Samantha Rose 🌹

Mostly talk about being autistic, identity and generally life.

Summary: ♾️🏳️‍⚧️:heart_sparkles_lesbian:🖥️💜🩷💖

Autistic, trans, SDAM. Pro Choice and 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (full LGBTQIA+) rights. Immigrant. Interests: Human rights, #avgeek, tech. Speaks for myself only.

Anti genocide and fascism. Pro 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇬🇱.

Note: Feel free to request follow - I approve most people who don't have glaring red flags.

Avatar: Photo of a Red Panda.

#noindex

Pronouns: She/her or they/them
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Link: https://pronouns.cc/@samantha
Blog: https://hiiamsamantha.xyz/

Last Notes

2025-12-23 09:03:30 UTC

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Thanks, we could use some :-)
Oh, and while I remember I hope you have a great holiday (Christmas?) 💜.

2025-12-03 10:41:46 UTC

Watching talks in the Dáil with TD after TD, based in Irish Labour motion, talking about the unacceptable state of trans health care and supporting trans rights is positively emotional (even if the chamber is too empty). Especially considering what we see in the other places/cases.
Still ongoing right now, will possibly post something more later.
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/oireachtas-tv/dail-eireann-live/

2025-11-25 11:07:11 UTC

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For whatever it’s worth I very frequently have the problem of not being able to finish projects. I seem to run out of will to do it part way through. This is even for projects that would be very useful to get completed.
I don’t know if I’m ADHD (I don’t have spare spoons for the finding out project yet) but I have heard this problem frequently mentioned by ADHD people.

2025-09-26 21:13:00 UTC

While I was walking home today I suddenly got dizzy for a bit with no clear cause. It luckily went back to normal fairly quickly, but was unpleasant.
Having poor interoception and general self doubt I was wondering if anything really did happen, but when I looked at my fitness tracker it was quite clear I was in fact not imagining it, as my pulse at clearly spiked quite noticeably.
It's not common occurrence to get dizzy and I haven't seen pulse spike like that before, so I hopefully it was just my body being annoying.
I do like having data and being able to correlate things, so that was at least a positive.
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/115/272/608/367/708/280/original/8db262ee446eb5dd.jpg

2025-06-06 11:43:12 UTC

Going for a “walk” near Glendalough, Ireland.
Currently 470 metres above sea level. Don’t know where we started but we have gone up a lot :-).
#glendalough #ireland #nature
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/114/636/238/865/768/918/original/d5337f402137ecc7.jpeg

2025-04-05 17:00:21 UTC

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Followup a bit later, where Shadow was unhappy being alone, so he came up to relax as well.
#SamanthaCatNews #caturday #CatsOfMastodon
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/114/286/417/014/466/776/original/58302f55818d0db7.jpg

2025-04-05 16:33:47 UTC

Cloud is relaxing.
#SamanthaCatNews #caturday #CatsOfMastodon
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/114/286/308/197/003/441/original/4e210c00a311c661.jpg

2025-01-20 21:03:30 UTC

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“12 years ago”… … clearly there is a bug in the date calculation algorithm… …. :-)

2024-12-28 15:47:51 UTC

Cloud can't do just with plain cardboard boxes. Only the best laundry baskets are good enough for relaxing for a distinguished lady.
PS. Cloud, formerly known as Boots.
#CatsOfMastodon #caturday
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/113/731/222/521/810/149/original/329e9747645180c6.jpg

2024-12-12 13:37:56 UTC

I got my first ID with my name on it this week!
I changed my name at work a while ago, but it takes a while for them to create a new badge (for any new badge), so I only got the new one this week.
The women who got the badge with my deadname on it and handed me my new one smiled warmly when handed me the new one (= it was pretty obvious trans change...), so that was nice too.
One more step.
#TransJoy #HiIAmSamantha

2024-11-24 22:57:17 UTC

It's a hard job being a great hunter of paper balls, feathers and more so sometimes naps are required.
#SamanthaCatNews
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/113/540/394/037/189/310/original/4d2e13b9c2e22504.jpg

2024-11-24 10:33:37 UTC

New cat entertainment found: Me putting on moisturizer is apparently very interesting to watch :-). I just thought it was a thing I could do while looking after him.
As a bonus, he did not try to help.
#SamanthaCatNews

2024-11-13 16:55:03 UTC

People with more ADHD (diagnosis) clue. Are there any noticeable downsides to a formal ADHD diagnosis with regard to discrimination and more?
I'm asking since for Autism there can be some significant cases where having a formal diagnosis is a problem, but it seems to me to be not an issue in the same way for ADHD.
I mostly care about Ireland / EU, but if people have information from other locations I'm interested in that too.
PS. Not that I think it makes a difference, but I'm not asking for myself in this case.
#ADHD #AskingADHD

2024-11-06 15:23:07 UTC

"What if everyone pointed a laser at the moon?" by Randall Munroe (XKCD)
5m36s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqFSGkFPipM