Actually now I count 14 Black Kites in the 4th photo.
#firehawk

Osprey bird of prey standing on a floodlight, body facing right, head turned to left.

Black Kite bird of prey flying left against a blue sky background.

White-bellied Sea Eagle bird of prey flying right against a blue sky background. Entire underside of bird is visible, warm lighting before sunset.

Several (eleven) Black Kite birds of prey standing on a mound of reddish brown earth.

Pilbara raptors
1. Osprey standing on a floodlight
2. Black Kite bird of prey flying in blue sky
3. White-bellied Sea Eagle flying in blue sky
4. Eleven Black Kites standing on a mound of reddish brown earth
#raptors #australianbirds #westernAustralia
#pilbara

A pair of White-Browed Honeyeater birds on a branch, facing away from each other

A Rainbow Bee-eater bird on a branch facing to the right.

Couple of the beautiful #birds from the tropical Pilbara coastal area, Western Australia.
💚🦜
#australia #WesternAustralia
#naturephotography

The shit people say is astonishing sometimes. Meant well? - nope, it's a shutdown. They want you to stop expressing your upset feelings to _them_.

composite image of some R code blended with a photograph of two white spoonbill birds with yellow bills on water. The colour palette is predominantly blue, and the code is 'dark mode' with light text on a dark background.

So proud of this comment today from a student evaluation: “Finally someone taking the time to actually explain how to use R. This is the 4th unit I have done that required it and the first time I feel I can actually use it after doing the course.”
🙏😍 #Rstats

P.s. in Australia it's Sunday

Autism is not a "personality type". We aren't behaving autistically to make life "easier"for ourselves.
❗😠

What seems to not be understood is that #Autistic people are under +15x more cognitive load per second (my math) than allistic folk. We are built to process every 👏🏽 bit 👏🏽 of 👏🏽 input & need scaffolding to operate in AllisticLand. We burn out anyway because support is woefully insufficient.

I hope you're saving everything you write here. I could see a book coming. Or maybe a thesis...

You can take some small comfort from the knowledge that you sharing about your frantic inner life is heard and treasured. I hear you and I feel heard. Thank you.

Brussels sprout or radish

Yes, `vegan` is the way to go. Here's what I give my students ratey-atuwa.github.io/Learn-R-web/...

I want to keep on being the contradictory guy who's into poetry, the environment, and nature AND loves metal music, fishing and shooting, and sometimes just wants to smash things.

Feeling anger and frustration because a large part of my masking is to say 'yes' to stuff I really don't want to do.
How to undo 60 years of being Mr Easygoing.
😠
#masking #autistic #neurodivergence

This is so real. For me it's a shameful secret. Thanks for putting it out there as a reality.

White-faced Heron, a long-legged wading bird with mostly grey feathers, backlit by early morning sun while standing in shallow water with many small aquatic plants.

A White-faced Heron fluffs up its feathers in the morning coolness, Njookenboro (Herdsman Lake), Perth, Western Australia

Sunrise with the bright horizon and orange-pink clouds reflected in the still water of a lake.

I want to always be here.

Maybe it gets better with awareness. I'm not very hopeful at present. Any hints for how to deal with it to make life with NT people easier?

Great series of posts; very true for me, but a pretty unhelpful reality to neurotypical people close to me 😪

Well said. Disconcertingly accurate for me 🙄

thank you. I'll remember this to tell my (also autistic) daughter. it's a very affirming perspective 😊

I absolutely relate to this. Is "Joy of Autism" a book? Who wrote it?

these are simply wonderful

great resource for #universalDesignForLearning #UDL #academicsky

I feel for you. today I said to my therapist "I have never felt more incompetent at work". I'm 61 years old and a Professor with 30+ years experience post-PhD 🙄

dozens of ducks on a pond, all standing in shallow water in a geometric curve (probably on a submerged pipe)

"Getting all your ducks lined up" = Australian phrase for "getting everything organised how you like it"

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Te Wakoropupū springs are a national treasure and culturally significant. Our govt would destroy them for some gold.
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Yep... I'm actually surprised that it's only 80%. Of course there are many arseholes out there, so probably a high percentage of neurotypical people have experienced the same 😐

they also say you can change, you *must* change to fit in the NT world 😠