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kerima Cevik (On partial health hiatus)
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I know it is #AutismMonth. But for #AutisticWhileBlack people, we are dying at staggeringly high rates from #COVID19. Erasure while we mourn our dead, while Black disabled folks are forced
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kerima Cevik (On partial health hiatus)
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#AutisticWhileBlack Autism mom calls mom memoir author "cerebral" for things like answering the ableist inappropriate question "Can a profoundly intellectually disabled person have a relationship to God?" First, define &
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kerima Cevik (On partial health hiatus)
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Many #AutisticWhileBlack ppl I know personally began with self-diagnosis that explained misdiagnoses and filled in blanks. This self-diagnosis led to an eventual formal diagnosis. Sitting on Twitter as an anonymous
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kerima Cevik (On partial health hiatus)
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#AutisticWhileBlack to answer @lilririah 's question about black autistic acceptance and priorities : I can't speak for all of us because we are not a monolithic group 1/ What I
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Steve Asbell
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As a white autistic, my ‘suspicious’ behaviors got me stopped by police twice. Once for hiking, once for looking like I was ‘on drugs’ at a checkpoint.If I was #AutisticWhileBlack,
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Angry Black Femme
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Let autistic people use the comfort items we want to without assuming we are 'childish' or 'immature' or have a younger 'mental age'.Self-soothing is a skill EVERY adult person needs
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Pete Wharmby
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My favourite autism metaphors, a list - because contrary to popular belief we are not entirely unable to grasp the metaphorical - more likely we may just want to check
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Steve Asbell
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If you’re wondering why #WorldAutismAwarenessDay has a rainbow infinity symbol, it’s because the majority of autistics take issue with the puzzle piece.We are not a problem to be solved.
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