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Erika Heidewald, Proud Autistic Bitch
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it’s funny when people tell me i need to learn to use person-first language. i learned about person-first language like eight years ago and asked disabled friends what they thought
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i’ve been researching the connection between the anti-vax movement and the mainstream medical & cultural misunderstanding of what autism is and it is horrifying. the right wing made autism a
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if you’ve been quarantining since the beginning of covid and you don’t have a personal reason, you’re just doing it in the interest of public health and saving others’ lives
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I’m not sure I believe in mental illness anymore. I think mental illness might just be certain types of neural diversity - predisposition to certain traits - and external factors
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fuck there is nothing like suddenly recognizing that you’re the product of generational trauma as far as you can trace back of neurodivergent people who tried so hard to fit
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The idea that autistic people have difficulty socializing & communicating isn’t true. Our way works just fine. We need to start acknowledging it’s like two different languages. French and Korean
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so many things conspiracy theorists try to explain with elaborate theories of evil, malicious actors with a giant complicated plan can be easily, completely, and much more realistically explained by
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the free speech and censorship “debate” right wingers claim to be engaging in is ridiculous, in bad faith, and built on false premises. despite anything they say, conservatives already have
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lots of people (myself included) pointed out that these white rioters were treated very differently from Black protesters and race is a very big factor here but i think it’s
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i remember telling people that festivals weren’t gonna happen last year and people were so mad at me for being “negative” but then i ended up handling quarantine mentally much
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i always feel sad when a friend says they are close to relapsing and i want to encourage them to keep going and not enable but if the options are
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a strong belief i have that i recognize a lot of people don’t share is that different things can be right from different perspectives, & different things can both be
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