#NonSpeaking

I feel weird about puppies going viral for using AAC while (autistic) nonspeaking folk are deliberately prevented from having access to AAC. Same for people being happy about animals being

Hi cross-disability twitter! I deeply appreciate the solidarity y’all are showing the autistic community right now. I want to ask you to engage with this beyond just “they cast a

Tania Melnyczuk

A parent in an autism group asked, "Do you think the reason why a lot of Autistic children have speech delay is because Telepathy is more natural to them?"Some of

Noor (he/him) 🧜🏽📿

CN Sia *sigh* Hoo boy. Just gonna...document this for when it inevitably gets deleted. Yeah just...to get it out there: while there’s something to be said about only casting trans

no but seriously i’m #ActuallyAutistic and i’m TIRED of being told i’m bad at empathy / can’t read cues / am rigidbc so often when allistic ppl are told to

Lilo the Autistic Queer

I have a complex communication disability (my communication difficulties are caused by multiple disabilities, not just one - that makes other people knowing how to help VERY difficult because they

Just saying, if it wasn't for my friends who regularly experience nonverbal episodes, I would have completely thought I was loosing all that was left of my mind when my

kerima Cevik (On partial health hiatus)

#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 &

Lillian Carrier

LillianCarrier0

In light of everything going on with #ColorTheSpectrum I would like to take a moment to talk about why #AdvancedBehaviorAnalysis is abuse.When supporting the #AutisticCommunity this should be the second

Tania Melnyczuk

I'm an activist for the rights of nonspeaking autistic people. It's #AACAwarenessMonth and I have something rather to tell you. First of all, the principle: Communication is a basic human

I read a piece by a noted skeptic on the recent article about spelling as communication. It's about what you would expect. I don't want to draw attention to it.

Ann Memmott PGC🌈

If you're autistic, you can't have nice things.That's basically what lies behind the rants at autistic people from some, saying how DARE we say something positive about ourselves. How DARE

Erin Ekins (she/her)

QueerlyAutistic

I feel like, as a world, we assume that non-speaking autistics must want a cure for autism, but we don't ever bother to actually put the effort in to ask

Tania Melnyczuk

[THREAD] I wanna show you an example of what presuming competence with nonspeaking autistic children means. This is a lesson on fractals, prepared by Vicky Oettle, a teacher at a

I am writing on detailed blog post on stimming, but it‘s going to be a while - so I thought I‘d share some key points here, because it keeps coming

Terra Vance #iDISSENT

Okay, about the Sia thing and my reaction. I'm going to wait for @ekverstania to give more complete explanations, but I will briefly touch on the word "Nonspeaker" (no hyphen).