#Autistic

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HufflepunkZebra

What I love most about this thread is that while language is improving, certain disabled people like to stick to terms theybare familiar with and its mentioned and inferred that

Ann Memmott PGC🌈

AnnMemmott

https://unherd.com/2020/12/is-autism-a-superpower/ I don't know where to start with this, other than noting KCL is working with Autism Speaks on the AIMS-2 'cure/treat autistic people' project.I wish people didn't invent non

The Autisticats

autisticats

So-called “communicative deficits” in autism are often just the result of cross-neurotype interaction. For those who want to learn more about autistic communication styles, I’ve compiled several studies that I’m

Health and Social Care Committee

CommonsHealth

This morning we held the first session of our short inquiry into the treatment of autistic people and people with learning disabilities. Here is a summary of the key points

NortherlyRose 🌈 💙

NortherlyRose

A thread about #autism and #health #anxiety. I didn’t know I was #autistic until I was nearly 59. But by the time I was in my mid-twenties I knew I

Ann Memmott PGC🌈

AnnMemmott

The brand new ABA book. A further journey through contents. Warning for those, of course.Here we go.Mystery absences...The book mentions autonomy once in its 900 pages, as a single word,

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littlehux

Such a funny memory to show up. I was so confused, having been sent to a child psychologist by the NHS despite being an adult. Tried to be positive about

AutisticPB #KindnessMatters 💙

AutisticPb

I was diagnosed with #autism during my teenage years. I normally talk about my experiences on Twitter but I never really done a thread on autism experiences. I am in

Suffering but like...festively

MxAmericanPi

I thought of a new way to frame the Sia thing for people who don't get it. This also applies to casting trans people in trans roles, etc. Imagine if

NortherlyRose 🌈 💙

NortherlyRose

#thread“I’m an adult in England, I think I might be autistic, how do I get an assessment?”Personal reflections based on my autism assessment in Nov 2018.#adult#autism#autistic#assessment1/ The first thing to

Autistic Bodybuilding

AutieBuilder

I have a very unique perspective on #ABA because I've never had it and my mom had no idea I was #autistic. Yet, my mom had the exact same version

Ponderful

PonderfulUK

"If you bothered watching her interviews you'd know Sia tried her best to consult the autistic community & do good representation."Sia in an interview, "I wanted to make Rain Man

GhillieGuide

Ghillie_Guide

Autistic people are, by the diagnostic criteria, disadvantaged in social situations by our inability to conform to normsWhen large celebrity accounts gaslight already angry #ActuallyAutistic advocates this is magnified 100x

Daniel Sohege

stand_for_all

Thread on interactions as an #autistic individual. A few different things over the last couple of weeks have been making me think about how I deal, or more accurately don't,

Ann Memmott PGC🌈

AnnMemmott

Ah, fresh new research. An interesting one. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00406-020-01189-w.pdf about misdiagnosis of autistic adults. Sample of people diagnosed as adults:161 adults, 47 of them female. Females diagnosed av

Daniel Sohege

stand_for_all

Thread: It's a personal call on my part to talk openly about being #ActuallyAutistic, and it's one which worries me constantly. I am genuinely afraid that being open about it

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