#Autistic

All this discourse on the TL about "lacking empathy" like...my friend, I would be MUCH more concerned if someone lacked sympathy than if they lacked empathy. Words tend to hold
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Let’s talk about Entrapta and what is the problem with stereotypes on Autistic Rep narrative. A thread by and autistic person. First of all I’d like to say:
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https://europepmc.org/article/med/32297123 Ha. Fresh new research. This on 'self injury' in autism. Big study. I have questions. Thread.Studies go back as far as 1976 (!)It is nearly all people with intellectual
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thread on why eddie diaz from 9-1-1 is autistic, made by someone who is autistic! #911onFOX @911onFOX @ryanAguzman disclaimer: this thread is inspired by this one linked! thank you hunter
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i'm autistic. for me, being autistic has been more traumatic than my ADHD. people in my life made fun of ADHD but actively mocked & discriminated against 'out' autistics. it's
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If you want to do right by your autistic kid (or any autistic person, really), then please do your best to understand and respect these eleven factors about being autistic.
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This is....not strictly true. Or at least there are so many neurodivergencies are still named with the word Disorder in them. Also, neurodivergencies DO still create disorder & distress sometimes,
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As a major actually autistic speaker/influencer finally divorced themselves from Asperger/Aspie branding today, seems like a good time to encourage everyone else to follow suit. If you don't know, Asperger
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How do you think we feel?Being constantly described as a burden, disease, injured.We're exploited, experimented on, tortured with BLEACH & other quackery.The silence, inaction is deafening.Remember Nazi Germany, what they
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ok i’m gonna do this while i make mac and cheese but i see a lot of autism hcs thrown out never expanded on either out of fear so im
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Gonna admit that I haven't changed my pinned tweet (treated as extended bio) cuz I wasn't sure what to put cuz of the damn character limits.However, I've been working on
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Thread: Autism & social communication. Some points & strategies to bear in mind when working with Autistic children/young people. Regardless of their support needs. Autism is a disability under the
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We have a new paper out in @FrontPsychol!We wanted to learn about rapport in autistic, non-autistic, & mixed autistic/non-autistic interactions.We were interested in experiences of rapport & how external observers
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tw // ableism , sexual assaultlet’s talk about this. (please rt and spread) #AutismAcceptanceMonth (1/?) in this video, mark rober talks about how is son is on the autism
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thread of questions for autistic mlm/nblm (by -)(feel free to skip any question that makes you uncomfortable!) 1. what do you identify as? 2. do you have any current hyperfixations?
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This is the state of autism teaching in neuroscience in 2020. Note the check box that says all autistics of all ages can’t pass false/belief tasks and have no theory
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