#Autism

last day of #AutismAcceptanceMonth so let’s talk about functioning labels and the term “asperger’s” a thread first i wanna talk about functioning labels. what are they exactly?well, they’re basically
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If you try to tell me Lilo isn’t autistic (or coded autistic) I WILL fight you. https://twitter.com/khaleesi_britt/status/1248392062665277442 Exhibit A: Lilo in shutdown mode, while playing a comforting song. Exhibit B:Lilo
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alright well, this will be the start of my thread ( and personal experiences and research ) about adhd. disclaimer, i am diagnosed with adhd ( as well as autism
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im gonan make a team galactic hcs thread bc i have autism like that saturn mars and jupiter r all nonbinary . saturn uses he/they mars uses she/they and jupiter
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Mmmf. I have a lot of growing to do as a person, I think. I just have a lot of, um, underlying issues that I'm not actually, maybe dealing with
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Oh my.There's a new paper out. Make yourselves comfy. Thread.Top team who do many fine things.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32691993/  but there's a mystery."Many autistic yp exhibit..behavior difficulties, characterized
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Can I just say: of course women can be #autistic. Obviously there are autistic girls and women. Those male gatekeepers, desperate to make autism all about them, are the worst
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I refuse to believe all of y’all were Gifted Kids. Gifted Kids played violin or piano or did something remarkable. All you did was read 4 Geronimo Stilton books in
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Love is in the air this July as three new unscripted shows will premiere throughout the month... Say I Do (July 1)A trio of experts bring to life the dream
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figuring out that i am autistic was one of those things that like made sense in retrospect but also was kind of funny in a sad way bc i had
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The autistic community has it's own rules and language, just as any community does, and if we attack autistics who are just finding the community for not knowing those rules
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In 1999 the CDC, NIH, FDA all knew that children who received the HepB #vaccines at day 1 of live had an increased risk of 1135% to get #autism over
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the current @nytimes ethicist is constantly promoting ableism. this week is unfortunately hardly the first time. a thread of receipts (don't click through if you will be sad or enraged)
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We have a new paper out in @FrontPsychol!We wanted to learn about rapport in autistic, non-autistic, & mixed autistic/non-autistic interactions.We were interested in experiences of rapport & how external observers
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...is the yo mama team ok in the head I genuinely believe that it'll cut off before he says the word, then we might get shamed for clicking on the
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Ive seen a lot of takes about the term neurodivergent lately, and who ‘counts’ as nd. And as an autistic person with adhd, dysgraphia and multiple anxiety disorders and Ive
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