#Autistic

Hillary Monahan

HillaryMonahan

Something I explained elsewhere that I haven't really seen mentioned much is:Touch aversion is real. It's also not, for all of us, an all-the-time thing. If my autism sensory stuff

damien @ yaoi christmas special #bIm ✿

gaymiens

genuinely wondering if there's something similar that can apply to autistic ppl because i have major issues with my identity and 'steal' the identity of characters from my special interests

Sue Fletcher-Watson

SueReviews

APA guidelines still recommend person-first language for writing about autism but I am trying to use identity-first nearly all the time now. We had a positive experience with a journal

Myth

neurowonderful

For every autistic person who has catalogued 4k species of fungi, replicated a 16th c. manuscript, or constructed a language, there is another who has watched the same movie 500

autistictic

autistictic

People seem to think autistic people not doing phonecalls is always due to anxiety.Yes, anxiety is ONE possible reason - but there are others!Autistics might also be:- unable to understand

Anthony Elisa

ifeelthewind

[cw: contrapoints, jk rowling, transphobia]i feel like i'm going to say a couple words about her. so, these are not deep cuts or hot takes.there's no insight here, no special

AnaKarina Vorbeck Suarez

AKwritesnow

I’m an #ActuallyAutistic #OccupationalTherapist & writer, and, frankly, I’m horrified by Sia’s movie Music. It’s exploitative, harmful, disrespectful misrepresentation and perpetuates ableist tropes. I’ve seen the prone restra

under the lyss-le-toe

lysslaurxn

Hi one of the WORST parts of being autistic is mirroring. Mirroring is when you copy someone’s behavior for acceptance. Ok that’s a really broad definition. Here’s a better one.

Emily♡

ItsEmilyKaty

It wasn’t obvious that I was autistic when I was a child. As a result I wasn’t diagnosed until I was 16, after years of severe mental health problems. Here

nome

NomeDaBarbarian

Quick note - a shitload of the behaviors I ascribe to #adhd are, as people will point out, common human behaviors.And... Yeah. We're humans. That's (one of the) point(s).It's not

freya

frellywood

Why 'My Name Is Khan' depicted Autism the right way: A Thread by an Autistic person. Before getting into why MNIK is as wonderful as it is, we have to

@WeAreDisabled: @cheesepickles

WeAreDisabled

This is something I've always wanted to do, but never had an outlet until now.PRESENTING: Makeup recommendations for autistic people and people with sensory sensitivities! I absolutely LOVE makeup. But,

Sarah Boon

Saraheboon

Too often, autistic girls go through school undiagnosed or unrecognised as being autistic. As a late-diagnosed autistic woman, I thought I would share a thread on my experiences of going

ISAIAH!!!!

saeraphiina

characters who are autistic because i said so

Atypical Academic

AtypAcademic

Thread about my adult autism assessment: I’ve seen questions on Twitter about the process of getting an autism assessment as an adult. I thought I’d share my experience for anyone

Elise Kumar 🤷‍♀️ Extremely Earnest 🚪👻

elisekumar

Autistic kids are often “managed” as though their issues are behavioural. I strongly disagree with this approach and my aim is never to make Zip “stop crying” or “stop making

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