hey there hexbear nd gang! it’s that time of year for the first time ever!

here we are once again approaching the end of the year according to the roman imperial calendar that we all have to use for some reason. it’s the winter holiday season in the global north, a time of great symbolic significance to many people.

and so, i want to solicit your thoughts about this community, what it means to you, how you’d like to see it evolve, changes in moderation policy, suggestions for thumbnail and banner images, or anything else related to the comm or neurodiversity in general.

or just come hang out!

i also want to invite applications for new moderators for this comm. what would you like to do as a moderator for c/neurodiversity?

personally i’ve largely been a placeholder, but i do love this community and i want to see it grow as a shared and safe space for our neurodivergent comrades to talk about ourselves and with each other. i also want to do better and want your input about what that means.

c/nd has a well behaved user base so we don’t need extra mod help for enforcement or anything like that. what i’m mainly looking for is fresh perspectives on community engagement and growth.

there is absolutely no requirement to disclose any personal information about yourself, just to make that clear. but if you’re interested in moderating this community, please contact @CARCOSA@hexbear.net, myself, and/or the other nd mods with an application.

if deadlines help motivate you, you have 3 days from the time you read this.

if deadlines harm your motivation, don’t worry about it. if an application comes in a month or two from now of course we’ll still consider it. this isn’t a job, i’m just asking for volunteers to help moderate a small internet message board.

Application

What is your Hexbear username?

Do you have any preferred pronouns?

What are your thoughts on capitalism?

What are your thoughts on imperialism?

What are your thoughts on trans rights?

What are your thoughts on racial justice?

What are your thoughts on neurodiversity?

What do think about current and previous protests around the world?

What are your thoughts on Veganism and Animal Liberation?

Do you have any experience with other leftist online communities? What did those experiences teach you?

What is your approach to moderation, and how do you work with teams?

How do you deal with online drama and people who try to start things for the sake of it?

Do you have any ideas for c/neurodiveristy community engagement?

What is your general time availability? (amounts, common browsing times, etc)

Element information

Element is a messaging app that lets you talk to people over the Matrix protocol.

To get started, check out this link, where you can choose to either download Element for your platform or, if on a computer, open it in a browser (“Launch Element Web”).

The instructions that follow are for the desktop application and the web application, but the process is similar on all apps:

  • Press “Create Account”
  • We host our own Matrix server, so if you want you can change matrix.org to chapo.chat. This is completely optional; users who sign up with a matrix.org username can still talk to people with chapo.chat username. (Note: It is chapo.chat, not hexbear.net. Also, registrations aren’t always open on chapo.chat; if they’re not, just create an account on matrix.org)
  • Fill in a username and password
  • Hit register, and you’re done!
  • ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Hi, I’m not FourteenEyes but this comment is a day old and speaks to my soul and I hate it:

    spoiler

    You can find yourself putting in a ton of energy which can lead you to burning out and this alone can really disrupt efforts to have longer lasting connections with people if you’re dropping off frequently or for long periods of time.

    This is me

    Putting in a disproportionate amount of effort into a relationship by masking and trying to fit can lead to […]

    This is me too

    You can find that all of that effort you put in means that the other person connects with a very “curated” personality […]

    This one is me also

    Thing is, A) obviously nobody wants to genuinely connect with the whole actual me because I am insanely weird or something, B) there have been cases where I have poured my entire guts out to someone and had what I thought were really good conversations, discussions of trauma, real bonding over hardships and discussing how to handle them type stuff, except that the above ends up happening again anyway. They just don’t wanna talk about anything I’m interested in, and also frequently are incapable of sharing anything about themselves.

    Also high maskers generally tend to have a high level of shame and social rejection,

    This is me too wow, incredible! No attempt at speaking to a person has ever gone truly well for me save one, so how can I not have these things?

    seek out a setting where your niche interest(s) are likely to attract other neurodivergent folks.

    Where and also lmao. There often aren’t spaces for my weird insufferable interests, so I’m usually left screaming into the void in places tangentially related to the stuff I like, always online. Also worth noting I just do not fuck around with neurotypicals anymore if I can help it, which sadly has not helped much.

    I generally resist trying to fit in which just makes me feel like an aberration everywhere I go and it’s so incredibly fucking frustating holy shit. By rights I am not all that weird, certainly there must be people like me but they also must not be anywhere near where I am or the spaces in which I speak.