#Autistics

I don't think people who have good media representation really understand the impact of having very little good representation does.Stereotypes and bad representation does harm in numerous ways but it
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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
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Just for done watching the 5 episodes from season 1And I find myself at a hard indifference on the show, because while I'm happy to see autistics unapologetically being themselves
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The people behind #CommunicationRights are not obstructionist behaviorists. @NeuroClastic has speech language pathologists, psychologists, educators, OTs, MTs, researchers, neuroscientists, & nonspeakers who communicate through AAC, spe
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I'm so grateful I found the autistic community. For many reasons, but today I'm particularly remembering how isolated, unaccepted, and overlooked I felt as a non-binary person even in the
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Hi. I am an autistic adult. NTs have frequently described me as childlike. PLEASE DON'T DO THIS.This language reinforces harmful and infantilizing stereotypes that lead to all kinds of injustices,
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I am determined to see that autistic BIPoC have visibility & proper representation within autistic communities. In thread are lists, organizations, ect that you can look to to be a
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thread of this specific and very funny sense of humor: i'll swordfight for them if card isn't an option gonna need sheet music first though this ones me the little
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[THREAD] If you're an autistic activist who speaks, and you've recently joined the fight for the communication rights of nonspeaking autistic people, I want you to know that you're going
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Such a funny memory to show up. I was so confused, having been sent to a child psychologist by the NHS despite being an adult. Tried to be positive about
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Right when this trailer came out, in terms of not casting a disabled actor, it reminded me a lot of the movie Wonder and how I felt when that child
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We live in stressful times.Stress kills.I want me fellow autistic people to live as long and healthily as possibly, so here is a thread of what helps ME to cope
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TW: ableism (in particular against autistics) Hi friends! A new middle grade book has come to my attention that is honestly abhorrent. If you read the blurb, Finding S.A.M is
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Growing up with an #ActuallyAutistic brother in the 80’s was a VERY different experience. A thread: for #AllAutistics CW/ TW: swearing, abandonment, emotional/ verbal abuse, sensitive content. 1. I was
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I’m going to be vulnerable for a minute. In your language. Because I can tolerate an extreme amount of suffering, I feel like I have to, like it is some
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When will parents of autistic children understand that having and spreading harmful attitudes re autism doesn‘t help them, nor their children in any way whatsoever?That all it does is harm
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