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I really need people to understand the difference between advocating for someone, and speaking for them.Unless someone tells you exactly what to say, you don‘t „speak for them“.You are still
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#SelectiveMutism is a severe anxiety disorder.Anxiety triggered by certain settings/people makes people involuntarily unable to speak while they can speak fine when not anxious.Being non-speaking for OTHER reasons than anxiety
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People seem to think autistic people not doing phonecalls is always due to anxiety.Yes, anxiety is ONE possible reason - but there are others!Autistics might also be:- unable to understand
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Sia put out several tweets, then deactivated her Twitter account (she‘ll be back).She announced that she will put a warning about restraint before the movie and will remove the restraint
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#ActuallyAutistic people demand#GoldenNopeForMusicand#NoGoldenGlobeForMusic- because Sias movie „Music“ portrays traumatic, deadly prone restraint as the appropriate response to autistic meltdowns.- because „Music“ erases & harm
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One group of disabled people definitely under-represented in disability discourse are people who work in sheltered workshops.I‘ve been there and I still feel completely invisible re that on here.There isn‘t
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I understand this professor’s need to be respected by her students...but she included accommodations and that is not okay.There should be NO requirements to get accommodations.Accommodations are a human right.There
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I wish I could use simple, plain language and still have my voice respected.What do we call the discrimination of only respecting someone as an equal human being with a
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A kind reminder to anyone arguing the Sia situation:It isn‘t about just hiring ANY autistic person to play the part of Music in Sias movie.It‘s about hiring an APRAXIC NON-SPEAKING
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It is absolutely unbearable for me to see actual millions of people celebrate @Sia upcoming movie „Music“ while the marginalized minority of autistic people is desperately trying to stop it
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It is very common for autistic people to „disappear“ at school, and to then have daily meltdowns at home.Lots of us use all our strength at school to suppress and
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We live in stressful times.Stress kills.I want me fellow autistic people to live as long and healthily as possibly, so here is a thread of what helps ME to cope
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