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Autistic advocate, violinist, educator 🐈 πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸŒ»

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Interesting! I mean, up until the recently announced upcoming structure change in BC, my plan was to use children’s obscene amount of ABA therapy money to provide OT services (using violin as the occupation) - but now since the funding for behavioural therapy has gone down, I don’t need to do that!

12.03.2026 03:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My roommate from the Yukon: β€œand then I couldn’t sleep up there either because the sun didn’t set, or because of those damn Northern Lights!” 🀣

Yeah, those darn things.

12.03.2026 00:45 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Ooof same here! And there are all these cool frames I can’t have because my prescription is too high, even if they thin out the lens it’s too thick

11.03.2026 22:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This new wave of β€œautism advocacy” is so harmful. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been in tears over something stupid younger people have said about autism.

I directly blame self diagnosed influencers and LSN white women for this.

11.03.2026 15:24 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yikes, who are these people?!

11.03.2026 05:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ’™

11.03.2026 05:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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11.03.2026 05:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Orchestra in a hall with audience in shadows

Orchestra in a hall with audience in shadows

I love a full house 🎢

My profs, new med school acquaintances, roommate, and friends’ parents were there! I think that’s the most people that’s ever showed up for me (since music school when we all sat for each other)!

11.03.2026 04:22 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œPssst! Buddy, come over here and open the door. We have spring fever.”

10.03.2026 21:20 πŸ‘ 1039 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 3

"You let your cat..."

Yes. Whatever the rest of the sentence is, yes. Because I fear them as much as I love them. They are organized. They always watch.

10.03.2026 06:57 πŸ‘ 804 πŸ” 64 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 7
Red fox trotting along beside a snow bank.

Red fox trotting along beside a snow bank.

Red fox sitting in the snow scratching its ear with its back foot.

Red fox sitting in the snow scratching its ear with its back foot.

Saw a Red Fox on the walk home this evening. Didn’t have my camera, so here is another March fox from a couple of years ago - trotting and then stopping for some scritching 🌿

11.03.2026 01:39 πŸ‘ 507 πŸ” 73 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 3

Yes, but these people aren’t taken seriously by academics πŸ˜”

11.03.2026 04:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One thing I hate is that any research is true as long as you ask the right people!

11.03.2026 03:40 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m just devastated that we are still focused on quick speech, eye contact, no silences or pause time to think… and there are people in my class pretending to be autistic (they say this openly) but get everything wrong about my experience.

11.03.2026 00:17 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Feeling too autistic for grad school.

(Don’t β€œeveryone’s a little autistic” me, you will be blocked.)

10.03.2026 19:48 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Everyone should have the right to die. That’s the first thing they take away when torturing someone.

10.03.2026 19:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Bloody unacceptable. Cruel. Inhumane.

10.03.2026 16:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This isn’t true.

10.03.2026 19:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mornings with a cat are spent arguing whether or not she is a menace to society.

10.03.2026 15:03 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Woke up to my kitten using the palm of my hand as a pillow πŸ₯Ή

09.03.2026 12:13 πŸ‘ 559 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 0

Noooo what happened?

09.03.2026 04:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Pulled a muscle in my back doing absolutely nothing (I played a concert today but nothing about that should pull a muscle!).

My middle-aged years are calling 😫

09.03.2026 04:19 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Remember when they did a massive campaign against acid rain? I miss when science was just research and not used as actively for political warfare.

08.03.2026 21:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Right? What an unusual development!

08.03.2026 19:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It was very cute, I kicked her out of my room because she was bugging me before I was ready to get up. According to my roommates, she went to watch birds for those 30min, but the moment I opened my door she sprinted back towards me, like β€œMommy!!” πŸ˜‚

08.03.2026 18:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Update: she was not impressed.

08.03.2026 16:41 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

My cat is going to be so impressed with me tomorrow when I wake just an hour earlier β€œjust to feed her”.

08.03.2026 06:04 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Add for the Seattle Opera with woman in red dress

Add for the Seattle Opera with woman in red dress

Got to give it to the Seattle Opera...

07.03.2026 17:42 πŸ‘ 78 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 8

It’s 2026 and the world is at war, why are we still thinking that β€œfamily” must equal nuclear family?

07.03.2026 23:25 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Kind of like Awake and Dreaming by Kit Pearson, but that’s a children’s book!

07.03.2026 16:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0