#Autistic

Quinn 🦻

hartsandhelbig

Can we talk about intent & impact? When people are getting critiqued they always say “but my intentions weren’t harmful!”Think about it this...In a car accident, nobody’s intent is to

Pete Wharmby

commaficionado

4. "Well we're all a little autistic aren't we."Usually stated as fact, this can really diminish our experience and can be really damaging as we may feel we're over exaggerating

Edgar Allan Bitch - Unpaid Shill for Big Tea 🫖

edgar_a_bitch

Also I’m sorry but I don’t believe a word of Sia’s “oh we tried to cast an autistic actress but it was too difficult for her” when nearly everything Sia

Pete Wharmby

commaficionado

Once again I'm reminded that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The recent push by a large number of autistic people to 'own' their diagnosis and try to

Essential Borker

workingdog_

the world would be worse without autistic people in it. human society would be far worse. you don't even realize how much you want and need us around. you have

Kristin Rawls

kristinrawls

So, like, I watched the Sia movie trailer, and, I see disabled allistic people making the point that she should have hired an autistic actor.Um, I don't think that's the

Pete Wharmby

commaficionado

How to make your autistic child's time at home (while schools are closed) a bit more positive and fun.A thread. Please read, share and bear in mind that I don't

AutisticSciencePerson

AutSciPerson

Reminder to non-autistic people:I literally didn't know what "tone of voice" meant until I was 17 years old. And I didn't truly understand it until I found out I was

Ann Memmott PGC🌈

AnnMemmott

https://annsautism.blogspot.com/2020/11/autistic-people-and-theory-of-mind.html Blog's up, friends - this one, on Theory of Mind and autistic people. Yes, we know others have minds of their own. Another myth busted. But also content war

Eb Defender of Upholstery

EbThen

First of all ffs I want to throw a screaming tantrum here about the use of "on the spectrum".For so many reasons but mainly you know and I know this

Ann Memmott PGC🌈

AnnMemmott

About autism and IQ.We have new and good info from the huge study about pretty much everyone in Scotland. I crunched some numbers. I'll talk us through this chart I

Karl Knights

Inadarkwood

So, let's recap. The lead actor of Sia's movie isn't autistic, and in preparation for her role, she watched Youtube videos of autistic children's meltdowns (undoubtedly filmed by their parents.)

Liz Bernstein

yeralizard

I don't talk about this much, but my facial expressions are very limited in range/intensity. When I'm having a conversation, I'm always very conscious of what my face is doing

Ann Memmott PGC🌈

AnnMemmott

Today I want to talk about how autistic children might express love for their parents/carers. Thread/There is a well known book about 'five love languages' saying that these are:Words of

Laura Kate Dale

LaurakBuzz

Grrrrrrrrrr. Fuckity fuck why don’t you engage with valid criticisms of your depiction of an autistic person in this movie's trailer, raised by the autistic community? FURY.https://twitter.com/Sia/status/1329737397190451201 To be clea

Emily♡

ItsEmilyKaty

Autistic traits which are less spoken about - a thread. /1 Face blindness is the struggle to recognise people's faces. This can be really frustrating. People walk up to me

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