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  I had no cellular data internet access all day on my iPad and iPhone inside my apartment, especially my iPad because that is where I built the new autisticinnovator.com. I had to go outside to get cell data on my iPad. I don’t think anyone would believe me as to how my signal only worked outside. I’ll describe it as… Today was like the final boss battle. I was not afraid. What has been tormenting me for 42 years since the day I was born is gone for good. It’s over. I am worn out. Now I have inte...

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  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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  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...

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  My iPhone Safari has a shortcut for Bing so I searched “autistic innovator” to see what it says. Copilot wrote a whole damn extensive essay on me. My favorite part is the “Exposes predatory tactics in manufacturing and marketing to protect the neurodivergent community”

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  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 inter...

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  Nikita is a little congested. That’s not a good sign. Any time cats i had in the past got congested what followed was health going rapidly downhill. I hope it passes and hope it’s just a minor thing. She still eats a lot and loves food and drinks water. Just slightly stuffy.

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  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.

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  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.

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  I have one card left, and it's a card that can get their entire criminal enterprise deleted from the internet.

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  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.

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  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 t...

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  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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  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

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  @valerie Its the only one of the major sites that I am having success on for my business.

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  @valerie 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.

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  @valerie 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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  @valerie 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...

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  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.

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  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 pot...

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  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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  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 t...

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  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, ple...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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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  😄 #ADHD

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  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

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  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. 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 pric...

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  My memory is a lot better too. Maybe something about the level of focus on creating one single thing for 11 to 18 hours a day 9 days in a row re-wired my brain.

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  It’s really quite amazing what happened with my chew necklace sales once no one was there to delete people’s carts. I rarely sold chew necklaces, and especially almost never sold my Heart Chew Necklace. The heart chew necklace was how I learned carts were getting deleted. Friend tried to buy one and 6 times over and over again it deleted it from their cart and said out of stock every single time. That was the ignition switch that led to me building my new 0 trackers store. The next day I started...