#Autism

Incidentally, if you are new to the fine world of autistic people, you may need to know there are rival groups with different ways of thinking about autism. I shall
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As someone with #aspergers (#ActuallyAutistic), I think it’s really cool that Elon Musk acknowledged he has Asperger’s on SNL. I know people have mixed feelings about about Elon, but sharing
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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
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The claim that vaccines cause autism is totally FALSE and was propagated by a 1998 fraudulent paper by Andrew Wakefield. Now disgraced, AW has been struck off the medical register.
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I think whether or not any given system is disordered *heavily* depends on context. Kinda like how autism isn't a disorder in and of itself, but can be if your
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Holy shit, this is an awful tweet. High and low functioning autism are medical terms used to describe how someone can FUNCTION. How well they can carry out tasks such
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Its #AutismAcceptance Day, so in lieu of all of the absolute tosh that you often here about autistic people, here are some facts:1. Autistic people are born autistic, it
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Some thoughts about @elonmusk saying he is autistic, from someone with ADHD. A lot will not be about Elon Musk, but about how people might be responding to it. 1/12
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One thing I learned while having a daughter with autism is teaching the way SHE learns instead of expecting her to learn the way I teach. Not only is my
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This is gross and despicable.@Aella_Girl if you were trying to be provocative congratulations.What a wonderful idea for autism acceptance month, let’s do a poll to let people share their eugenics
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I am an #actuallyautistic #SLT2B. And let me tell you why that was a scary thing to say. I often talk about the move to #autismacceptance not #AutismAwarenessAcceptance to
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As an employee of 18 years at Tyneside Cinema, I've have been down for the past couple of weeks knowing the company will bury me in a redundancy process they
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Researcher: I have studied the autistics and they lack Theory of MindAutistics: Oh, you interviewed autistics about their experiences?Researcher: lol noAutistics: umResearcher: I told them a story & they didn't
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opinions instagram discourse made me have that i’m not sure on anymore;a thread nondysphorics are validendo systems are validi am a systemi have ADHDi have autismit’s okay for me to
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A thread... 1/ Close to 10K students are at risk of having crucial School Based Rehabilitation Services (SBRS) disrupted as MCCSS is allowing a mid-school year transfer of services. This
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i think it's an autism/adhd thing for me but i'm finding out i actually fit the bill for a lot of conditions i thought i didn't have previously because they
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