#ActuallyAutistic

When I began my #autism assessment at the age of 58 I was sure I didn’t stim. In fact it even made me doubt I could actually be autistic. #Stimming
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#ThreadYou won’t *always* find me in the kitchen at parties. Reminiscences about socialising, from a personal autistic perspective. #autism#autistic#AllAutistics #ActuallyAutistic1/ I loved some of the parties I went to as
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The people behind #CommunicationRights are not obstructionist behaviorists. @NeuroClastic has speech language pathologists, psychologists, educators, OTs, MTs, researchers, neuroscientists, & nonspeakers who communicate through AAC, spe
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Thanks to the work of LGBT activists and historians, LGBT histories are being identifiedHow can we identify autistic histories? Normally we look at documentation and material culture. But how can
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Two years on.#Thread about life after a very late #autism diagnosis. I haven’t planned any of this.I’m just going to go with the flow. #autistic#ActuallyAutistic#AllAutistics 1/ I discovered I was
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1. Today was my first #ActuallyAutistic assessment appointment with General Psychiatry services. The appointment didn't really go how I thought it would. 2. Bit of background - I'm 38, currently
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#Thread Living with meltdowns. A personal, very late diagnosed, autistic perspective. #autism #AllAutistics#ActuallyAutistic 1/ Before my autism diagnosis I had occasional emotional outbursts. These generally happened at home after a
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I want to talk a little bit about autism in fiction because of the latest trashfire.(Will link in thread)Specifically, the whole subgenre of "my sibling is autistic, woe is me"
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“you’ve changed” dude I’ve been hardcore healing from intergenerational trauma and learning boundary-setting skills nobody’s ever taught me in case this tweet blows up, here's one of many local fundraisers
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Hey, how's this for autism 'awareness' month: some percentage of you who are reading this tweet are #actuallyAutistic and aren't aware of it.I'm going to post a bunch of questions
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Imagine "seeing the system" so completely that you can't really distinguish between where one thing starts and another ends - everything is all part of one enormous system, and your
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Check your knowledge. Retweet for awareness. For nonspeaking autistic people, good fine motor skills and coordination are rare.Expressive facial communication, fancy dance movements -- these things are SUPER difficult for
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