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Marieke Nijkamp
mariekeyn
Ah yes. In the middle of a worldwide crisis, it's also time for our favorite day of all: #WorldAutismAwarenessDay Oh joy.(Thread.) Let's get the awareness part out of the
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cyrée jarelle
cyreejarelle
one day we’re gunna talk about how autistic community increasingly assumes that all autistics are adult dx’d or self dx’d, and how that has changed what we think diagnosis is
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EarthNamek (he/they) check pinned!
earthnamek
Why are autistics obsessed with politics?Maybe because a person's politics is the best way to determine whether we will be treated as fellow human beings #AutismAcceptance #CapitalismKills #eugenics #RIPCapitalism #NotMeUs
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autistictic
autistictic
Meltdowns aren‘t always or only emotional.Many things can contribute to overload that triggers meltdowns:- intense emotions- lack of sleep, food, and water- illness, pain etc.- sensory input- cognitive processingALL processing
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amandyke
magicae
RT & HELP AN AUTISTIC OUT! i’m looking for a replacement for my absolute favourite mug. if you have this mug and could bare parting with it, or find it
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Dr. Jennifer McCreight
jennifurret
Happy #WorldAutismAwarenessDay ! My "official" diagnosis was delivered when my therapist chuckled, "Of course you're probably on the spectrum! Most scientists probably are."He deemed me "high functioning," so that wa
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polypearIs
because its autism acceptance/awareness day i thought i'd do a little thread explaining why the majority of autistics, including myself, prefer identity-first language over person-first language. #WorldAutismAwarenessDay #AutismAcceptance
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Erika Heidewald, Proud Autistic Bitch
erikaheidewald
autistic people on tiktok have apparently forgotten that we are up against a billion dollar industry that’s currently abusing kids and researching how to engineer our extinction because they are
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jess
J_Milez
This has been the source of so much inner strife. I know I’m neurodivergent - most directly linked to TBI.https://twitter.com/ashleighjmills/status/1311683919595667457 Presentation seems a lot like ADHD at face value, but
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Kim Crawley
kim_crawley
The number one danger amongst autistic people is that way, way, way too many of us are naïve."I won't be mean to ABA supporters!""We lack empathy!""Wow, Biden is so cool!"Only
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autistictic
autistictic
Puzzle pieces are triggering for many autistic people.First they represented autism being a "puzzling" condition (because autistics were never consulted).Then it became a representation of the "missing piece" to autism...a
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Ruby
AutisticRuby
With the #ColorTheSpectrum discussion going on, I keep seeing the term “autism industry” get thrown around, and I want to explain what it means, because I think understanding the autism
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chill
nothank_dude
Let’s talk about autism diagnosis criteria, and how it’s largely based on trauma responses. This will be a long thread so buckle up. TW for talks of trauma relating to
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Sam Connor
criprights
All you need to assess @CraigWtweets, @_Nic_Lee and I is a lazy copy of the WHODAS. Administered by an allied health person who isn't actually employed by anyone in the
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lazy perfectionist
kazADHD
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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EarthNamek (he/they) check pinned!
earthnamek
.@DNCI've been attacked by Trump supportersI've been attacked by Bernie supportersBut your candidate's supporters have a lock on offensive canvassing #ActuallyAutistic #JustUs #ableism I couldn't even report this it was
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