#Autistic

Do folks realise that when health appointments can only be made by phone call, they’re setting d/Deaf, HoH, and some autistic folks up not just for healthcare inaccessibility but also
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Here's an example of academic bullying, white supremacy, ableist supremacy, anti-autistic hatred, colonizing, and misogyny all in one. Let me explain. Soma Mukhopadhyay was brought to the US with her
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Surrey Councillor: ‘About one third of diagnoses in Surrey have Autistic Spectrum Disorder as the main presentation of SEN and we have a large number of intelligent parents, which may
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A bit more on this: the warning before the film, and Sia's tweets.A short thread with screenshots. https://twitter.com/autistictic/status/1357241826206490626 "Sia addressed the controversy surrounding her directorial feature debut
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PSA: "Reeeeee" is just as offensive as using the R-word. Its origins trace back to a meme making fun of the sound an autistic person was making when overstimulated.If you
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if hq neurotypical then why neurodivergent coded it really does not end, there is so much rep where do i start honestly, just choosing panels is not fully enough because
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Ive read some negative comments regarding the parents of #autistic children lately. As a parent of an autistic child & many others who advocate and do everything humanly possible for
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little autism education thread for the tl
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Nobody is giving me shit for it (rn), but I want to apologize if I ever use what might be considered AAVE.Most of the people I have grown up around
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#SelectiveMutism is a severe anxiety disorder.Anxiety triggered by certain settings/people makes people involuntarily unable to speak while they can speak fine when not anxious.Being non-speaking for OTHER reasons than anxiety
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CN racismSo, like, I’m struggling with the way we handle talking about racism in neurodiversity spaces right now.I’ll link the thread that got me thinking about this in collaboration with
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Heavy metal detox for autism . Very very SIMPLE (THREAD) Everything starts with the DIET. The body already has a detox system, but most people don’t know about it. The
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https://www.conservativehome.com/localgovernment/2020/07/gary-powell-local-authorities-and-the-transing-of-non-transgender-young-people-a-serious-child-safeguarding-issue.html "when a BBC Newsnight report highlighted the probability th
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A belated Happy New Year to our followers! While 2020 was a challenging year, our little STAR team grew with new members and research. This thread summarises our publications from
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The kid is autistic and has really just started learning to do things alone. Within the last year, he started getting dressed alone. Within the last few months, he's started
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I feel like I spent a lot of my young parenting days struggling with how I was told I *should* parent my autistic kid, that felt intrinsically wrong, and yet
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