#Neurotypical

Erin Ekins (she/her)

QueerlyAutistic

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

Erynn Brook

ErynnBrook

I hate how almost all ADHD-relationships/social advice articles follow this format:- explain that ADHD is real - explain how it affects ADHDers- explain reasons why it’s really hard for ADHD

AutisticSciencePerson

AutSciPerson

I cannot emphasize how much I hate research that uses technology to force autistic people to mask.I'm honestly surprised this article wasn't from The Onion.A thread about this: 1/15https://news.northeastern.edu/2021/01/21/students-w

Erika Heidewald, Proud Autistic Bitch

erikaheidewald

I’m not sure I believe in mental illness anymore. I think mental illness might just be certain types of neural diversity - predisposition to certain traits - and external factors

Villain Gaon

JustSayXtian

Maybe ADHD is an adaptive trait that's useful for surviving in quasi-nomadic and early agricultural societies, but is extremely poorly suited to late stage capitalism.https://twitter.com/_pem_pem/status/1357356561178492928 Yes, late-sta

Sejal Shah💃🏽FKA fictionalsejal

SejalShahWrites

I'm realizing how much gaslighting goes on when one is a Brown woman in a white institution and the institution doesn't acknowledge anything about your racialized or gendered work experience--just

AutisticSciencePerson

AutSciPerson

And I'll go ahead and start a thread of things that WOULD potentially be useful to autistic people:A watch that:Reminds you if you haven't eaten in 4 hours.Reminds you to

@PiaGlenn

PiaGlenn

I happened upon the trailer for @Sia's film last night, and I was so disgusted. Full stop. Not just at the casting, but to me the entire premise is ableist

ace is home

sahlobandito

recently saw a thread (i will link below) that some nonbinary folk dont like to be referred to as enbies as it feels othering and dehumanizing which is so valid!

Yonah Bex

remembrancermx

I’m old enough to remember how a lot of kids didn’t get an official diagnosis of autism as kids b/c doctors were shielding is from being ineligible for insurance as

Hantu the Undiagnosable 🇸🇬

barisanhantu

This annoys me a lot as an autistic teacher because I want to explain everything and some teachers prefer to shut down the conversation to assert discipline/power or avoid difficult

Elise Kumar 🤷‍♀️ Extremely Earnest 🚪👻

elisekumar

I think that everyone - neurotypical or neurodivergent - should consider how hard parenting might be before becoming a parent. That doesn’t mean “reconsider it!!”. It means... think about how

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ufofwb

(TW suicide) i recently learned some really important information about stimming and its importance in preventing severe distress and longterm neurological damage + depression & suicidality in autistic ppl, so

Izz 🤍

feelinmp3

If one more person tells me to let go of the sia situation i will lose it. I'm already ashamed of my disability and her movie is making it even

Alicia Elliott

WordsandGuitar

So I watched the Cecil Hotel doc on Netflix and it's so clear to me that people do NOT understand the ways bipolar disorder/psychosis work. Saying "Elisa Lam's behaviour makes

possumluvr69

beratings

i’m all for trying to get depressed people in a better mindset, but it’s a huge red flag to me when someone says people who are depressed are comfortable living

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