1/2 “..the big breakthroughs for the autism field since my undergraduate days have nearly all been generated through autistic scholarship, developed using coproduction projects, and / or drawn from self-report measures (e.g. interviews, focus groups, surveys and questionnaires).”
Graphic with a dark red background. Text reads, "There is no such thing as “mild” autism. "If an autistic person is not “obviously” autistic, either they are masking for their safety or others’ convenience—which in the long term imperils their mental health—or they are actually getting the supports and accommodations they need, so they aren’t forced to demonstrate distress or dysregulation." Smaller text in the lower right corner reads, "@ThinkingAutism ThinkingAutism.com" The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism logo is in the lower right corner.
There is no such thing as “mild” autism.
If an autistic person is not “obviously” autistic, either they are masking for their safety or others’ convenience, or they are actually getting the supports & accommodations they need—so they aren’t forced to demonstrate distress or dysregulation. #autism
(Mine too.)
www.youtube.com/shorts/3uBPZ...
1,522 pages. All openly licensed free cultural works. All free to share, adapt, and build on. Knowledge gardens are how communities fight back against information that costs too much to access. stimpunks.org
My new crush is an abomination.
(This is new to me.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Q4...
I'm too afraid of everyone's anger to venture out into the world, so here I am on the internet...where everyone comes to dump their anger.
This was a fun one.
Happy Birthday! 🎂
Some relaxing content.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV-e... #ASMR
The hope: "Huh. Hadn't thought about it that way. I'll change my behavior! And my foundational beliefs."
The reality: "Jesus Christ, is she STILL on about that? I'm really starting to hate [large swath of the world population]."
Empathy is usually believed to be a personal virtue, that some people have and others don’t.
I don't think that's the whole story.
It’s also shaped by power. By conditioning. By rewards and punishments. By who’s allowed to have needs, and who's trained to attend to them.
8/10
I want to quote so many things from this article...you might as well just read it. 👍🏻
Some of us prefer to be called victims. I had my innocence stolen from me. A crime that will forever go unpunished. Will I ever feel like a survivor? Maybe one day. Healing is a process.
Some wholesome content.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rift...
www.youtube.com/shorts/27bHx...
Please buy our shirts and help support TPGA writers and artists while promoting autistic pride and autism acceptance! If that's not in your capacity or interest, please share our campaign.
#autismAcceptanceMonth #autism #neurodiversity
Are autistic people ‘just making it up’?
In a recent podcast conversation, I was asked a question that carried a striking implication:
What if increasing numbers of people identifying as autistic are just not coping?
🧵
1/11
#Autism #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD
5 yrs ago @shanclapoint.bsky.social and I found most autism intervention studies published in ABA journals were authored by researchers who were also clinicians/ consultants, but this COI was almost never declared. We have an update! Things are now... worse! 1/6 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
Beautiful Yuri Kimura/木村優里 (National Ballet of Japan) in The Dying Swan.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBz0...
Many well-meaning people don't know that Autism Speaks does very little to help existing autistic children or adults.
We are grateful to @autisticadvocacy.org for going over Autism Speaks's financial record—so you can see exactly why you shouldn't donate to AS.
#autism #neurodiversity
Steven's been kidnapped.
Hey! A project of mine re: supporting Autistics has been accepted for publication. But! I want to center diverse voices e.g:
- POC Autistics
- Autistics who are low-verbal/an AAC user
- "High needs" Autistics
If you identify as 1 or more, please DM or comment if you'd be open to offering insight!
All the comments on Bob Seger videos are people mourning lost loved ones.
It's where we gather, apparently.
Went down a Mask (1985) rabbit hole and learned that Rocky's mother Rusty was mad that some Springsteen songs were replaced with Bob Seger songs for the film's release.
But I'm nostalgic for the Seger version, and he kinda reminds me of my father.
Now listening to Bob Seger, missing my father.
The finest actress in all of ballet.
youtu.be/Lff24BkuctU?...
If someone asks you to donate to an autism charity (as tends to happen in April), this is an excellent list of which ones are good and which to avoid. 👇
It ebbs and flows.
When people say “prevent Autism” …
I hear “prevent Autistic people (like me) from being born”.
#ActuallyAutistic #AutismMonth
Through the lens of ‘Autism Awareness Month‘, ‘autism‘ was treated as something to wage war with, and, as a result, parents called themselves ‘Autism Warrior Parents‘ (which has since been shortened by many to just ‘Autism Parents‘), and Autistic people became the casualties of that war.
"We could just as easily conclude that the designers of the Sally-Anne test lack theory of mind based on their failure to predict that autistic kids possess patterns of social understanding that they themselves have no reason to possess."