#Autistics

Lucy (she/they) go away im autistic ✿

I don’t like when autistics say something specific to autistics and some NDs barge in and when we say it’s auts only they say BUT IM ND like congrats that

Kayla Smith (for #BlackLivesMatters)

BeingKaylaSmith

To the Autistic community,We as Autistic people need to support each other more than ever. We have to fight against injustices that are facing our community and society. Whatever it

Ensuring autistic people are leading in autism-related issues is not enough.We must ensure that a VARIETY of autistic people is represented.Trans autistics, BIPOC autistics, non-speaking autistics, poor autistics...we still have

Autistic people being increasingly open and vocal isn’t because ableism has disappeared, it’s because masking is so bad for our mental health that even constant hurt and stigma is less

𝕷𝖆𝖉𝖞 𝕬𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖔𝖓 🦇 - busy

A question I'm getting asked a lot is "why are there more autistic people now than ever before?" and I thought I'd do another thread on it. There are several

Look.I have some controversial/outlier views, opinions, and thoughts about autism and disability related stuff.I am open to a lot of theoretical discussions, thought experiments, etc.There are still lines I would

I think Autistics do our community & especially Jewish Autistics a disservice when we use "Hans Asperger was a Nazi" as an explanation for why Asperger's was removed from the

Erin Ekins (she/her)

QueerlyAutistic

Autistic women face a huge amount of misogyny and misogynistic gatekeeping from autistic men, and we as a community should be talking about it more. There's a scarily large contingent

Can I ask everyone to please stop using our perceived intelligence to assert the worth of autistics? It's a common refrain I hear from family members and caregivers, but it's

Eb

I think about this a lot.I don't think it's that most of us CAN'T pick up on social cues. I think it's more about what we're capable of in any

A_Typical_Psychologist

AtypicalPsychol

*An appeal to NON-autistic people: please take a few moments to read this thread*We (#Neurodivergent people) were taught early in life that everything YOU (#Allistics) said and did was what

neve 🍀💚 nsfr

y’all love autistics and their “uwu savant skills” until autistics literally beg allistics to stop KILLING and ABUSING us and ignoring our voices... and you’ll just ignore us anyways because

Autistics watching #LoveOnTheSpectrum: “It feels like they’re infantilizing autistics, but maybe it’s just me...”Neurotypicals watching #LoveOnTheSpectrum: “Adorable!” “The cutest things!” “Autistics deserve love too!”

Fun games autistics play: ‘Why is this person mad at me?’‘Is this person mad because of me?’‘Am I also mad at this person for possibly being mad at me?’‘If I

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,

I need autistics with alexithymia to stop saying, "But I don't have empathy!" You are letting your internalized ableism harm all of us.A thread... #ActuallyAutistic Some autistics have alexithymia, some