#ActuallyAutistic

#Thread Things that made me think I couldn’t possible be autistic... ...until I got my autism diagnosis at the age of 58.#ActuallyAutistic#LateDiagnosis #AllAutistics1/ I met all of my childhood developmental
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For obvious reasons I can't relate to everything in this fantastic piece by @NCWeek, but I can with so very much. Lockdown is pure uncertainty, couple that with the state
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30 things I wish people knew about #autism. A thread. Please share and retweet this thread. #ActuallyAutistic /1 Autism is not a mental illness or a disease. #autism /2 There
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[THREAD](TW; Sexual Abuse; Rapist) I was very recently forwarded a news article concerning a person who has been convicted of various sexual offences against children, and it has came to
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In my experience, people who're #autistic (especially when undiagnosed) are often told that their thoughts, feelings and experiences are untrue.For me, discovering I'm #ActuallyAutistic as an adult means learning to
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Right, the Sia thing has royally pissed me off. Here is a list for fellow non-disabled people - writers, creatives, performers, media professionals, consultants and rights advocates from the disability
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#AACusers - I can't be the only one extremely uncomfortable with professionals using/teaching #AAC exerting total control over the AAC tools?Creating, deleting, hiding buttons.Forcing users to stay on one page.Recording
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Thread on interactions as an #autistic individual. A few different things over the last couple of weeks have been making me think about how I deal, or more accurately don't,
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Alexithymia: what is it and what does it feel like to have it?Alexithymia is really common amongst neurodivergent people, particularly amongst autistic people.Essentially, it is a difficulty identifying and describing
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To all non-autistic people who have autistic children: if you’re following me, you have undoubtedly become familiar with Matthew Rushin’s case. The prosecutor wrote an open letter to @GovernorVA, @MarkHerringVA,
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Autism mythbusters - let's get rid of some of those incorrect stereotypes.Please share - educate folk today!#autistic #ActuallyAutistic #autism 1. Autism is not caused by vaccines. It's a genetic thing:
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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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‘My heart is in the right place but here let me denigrate sex workers and people struggling with addiction in my justification’. Skin in the game: former sex worker, recovering
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#ThreadThings that made me realise I actually was autistic......when I got my autism diagnosis at the age of 58.#ActuallyAutistic#LateDiagnosis#AllAutistics1/ My vocabulary was very advanced for my age in childhood.Reading books
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Fandom antis strip the “fiction vs reality” argument of nuance. Decent people know not to copy unhealthy sex taboos. What about the portrayal of disability?Why is the autistic community angry
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Here’s why #ActuallyAutistic adults HATE labels A thread!! • Including some of the labels we hate.TW/ CW: Discusses labels/ swears 1. So...why do #AutisticAdults hate labels? Well, first of
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