Autism Speaks Canada Is "concluding Its Operations" On January 31st 2025!

"this character is autistic coded so headcanoning them as aro/ace is wrong because you're reinforcing the idea that autistic people are incapable of having romantic or sexual relationships" DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY ASPEC PEOPLE ARE ON THE AUTISM SPECTRUM

if you’re an ADHD person reading one of my #actuallyautistic posts and wondering ‘do my experiences count for this’ the answer is basically always: ‘if you think they do, then absolutely!’

there is a huge overlap between ADHD and autistic experiences (I’m diagnosed with both). please feel free to relate however you want and add whatever tags feel relevant to you.

(also, you don’t need to have autism or ADHD to relate to my posts on those topics. my whole goal is to educate people by describing my experiences & symptoms in a relatable way. relating to autistic and adhd people is good! it is so much better than the opposite.)

would it be possible to make a custom keyboard that has keys specifically designated for emojis? like i want to be able to just press on 💀 with a keyboard

Yeah. Logitech even made one! The Logitech Pop.

But generally any keyboard running a QMK or related firmware (so nearly all mechanical keyboards) can do this.

You can also just install WinCompose and set up a key combination to let you type whatever. I use caps lock for mine, like caps lock a " writes out ä. You could tell it to make caps lock+s to write 💀

QUEENS

I typed “no this is Patrick” and I got in

i drew some dogs!

[image is nine stylized drawings of different sharks arranged on a dark background: a great white, a whale shark, a thresher shark, a salmon shark, a bull shark, a blue shark, a tiger shark, a hammerhead, and a nurse shark in various pastel colours, with cute little cartoon faces.]