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• Post #4196842

  ♾️ 10 reasons why I like being autistic ♾️ Thanks to @astridpoot@mastodon.social, my thread has now become a beautiful and fully-illustrated zine! Share if you like what you see❤️ https://wise.astridpoot.nl/30-10-reasons-why-i-like-being-autistic/ 🥰 🥳 😎 🙏 #Autistic #Neurodivergent #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic

• Post #4018886

  "Why do you need a label?" ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #Neurodivergent #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ADHD

• Post #3986859

  Is autistic distress around change necessarily a problem of personal rigidity or inflexibility? The truth is, everyone's more comfortable with change when they choose it, understand it -- and have some power over how it happens. And this is especially true for those who've been traumatised, or had deeply negative (or even just very intense!) experiences, even when others were insisting that everything was fine. So perhaps the deeper issue isn’t sameness, but safety and being listened...

• Post #3734306

  "We're all neurodiverse!" I've heard this phrase a lot recently. It’s both depressing and enraging to me that so many of us use it, yet seem unable either to look the word up in a dictionary or to understand the implications of saying it. A thread 🧵 ⬇️ #Autistic #Autism #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent

• Post #3717183

  Two young women in Arua, Uganda, were arrested after allegedly kissing in public. Under Uganda’s harsh Anti Homosexuality act, they could face life imprisonment if convicted. The petition is to call for the dropping of charges against them. #LGBTQ #lgbtqia #lgbtqpluscommunity http://a.allout.org/s/WKp5D/

• Post #3644985

  ♾️Ten reasons why I like being autistic♾️ Maybe surprisingly to some, being autistic isn't all bad. Here are some things that may get missed when autism is defined *only* through our difficulties & struggles. #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD A thread 🧵 1/11

• Post #3642671

  You've probably got an old phone gathering dust in a drawer somewhere. You meant to get it fixed. But repairing it was too expensive, too difficult, or simply impossible. That’s not an accident. Companies like Apple and Samsung profit when we don’t repair and buy new instead. While mountains of electronic waste continue to grow, we pay the price. Right now, the EU is working on a new law to tackle this mountain of waste. It's called the Circular Economy Act. Done right, it would mean...

• Post #3466783

  "Autistic people aren’t afraid of genetic research – they are afraid of what scientists might do with it" #AutismResearch https://theconversation.com/autistic-people-arent-afraid-of-genetic-research-they-are-afraid-of-what-scientists-might-do-with-it-284387 Thank you @rmblaber1956@mastodon.social for sharing this excellent article.

• Post #3424454

  In the UK, 89-97% of autistic adults aged 40+ may be undiagnosed. That's a whole generation of people who've been blamed for traits they naturally had that went unnamed. 😢 #LateDiagnosedAutistic #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent

• Post #3419628

  The Deficit-Trauma Loop ➰ 1. Autistic trait exists. 2. The trait is socially inconvenient or misunderstood. 3. The person is corrected, punished, excluded, shamed, or unsupported. 4. Trauma, anxiety, masking, burnout, or co-occurring difficulties develop. 5. The resulting distress is read as autism alone. 6. The diagnosis/deficit story is reinforced. 7. More pressure is applied to reduce the autistic trait. 8. The person is further harmed (PTSD etc.). 9. They exhibit increasingly more distress...

• Post #3359657

  Subject: Autistic perception Studies suggest that autistic people give relatively more weight to incoming perceptual detail - and less weight to prior expectations, or assumptions. A thread 🧵 #Autism #AutisticPerception #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic

• Post #3311276

  Deficit or difference? There are a few things about autism that it takes quite a lot of ingenuity to consistently frame them as negative. I've listed some of them here... A thread 🧵 ⬇️ #Autism #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic 1/13

• Post #3164742

  Many more women than men have been diagnosed over the years with ‘personality disorders’. These labels are much more personally damning than autism or ADHD - as they judge who you are, rather than explaining how you function. #Autism #ADHD #AuDHD #Sexism #Neurodivergent

• Post #3161965

  Many more women than men have been diagnosed over the years with ‘personality disorders’. These labels are much more personally damning than autism or ADHD - as they judge who you are, rather than explaining how you function. #Autism #ADHD #AuDHD #Diagnosis #Sexism #GenderEquality #Neurodivergent

• Post #2069295

  Anyone still wanting a reason to not do shitty things? 😂 #AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic #adhd #Neurodivergent

• Post #1162508

  What has autism got to do with trauma? Quite a lot, actually. And not only because of what happens inside the autistic person, but because of what happens around us. A thread 🧵 1/10 #Autism #Trauma #Neurodivergent

• Post #909216

  "Why we need to reframe autism" ⬇️ I've just been guest on the podcast that hosted the autism researcher Uta Frith. I did a thread about it: https://mas.to/@KatyElphinstone/116206483353899881 Here's my episode: On substack (but I think anyone can listen to it): https://neurosense.substack.com/p/why-we-need-to-reframe-autism-with On Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lets-talk-neurosense-the-psychology-of-neurodiversity/id1883007944  On Spot...

• Post #829168

  Most autistic people, despite everything, actually like being autistic. Not all, of course. But most of us. And I don’t just mean ‘making peace with it’. I mean: it's bound up with who we are. A thread 🧵 1/11 (refs at the end) #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent

• Post #828192

  If autistic people are saying ‘this is part of who I am’ and the response is to continue to fund ways to reduce and eliminate autism, while making very sure our voices are not heard. That isn’t neutral. It's chilling. 😨 11/11 End of 🧵 Refs in link below 👇

• Post #717998

  Is empathy political? A thread on autistic empathy. A still-quite-popular belief about autistic people is that we lack empathy. I think this is faulty logic. Here's why: A thread 🧵 1/10 #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #DoubleEmpathy #TheoryOfMind

• Post #712806

  Replying to Uta Frith's views, one by one. With thanks to all the members of the autistic community who've informed me & inspired me to write this thread. For those lucky not to know about her article in The Times, and various other related statements, links at the end. CW: it's upsetting 😟 A thread 🧵 #UtaFrith #Research #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent

• Post #587957

  #AskingAutistics How would you describe your ordinary daily level of anxiety (if any at all)? #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD

• Post #543590

  Many autistic adults shudder when recalling school memories. But why do autistic people suffer so much at school? Historically, it’s been framed that a) school is above reproach, and b) there’s always something wrong with the child who doesn’t manage, and not the environment. Some are starting to question that. A thread 🧵 ⬇️ #School #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #EBSA #ABSA #PDA

• Post #506427

  Subject: Autistic ‘black and white’ thinking. It's framed as a deficit often seen in autism, but... is it that simple? :shrug2: Autistic people are traditionally criticized for our inflexibility, or cognitive rigidity. But I think this isn’t the whole picture. To start with what we know, here are ten things we autistic people generally have in common (refs at the end of the thread): ⬇️ #Autism #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Neurodiversity

• Post #419207

  Subject: Information processing in autism. Is our style necessarily a deficit? Why do autistic people find new or high-stimulus environments stressful; even overwhelming? Why can it seem, at times, we're slower than others? To take in scenes; to mentally process them; to make decisions based on them 🤷 This thread is an alternative take on autistic processing style & speed. 👇 (Comments & feedback welcomed, as always!) #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #EpistemicInjustice...

• Post #225440

  One of the current diagnostic criteria for autism is a lack of imagination. Would you say you lack imagination? Whatever way you answer, I'd love to hear more detail - if you've time & inclination. Reposts also appreciated ☺️ #AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic #Diagnosis #Neurodivergent