The Autistic Innovator®

My name is Ashley Lauren Spencer. Owner of The Autistic Innovator®. Supporting the autistic, ADHD and neurodivergent community since 2020. 0 trackers online store for our community. Also the owner of the autistics.life mastodon instance. #AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic #neurodivergent #ADHD

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2026-10-28 21:00:13 UTC

I still haven't shipped that fake Amazon order that's impossible to be real, because my seller account is suspended and heart chew necklace listing hidden until I pay my debt to Amazon. What will happen is they are going to return it again and ship it back to me again, and what will happen is Amazon will penalize my account for 2 orders in a row being returned. It's just attempt number 2 to get whatever they are intending to do with the heart chew necklace, since their first attempt was returned to sender by the post office. If I don't ship it then I don't lose postage twice, a red heart chew necklace, and have to refund the full order all over again.
Amazon penalizing my account will happen whether I ship it or not. Best not to lose anymore money. I don't need Amazon anymore. My store is doing great!

2026-10-28 01:30:14 UTC

Nikita has been stuck to me like glue today. If I'm sitting on the couch, she is right there on my lap touching me at all times. If I get up she follows me around like where are we going?
She's 15 years old and still loves me after 13 years. :meowHuggies:
#CatsOfMastodon
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2026-10-16 00:48:03 UTC

Our Texas attorney general created a crime victims compensation fund to help victims of a crime with losses caused by the crime. They provide rent money and help with lost wages, which in my case is business profits. They require you upload your evidence of reports to law enforcement, so time to apply and upload my stack of evidence to the Texas State Attorney General for the victims crime compensation. AMAZING.

2026-10-15 15:56:41 UTC

I woke up in a good mood today. I'm easily excitable. Everything feels like the best thing ever. The world is brand new, quiet, peaceful, and going right.

2026-10-15 03:51:24 UTC

I stopped petting my cat Dinah so she bit my arm like "Bedtime is DINAH CUDDLE TIME, how dare you!"

2026-09-30 03:21:33 UTC

I have learned my several months of documentation of federal cyber crimes targeted at me is my absolute greatest shield. The apartment manager is working with me on a payment plan to avoid eviction because of it. Chase is threatening to sue me, and I have proof that this is not a simple reckless spending and refusing to pay it back, my business was financially choked to death by cyber crimes. I'm trying to find a bankruptcy attorney pro bono to help me clear all the debt, and my evidence of clear catastrophic cyber crimes can help me get an attorney to help me pro bono, because this is not an I spent too much of my paycheck situation. What a gift.
The road to repairing the catastrophic damage is just beginning.

2026-09-25 00:54:22 UTC

I don’t know who from Mastodon sent the big box of wet food today, but whoever you are… Thank you. My cats heard me rip open the Amazon box and instant kitty screams. They just knew there was wet food in that box. They shared a can after it got here. With the food box today and box yesterday they are set for a while. It was cute them standing there watching me unpack all the food into the cabinet and their excited screams over how many cans are in there.
Thank you everyone for boosts and the cat food. :blob_cat_heart:

2026-09-18 18:09:36 UTC

My cat Nikita is the most photogenic cat. She was moving around a lot, so I told her, “Hold still I’m trying to take your photo.” So she looked up at me and posed for this photo. I told her, “You’re so pretty!” while taking her pictures.
#CatsOfMastodon
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2026-08-30 01:29:04 UTC

All the photography work I got paid to do is lost somehow. Maybe on an old MacBook or something I don't have anymore. Oh well. I found photos I took on film when I was 14. Also found this photo I took in 2014.
https://autistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net/media_attachments/files/117/181/855/478/862/138/original/0bb938f47ff1e539.jpg

2026-08-25 16:42:21 UTC

I have a favor to ask, and I really feel horrible having to ask this again.
Yesterday I paid the Mastodon server bill that's $59 + $20 for the dedicated server equipment we are on, so now there is no money for my medication refill and my medication. The doctor visit is $50 + $20 something for the meds, which basically equals the $79 for this https://autistics.life server.
Can someone(s) help cover this month's Mastodon server bill, so that I can get my meds? I only have 3 days left and then I'm out with no money to get more, and I've never gone a day without it in 11 years. That's all I need. Just this month's Mastodon server bill covered.
Sorry I have to ask again. :blob_cat_sob:
Edit: It took me a bit to figure out how to create a donation link:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=TGT8H8N28F48Q

2026-08-21 18:30:52 UTC

I did it!
I packaged up 4 Heart Chew Necklaces with 2 of each color and my trademark store logo stickers on the bag packaging. Put them into individual black organza bags to keep them clean and for better presentation. Grabbed a couple of my business cards I made last year. Put on light grey dress pants I haven’t worn since I last had a job in 2021, and a sleeveless black dress shirt. Then got in my power wheelchair and went to 2 children’s clinics to physically hand them my Heart Chew Necklaces in person.
I always impulsively say the wrong thing, but I happened to blurt out the exact right thing to say, “Hi, I’m autistic and ADHD, and I designed a heart chew necklace for aggressive chewers that I think could really help your patients. It was tested by an adult extreme chewer, and she actually recommended it as great for heavy chewers for children in her Everyday Health article. I am going to leave you with 2 of these, 1 of each color to give to 2 of your patients to test them out for you, and if you like it I have a lot more available for bulk purchase.”
At the autism services clinic I replaced “patients” with “children you work with” and polished the “It was tested by an extreme adult chewer and she actually recommended it as great for children with heavy chewing needs in her Everyday Health article.” (Thank you for that @nprofile…m7l3)
I didn’t know what they would think about a random autistic walking into their clinic with heart shaped chew necklaces I designed for aggressive chewers, but both clinics were SO excited when I handed them 2 Heart Chew Necklaces.
I am sure the first thing they did was to go to one of 2 major search engines, look up “the autistic innovator” and read the full glowing endorsement from the search AI models.
I dropped it off earlier in the morning, so they will have at least 6 hours to give the heart chews to 2 different aggressive chewing children.
As hard as others have tried to keep my Heart Chew Necklace from being seen in search so no one ever sees it, no SEO click sabotage can stop me from physically wheeling into a clinic and physically handing them 2 Heart Chew Necklaces.

2026-08-17 02:23:58 UTC

There has been a lot of deep knowings lately. Last month I didn’t have a sale for 3 weeks but the knowing was “Just stay focused on the mission and the rent will being taken care of.” I stayed focused and it was taken care of, just like the deep knowing said. Today I had that calm knowing of “just go check the mailbox.” When I saw the envelope from the county corrections department, I said out loud “Wow! It really is there!” When I saw how large the check is, it made up for not getting a single sale all month. I said out loud earlier, “I really need sales. My meds are almost out and there is no money for a Dr visit.” The deep knowing this time says, “They are coming. You’ve done everything you can do. Now just wait.” Those deep knowings have never been wrong before, not one time in a whole year.
I am being protected and looked after, and so is my business. No doubt about that. I have 16 months in a row of consistent evidence.

2026-07-19 21:39:31 UTC

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@nprofile…m7l3 Does your host have Cloudflare? The Cloudflare Enterprise comes with the ability to block all AI training bots.

2026-07-11 16:59:56 UTC

I haven’t noticed much of a difference not having AT&T home internet. Since they have a monopoly on my apartment where they are the only option for internet, they raise the price to whatever they feel like, and just keep increasing it because there is nothing I can do about it. Unlimited cellular on my iPad + 2GB on my iPhone totals about $35. I just use my iPad for everything anyway, and really only use my phone as a hotspot for my PC, so I can still use my PC. It just sucks that both of my devices can only get LTE.

2026-07-06 13:47:05 UTC

My cat Dinah was on my desk getting lots of attention and I told her, "Dinah I need to type on my keyboard. That's a keyboard behind you. You are going to have to move." She was like fine I'll just leave, and jumped down and walked out of the room lol.
It's so funny and strange having cats that understand everything I say.

2026-07-01 00:02:43 UTC

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@nprofile…m7l3 the very first time i logged in it shoved politics in my face, so I had to change the setting to hide it from me feed. There is a lot of stolen content on there.

2026-06-30 21:23:02 UTC

I downloaded Threads and it immediately read my location from my IP, and then the first 3 posts I see are about the city I live in. *sigh* Its necessary though. I’m not downloading Facebook though. That one is the worst of all the Meta apps.

2026-06-28 21:45:13 UTC

In my analytics I can only see what time this random device loaded this page and the time they loaded the next page. It's pretty neat that it takes people on mobile 1 to 2 minutes to scroll the collection page before they click on the 2nd page in the collection. If it's a multi page collection, there are 20 products on each page, and people take a full minute to see it all. It means people are stopping to take in the beautiful uncompressed photos with high clarity, vibrant colors, images with so much detail it's like the fidget is right there in front of you. Very nice.

2026-06-24 11:02:16 UTC

Ever since I switched to the dedicated server real sales are still coming in, which is good. I’m so far behind after nearly 3 weeks with no sales because of the botnet, it’s going to take a long time to catch up.
They emailed me again last night pretending to be a different customer whose identity they stole for a fraud order.
It’s never going to stop unless there is at least a cease and desist and lawsuit. I have endless amounts of proof that it’s exactly who I think it is doing all of this to me. Hopefully a pro bono attorney takes my case, and quickly since this is an emergency situation. Right now they think they will get away with it and force me to delete my website from the internet, because I have taken no legal action from them forcing me into extreme poverty, but now that it’s been weeks since I got my trademark registration and they’ve gotten exponentially worse since then, I have a much stronger case now.

2026-06-21 00:12:07 UTC

The obsessed competitor manually trying to tank my SEO from all these sources, by loading 5 to 7 pages in 2 minutes and leaving, well I just looked at analytics sources and instead of hurting me, the manual efforts made algorithms think people must really like my website, so it should show my site to even more people. Its had a very positive effect on my visibility, and increased the number of store visitors. So now I’m like Yes please keep manually obsessively trying to hurt my rankings. 😄

2026-06-17 22:50:59 UTC

I am enjoying today.
Wearing my AuDHD Acceptance t-shirt, while I add that same t-shirt to the new store, got the 35 song Whitney Houston's Greatest Hits album playing, cats are in the office with me, all while watching the insane competitor completely crashing out LOL
They visited my website 7 times in 5 hours loading a lot of pages each time. Since I'm not rate limited anymore, they can do that now. The website is so fast on the dedicated server it enabled them to load several pages in one minute every visit. They can't spy on collections with filters, because it was replaced by a search bar, so they are focused to face the fact they've dumped hundreds of dollars on bots to scrape filters that don't exist. Every visit they are forced to stare at their failure. 😆
Since the last 3 fraud orders got blocked, they went to my contact page to get the email, then took the time to write a long-ish email pretending to be the person's identity they stole asking why the fraud order was cancelled over a week ago. They get to sit there in anticipation of a response from me that will never come.
I built a FORTRESS.

2026-06-17 01:56:49 UTC

I found that Habitica app on my iPad. I used it on my old Android phone. It helped me a lot with building a cleaning habit, and my apartment became so clean, but then the 110% tariffs came out of nowhere and chaos followed. I’ve been trapped in chaos for over a year, but now that the war has been won and I remain undefeated, I can start putting my apartment back together.
All that energy that got eaten up by so stressed I couldn’t function, and now all that energy has been freed up. So maybe it’s time to get back to it.
It meets my air-gapped tech hardened values, and all your data stays within the app and goes nowhere, much like my store. I approve!

2026-06-16 19:55:25 UTC

They tried placing their 9th fraud order (8th got blocked), but my sophisticated fraud detection caught it and blocked the transaction. So 5 minutes later they tried again. Blocked again. LOL
They have now seen that I deleted all the filters, and why they've spent hundreds of dollars scraping product filters resulting in 11,000+ 404 not found. Likely why there were 2 angry fraud order attempts that got blocked.

2026-06-16 19:12:31 UTC

Cloudflare thinks my work ethic and work speed is a potential bot. Dial down hyperspeed hyperfocus mode. Add a bunch of new photos, finish listing, disconnect the internet and take a break, then back to it. Last time I worked too fast over hours straight, I got “are you a bot?” screens on every website I went to, and it also blocked me from uploading photos into my own admin. Cloudflare does not like long work days.

2026-06-15 14:53:29 UTC

I seemed to reset the X algorithm that suppresses all my posts. I posted that I was discouraged from posting because after an hour it shows my posts to barely anyone no matter what I say. The algorithm said, “no don’t leave you’re an advertiser keep posting here’s 224 views in the first hour, and lots of people who don’t follow you will see this.” My verified status has been unpaid for 2 months, but I still have it, I assume because I’m an older advertiser.
Now that people actually see all my posts, someone asked when am I bringing all the clothing back, because they want to buy it. I am trademarked for t-shirts and hoodies. I’m thinking instead of syncing the store, just placing all clothing orders manually.
I think to set it up i have to download all the clothing images, and manually create all variant options myself to keep from syncing the store with Printful. Looks like I have a big project to do today!

2026-06-14 02:15:36 UTC

I found this old photo from June 2021.
This cat was a stray at my apartment complex. He went door to door meowing at everyone’s door to get someone to adopt him. He was tired of living outside and decided he was going to get adopted that day. I got on a cat rescue Facebook group, and found a rescue to pick him up. He instantly trusted the man with the cat carrier because he understood he was going to be adopted. Got adopted very quickly and moved into a $2M home.
#CatsOfMastodon
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2026-06-07 21:43:52 UTC

This is embarassing AF, but I think I have to ask everyone for help with this...
Our host for https://autistics.life has been very gracious about not shutting off our server because the bill has been unpaid for 2 weeks. They know I'm working relentlessly to get enough money to pay for it, but things are just really bad, and I mean really bad. It's a great thing I'm a hopeless optimist who refuses to quit and never doubts that I can pull myself out of this financial destruction. After 6 months in a row of financial ruin, it's all caught up with me at this point, and I'm doing my best.
So would people like to help me pay for the server this month? I pay $79 a month for it.
I HATE that I have to ask this, but I can't expect the hosting company to keep waiting for me to have that much money.
I made a donations link with my PayPal Business account:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=UZNZH65G2E5HN

2026-05-25 15:30:38 UTC

I have a strong aversion to Walmart brand food now after how sick it made me. All that processed food started giving me headaches, and now I have acne. I haven't had any acne in years, not since my regular diet was garbage food and energy drinks.
I ate these gummy sharks with no food dye in them, and it made me so sick now I hate candy.
There was this Walmart brand cherry cola I drank, and every time I drank it I got really sick. I missed on the label it had Red 40 dye, and that's why I got so sick drinking it.

2026-05-22 17:03:48 UTC

My brain is a machine. All these ideas I've never thought of before are flooding into my mind like I'm channeling something. Feels like creative freedom.
All my weekly emails were written like personal letters, and in this case they actually are personal emails, because I am emailing all 749 people on my email list individually to let them know I've moved, and ask if they want to stay on the list.
I'd think nothing would annoy people more than sending a mass email after 3 months of silence.

2026-05-16 15:05:31 UTC

I’ve been wearing my tank top inside out since yesterday and it took me over 24 hours to notice. :blob_cat_flop:

2026-05-14 00:31:50 UTC

Now that I know the chew industry’s secret that most are 3D printing chews, I’ve seen the code language on how they get around it.
“durable, chew safe materials”
“food grade materials”
Materials = 3D printing
The ONLY chew safe ‘material’ is silicone, and silicone made the right way in sterile specialty silicone manufacturing facilities. If they’re going out of their way to say anything but silicone, it’s 3D printed.
I’m on to all of them now.

2026-05-11 21:35:49 UTC

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I think why is half the industry, if not more, 3D printing their chews.
It took me half a year and thousands of dollars to manufacture just my one Heart Chew Necklace in 2 colors, and do it properly by going to the best of the best silicone manufacturer in China.
Our entire chew industry is run by neurotypicals who don’t know what it’s like to have chew stims. They don’t care they’re selling autistic people 3D printed plastic chews made with toxic filaments. They can flood the market with chews fast.
They probably all hate me because not only am I the only autistic designed chew in the industry, but I’m likely the only one who manufactured a chew the right way. My Heart Chew Necklace exposes their scam just by existing and selling.

2026-05-11 21:12:46 UTC

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I’ve seen chew designs that have intricate detailed designs on the chew, and it’s baffled me how did they manufacture that chew.
Silicone can make tactile texture, it cannot make detailed designs.
Those intricate design chews are all 3D printed, that’s how.
#ActuallyAutistic

2026-05-11 20:42:10 UTC

If you see a chew that is shiny, it’s not silicone it’s plastic. Silicone is dull and doesn’t shine.
If you see a metallic color chew, that’s toxic paint from 3D printing.
Thin outline chews are impossible to make with silicone.
AI hallucination products in the chew industry is half the industry.
Now you know how to identify the chew scams for yourself.
#ActuallyAutistic

2026-05-04 20:38:42 UTC

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@nprofile…rtl5 My body too. I had to turn the AC up to 74 because I’m freezing, and I’m still cold. I have very little fat on my body. Lack of money because of business sabotage has hit me quite hard.

2026-05-04 19:29:13 UTC

I thought my 1pm cognition crash was just my ADHD meds wearing off, but 2 days in a row I began the day early morning with a lot of calories, and my cognition was so clear and active. Today, I ran out of food, so now my cognition is shit. So this whole time my slow cognition was caused by nothing other than actual starvation.

2026-05-04 16:42:51 UTC

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This is the most wtf price drop I’ve seen in this Walmart rollbacks list. That is some significant scamming Texas SNAP.
https://autistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net/media_attachments/files/116/517/298/167/518/804/original/46884d7c51237049.png

2026-05-04 16:21:30 UTC

Now that in Texas SNAP can’t be used to buy soda and sugary drinks, the 12 pack brand name soda prices dropped from $9 to $5. Energy drink prices also dropped. Candy prices and fruit snacks have all dropped too now that no one can use SNAP to buy candy. I don’t know if chips were included in that SNAP law, but those also dropped. Bags of Lays chips went from $6.46 to $2.50. Family size boxes of brand name cereal went from $7.49 to $4.44.
I’m looking at Walmart’s rollbacks list and 98% is stuff people can no longer buy with SNAP in Texas. Walmart was massively scamming Texas taxpayers with inflated prices paid for with Texas state money.

2026-05-03 22:50:17 UTC

I can see every time a scraper bot stops by to steal content from my website.
3rd party analytics hides that stuff, and mixes it in with real people.
Server side analytics is much better, and no trackers.

2026-04-29 15:46:35 UTC

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@nprofile…rtl5
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2026-04-29 15:31:16 UTC

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@nprofile…rtl5 The article you linked assumes Google analytics is connected to the website because pretty much every website on the internet, including government websites, uses Google Analytics, but I do not. I don’t have analytics at all to keep data harvesters out.

2026-04-29 15:25:17 UTC

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@nprofile…rtl5 It’s because I don’t have a single Google product connected that can send that chrome interaction data back to Google. No Google analytics, no Google ads, no Google Merchant connected, no Google fonts, no Google Pay, no reCAPTCHA, absolutely every single Google product is banned from my website. Google can see the click from search but the visitor disappears into the abyss once the page loads because there is no data to send back to Google to analyze how Chrome users interact.

2026-04-29 14:58:54 UTC

This makes me very happy. I ran a PageSpeed Insights test on my Shop page. That “No Data” means I have successfully kept Google completely out of my website. Data harvesting Google and data harvesting competitors are getting absolutely nothing.
And with no email list to buy, and no payment processor tracking scripts on my checkout page, no one can get anything.
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2026-04-27 01:35:43 UTC

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@nprofile…rtl5 I feel like I should know what that acronym means but I do not. What is it?

2026-04-27 01:28:50 UTC

I’m really liking WooCommerce. There are SO many plugins that don’t add trackers. Some do, but the Wordpress.org plugins site makes them disclose if they send data to their servers, and many do. It’s really easy to limit trackers. Shopify forced so many trackers. All their websites are slow because of how many trackers there are. I would have never been able to choose just only 1 website allowed to have a tracker. I also would have never been able to have a Shopify cookie banner telling everyone to reject cookies. I love how much I can control my website too. It feels great owning everything.

2026-04-20 17:51:32 UTC

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@nprofile…m7l3 I think in their case they now see authenticity as profitable which is why they’ve hijacked my entire identity.

2026-04-20 16:52:49 UTC

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@nprofile…m7l3 The one who is most obsessed with destroying me does that. They go into forums, Reddit, and Facebook groups pretending to be an autistic peer recommending their products. It’s obvious it’s actually someone with their brand because the “peer” recommendations sound like brand marketing speak, and no one talks like that.
The industry all hate me because my actual genuine caring about the people they’ve been preying on for years naturally exposes them as predators.

2026-04-20 16:26:40 UTC

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@nprofile…m7l3 Not even ads. They called it “200 supportive posts” they think being supportive is a marketing gimmick. Horrible.

2026-04-20 16:21:14 UTC

I got a cold email from a company offering services to go into online forum spaces where neurodivergent people go to seek support amongst each other, and wanted me to pay them to interact with neurodivergent people’s posts and create posts to build brand awareness. That disgusts me. Their paid “service” is everything that is wrong with my industry and extremely predatory. I will not pay someone to turn me into the very thing I despise.

2026-04-18 15:32:49 UTC

I finally took my Christmas tree down last night. I’ve been unable to have the energy and ability to force myself to take it down, so it just stood there. I had a 15 minute spurt of energy last night so I took it down while I had the opportunity.
Combination of ADHD and stress overwhelm that made it take 4 months to finally put it away.

2026-04-16 02:17:14 UTC

I’m scary thin. All those months of sabotage had a very real physical cost. There is no fat around my collarbone, base of my neck, shoulder bones, shoulder joints, my rib cage shows through my chest, my spine sticks out, the screw in my pelvis sticks out, my legs are so thin. I don’t have a scale so I don’t know exactly how much I weigh, but I am at least 20lbs minimum underweight.
I downloaded a calorie counting app and I need to eat 2,000 calories a day to gain 1lb a week. I figured out there are frozen foods that are super high calories for cheap, so that it’s basically eating 3 meals a day to reach 2,000 for only $5.
It’s going to take a long time. Very scary to see in the meantime. I have a long way to go before I can look like my profile photo again.

2026-04-10 00:52:49 UTC

It’s kind of ironic that since Dinah wanted time to herself today and wasn’t micromanaging me making sure I was working, I was less productive today. I did pack orders and go to the post office though.
I’m dependent on a cat to tell me what to do :blob_cat_flop:

2026-04-07 21:05:21 UTC

Old photo I found of me on my camera. I think I took this one in 2024.
I needed a new non-Canva edited, new non-scraped photo for my website.
https://autistics.life/system/media_attachments/files/116/365/438/320/940/765/original/b133a66cb48822ba.png

2026-04-07 15:35:19 UTC

I totaled up the new freedom business expenses compared to old expenses. My business was spending over $200 a month on being data harvested. My freedom expenses are so low now. Having a 0 trackers store is saving me a lot of money.

2026-04-03 08:21:28 UTC

The data harvesters are very angry.
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2026-04-02 21:44:08 UTC

The company I used to use for print on demand clothing back in the Shopify store is now integrating with Amazon Freight shipping. I’m so glad I decided print on demand is a security risk. Now Amazon gets to harvest customer data of everyone who orders something printed with that company. Fuck that.

2026-04-02 11:52:56 UTC

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@nprofile…nmr0 Those questions read more like one of those what is your personality type quizzes.

2026-03-25 11:11:03 UTC

I’m glad Mastodon exists. Especially this autistics.life server created in December 2022.
During a time when I have to go to extremes to avoid being data harvested to stop who I am being sold to anyone who wants to pretend to be me, I still have the fediverse. I had to delete all social media apps, everything. I know this server doesn’t data harvest because I own it.
My work setup is an iron fortress made to protect me and my 0 tracker store. I guess in a way my store, and me, show the extremes I have to do in order to opt out of data harvesting shows how bad the problem really is. These corporations thought they made it impossible, so F them I opted out.

2026-02-26 14:26:12 UTC

I proudly tell everyone "I work for myself and answer to no one." Yet I do whatever my cats want every time they scream at me. Although sometimes they just want cuddles and hugs, and that is an acceptable demand.
#CatsOfMastodon
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2026-02-22 18:25:57 UTC

Dinah was non-stop screaming for 15 minutes. Then I gave her a long hug and she stopped screaming.
#CatsOfMastodon
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2026-02-17 21:45:59 UTC

Cat reality vs LinkedIn
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2026-02-10 15:52:32 UTC

Dinah will not let me go into my office and work. She just screams like she's dying if she's not on my lap at all times.
#CatsOfMastodon
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2026-01-24 13:45:03 UTC

I'm thinking I need to be on social media the way I was in December and posting safety warnings. I've been pretty beat down by everything. Google may have tried to demolish me to protect corruption, but they cannot control social media algorithms.
Facebook gave my personal profile some sort of professional boost where it treats all my public posts like it's a Facebook page and shows my posts to hundreds of random people in their feeds and I'm not subjected to pay to win rules of business pages because it's a personal profile.
With the winter storms today people are stuck inside, so it could be a good day to use my social media accounts. Free visibility.

2026-01-18 01:24:40 UTC

I feel like I'm being watched
#CatsOfMastodon
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2026-01-08 18:57:02 UTC

I'm learning from how I feel right now that I need to slowly introduce food so his body doesn't go into shock like mine is. I ate 3 baked chicken tenderloins, and that was apparently way more pure protein at once than my body can process.
So if this can happen to me, it can happen to Sam, so I should slowly give him a little bit more food each day. I'm hoping for the best. He's a young little man. He shouldn't have to die so young because his last owner caused a heatstroke. I'm doing my best.

2025-12-28 20:19:44 UTC

I'm getting another massive priority crawl by Google again. The UK, Australia, and New Zealand have had their own country links to the store, so after Managed Markets was completely gone, prices went back down to where they were pre-managed markets, new shipping prices updated, so I let it know all that was updated on the country links.
Since my site and images load instantly, no popups, no chat apps, no ads tracking pixels, only 100% necessary scripts run in the background, blocked every single AI tool and competitor data scraping tool bot crawlers, there are no bots interrupting the Google crawlers. So lots of Google bots at once are running full speed ahead again.

2025-12-16 20:19:32 UTC

I'm in an unfortunate predicament. My legs are shaking so much I cannot stand, my broken foot where my big toe and the space in between my big toe are broken is all fucked up from having to walk on it so much yesterday. I need to pack orders and go to the post office because it's the last minute before Christmas. Yet my body won't cooperate. I could drop it off tomorrow it's just risky.

2025-12-08 12:16:50 UTC

Apparently stealing packages in Texas is a state crime. Fewer than 10 packages can get you up to 1 year in jail and/or $4,000 fine. The more addresses a thief steals from the longer their jail sentence and thief's criminal charges level increases. If a thief steals packages from an elderly or disabled person their punishment is harsher and could lead to longer jail sentences. Interesting.

2025-12-06 02:26:08 UTC

Has anyone seen this?
A raccoon fell through the ceiling tile of a liquor store, ransacked the whiskey isle, drank a bunch of whiskey, and passed out drunk in the liquor store bathroom.
The liquor store has "Trashed Panda Recommendations" with a raccoon holding up bottles of liquor to on flyers in the store.
A wildlife rehabilitation came and got him and once he sobered up he was released into the wild.
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2025-12-03 23:54:02 UTC

My store is doing so well now that we are in December :blob_cat_sob: All my super detailed work and improvements for months are paying off.
It took me all day, but I packed 14 orders today. I started at 5:45am and ended at 4:30pm. Pack a little then rest for 2 hours, pack more, rest again with my foot elevated. There's still a ton more for me to pack to get caught up. Yay!

2025-11-30 17:39:07 UTC

I keep hoping one day I'll be done making adjustments and everything will be perfect.
Yesterday I made some major mistakes that cost me greatly and the emotional shame and stress that caused for myself was not pleasant. Luckily all the fixes and adjustments I made to fix the issues I created worked. What a relief!

2025-11-30 12:27:18 UTC

Dinah is keeping me company while I'm injured. :blob_cat_melt_love:
I guess I might as well play Steam Deck games and Farmville on my tablet all day to rest my foot.
Very inconvenient timing to fracture my big toe during the busiest season of the year. I can get to the post office no problem with the power chair, it's just I need to be able to stand for 1 to 3 hours to pack orders. Hopefully customers understand if shipping gets delayed.
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2025-11-21 14:14:19 UTC

I don't get why when people see on my social media bio that my store is for autistics, they ALWAYS assume it's for autistic children. So many people have pitched their product to me saying it helps autistic kids or targets parents of autistic kids. Why is the fact there is a store made for autistics where children cannot use 98% of what it sells so hard to grasp? Before me there was nothing for autistic adults. When we grow up into adulthood are we just supposed to stop being autistic or something? Weird people.
#ActuallyAutistic

2025-11-12 11:56:35 UTC

So I've broken down crying happy tears. This is the best possible news I could have received right before the holidays! :blob_cat_sob:
I can sell to the EU now!!
When Shopify approved me for international shipping, they added my store to a Managed Markets service which has a middle man service company who has registrations in all international countries, so Shopify collects VAT from me, pays it to the company, and the company handles everything for me.
No cost of registered agents, no cost of filing, no EU bank accounts, no filing taxes from an EU bank account. I can just ship to the EU!
All I pay is a 3.5% transaction fee for the service + my annual Shopify subscription.
Holiday miracle!

2025-11-05 12:57:23 UTC

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@nprofile…ffqc Does your email host have an admin panel? I use Google and the admin there is a section under Spam where you can create an auto response and block lists for the auto response.

2025-11-05 00:38:12 UTC

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@nprofile…ffqc Do you have a way to block email domains?
I go into my admin and block every single email domain that cold emails me. Been doing it for a few months and over 480 blocked so far. When they try to follow up they get a nasty auto reply message, "You have violated organization policy. Your email domain has been blocked and reported as spam. You can no longer spam this email address. Please do not attempt to email again it will only be rejected." I still get 8+ cold emails a day, but not flooded with follow up emails.

2025-11-04 15:46:02 UTC

I felt bad because my cat Sam has no toys and waiting for Christmas is a long time away. I got him these little plastic jingly balls for $3, but instead of playing with those he stole an ornament off the tree and played with that. *Sigh*

2025-10-16 16:12:00 UTC

Someone didn't think that design through
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2025-10-10 23:37:53 UTC

I see "tri sodium phosphate" in ingredient labels a lot. I got curious and went to the Home Depot website and searched "phosphates", and there it was, bags of tri sodium phosphate for treating dry wall to prepare for painting. There were also tri sodium phosphate substitutes marketed on the bag as safer for the environment and safer to use.
Now why would a chemical sold in Home Depot be in our food?
That seems deliberate and put there just to make us all chronically ill.

2025-10-09 14:27:06 UTC

Do you like my kitten galaxy leggings?
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2025-10-06 23:04:46 UTC

All over Meta networks there are so many ads for this "company" called Prosper that's selling cheap autism assessments for adults. I think this is the same person who was selling their $400 "autism assessments for adults" to a lot of vulnerable autistics on social media, but then she got caught as a grifter who isn't even licensed as a therapist/psychologist/psychiatrist nothing. It was all fake. She sold the autism assessments over tele-health and claimed she was licensed to do assessments in any state, meanwhile she wasn't licensed at all.
I blocked the Prosper accounts. Stuff like that pisses me off. It's sickening!
#ActuallyAutistic

2025-10-01 03:14:32 UTC

This horrendous month is over and my paycheck is much less than my rent and $1,200 less than last month. If it weren't for my family member sending an odd specific amount of money for my birthday that happens to be the exact remaining amount I need so I can pay my rent, I'd either be setting up a payment plan for rent with management, or I'd lose everything and be out in the streets. The divine forces in the universe who kept me and my cats basic needs all met 4 dire months in a row has kept a roof over my head even in the very most dire circumstances.
I trust that things will work out again during October, just like they did in June, July, August, and September. Unexpected miracle money always showed up at the right time. Me and my cats did not go hungry, electricity is still on, bills are paid, phone still on, have all my meds, and I even gained all my weight back that I lost from having no food in May. I did not go without thanks to the divine forces in the universe looking out for me. I asked for a miracle in May so I could survive and many miracles followed for months fulfilling all my basic needs. One cannot be helped if they don't ask.
I trust that things will be okay next month too.

2025-05-28 22:13:50 UTC

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@nprofile…zuzz I don't have the room for the 3D printer. My office is drowning in storage containers with inventory.

2025-05-28 20:44:07 UTC

Now that I'm not dropshipping anymore, my store's returning customer rate went up 61%. Which means I'm getting a lot more repeat customers now that everything is USA shipped. Just got to focus on bringing back all the bestsellers I lost.
I got the plushies today. Ordered some black and gold tissue paper to wrap the plushies in and black and gold thank you stickers to hold the tissue paper in place. Also some bigger black boxes to ship them in. All my boxes are black. It will look very nice.

2025-05-27 17:02:55 UTC

Just want to say I appreciate those who have stuck around and not given up on me.
I know many things I said about a specific topic on my previous mastodon account made many never want to talk to me again. There's been some I talk to every day and suddenly they disappear. Since here on Mastodon I'm much more vulnerable about things, it helps me appreciate those who stick around, while it makes those who walk away sting a little more.
Other social media (X and Instagram), I show different sides of myself. I'm more entrepreneurial on X because that's what the algorithm rewards. Instagram is more autism and neurodivergent focused. Here I'm a lot more honest and all sides of myself.
So thanks for sticking around. ❤️

2025-05-23 23:42:48 UTC

My autobiography has officially been published for 24 hours. In that time I've sold 4 ebooks and 3 audiobooks. I went into this with no expectations with no idea of whether people would want to read/listen to my life story or not, but wow! 7 book sales in 24 hours. 3 of those in the last 2 hours. I put myself out there all the time with no idea ever of what people think of me. I'm so happy people want to read/listen to me tell my life story 🥹 It means a lot to me!

2025-05-22 23:38:07 UTC

I wrote my (short) autobiography.
There's a lot of things in this book even people who have known me for decades don't know about me.
There's an ebook & audiobook. Both aren't perfect, but I did it all myself. This morning I didn't know how to master audio recordings, but I was determined to finish the audiobook today. After re-recording 2 chapters at 4am, I spent all day learning how to use an audio engineering program, and mastered the audiobook all in one day. After a 14 hour work day, the ebook & audiobook are finally live in The Autistic Innovator.
I got super vulnerable in this book, and now people will know things about me that I've always hidden.
Audiobook:
https://shop.autisticinnovator.com/products/the-autistic-innovator-an-autobiography-audiobook
Ebook:
https://shop.autisticinnovator.com/products/the-autistic-innovator-an-autobiography
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2025-05-12 23:08:18 UTC

This is the best news ever!
Secretary of Treasury and the Vice Premier of China negotiated yesterday and today in Switzerland, and they came to an agreement that for 90 days the US will lower China import tariffs from 145% to only 30%. China lowered their US imports tariffs from over 100% to only 10%. Both countries admitted they never intended to completely cut each other off, so this is the first step. Yay!!!!

2025-05-11 17:11:03 UTC

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@nprofile…dyep I can't afford to pay anyone else to do it for me. It's either I do it or it doesn't get done. I'm on track to be homeless and credit tanked by next month if I don't do something and get these sales up. I don't even have a single dollar I can put towards food. I bought the cats food instead of buying myself food. I hope my business survives.

2025-05-11 13:14:29 UTC

Looked at jobs and freelance sites. I have no job skills, don't have a bachelor's degree, and the only thing I know how to do (e-commerce) is a conflict of interest to employers. I have no other options than hustle my way through another month.
So I just got to suck it up, get over my insecurities, liven the F up, and get on TikTok. I've made sales just from commenting on videos, plus sales from ads, and organic video. I'm majorly hurting myself not doing any video at all. Just need to get over myself and do it.
Found Sephora's list of foundations with golden skin tones. There's actually a foundation that looks like me! It's more motivating if I can actually look like myself in videos. I can take all my videos with my Pixel 8 true tone too. :BlobCatSmiley:

2025-05-09 18:47:30 UTC

I'm the type of autistic who is bad at masking. I also can't read facial expressions and body language. No matter how hard I try to mask my real autistic self is too obvious. I was exhausting myself trying to mask and bad at guessing what people were thinking. Always socially lost.
All the autistics I've known in person don't struggle with this stuff. Any other autistics like this?
#ActuallyAutistic
@nprofile…67cd

2025-05-08 17:00:59 UTC

I stopped doing my ADHD cleaning 10 minutes a day to get and keep my apartment clean. Backfired on me twice. What I put off for weeks took me only 30 minutes to clean up. It was an oh sh*t I need to get this place clean now or I'll get in trouble with apartment management. Suddenly I was motivated to clean.
#ADHD
#AuDHD

2025-05-07 13:33:38 UTC

Accurate 😄
#ActuallyAutistic
#ADHD
#neurodivergent
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2025-04-24 18:48:22 UTC

I think what they are calling an increase in severe autism cases where young adults have to wear diapers, go on the floor, break their parents bones from how violent they get, extremely aggressive, etc, I really don't think that's autism. I think something else is probably happening, and these specialists all hate us so they are labeling it autism when it's actually something else.
I think since some of what they are calling severe autism cases is non-speaking, they're just misdiagnosing those super severe cases. I saw a parent say their "autistic" kid threw them across the room and broke their ribs. Other parents said they have broken arms from how violent their "autistic" kids are. These kids they are calling "severely autistic" are incredibly violent. Autism doesn't make someone violent. It's got to be something else. And in the process they will try to eradicate us over a misdiagnosis.
What do you think?
@nprofile…67cd
#ActuallyAutistic

2025-04-23 21:28:14 UTC

Autism has been around since forever.
My great grandfather spent all his time by himself with his special interests inventing things. Sounds autistic to me, just like his diagnosed son.
#ActuallyAutistic
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2025-04-20 17:57:42 UTC

All this autism controversy stuff has made my mind go down a rabbit hole of my early 20’s, and a lot of stuff is making sense. My dad never told me that he thought I’d never be able to take care of myself because of how autistic and ADHD I am. So many things my dad did to try to give me a good quality of life. I didn’t know it was because I can’t take care of myself. But I resented anyone and everyone who tried to take care of me. I wanted to take care of myself by myself. Life was over a decade of hellish disaster after I didn’t accept all the help. Makes me wonder what my life would have been like had I not been so stubborn. One of those it would have been really good to know way back then that I’m autistic. My life would have been very different, and a lot better, had I known. The disaster ride didn't end until I learned I'm autistic at 35.
But oh well, I’m in a good place now and life will continue to get better.

2025-04-18 23:18:40 UTC

First handmade product arrived today. Made by The Fox's Burrow. They're mini weighted frog plushies.
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2025-04-18 03:23:32 UTC

While RFK Jr was talking about profoundly autistic people who can't take care of themselves and will never do basic things, while I was never as severe, I wasn't that far above that. Schools told me I was dumb, failed 10th grade, dropped out in 11th grade, GPA of 2.5 in college, jobs all fired me for being slow and socially inept. I'll never be able to have a good paying career job and exist in the normal world. I'm too autistic and not smart enough. I was pushed to find a husband and get married because I had no hope of survival.
I'm literally too autistic to have friends and romantic relationships. All the issues and fights I've ever had in friendships and relationships were caused by my autistic traits. I couldn't handle all the touching from cuddling and affection in dating without getting so easily sensory overwhelmed I'd have a crying rocking hysterical meltdown. Then they'd get mad at me. So I've just said fuck people. RFK says autistic people "will never go on dates" so guess that's accurate for me.
I think about it often how much easier my life would be if I were a smart high functioning autistic. But I'm not.
So hearing RFK Jr call people like me a disease that needs to be cured and that I'm a burden who destroyed my family. I was the kid whose parents resented me because of my autism and how "difficult" I was. So hearing that speech hurt. Really hurt. I cried after watching that speech. I'm not a disease.

2025-04-15 17:08:07 UTC

I wouldn't say that I'm feeling confident, but I'm feeling more hopeful now. China shipped was a third of my income. I'm facing a will I even make enough to pay my rent situation, and can my business survive after these tariffs. But I'm finding ways. Bulk ordered my bestselling China made fidgets and my top selling spinner ring all from US suppliers. Already sold a fidget that just got here a few hours ago. That's a sale I wouldn't have gotten if I didn't have it here. There's also handmade items arriving this week. There's no way to predict how this month will go. But maybe I'll pull off a miracle and it will all be okay.

2025-04-10 15:30:27 UTC

Any small makers who makes spinner rings and/or other types of fidget jewelry? 3D printed spinner rings work too.
I can't find a single USA made supplier of spinner rings. All the "brands" labeled Made in USA are China made rings. All the Etsy sellers are in India dropshipping China rings to US customers. I can't find a single fidget jewelry maker in the USA. My store's fidget jewelry collection is very small right now, so this is an immediate need.
Please boost to help me and fidget jewelry makers find each other.