#Autistic

Tangenting off this thread with a RT as I don’t want to butt into this convo. But I have something to say to fellow white people who feel excluded when
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I've been trying for days to figure out how to verbalize exactly this. I'm an #ActuallyAutistic person struggling my way through a corporate job, and it's frankly 100% the environment
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“Therapy should never be used to normalize or acclimate to oppression.” -our girlfriend We think about this a lot, in terms of a lot of things. The solution for trans
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A4: oh god, so much.• Matching me with those I was comfortable with• A better understanding of how I interpreted language and questions: so often I just sat in therapy
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Hey friend. Do you feel like everyone else has the same script but no one handed it to you? Do you feel like you walk around confused about interactions that
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THREAD Today the CQC has published “Out of sight – who cares? A review of restraint, seclusion and segregation for autistic people, and people with a learning disability and/or mental
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A true joy of neurdivergent adulthood:Buying the exact same garment in more than one color. As multiple people are asking:Whether this related to ND depends on why one is doing
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In the days leading up to #BAICS2020, we'll be tweeting about our incredible speakers and panelists! First up is Judy Fan (@judyefan), a professor of psychology at UCSD. Using a
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oh btw the thing about my stomach is that its also do to w being nervous and stressed all the time so heres a thread of things NOT to talk
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//cw transphobia"Show me proof that ContraPoints was being transphobic instead of taking an hour long video out of context!!!"Hi. Here's your proof. Feel free to disregard that though and argue
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Flat affect and autismFlat affect is a trait (related, but not exclusive, to autism) where your physical emotional expression is reduced. Maybe your smile isn't smiley enough. Maybe you speak
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I try really hard not to use ableist terms, but sometimes my brain will literally refuse to come up with another word. But, I never use words like dumb, stupid,
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Why Kalvin Garrah is an awful person (tw; suicide attempt, mentions of abuse, enbyphobia) ; a thread this isn't meant to attack anyone!! but please be aware of this person
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In 2014 I had the chance to join a police officer on her shift for a couple of hours. A family member won this as a "prize" in a raffle
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Most child prodigies peak in high school, spend their young adult years trying to fit in, then end up as middle aged midwit middle managers.Corollary: the highest achieving high school
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Okay, imma be honestIt seems like the majority of people only like @Smeef_'s show and nothing else of his content It also clearly shows why that is, as his other
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