just a reminder to give your bodymind good things today. things that could include like
fresh air
hydration
vitamin d
proximity to growing things
nutritious food
stretches
your pt exercises
your meds
your [meditation / breathing / prayer / creative ] practices
other things your bodymind likes
fresh air
hydration
vitamin d
proximity to growing things
nutritious food
stretches
your pt exercises
your meds
your [meditation / breathing / prayer / creative ] practices
other things your bodymind likes
May 3, 2026 at 7:44 PM
just a reminder to give your bodymind good things today. things that could include like
fresh air
hydration
vitamin d
proximity to growing things
nutritious food
stretches
your pt exercises
your meds
your [meditation / breathing / prayer / creative ] practices
other things your bodymind likes
fresh air
hydration
vitamin d
proximity to growing things
nutritious food
stretches
your pt exercises
your meds
your [meditation / breathing / prayer / creative ] practices
other things your bodymind likes
Autistic meltdowns aren’t tantrums.
They’re the bodymind saying “I can’t hold this anymore".
They’re not moral failures.
They’re overload.
Pressure leaving the system.
You don’t need punishment.
You need safety.
They’re the bodymind saying “I can’t hold this anymore".
They’re not moral failures.
They’re overload.
Pressure leaving the system.
You don’t need punishment.
You need safety.
October 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Autistic meltdowns aren’t tantrums.
They’re the bodymind saying “I can’t hold this anymore".
They’re not moral failures.
They’re overload.
Pressure leaving the system.
You don’t need punishment.
You need safety.
They’re the bodymind saying “I can’t hold this anymore".
They’re not moral failures.
They’re overload.
Pressure leaving the system.
You don’t need punishment.
You need safety.
we see this in reproductive justice, women/trans/queer liberation, neurodiversity, Mad pride, disability justice, Black Lives Matter, Pro-Palestine, and immigrant rights. all deal with the freedom to self-direct/self-define how you live your bodymind and what is permitted to be done to your bodymind
the political battle of the era is a war over the agency to self-determine one’s psychic and bodily life.
September 23, 2026 at 2:59 AM
we see this in reproductive justice, women/trans/queer liberation, neurodiversity, Mad pride, disability justice, Black Lives Matter, Pro-Palestine, and immigrant rights. all deal with the freedom to self-direct/self-define how you live your bodymind and what is permitted to be done to your bodymind
Autistic burnout isn’t a regression.
It’s your bodymind screaming “I can’t keep living like this”.
It’s not failure.
It’s a warning.
It’s your bodymind screaming “I can’t keep living like this”.
It’s not failure.
It’s a warning.
September 6, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Autistic burnout isn’t a regression.
It’s your bodymind screaming “I can’t keep living like this”.
It’s not failure.
It’s a warning.
It’s your bodymind screaming “I can’t keep living like this”.
It’s not failure.
It’s a warning.
March 9, 2026 at 8:51 PM
The phrase "ensoulced bodymind" is causing me multiple levels of physical pain as a philosophy major 🥲
October 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The phrase "ensoulced bodymind" is causing me multiple levels of physical pain as a philosophy major 🥲
Autistic burnout isn’t a rough patch.
It’s a shutdown of the bodymind after years of masking, unmet needs, and constant demand.
It can last months or years.
It’s not personal failure - it’s survival catching up.
A hard reset.
Recovery isn’t linear.
And it’s not your fault.
It’s a shutdown of the bodymind after years of masking, unmet needs, and constant demand.
It can last months or years.
It’s not personal failure - it’s survival catching up.
A hard reset.
Recovery isn’t linear.
And it’s not your fault.
March 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Autistic burnout isn’t a rough patch.
It’s a shutdown of the bodymind after years of masking, unmet needs, and constant demand.
It can last months or years.
It’s not personal failure - it’s survival catching up.
A hard reset.
Recovery isn’t linear.
And it’s not your fault.
It’s a shutdown of the bodymind after years of masking, unmet needs, and constant demand.
It can last months or years.
It’s not personal failure - it’s survival catching up.
A hard reset.
Recovery isn’t linear.
And it’s not your fault.
If you struggle to name your feelings, you’re not broken.
If you don’t notice you’re hungry until you crash, you’re not failing.
Autistic trauma lives in the bodymind.
It scrambles interoception.
It blunts emotion.
It makes survival feel like dissociation.
If you don’t notice you’re hungry until you crash, you’re not failing.
Autistic trauma lives in the bodymind.
It scrambles interoception.
It blunts emotion.
It makes survival feel like dissociation.
May 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
If you struggle to name your feelings, you’re not broken.
If you don’t notice you’re hungry until you crash, you’re not failing.
Autistic trauma lives in the bodymind.
It scrambles interoception.
It blunts emotion.
It makes survival feel like dissociation.
If you don’t notice you’re hungry until you crash, you’re not failing.
Autistic trauma lives in the bodymind.
It scrambles interoception.
It blunts emotion.
It makes survival feel like dissociation.
languaging the bodymind
October 10, 2024 at 4:42 PM
languaging the bodymind
Autistic shutdowns are not “quiet meltdowns”.
They are a bodymind forced into retreat.
Not chosen.
Not peaceful.
A system overload.
And they deserve care - not dismissal.
They are a bodymind forced into retreat.
Not chosen.
Not peaceful.
A system overload.
And they deserve care - not dismissal.
August 30, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Autistic shutdowns are not “quiet meltdowns”.
They are a bodymind forced into retreat.
Not chosen.
Not peaceful.
A system overload.
And they deserve care - not dismissal.
They are a bodymind forced into retreat.
Not chosen.
Not peaceful.
A system overload.
And they deserve care - not dismissal.
Autistic joy is radical.
Because it’s not about success or normalcy.
It’s about existing without shame.
It’s about your bodymind feeling safe enough to be loud, quiet, or still.
Embrace it 💙
Because it’s not about success or normalcy.
It’s about existing without shame.
It’s about your bodymind feeling safe enough to be loud, quiet, or still.
Embrace it 💙
October 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Autistic joy is radical.
Because it’s not about success or normalcy.
It’s about existing without shame.
It’s about your bodymind feeling safe enough to be loud, quiet, or still.
Embrace it 💙
Because it’s not about success or normalcy.
It’s about existing without shame.
It’s about your bodymind feeling safe enough to be loud, quiet, or still.
Embrace it 💙
Not all meltdowns look like screaming or tears.
Some meltdowns go inward.
The spiral.
The pacing, the numbness, the silent rage.
The feeling of being trapped inside your bodymind with no exit.
Some meltdowns go inward.
The spiral.
The pacing, the numbness, the silent rage.
The feeling of being trapped inside your bodymind with no exit.
July 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Not all meltdowns look like screaming or tears.
Some meltdowns go inward.
The spiral.
The pacing, the numbness, the silent rage.
The feeling of being trapped inside your bodymind with no exit.
Some meltdowns go inward.
The spiral.
The pacing, the numbness, the silent rage.
The feeling of being trapped inside your bodymind with no exit.
Autistic meltdowns aren’t moral failures.
They’re the logical conclusion of unmet needs.
Your bodymind saying: you are not safe.
It’s not weakness.
It’s a warning.
Listen to it.
Not shame it.
They’re the logical conclusion of unmet needs.
Your bodymind saying: you are not safe.
It’s not weakness.
It’s a warning.
Listen to it.
Not shame it.
October 17, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Autistic meltdowns aren’t moral failures.
They’re the logical conclusion of unmet needs.
Your bodymind saying: you are not safe.
It’s not weakness.
It’s a warning.
Listen to it.
Not shame it.
They’re the logical conclusion of unmet needs.
Your bodymind saying: you are not safe.
It’s not weakness.
It’s a warning.
Listen to it.
Not shame it.
Meltdowns aren’t bad.
They aren’t moral failings.
They’re messages.
Your nervous system isn’t betraying you.
It’s sounding the alarm.
It’s not weakness.
It’s not failure.
It’s your bodymind saying that something isn’t ok.
They aren’t moral failings.
They’re messages.
Your nervous system isn’t betraying you.
It’s sounding the alarm.
It’s not weakness.
It’s not failure.
It’s your bodymind saying that something isn’t ok.
June 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Meltdowns aren’t bad.
They aren’t moral failings.
They’re messages.
Your nervous system isn’t betraying you.
It’s sounding the alarm.
It’s not weakness.
It’s not failure.
It’s your bodymind saying that something isn’t ok.
They aren’t moral failings.
They’re messages.
Your nervous system isn’t betraying you.
It’s sounding the alarm.
It’s not weakness.
It’s not failure.
It’s your bodymind saying that something isn’t ok.
If your model of autism only describes what others see and never how it feels inside, it’s a control manual, not care.
Start from the bodymind.
Believe YOUR view.
Start from the bodymind.
Believe YOUR view.
September 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
If your model of autism only describes what others see and never how it feels inside, it’s a control manual, not care.
Start from the bodymind.
Believe YOUR view.
Start from the bodymind.
Believe YOUR view.
I recommend starting with @cyborgapologist.bsky.social's dissertation:
'Morphological Freedom and the Construction of Bodymind Malleability from Eugenics to Transhumanism'
vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919...
'Morphological Freedom and the Construction of Bodymind Malleability from Eugenics to Transhumanism'
vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919...
Oh. Looks like people are (once again) figuring out that silicon valley and effective altruism and longtermism and the rest are all bound up root to ass with eugenics & white supremacy.
Welcome to the party, there are a LOT of academic, researchers, & people w/ direct lived experience already here.
Welcome to the party, there are a LOT of academic, researchers, & people w/ direct lived experience already here.
November 19, 2023 at 6:20 PM
I recommend starting with @cyborgapologist.bsky.social's dissertation:
'Morphological Freedom and the Construction of Bodymind Malleability from Eugenics to Transhumanism'
vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919...
'Morphological Freedom and the Construction of Bodymind Malleability from Eugenics to Transhumanism'
vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919...
They told you to try harder.
But trying harder is how you broke.
You didn’t fail.
Your autistic bodymind hit its limit.
And no one listened.
But trying harder is how you broke.
You didn’t fail.
Your autistic bodymind hit its limit.
And no one listened.
October 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
They told you to try harder.
But trying harder is how you broke.
You didn’t fail.
Your autistic bodymind hit its limit.
And no one listened.
But trying harder is how you broke.
You didn’t fail.
Your autistic bodymind hit its limit.
And no one listened.
Self-knowledge isn’t easy when you’ve been taught to distrust your own bodymind.
For autistic people, it’s not naturalized.
It’s an act of resistance.
Noticing what you feel, want, need - without shame - is how we begin to unmask.
Slowly.
Gently.
Honestly.
For autistic people, it’s not naturalized.
It’s an act of resistance.
Noticing what you feel, want, need - without shame - is how we begin to unmask.
Slowly.
Gently.
Honestly.
April 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Self-knowledge isn’t easy when you’ve been taught to distrust your own bodymind.
For autistic people, it’s not naturalized.
It’s an act of resistance.
Noticing what you feel, want, need - without shame - is how we begin to unmask.
Slowly.
Gently.
Honestly.
For autistic people, it’s not naturalized.
It’s an act of resistance.
Noticing what you feel, want, need - without shame - is how we begin to unmask.
Slowly.
Gently.
Honestly.
The awful thing is that we teach this to young students too; this notion that everything can and should be measured and that there is nothing that cannot be quantified. It’s not a useful way to conceive of the bodymind in all its states
“Researchers have given this tendency a name: quantification fixation, the tendency to trust a number over your own account of yourself, even when the number is a rough estimate dressed up as a fact.”
Am I wearing my Fitbit? Or is my Fitbit wearing me? - The Boston Globe
I found myself listening more to my Fitbit than to my own body — before, during, and after exercise.
www.bostonglobe.com
June 17, 2026 at 11:45 AM
The awful thing is that we teach this to young students too; this notion that everything can and should be measured and that there is nothing that cannot be quantified. It’s not a useful way to conceive of the bodymind in all its states
New article with @tanyaadkin.bsky.social about monotropic split and the bodymind as an environment!
emergentdivergence.com/2025/01/30/m...
#ActuallyAutistic #autism #Autistic #monotropism #monotropicSplit #chronicillness #chronicpain #neurodiversity #neurodivergent
emergentdivergence.com/2025/01/30/m...
#ActuallyAutistic #autism #Autistic #monotropism #monotropicSplit #chronicillness #chronicpain #neurodiversity #neurodivergent
Monotropism: Monotropic Split & The Bodymind Environment - Emergent Divergence
In This article, David and Tanya explore the bodymind as an environmental contributor in it's own right and how that contributes to monotropic split. It highlights the relevance of managing pain and i...
emergentdivergence.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
New article with @tanyaadkin.bsky.social about monotropic split and the bodymind as an environment!
emergentdivergence.com/2025/01/30/m...
#ActuallyAutistic #autism #Autistic #monotropism #monotropicSplit #chronicillness #chronicpain #neurodiversity #neurodivergent
emergentdivergence.com/2025/01/30/m...
#ActuallyAutistic #autism #Autistic #monotropism #monotropicSplit #chronicillness #chronicpain #neurodiversity #neurodivergent
You weren’t being difficult.
You were in autistic shutdown.
You weren’t ignoring them.
You couldn’t speak.
You weren’t overreacting.
You were overwhelmed by the world.
They saw silence.
They missed the rupture inside you.
It wasn’t a choice.
It was your bodymind saying “I’m not safe”.
You were in autistic shutdown.
You weren’t ignoring them.
You couldn’t speak.
You weren’t overreacting.
You were overwhelmed by the world.
They saw silence.
They missed the rupture inside you.
It wasn’t a choice.
It was your bodymind saying “I’m not safe”.
April 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM
You weren’t being difficult.
You were in autistic shutdown.
You weren’t ignoring them.
You couldn’t speak.
You weren’t overreacting.
You were overwhelmed by the world.
They saw silence.
They missed the rupture inside you.
It wasn’t a choice.
It was your bodymind saying “I’m not safe”.
You were in autistic shutdown.
You weren’t ignoring them.
You couldn’t speak.
You weren’t overreacting.
You were overwhelmed by the world.
They saw silence.
They missed the rupture inside you.
It wasn’t a choice.
It was your bodymind saying “I’m not safe”.
Sometimes burnout recovery looks like doing nothing.
Sometimes it looks like saying no.
Sometimes it looks like crying in the shower and calling that progress.
Burnout is not a problem to solve.
It’s a signal that your bodymind has been screaming for too long without being heard.
Sometimes it looks like saying no.
Sometimes it looks like crying in the shower and calling that progress.
Burnout is not a problem to solve.
It’s a signal that your bodymind has been screaming for too long without being heard.
July 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Sometimes burnout recovery looks like doing nothing.
Sometimes it looks like saying no.
Sometimes it looks like crying in the shower and calling that progress.
Burnout is not a problem to solve.
It’s a signal that your bodymind has been screaming for too long without being heard.
Sometimes it looks like saying no.
Sometimes it looks like crying in the shower and calling that progress.
Burnout is not a problem to solve.
It’s a signal that your bodymind has been screaming for too long without being heard.
"Ashton Bodymind"
5"x5" water-soluble graphite, acrylic, paint pen, wax pastel, colored pencil on wood panel
5"x5" water-soluble graphite, acrylic, paint pen, wax pastel, colored pencil on wood panel
August 21, 2026 at 6:49 PM
"Ashton Bodymind"
5"x5" water-soluble graphite, acrylic, paint pen, wax pastel, colored pencil on wood panel
5"x5" water-soluble graphite, acrylic, paint pen, wax pastel, colored pencil on wood panel
Autistic Burnout isn’t regression.
It’s the bodymind slamming the brakes.
It’s not failure. It’s refusal.
A reset, a warning sign - stop, listen.
The real danger isn’t burnout itself - it’s being forced back into the same conditions that caused it, or pushing ourselves there.
It’s the bodymind slamming the brakes.
It’s not failure. It’s refusal.
A reset, a warning sign - stop, listen.
The real danger isn’t burnout itself - it’s being forced back into the same conditions that caused it, or pushing ourselves there.
August 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Autistic Burnout isn’t regression.
It’s the bodymind slamming the brakes.
It’s not failure. It’s refusal.
A reset, a warning sign - stop, listen.
The real danger isn’t burnout itself - it’s being forced back into the same conditions that caused it, or pushing ourselves there.
It’s the bodymind slamming the brakes.
It’s not failure. It’s refusal.
A reset, a warning sign - stop, listen.
The real danger isn’t burnout itself - it’s being forced back into the same conditions that caused it, or pushing ourselves there.
Looking forward to some mythical time in the future when my bodymind lets me read and write again (it will help when my sinuses don’t feel like they’re full of concrete)
September 20, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Looking forward to some mythical time in the future when my bodymind lets me read and write again (it will help when my sinuses don’t feel like they’re full of concrete)