Could You Do The ADHD Diagnosis Poll But With Autism?

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My dad has bees. Today, I went to his house and he showed me all the honey he had gotten from the hives. He took the lid off a 5-gallon bucket full of honey and on top of the honey there were 3 little bees, struggling. They were covered in sticky honey and drowning. I asked him if we could help them and he said he was sure they wouldn't survive. Casualties of honey collection I suppose.

I asked him again if we could at least get them out and kill them quickly, after all he was the one who taught me to put a suffering animal (or bug) out of its misery. He finally conceded and scooped the bees out of the bucket. He put them in an empty Chobani yogurt container and put the plastic container outside.

Because he had disrupted the hive with the earlier honey collection, there were bees flying all over outside.

We put the 3 little bees in the container on a bench and left them to their fate. My dad called me out a little while later to show me what was happening. These three little bees were surrounded by all their sisters (all of the bees are females) and they were cleaning the sticky nearly dead bees, helping them to get all of the honey off of their bodies. We came back a short time later and there was only one little bee left in the container. She was still being tended to by her sisters.

When it was time for me to leave, we checked one last time and all three of the bees had been cleaned off enough to fly away and the container was empty.

Those three little bees lived because they were surrounded by family and friends who would not give up on them, family and friends who refused to let them drown in their own stickiness and resolved to help until the last little bee could be set free.

Bee Sisters. Bee Peers. Bee Teammates.

We could all learn a thing or two from these bees.

Bee kind always.

As an autistic person, I didn’t have this experience, because I not only have had a loving and unusually accepting family all my life, I’ve had a friend group almost entirely made up of fellow neurodivergent people. But some of my autistic friends have had this experience. I try to reassure them that someone will love them for who they are, that for some friendships, there aren’t any lines at which their friends will get sick of them. I will never get sick of someone for being “too autistic” and cut them out of my life. At times, I may get sick of a certain behavior and need a break from that particular thing, but I will come back, and there are others, autistic and not, who are the same way. I want everyone reading this to know: there are people who would love you as you are, even if you haven’t met them yet. And if you feel alone, feel free to message me; I may be just a stranger on the internet, but if I can help someone by listening and being there and being the friendly oddball I am, I’d be glad to.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELCHOIRDORMIK!!!

Decided to make a sequel to Norm and Noah connecting their queue

A bird explaining to a hedgehog crossing so it doesn’t die.

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There's a new swarm of totally real ladies with empty blogs following me, and I'm blocking and reporting them left and right. If you are an actual human person with a brand new account trying to follow me, I urge you to please post *anything at all* on your blog so that when I go to check who the heck you are, I can tell you aren't just a bot-encrusted void. Just a simple "hello this is my lurker account I use to follow people" is enough.