#Autistic

Pete Wharmby

commaficionado

#autism and literal speech - a speculative thread. Please share.Taking things literally is an extremely famous #autistic trait, suggesting that irony, sarcasm, metaphor is entirely beyond us. But these things

Lydia Wilkins

Journo_Lydia

While we speculate about the new tier being introduced, I have a point about accessibility I’d like to make. Earlier this year @ConsciousBeing2 commissioned me to find out how #ActuallyAutistic

Chuck Tingle

ChuckTingle

i have many thoughts on controversy of sias new movie where someone plays non verbal autistic character. i will say them now but please read all because it is complex

Ann Memmott PGC🌈

AnnMemmott

https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanpsy/PIIS2215-0366(20)30197-8.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0rlEabFXopixHq0Qx5GzdDeG4u9D35B6HZ4OayxFkjYDH5-qg7rfUu1v4 I see a team hoping to alter autistic people via stem cell stuff has produced a long list of de

Neurodivergent Rebel 🧠 🏳️‍🌈

NeuroRebel

We’ve got a long history of missteps when it comes to autism and gender. For example, the original model of autism is based very specifically on a very narrow definition

Stefania Night | blm

StefaniaNight

My daughter is higher needs autistic. Read this thread and rt if you follow me. She’s an absolutely wonderful, kind, loving, funny, smart person.social skills? Extremely low. Non verbal until

riley ✿

03minyards

hi !!! i’ve been seeing alot of misinformation regarding the ‘spectrum’ part of autism, so i thought i’d try to educate the audience on what it Actually means! this is

PDX Care Collective

PDX_Care

Let’s talk about ABA therapy! Buckle up, this is a thread (neurotypicals, PLEASE read). We’ll start with a TL;DR. First, PDXCC does not support ABA. 1/ While a small population

Ann Memmott PGC🌈

AnnMemmott

https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2020/11/02/JNEUROSCI.1237-20.2020 In the 'this is too weird to be true' category of dreadful new autism research, this team decided that autistic people are too moral and too law abiding, ther

autistictic

autistictic

Sia put out several tweets, then deactivated her Twitter account (she‘ll be back).She announced that she will put a warning about restraint before the movie and will remove the restraint

CRAE

CRAE_IOE

We are delighted to welcome @SheffieldLuke to CRAE for our 2020 virtual #CRAELecture! Luke's talk is on Autopia (Autistic Utopia)... To start, CRAE Director @annaremington discusses the incredible response to

The Autisticats

autisticats

Something I learned yesterday is that autistic children are 2x more likely than the general population to experience chronic pain. The article I read is right here, for anyone who

NortherlyRose 🌈 💙

NortherlyRose

A #thread about positive #autistic #identity.The work I’ve been doing since discovering I’m autistic at the age of 58 is all about learning to love my autistic self.In a world

Finn Gardiner • is masked up

phineasfrogg

Since Simon Baron-Cohen seems to have suddenly discovered autistic people’s voices, I want to make a few comments about how damaging his systemising/empathising construct is, from an intersectional point of

Angry Black Changeling

AshleighJMills

Hello white autistics,“blackfishing for autistics” is a horribly problematic way to describe Sia’s film.Particularly as 1. Black autistic people exist. 2. There is literal blackfishing / blackface going on. 3.

NortherlyRose 🌈 💙

NortherlyRose

Something autistic people often get accused of is “over sharing”. This is a curious example of a positive characteristic (openness) being pathologised. “Over sharing” is generally presented as someone failing

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