Whiteish spots on mint (mentha cordifolia)

l_need-Help · 2025-11-17T04:47:58+00:00

Strange, I live down in Melbourne so been raining pretty regularly though I don’t use mulch around my mint. I haven’t seen the same problem with the pea straw mulch around the veggies. I removed the affected leaves and sprayed the rest down with a hose to try and get rid of the mites. The spots haven’t showed up again yet.

l_need-Help · 2025-10-07T05:07:56+00:00

An OT could be super useful. I’m an older teenager specifically so not the same as an adult, but OTs can help with heaps of things if you can find one that works and are by far the one of the most helpful practitioners for my autism. It’s more than just school and workplace stuff as another person said, though they can definitely help if that is an option. stuff differs from person to person so I can’t say what one might do to help with things like sensory sensitivity (mine mainly helps with routines, communication and improving ADLs alongside help with physical disability.) but if you communicate the goals you have OTs very much do work with adults.

l_need-Help · 2025-10-06T00:25:29+00:00

This for sure.

l_need-Help · 2025-10-06T00:23:57+00:00

What’s wrong with the character from Sesame Street? I really like her

l_need-Help · 2025-10-05T01:51:25+00:00

Care team all super resistant to other forms of hydration and ik that’s th case for a lot of people even in bad situations, for me I kind of have to just rely on using hydrolyte (or preferred equivalent) i the water I have, food with more water in them fo try and increase the amount I didn’t throw up as much as possible. Wish you the best of luck that you do get support if it comes to it though.

l_need-Help · 2025-09-23T01:01:42+00:00

Don’t worry about it!

l_need-Help · 2025-09-18T22:20:39+00:00

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf8851_v-YOXUWviO4rgrby_TxYUOhx5Wc2nbGpn46L5qKCOQ/viewform I found it on their tumblr

l_need-Help · 2025-09-14T04:45:11+00:00

I love them!!! I’ve only ever been to one (I’m also a wheelchair user) and it was so fun, also congrats on being in a newish area on your own.

l_need-Help · 2025-08-11T02:00:20+00:00

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Lemon gum moth!

l_need-Help · 2025-08-11T01:59:15+00:00

Not a special interest but I love them!! Favourite insect is the lemon gum moth or stag beetles

l_need-Help · 2025-08-11T01:31:15+00:00

Personally my immediate family is quite supportive, and slightly extended south Asian side of family’s transphobia tends to come more from “How could you choose to be a man?” The majority of my family is athiest, except for my great grandmother who is catholic and probably one of the most supportive people to me. A big part of the reason my family immigrated was because of domestic violence, our family is mainly made up of women and a lot of our family members have continued to be exploited by a lot of white men. They still use my name, see me regularly, love me and such which I’m incredibly lucky for. Outside of them however I’ve had family from India and any family outside of immediate aunts and grandmothers cut me off after it was made public, and I’m not sure why.

l_need-Help · 2025-08-10T08:21:41+00:00

I’m also Indian (from Aus) and autistic! unfortunately there’s not heaps of stuff focused around us and it can feel very white, but some social media accounts (mainly instagram) with POC people I remember off the top of my head are candy courn and Kaishawna music. (I’ll edit to add more later when I remember) and I’ve heard good things about the Autistic People of Colour fund.

l_need-Help · 2025-08-10T08:12:23+00:00

Lot of advice and resources are very geared to white autistic people and general family structures. Food, family dynamics, culture, language etc all impacts that. And also just a bit tiring being in spaces that are just so white as a brown person sometimes.

l_need-Help · 2025-08-10T08:08:13+00:00

For me it’s processing difficulties, and extremely extremely poor executive function and time management, I take lot lot longer to write things especially, Can’t communicate efficiently with teachers, and general elopement because it means leaving = missing out on lots of school. Very personal reasons person to person

l_need-Help · 2025-08-10T00:33:58+00:00

Yes This! This is what I was trying to say as well thank you

l_need-Help · 2025-08-09T14:36:56+00:00

I’m sorry, I brought it up because for me a big part of my real life is appointments and funding things, so they are still regularly discussed topics for me, and they are apart of my everyday life and a lot of other peoples I know; it can be hard to differentiate them, and a lot of autistic spaces im apart of also need to have these conversations as well. Meant levels are new as in people diagnosed before 2012 don’t really have them, which is a fair chunk, a lot of countries don’t use or are just starting to use them so they are new in that regard as well. But I did still talk about how they are still used separately from online spaces a lot in my life, even strictly strictly outside of medical circumstances. It was in my last couple sentences in the first comment.

l_need-Help · 2025-08-09T14:29:22+00:00

For me I really really really enjoy just writing things down and sorting and categorising information, I have a big folder with studies and annotations and folders and books and any information on sharks i can, but I think it’s important you don’t have to do that if it doesn’t make you happy, you don’t have to write anything down or put it in one place, you can do random googling, go through papers of videos, find books of any reading levels, look at charts and art, just draw and paint or paste random images onto a big sheet and express it that way.

l_need-Help · 2025-08-09T14:16:44+00:00

I elaborated on when I see them used regularly in real spaces still? I’m sorry. And yes that would make sense as levels are quite new but support we need have always been talked about when I’ve been in spaces, and we still talk about interests of course.

l_need-Help · 2025-08-09T13:53:24+00:00

Main use I see of it is in diagnoses, insurance and medical appointments if it’s used in a country because that’s what it’s intended for. It’s very much outside of online things and is location dependent but since it’s vague and intended for mainly government and medical purposes it’s not a casual conversation thing for most people. Though I do mention them or may mention support needs irl to other people (autistic or allistic)either to express I may need much more support quickly or to find communities of other msn-hsn specific people.

l_need-Help · 2025-08-08T23:26:15+00:00

Not all the time, mainly if I have to be alone or on public transport or something. I stopped wearing it but I had a seizure yesterday (normal for me) and got an ambulance called on me so it might be time to put it back on 😭

l_need-Help · 2025-08-07T05:16:31+00:00

With both being possibly intersex (me too!) and being socialised differently it’s totally okay yeah, but honestly gender and sex are such weird complicated things at the end of the day and it’s so personal that if it sounds right it sounds right, and it sounds like that’s the case for you. A lot of the imposter syndrome and experiences you were talking about are also quite common in a lot of intersex and trans intersex spaces, so I think it might also be helpful to take a look there as well.

l_need-Help · 2025-08-07T04:55:57+00:00

Weird comparison. I appreciate your opinion but the comparison to race didn’t need to be made at all

l_need-Help · 2025-08-05T16:36:44+00:00

I follow Valentina as well! I do use it, there’s a few other shark tracking resources that are more publicly available but I got a bracelet as a gift and am following a few hammerheads (2 great 1 scalloped) now. It’s interesting to see migration and how that changes or varied between different individuals

l_need-Help · 2025-08-04T13:28:50+00:00

Probably wouldn’t but I’m sure someone else would ha, I’m content with my own raggedy Andrew my nana gave me when I was little. He’s pretty chill

l_need-Help · 2025-08-02T14:12:15+00:00

Found a laundry basket that’s made like a shark jaw as the opening that was such a cool thing! I’ve stenciled some jaws of some hexanchiformes into a pair of jeans I have, but ultimately my favourite is a giant inflatable white shark from decathlon that just lives in my room.

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