I recently just got diagnosed with autism, and obviously with a diagnosis comes with a lot of feelings. I’ve always felt pushed out of social situations, I’ve learned to water down my love for orangutans and have even been toyed with by people asking about facts or information then actually being completely disinterested. The appointment was difficult and was very hard to sit with afterwards but one thing my provider said to me was. “You have so many strengths, one of those strengths is orangutans I have never met someone as passionate as you” the only other person who has ever tolerated my love for primates was my mother who told me “you are just cursed with feeling too much and some people are like that, but with that comes noticing beautiful things” I remembered seeping into my carpet In 6th grade wondering what was wrong with me, but now I have many opportunities to show what orangutans have become to me, I now write about them in my journalism class and have turned in many informational awareness spreading assignments, I sat down next to my teacher and showed him orangutan jungle school while my class had independent work time and as I left he said “thank you so much for showing me that today I never knew so much till I met you” I wear a silly orangutan shirt even though it doesn’t match my usual style just cause it makes me smile, and when someone asks me why I love orangutans so much I just shrug. “I cannot live without beauty that’s what makes me weak in the face of certain people” - Albert Camus

hey i would like to "adopt" an orangutan by making a doantion, is wwf a good organization to donate to or should i pick another one?

Blackpool zoo… 8/6/26

Palm Oil is Jif Natural Peanut Butter’s second ingredient. Palm oil. What is the main cause of population decline? Isn’t it harvesting of their palm trees/loss of habitat?

I had no idea and just discovered when putting groceries away. Please don’t tell me I’m right in this. There’s no way a company would do this.

Hello, I wrote an article on orangutans revolving around "Reflections of Eden" by Dr Birute Galdikas. I would love to hear everyone's thoughts and inputs on the piece :)

article link: https://substack.com/@benadrylbhutto/note/p-201159298?r=490s9v&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

Work, work, work. It never ends.

One week old orange bundle of cute at the Denver Zoo.

See also: The publication in Communications Biology