#Autistic

CW: autistic meltdown, prone restraint, death This is an extremely hard thing for me to write about. But in Sia’s new movie, the autistic character Music is shown having several
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every time someone mentions Sia’s movie I see people say “I feel so sorry for maddie she didn’t want to do it”- people seem to be more concerned about the
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Every single way that researchers find that autistics differ from non-autistics will be labelled as a 'deficit' or 'disordered', even if that difference is not negative in any way (and
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Thread: Something I have noticed since being diagnosed as autistic, and being more open about that diagnosis, is way in which people assume that I can't, or shouldn't do things,
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Separating the word 'meltdown' from tantrums in the general mindset is really important. The 'tantrum' conflation we have around meltdowns is one of the reasons why autistic people experiencing meltdown
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If you believe autistic children should be euthanised then I wish you the worst of liveshttps://twitter.com/awfulreddit/status/1348517851112611841 Autistic people, such as myself, struggle enough with many things. Sometimes we turn out
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Thoughts on being #ActuallyAutistic: when I started writing THE BOYS IN THE BACK ROW I didn't know I was autistic, and didn't write Matt (the MC) as autistic. However, multiple
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Here's a hard lesson I had to grapple with as a autistic person during a pandemic:Autism makes you feel like you want to be alone. For some, that can manifest
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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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Can we have a discussion about schools that discriminate against autistic kids or schools that are not fully integrated but claim to be? I have an autistic son. He has
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God damnit. I just posted yesterday about not seeing quite as much ableism as usual...and now I've seen a bunch of allistic parents complaining about their autistic kids being "nightmares",
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When autism awareness is deployed as a weapon—especially without autism understanding or acceptance—it enables ignorant crusades like anti-vaxxer autism martyr parent pity parties, instead of emphasizing how to get autistic
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Life whilst I didn't have an #autism diagnosis. A thread of my own experiences. Please share this. /1 I never would have communicated with anyone. I was always quiet and
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https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/improving-care/better-mh-policy/college-reports/college-report-cr228.pdf?sfvrsn=c64e10e3_2 New report out from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, about autism. Quick highlights:"It is reco
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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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Urgh. Sia's one of my favourite singers, but this sucks for Autistic people in so many ways...https://twitter.com/Sia/status/1329411673350942723 I just... don't know where to even begin with this. It's Maddie Ziegler
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