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I also took this photo of Nikita. When editing this photo I said, “Wow she’s such a pretty cat!”
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mastodon 4.7.3My 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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Those who's goal has been to stop The Autistic Innovator and force it out of business, and stop me from running The Autistic Innovator, I hope you read this and take a long hard look at yourself and who's will you are actually doing. You are on the wrong side. May there be mercy on your soul.
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When my cat Sam died I felt this force of love energy physically pouring out of me and shining on Sam and it gave him so much peace. The angel told me to pet him so I did. After he stopped breathing all the energy was gone and the room was quiet. The angel was there to help Sam cross over, so I guess little man does have a soul. Up in Heaven living his best life. Right before he died I told him, "They say animals don't have souls, but I think you have a soul. You're the most determined cat I've ever known." Little man was special.
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Also, my new autisticinnovator.com redesign I launched yesterday quickly turned into an external sale this afternoon.
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Never say out loud that evil defeated you and what you love most, which is in my case The Autistic Innovator.
When I started building my new autisticinnovator.com website on my iPad evil that thought it won and had me right where it wanted me, so in the middle of building the new website the internet data on my iPad shut off and the admin page turned into a blank page. I said I will not be stopped, so I went to Starbucks and built the website on my iPad on Starbucks wifi, pushed it live and went home, and when I got home my apartment was still a data internet dead zone, and I couldn’t see the live site, so I discovered if I went outside I could get internet data. I managed to get my internet back on in the evening discovering what makes evil run like little bitches, so I did that all morning and it made evil angry so my internet was permanently shut off all day. When my iPad started streaming a song it played and then song number 2 got cut off halfway through because it was what annoys evil. So I talked directly to it like I did the giant corp and the syndicate, and my internet briefly turned on and shut off again. The internet on my phone worked, so I looked up lyrics to a song it hates and started singing it. Then the AI Overview and all the links on the search page disappeared and all that was left was the lyrics widget, so I kept going.
After it refused to turn my internet back on, I realized what I said that it defeated me made it so comfortable it decided it thought it had won and had full power over me. It was determined to stop me from running The Autistic Innovator.
It was a battle of the mind to finally figure out how to expel it for good. In the end, I figured out its greatest weakness, confidently and calmly told it its time for you to go you’re not welcome here you’ve tortured me for 42 years never come back.
My internet was still off, but internet for iMessage finally worked and it did not work all day. After a bit I said, “I’m worn out. I’m really tired. All I want to do is play FarmVille.” Instantly my iPad internet turned back on and stayed on. Now I have connection with the outside world again.
What a battle that was. I was not afraid. I won. Evil can torment me no more.
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I don't talk about it on here, because I don't want to offend anyone. I spent all my life being an atheist and calling myself a gnostic atheist, because I was so sure evidence of the divine didn't exist.
Things have changed. You all know I am a very rational person. I've experienced enough hard evidence to know with 100% certainty, it is all real. I know this for a fact. I didn't grow up with religion, so nothing was ever taught to me. Things always happen to me, and I look it up and what happened to me is always actually in the Bible I never read. It is always things I didn't think were possible and didn't think were real until I see it happen. I don't know how many people are given and experience so much hard evidence, but I have. While I have known since September 2025 that it's all real, I still refuse to go to a church because I don't like Christian culture. So many people use Jesus as an excuse to turn into monsters. I did not understand the whole Jesus thing until yesterday when demons infested my apartment and shut off my Internet to stop me from running The Autistic Innovator and to force me to submit to them. They refused to leave. Understanding what Jesus is was the only thing that got rid of them. Yesterday was a dark empty cloud presence, but after they finally left, all I felt was joy. I don't feel them here anymore.
Had I read a post like this one years ago, I would have felt very uncomfortable and just think how is that possible there must be some other explanation. In this case, there is not.
My goal is not to tell anyone how to believe or think, I am only sharing my real experiences.
The reason I am sharing all of this risking judgement of me or people abandoning me, is to help the people focused on destroying me understand what they are doing. You and the demons have the same exact goal. Before yesterday I was angry with you and wished you'd experience the worst happening to you so you'd suffer the way you made me suffer, but after yesterday it is clear you are unknowingly being used by demons to do their will. It is never too late to turn things around. After what I experienced yesterday, I only wish mercy would be shown to you because you don't know what you are doing. I do not consider all of you the enemy anymore. May this post help you get on the right path.
I am not telling anyone to go to church and repent, because I don't like churches very much, just pick up a Bible and see what the new testament says for yourself. The demons felt so comfortable interfering with the physical world for 2 days, because I didn't read far enough to understand who Jesus actually is and they took advantage of that.
I know I am risking abandonment in mass by the Mastodon community, but I am more concerned with saving the souls of the ones obsessed with destroying me. It's never too late.
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I made Nikita my iPad screen.
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I've talked about the demons, but I haven't yet told the story of the angel.
I thought angels weren't real and were just story book characters until one was sent to me. September 2025 I was crying and praying for the second time in over a decade. I felt this force swoop in and I felt its pressure on my head and it's hands on my shoulders and it said "He heard you." I didn't learn until a year later that every time an angel showed itself to a human in the Bible it first said God heard you he heard you, and that's exactly what it said to me. Then it pulled something out of me and said to me, "You're special. You must be protected." I still don't know what it meant by that. Maybe why I've been saved from death 9 times. I didn't know angels could touch people and looked it up and it was actually in the Bible.
Then I got up and left the room and I felt a demon close to me. I didn't think demons were real and were made up stories until I felt it right there. It said to me "You imagined all of that. It didn't happen. It's all in your head." And I felt that sinking feeling in my stomach I always got and in that moment I learned that sinking in my stomach feeling was caused by a demon trying to put thoughts in my head. I asked the angel to send it away and it left. I learned in the following 2 weeks after that all those self hatred thoughts of shame accompanied by a sinking feeling in my stomach were demons having fun putting self hatred thoughts in my head because I thought they weren't real.
Many things over time. The angel used to hang around more often, but then all remnants of heavenly forces disappeared and all that was left was empty darkness.
I didn't know demons could interfere with the physical world until 2 days ago. I said out loud "Can demons fuck with the physical world?" And my internet instantly turned back on. I think the demons felt comfortable interfering with the physical world turning off my Internet to stop me from running The Autistic Innovator, because they know I know for a fact it's all real and I knew it was them doing it. I tried everything to get rid of them, but they wouldn't leave like they were mocking me. They tried to make me feel powerless against them.
The only thing that got rid of them was believing with all of you that Jesus gave those who believe in him the power to send demons away, and if you don't believe that you can the demons won't go. I had to overcome a lot in my mind to work up the power to get them to leave. They've been tormenting me since the day I was born to an evil woman. I've been their plaything for 42 years and they didn't want to let that go so they thought they could force me into submission, but it's all over now. I knew I would never prosper until I got rid of the literal demons.
It's 12:30am now and at this hour I don't know if anyone will see this, but I am telling this story anyway.
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The one big thing I learned yesterday is demons really hate soulful gospel music, especially this song.
https://youtu.be/ClOFs7CFoxs?si=L1HiNOB4ROBW_BuN
After they had my Internet off all day, I played this song and they ran away like little bitches, and within a minute my phone internet turned back on and it was fast. 13 gospel songs in I was using my iPad as a hotspot for my PC. I had no idea music was so powerful until that happened.
The next morning because they wouldn't leave I went outside and downloaded a Whitney Houston gospel album and blared it nonstop. This song they hate started streaming and halfway through the song they cut off. They got pissed because I wouldn't stop blaring gospel music so they cut off the Internet on my iPad to make it stop, but left my iPhone Internet on. So to further annoy them because they wouldn't leave, I used my iPhone to look up Amazing Grace lyrics and started singing it, so to stop the song they deleted the AI Overview and all hymnal links on the page, but the lyrics widget was still there.
I don't know what it is about this "Standing by the Highway" in particular, but they really hate it. They really hate gospel music.
Standing By The Highway
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I must be doing a good job taking care of Nikita. She’s 15 years old and has a photogenic glow in all the photos I take of her. Usually when I see photos of 15 year old cats they look sickly and old. My other cat Dinah too. She’s 13 years old and she feels like she’s a 3 year old cat. Hopefully they both live a long time. I feel like me staying single for the last nearly 3 years has helped Nikita be a happy cat. She still hates everyone but me, even 13 years later. No living with stressful people.
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I hope that I didn't push anyone away or worry anyone telling the stories I did last night. It's a heavy thing to talk about. I just felt compelled to tell the truth about these things I have kept to myself for a year, for fear of judgement from others on here. Had I been told these stories years ago when I was so sure none of it existed, I would have thought I was listening to a crazy person and feel bad for them, which I am sure is the case for many of you on here who are in the atheist camp. It was a huge risk telling these real things that happened to me, but for some reason I felt compelled to share them.
When I prayed for the second time in over a decade, I said in the prayer I don't even know if anything is listening and if you are even real, because I still had doubts. Then this angel came and said "He heard you." And I was in shock because I thought angels were story book characters. Then it exposed the demon and I thought demons weren't real. I don't know why it was necessary to show me it's all real for a fact. Perhaps because I would never believe it without evidence. It was so undeniable that there is no possible way I could have imagined things I didn't think were real.
Perhaps some people's perception of me has changed, and I suppose that is okay. Maybe some who read my posts and don't interact, but quietly wonder if it is real like I say it is.
The one major thing I learned during those 2 days demons infested my apartment is I truly am fearless. Perhaps that is why I told all of these stories to everyone publicly on Mastodon.
Some will believe me, some won't, and that is okay. Perhaps this will reach some people who need to hear it most.
That is all. I won't speak of this again. Telling these stories is a one time deal.
If you are autistic, ADHD, and/or neurodivergent and start a sensory store business, let me know.
Back in 2020-2021, I interviewed autistic entrepreneurs for The Autistic Innovator autism blog once a month.
So I want to do that again, just with sensory industry businesses only.
The predators need to be replaced, but there is no one to replace them with. Our community taking over the sensory industry is their worst nightmare, and it’s a nightmare that needs to come true. I am asking to interview my new competitors, but maybe with my backing behind a sensory store, we can clean up the industry faster.
I can’t even say take our industry back, because we’ve never had it in the first place, but we collectively need to take it from them.
#ActuallyAutistic
#ADHD
#neurodivergent
Dinah usually runs up to me screaming when I get home from the post office, but today she has a comfy sunspot on the bed.
#CatsOfMastodon #caturday
Now that the weekend is over, I want to find places where I can sell in person and charge more, and also be able to sell my luxury fidgets in person. This weekend was a free table in a low income area, but I cannot consistently only charge $5 and $10. This was just for fast cash situation.
I am extremely motivated now to sell more in person because Square POS card reader works with tap to pay on phones, and the transaction fees are SO much cheaper than the 3.9% + 30¢ transaction fees I paid on Shopify. Square POS is only 2.6% + 15¢. Cash is great too. No transaction fees.
I can do that for photography too. People can tap to pay on their phone or pay cash.
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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.
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@tezoatlipoca Texas isn’t very generous with SNAP. Single people with no kids it’s F you, you get no help, and when they do give help for 3 months in a 2 year period, it’s only about $80 a month. The only way to get on SNAP for longer in Texas is to be on social security disability, or be single with a bunch of kids. Outside of those 2 types of people, we all get nothing and no help. When Walmart charges insane prices to profit from disabled people and single moms SNAP money, it screws the rest of us poor people over.
I had to order the cats wet food for 4am to 8am delivery. I hope it gets here this time. I felt so bad not having fancy feast for them when I woke up. They look forward to it so much. From the second I open my eyes every morning they yell at me to get up and give them wet food, and they it eat like its the greatest thing they have ever received. They split a small can, but they are so grateful for it every single morning.
After my first 2 applications for Amazon Brand registry got denied for errors, I went slowly this time with a clear head so my ADHD doesn’t take over and cause me to make more mistakes. I finally found the source of the errors. It asked if a registered business owns the trademark and I put yes both times, but I looked at the certificate on the wall and I own the trademark personally not the business. So The Autistic Innovator® is literally my personal trademark. I did the application correctly this time.
Amazon didn’t deliver the cats Fancy Feast wet food yesterday, so all I have left is Sam’s senior wet food thats just shredded fish meat. Nikita didn’t want it but Dinah ate it. I told Nikita, “I’m sorry, Nikita. That’s all I have. Your wet food delivery is late.” She was like that’s okay I will eat it, and she did. They look forward to fancy feast wet food every morning, but today I had none.
It brought me great joy to write this article.
The Truth About Fidget Toys packed full of citations from the federal government. Dangerous products are per the CPSC recalls, and consumer reports to SaferProducts.gov. Along with citing the FTC, FDA, and IRS.
https://autisticinnovator.com/the-truth-about-fidget-toys-trade-secrets-safety-education/
How cathartic writing that was. I wrote whole article on my PC connected to my iPhone’s cellular data hotspot.
Because I’ve been going to the post office very few times with weeks in between sales, I missed a very important letter notice from the Texas state government that I needed to file a franchise report on time. I got an email that I am late and if I don’t file the report by July 17th the state will consider it forfeiture of my right to do business in Texas and take my business. That was scary! It is just a form to file that I don’t meet the franchise tax minimum and had to file a form to confirm that I am still the owner of the business. Fucking government.
Dinah had a fur ball, so she jumped off me and went to the floor so she didn’t throw up on me. How thoughtful lol
I have one card left, and it's a card that can get their entire criminal enterprise deleted from the internet.
I am starting to think there will never be any consequences for the criminal enterprise. They were punished for stealing who I am, but they are too evil and tried dirty tricks and illegal things to bring back their artificial monopoly and they have done it. Nearly all my traffic is just their bots trying to destroy my SEO all day long. Their website host is aware of absolutely every crime being committed with lots of 3rd party sources to show I am telling the truth, and yet nothing is done. It’s very exhausting.
I downloaded WhatsApp today and found my very distinctive brand name is being used for a WhatsApp handle. Considering that app is the favorite for scammers this is very concerning. You cannot look up usernames since usernames were added last year, so I cannot see if they are impersonating me. I don’t know why else someone would have autisticinnovator as their WhatsApp handle. Thanks to my lovely registered trademark I could file a trademark infringement report, so if this person is pretending to be me, Meta can remove the impersonation account.
Their wet food was outside the door when I woke up. The kitties were very happy they got to eat their favorite wet food today. It’s the fancy feast gravy lovers pate wet food. They were both very kind to eat the wet food they don’t like yesterday. Nikita knows I’m working my hardest to provide for her. She could tell I was sad I didn’t have any of their wet food but provided with what I had, so she said that’s okay I will eat it.
I haven’t said anything out loud about trying to save us from potential homelessness because I don’t want her to know. She understands everything I say.
These fridge magnets have been out of sight out of mind for 3 years, but just now noticed I put them there. My Shopify store was 2 years old when I put these on the fridge.
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@cwicseolfor @rspfau I'm 20lbs underweight from lack of money for food, and my body can only digest so much food in a day. I eat the highest calorie foods I can find, where I can get the most amount of calories for cheap, but when I stop drinking sugary drinks with a lot of calories, my ribs start showing again on my chest. If I drink nothing but coffee and water, I lose more of what little fat I have on my body right now. Soda is easier access, because I don't have to pay Walmart's $35 order minimum + tip. I can spend $1.00 each on 3 2L bottles of soda that are high calorie. I prefer the gallon jug of strawberry lemonade and apple juice, but you can only order those with grocery delivery. Soda can be shipped for cheap. I get tired of soda, but sometimes $3 is all I can spare, and I can't afford to lose anymore fat. There's not much on me right now.
I don't qualify for SNAP because I'm not on disability and I'm not a single mom, so I've just had to starve instead.
I stepped on some glass I missed sweeping up when I shattered a drinking glass and it cut my foot. I limped my way to get a bandaid and back to the couch. The cats were both very concerned when they saw me limping, especially Nikita. She got up and rushed over like what happened are you okay??
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Even the snippets it chose to use on the copilot cited links. Microsoft/Copilot thinks very highly of me!
Now I can see why it crawls my website so damn much.
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@Da_Gut If it will let you, go to grocery > Rollbacks and it will show you a long list of all the stuff they lowered prices on. The products it shows are ones available at the local store you shop at, too.
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@chebra Happened with colleges too. Government started giving endless student loans to everyone, so colleges massively inflated the prices, and those colleges/universities get subsidies from the government and still price gouge. All that inflated money goes to administrative costs.
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@cwicseolfor Walmart gets their employees on SNAP, which they benefit from when their employees spend it at Walmart. In Texas, the main beneficiaries of SNAP are single moms.
Frito Lay and the other soda and snack companies are headquartered in Texas. Our Texas SNAP was subsidizing their profits. Using the poor and single moms money from the government in Texas to make their corporations richer. In 2001 a bottle of soda was 75¢, now it’s $2.25.
I don’t enjoy soda, but I drink a lot of it purely for cheap liquid calories.
I got both of my Heart Chew Necklace colors on ebay since ebay does payouts the fastest. I had to do multiple listings for each color, but thats okay because double the chance of being seen. Hopefully this results in sales! I have around 1,800 available to sell.
Etsy finally started showing my heart chew necklace listing to people today too.
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@Nonya_Bidniss I guess they’re starting to figure out no one wants to pay $5 to $8+ for a bag of chips, not even people who have no food insecurity and plenty of money to buy food.
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@soccermoviemom Walmart sells 12 packs of their soda brand for $4.79, so seems like they could have been charging $5 for name brand instead of $9 this whole time.
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@cwicseolfor @rspfau There are a few around me that are listed as call for hours. I haven’t done that. I probably should.
I really wish I didn’t get my cats hooked on wet food, but they look forward to it every morning. They’ll get in my face yelling at me to get up because they’re hungry and want wet food. $7 of my $36 grocery order today was wet cat food. They split a little can of Fancy Feast but they are so grateful for it.
I don’t have a whole lot of food, but my pantry and freezer aren’t empty anymore. I have my gallon of lemonade and $1 giant frozen 740 calorie burritos. Those 2 things alone I started getting fat on my hips, but then I ran out of lemonade and apple juice and the fat is all gone now. I just try to eat enough so I don’t die from starvation.
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I think my second favorite part is the section in giant font at the top “The Autistic Innovator is Ashley Lauren Spencer”
Microsoft Copilot and Bingbots looked into my core soul behind The Autistic Innovator.
@valerie@cmplxdecay.space I think you are missing the point at how close I am to being forced out on the streets and into homelessness. I have to use any avenue I can to get people to see I exist, or I will literally get evicted with nowhere to go. Social media is the only free way to do that.
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I about lost it thinking about her health going rapidly downhill, because she’s been congested and sniffling for 24 hours. While tearing up and trying not to completely freak out she laid down next to me and let out one very big sneeze and all the congestion is magically gone.
I have a favor to ask from ONLY people who have ordered from my store The Autistic Innovator. I really hope this is okay posting this link here because I don’t want to get in trouble, it would just help people trust my store immediately because right now I’m riding on the trademark. And currently the competitor is getting away with my hijacking my reputation because I can’t get my real ones they stole to appear anywhere on the internet outside of my store.
If you have never ordered from me, please do not leave a review on this page, because fake reviews are illegal.
In my dire circumstances, getting strangers who have never seen my store before to immediately see they can trust me is very helpful. That leads to more visitors.
If you have photos of what you ordered in the past, and want to upload those with your real review, that would be very helpful too, so people know I am a real human selling real products and real people are leaving the review.
The Autistic Innovator https://g.page/r/CQUMsQAudRaYEBM/review
Thank you in advance.
I think raising the price on my Heart Chew Necklace by $1 to $16.95 with $15.61 on sale helped people’s perception of the quality. I’ve sold 3 in less than 12 hours.
Also, I finally got approved for Amazon!! Now I can start my trademark protected branded store.
@valerie@cmplxdecay.space Its the only one of the major sites that I am having success on for my business.
@valerie@cmplxdecay.space I have no money for ads. SEO is still getting there. I need to build awareness of me and my business somehow. You don’t have to agree with me. This is just part of running a business that is my only source of income while I am facing potential homelessness if I can’t pay my rent. I am in dire circumstances.
@valerie@cmplxdecay.space You do not have to agree with me. You do not have to agree with what I need to do to survive. Just the fediverse and Bluesky is not enough. I need a web of social media activity everywhere. You are allowed to feel however you want about me, but I will not accept the statement that I do not belong here. Mastodon is the community that keeps me sane in my isolated life. You are not me, so you don’t understand the dire circumstances I am in, and you don’t need to agree with my doing what it takes to survive. I am the only one that runs my business by myself. I am the one who has to pull off a miracle. It’s easy to sit from the outside and judge someone you do not know and declare they should be ashamed of themselves for doing the necessary parts of running a business. I do not need to apologize to anyone for that.