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elle 💜🤍🖤
scretladyspider
#ActuallyAutistic people are criticizing it because you didn’t do anything that represents their community; you co-opted a narrative in a way that infantilizes and glorifies autism and hired a NT
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Marieke Nijkamp
mariekeyn
Neurotypical writers, read this thread. Read it carefully.And then imagine an autistic kid picking up this book (or too many books like this).https://twitter.com/emmaferrierx/status/1326583721756139527 Also, in case you're wondering: Th
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Izz 🤍
feelinmp3
If one more person tells me to let go of the sia situation i will lose it. I'm already ashamed of my disability and her movie is making it even
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Lakshmi
Shaaabaaaaa
My giant thread of real-world run-ins in the #autism world:1. So-called "warrior Moms" whose kids cannot hold a pencil, cannot point accurately, cannot even wipe themselves after a bowel movement
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Hayden Ryan (they/he)
haydenryanneely
Here are a few facts about gay conversion therapy since it's relevant againSome parents think their kids are gay and put them in therapy for 40 hours a weekThis type
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Emily♡
ItsEmilyKaty
Why is there such a high prevalence of mental health problems among autistic people and what can we do about it? - a thread. /1 Research shows that 80% of
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Ann Memmott PGC🌈
AnnMemmott
About autism and IQ.We have new and good info from the huge study about pretty much everyone in Scotland. I crunched some numbers. I'll talk us through this chart I
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Esmée🛸👽
ServillasSpeaks
Nothing about us without us.Sia is making a movie about an autistic girl and there are no autistic people involved. The official wiki also uses person-first language while we in
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nikolai mouse
nikolaimouse
I was going to be quiet, but then I just skimmed this article on ASD in church, and I found that Orthodoxy kind of checks off all of the boxes
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Jake Redacted-Smith
Smith_n_Chips
I have mixed feelings on the Sia stuff, but the idea people criticising her should just be grateful for the representation irks me Also lmao at her doing “extensive research”
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autistictic
autistictic
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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Ann Memmott PGC🌈
AnnMemmott
https://www.acamh.org/blog/results-of-the-acamh-awards-2020/Content warning, but a very extraordinary 10 min video re whether we are autistic, from Prof. Dame Uta Frith, one of the original leaders of the autism world. I am
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Emily♡
ItsEmilyKaty
‘Would you choose not to have autism if you could?’I don’t even know how to answer that. It’s like asking me if I’d rather be someone else. I don’t know
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Noor (he/him) 🧜🏽📿
SnoringDoggo
*exhales* ok so! Gonna make one big thread about this, then mute the others so I stop thinking constantly about this.So autism representation in film and TV, as of right
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❄️ ronan 🌙
_songxiaoist_
ok so, here it is! a thread of resources and tips for writing autistic characters. please check these out if you're making characters autistic in your fics, especially to avoid
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Ann Memmott PGC🌈
AnnMemmott
Society chooses how to disadvantage most autistic people.Let's take our supposed 'social deficits'.For decades, society wouldn't consider that our way of communicating was different, not broken. Now we have the
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