#Allistics

normalized ableism (specific to autistics) ABA (applied behavior analysis) as a form of “treatment” allistics saying they have a special interest telling us to “just get over it” in response
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why some autistic people experience gender differently from allistics, and why we may use lots of genders and neopronouns to define ourselves: a thread autism is known to affect your
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*An appeal to NON-autistic people: please take a few moments to read this thread*We (#Neurodivergent people) were taught early in life that everything YOU (#Allistics) said and did was what
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Truth: High- and low-functioning labels are for Neurotypicals, not Neurodivergents. I've never had a day where I said to myself, "Wow, it's so good to be high-functioning today," or, "My
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Dreaming of a world where "Autism therapy" means1. Figure out what the signals from your body mean (feelings, overload, a good stim, etc)2. Figure out how to build time for
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Can transphobic ableists stop with "confused autistic kids being transed?” So gross! I came out to my 2 autistic children over 2 yrs ago. They're still adamantly cis.Autistic ppl aren't
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The fact that directors would rather cast cis people as trans characters, allistics as autistic characters, thin people as fat characters etc. instead of hiring actors who actually belong to
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Learning about Autism First let's define autism. Autism is a pervasive developmental disability that affects communication, movement, and sensory processing. The amount of support each autistic person needs varies.
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hi so as far as i know (sometimes i wonder if im not, but i cannot go get any diagnoses rn) im allistic so im gonna step up because not
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the world would be worse without autistic people in it. human society would be far worse. you don't even realize how much you want and need us around. you have
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A thread about the function of so-called Autistic repetitive behaviours, from an Autistic perspective. I use the analogy of Christmas to articulate my points so that allistic (non-ASD) folks may
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people with autism are the only people able to say the r slur and here's whyallistics read and rt /srs tw // r slur.the word retard was used in the
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It's increasingly bizarre to me that autistic adults are desexualized?? when some of the hottest and coolest characters in fiction totally fit autistic-type profiles. That brilliant scientist/inventor/detective who HAS to
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tw ableismsorry i keep talking about this but um what the fuck was this tw ableismlike???????? did no one tell them this is so fucking harmful to autistic people tw
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The DSM-5 Autism criteria, translated by an autistic. A thread.#AllAutistics #AutismAwarenessMonth #AutismAwareness #AutismAcceptanceMonth #AutismAcceptance “Deficits in social-emotional reciprocity, abnormal social approach, failure of n
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Thread of autistic traits that may appear in characters who are autistic coded, but not explicitly stated as autistic/accidentally written as autistic.So allistics can be more informed and be more
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