2nd Year Cadet Brannigan pulled hard on the controls, sending his small training craft diving away from the attack drone. It flew in behind his craft, forcing Brannigan to duck and weave to prevent it getting a simulated weapons lock. The Asteroid field was coming up fast, it would provide both cover and obstacles.Pushing his […]
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Stardate: 55570.5 (Jan, 2379) Darkness, lit only by the occasional spark or flickering console. Commander Jason Anthos blinked to make sure he still had vision. He looked over at the closest officer, Science Officer Baldwin, who was nursing a rather nasty cut on her head, presumably when something above her had exploded, sending shrapnel everywhere.
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I was going to include this in my post on neurotypical brains versus Autistic brains and the miscommunications that arise as a result. But it would’ve too much or a tangent and made the post too long. So I’ve separated it out. I’m Autistic so why can I understand seemingly neurotypicals? The way people respond
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I’ve been writing some posts about Autism in a few other places lately, and I’ve been referencing the notion that Autistics brains neuronal connections are more structured and “fewer” than the “denser” more chaotic neuronal connections in a Neurotypical brain. This notion came from this study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-16440-z specifically the below image. (Some notes and caveats:
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This is something I wrote sometime last year, much has changed since then. Like a lot. But the vast majority of this is still relevant so I figured why not post it? [Trigger Warnings: Misgendering, Childhood Trauma, Ableism, Bullying, Homophobia, Internalised Transphobia, Self Harm, Suicide, Mental Health, Medications, Hospital, Emotions, Bad Parenting, Dissociation, everything?] Insanely
The lack of considerate behaviour I’ve seen in apparently neurotypical people (given their sheer majority, I’m making the assumption that everyone I see exhibiting these behaviours are NT) when dealing with people they don’t know is astounding. Whereas I will often go out of the may to make sure I’m not, or won’t be impinging