#Actuallyautistic

ExistentialAspie ☘️📢

ExistentialAsp1

I'm not a puzzle, I'm just #ActuallyAutistic I'm not a higher being with superpowers I'm not an enigma, wishing to be solved I'm not intentionally misleadingI am highly misunderstood I

@PiaGlenn

PiaGlenn

I happened upon the trailer for @Sia's film last night, and I was so disgusted. Full stop. Not just at the casting, but to me the entire premise is ableist

Mike Jung's writing a book, are you not impressed

Mike_Jung

Thoughts on being #ActuallyAutistic: when I started writing THE BOYS IN THE BACK ROW I didn't know I was autistic, and didn't write Matt (the MC) as autistic. However, multiple

autistictic

autistictic

I don’t educate people that autism is not a mental illness because I want to distance myself from mentally ill people.I do it because wrongly seeing autism as mental illness

autistictic

autistictic

#ActuallyAutistic people demand#GoldenNopeForMusicand#NoGoldenGlobeForMusic- because Sias movie „Music“ portrays traumatic, deadly prone restraint as the appropriate response to autistic meltdowns.- because „Music“ erases & harm

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

Autistic Med Student

MedAutistic

Today, for the first time since my #autism diagnosis, I went out to get groceries. I normally go to 2 stores (similar atmospheres, different prices). So I did an experiment

Shamelessly_Shantel

ShantelSherwood

To nod to speculation...Advocay is really hard. As a group it's borderline a full time job some weeks. Meshing many personalities for one vision or maybe even a few visions

Monique Botha #TransRights

DrMBotha

I debated back and forth about whether or not to say anything about this paper when I saw it go up today. Being #ActuallyAutistic and being a researcher of autism

AlltheWayMae

AlltheMae

1/ I recently wrote a paper on social anxiety disorder, and let me tell you, it is no fucking surprise #ActuallyAutistic folx deal with this at ridiculously high rates.Risk factors

deactivating in 321

kiteobrien

Simon Baron-Cohen is behind the “extreme male brain” theory of autism. It accompanies the widely circulated “Geek Syndrome”.These have unfortunately contributed to a lost generation of those who did not

Kathy D'Arcy

KathyDArcyCork

I had a kind of lovely #ActuallyAutistic realisation today, and being open about it is part of it so well, Twitter. Since diagnosis I've noted that I am REALLY good

Natasha Osben

NatashaOsben

I’m an autistic PhD student. Often, I experience frustrating selective mutism during research seminars and supervisory board meetings. I worry that people will think I’m stupid, or that I have

GhillieGuide

Ghillie_Guide

Often in storytelling we write characters that progress the plot by providing unique expertise in technology or scienceThe coding of these characters as #Autistic contributes to real life stigma against

uncanny ali

uncannyali

Not sure who needs to hear this.I will be interviewing my Mom for one of my classes.She said that her only regret in her life is not knowing more about

ChiariChey

ChiariChey

Hey NT writers,If you watched Rain Man or read a book from 1972 that inspired you to write about that autistic toddler who finally spoke or that one kid you

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