#Neurotypical

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.)

R.B. Lemberg

RB_Lemberg

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you shouldn't wait to do things just because you don't feel you are "perfect".Nobody gets to "perfect". But some of us

Aaron Ansuini 🪴🌱✨

AaronLinguini

My New Years resolution was to stop tweeting about my experiences (particularly those with institutional ableism/oppression) in ways that leave me feeling exposed/vulnerable.However, I’ve been feeling a little conflicted about

AutisticSciencePerson

AutSciPerson

Thread for parents of autistic kids:I answer parents' questions on facebook commonly, and a lot of them are the same.Here are the most common questions I see from parents, answered

dANGR

hellindangr

i did not need to know that my irl friend ships dreamwastaken and georgenotfound and was a prominent artist and animator in dream team twitter i can never escape this

NortherlyRose 🌈 💙

NortherlyRose

Looking back at the AQ10, a screening questionnaire for autism used in the UK, I wonder how I managed to tick any boxes. For every single question I really wanted

Chômeuse

HereIsMySpout

I tweet often and freely about my depression because I don't think it is something to be ashamed of and I hope that the message reaches someone who can identify.

Blotchkat

blotchkat

I figure I should write a small tread about de-escalating autistic kids having melt downs.As an Autistic person with an Autistic child it often seems very obvious to me what

Sophia McDougall, MSt

McDougallSophia

I don't see the difference between this and "video games cause mass shootings", including the implicit ableism towards neurodiversity.https://twitter.com/JYSexton/status/1355621787724341255 The media outlets paving the way for

NeurodivergentGradStudent

learningtostem1

I really appreciate this article. Not only is it great to see an academic paper on autism by autistic authors, I really identify with the way they discuss masking as

Warwick

WarWraith

I probably should take a break from this hellsite, but it's pretty much the only sense of peer interaction & vague sense of connection I have.I have an assumption that

dani¹²

jihyopinks

// ableismit really sucks to only see autistic people talking about sia’s movie. that movie has a scene of prone restraint that is portrayed as the correct way to handle

Anastasia

CouldItBeAna

I want to talk about my experience as an autistic person with ADHD. It's something I've been thinking about a lot recently, but I haven't written about it before1/n Disclaimer:

Pete Wharmby

commaficionado

My favourite autism metaphors, a list - because contrary to popular belief we are not entirely unable to grasp the metaphorical - more likely we may just want to check

kait⁷花 loves bbh

CIDERKOO

why hyperfixation isn't just a fun and quirky word - a thread of the negative side to hyperfixations ive recently noticed that some neurotypical (nt) people have been using the

Petros Chrysafis

pchrysafis

I saw a tweet this morning about searching for your words etc during a presentation and honestly, I am still hot so here's a thread where I am gonna vent

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