#Autistic

Elizabeth Blackwell Institute

EBIBristol

Autistic students are experiencing a range of mental health issues including #anxiety, #ADHD and #OCD, and seem to manage these in different ways to non-autistic students. @SedgewickF 1/3 Understanding this

Pete Wharmby

commaficionado

Can't sleep. Right here goes.Everything today - all the anger, the rage, the attacks on Cummings and Johnson will be met tomorrow with the revaluation that Cumming's son is #autistic.This

spice cream

flowerqueers

Apropos of nothing, let me tell a little story about the time I seriously misunderstood the meaning of the word self-advocate and was lovingly taken to task I'd been

Shannon Des Roches Rosa

shannonrosa

You know what? Let’s make this a thread. I’m going to talk about the four most common fallacies in parent writing about autistic kids, and why they are hooey. The

Emily Grace Buck

emilybuckshot

Hi, yes, I’ve been talking about being autistic a lot since being diagnosed this summer.But if you found out at age thirty that most other people are running on a

teona | chaotic cripple ♿👩🏾‍🦼

tee_spoonie

I'm really gonna need other yt disabled folk, esp yt autistics to really reflect on how y'all address us. This is microaggressive as hell, and there's even another person in

Claire Kew-Tuck

ClaireTuck710

This!! This is a reply I got when I said Dylan never deserved to be murdered by his mother or have his future taken away!!I am not in the mood

Karl Higley

karlhigley

So...lots on the value of soft skills today. It’s true: they are super-important!Bad news on the “just learn lol” front: there are lots of autistic people in tech and we

Ann Memmott PGC🌈

AnnMemmott

Oh dear. Things are not improving for the ABA industry.This is the Department of Defense 2020 report into ABA for Service personnel's autistic children & young people.https://therapistndc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Annual-Report

tilly | autistic+adhd

autietoons

ADHD vs autism, masking; a thread i masked my ADHD for years. this included not letting myself fidget, trying to tone down how much i talk, sitting still, trying to

Riah Person

lilririah

There is a time to unpack unawareness, and there is a time to converse.But it seems like everytime autistic/disabled BIPoC converse, we almost instantly have to also unpack unawareness or

Coffee Cups and Cards

CoffeeCupnCards

Meg Masters (supernatural) is a perfect example of how someone can write an autistic character without having to overdo stereotypical autistic traits. What I like the most about analysing Meg

Steve Asbell

steve_asbell

The DSM-5 Autism criteria, translated by an autistic. A thread.#AllAutistics #AutismAwarenessMonth #AutismAwareness #AutismAcceptanceMonth #AutismAcceptance “Deficits in social-emotional reciprocity, abnormal social approach, failure of normal conv

Jamie

jamiemcleod02

This thread shows why #autism is trending.This is due to allegations of Dominic Cummings’ child being autistic. However there aren’t any material sources for this rumour so it’s Twitter journalism

Alex Steacy

alexsteacy

Was discussing something tonight. ADHD is sometimes regarded as a "sister" disorder to Autism. I was curious why, if that was the case, ADHD gets often treated with medication and

There Goes My Herro

BranG1992

So a lot of people are talking about Elon Musk having Aspergers. And as a person who once had that diagnosis(I’m autistic) I want to use this opportunity to try