type of autism in DSM 4).

Since it's ace week, I want to say that while I was already a survivor of conversion therapy when I came out as ace, I am also a survivor as an ace. As in, the same old gay conversion therapy tactics were used on me (by "professionals") to erase my (a)sexuality. Even in queer run "safe spaces."

Gay conversion therapy never stopped. Born in NY State in the 90s, grew up in gay conversion therapy since a toddler. School district paid for significant amounts of conversion therapy for me throughout my childhood. Insurance required by NY State to cover it went into effect when I was a teenager.

Beyond Bruises: How BigABA Blocks Autistic Language, and Why It Matters for Literacy When Most Autistics—and Many Neurotypicals—Are Gestalt Language Processors, Erasing Our Pathways Is Not a Niche Harm but a Widespread Crisis

autside.substack.com/p/beyond-bru... - today's article is a very specific and detailed case against ABA for 'speech therapy.'

I don't know if it's still a thing but there used to be an annual game jam (Train Jam) event that was on a long (52 hour) train ride.

Demiagender here, ask away.

For example, if a parent claims their child needs it to "fix" the "behavioral issues" caused by their gender dysphoria, at most they would have to prove their kid was diagnosed with gender dysphoria, have a conversion therapist sign off on it and then their insurance can't refuse to pay for it.