#Autism

I look back at things I did when younger, not knowing I was autistic, wondering how on earth I managed.Truth is, I assumed everybody felt extreme anxiety and physical discomfort
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Why Sia’s new film “MUSIC” is extremely problematic and ableist, a thread by an autistic person: So a little background: This film is about a girl on the autism spectrum,
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saw a self-styled ptsd and autism expert expounding lavishly on here the other day about how if a friend gently informed this person that they were in fact yelling by
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STOP dog piling nonautistic black folk for trying to intigrate &/ uplift autistic family/loved ones/clients.Black folk don't have as much access to autism acceptance OR awareness. Yeah, we have our
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Thank you for joining me today for the first ever #AutismBoost event! I want to thank @angelinebadams for coming up with the name. The name is a play on signal
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Autistic self-diagnosis is valid for a number of reasons: - autistic traits, both those in official diagnostic tests & those widely anecdotally reported by autistic people, are very specific &
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Being #Autistic during a #pandemic : trying to stay busy to keep brain from crashing into burnout. Work to much resulting in PDA and near #autisticburnout. Can feel cognitive function
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Getting an autism diagnosis late in life introduced me to a number of new concepts: meltdown, shutdown, burnout and sensory overload. Applied to my life retrospectively these made perfect sense,
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I think Louis Theroux would have a lovely weekend with me. Saturday AM: The producers brief louis about who I am. Saturday AM: Breakfast, and I introduce Louis to beige
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#Vegan #SocialJustice #health #AutismI am a vegan. Why? 1) I used to have really bad #acidreflux. So bad, I thought I was having a heart attack. I stopped dairy, and
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#WTFock a break down of kato's behavior and why we believe she has ASD (a thread)~ note: i am by no means an expert on the subject!! this is purely
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Let's talk about weed.Like alcohol, weed alters ones behavior. Weed not necessarily makes you happy and it also very rarely make you sad. The only harmful thing about weed in
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there’s this godawful youtuber called myka stauffer. she WANTED to adopt a child with special needs, she literally ASKED what special need is easy to manage but would seem difficult
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1. Linking off a previous thread related to #healthinequities and #autism but this thread can stand alone. #epitwitter This thread discusses recent studies that state the prevalence of autism in
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Today marks 17 days since I've gone into isolation. It's also world autism awareness day, and rather than posting a message about my mood in social distancing, I thought I
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How #Autistic students can get a raw deal at school - a thread taken from my talk at the National Autistic Society conference. Please share widely if you can. /1
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