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Erin Ekins (she/her)

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Right, fuck it, I've been trying to stay out of it all, but I have to say something about it. I don't care what 'side' (ick) you take on the

Not only do we not know whether or not they bubbled for close cohort filming for the wedding, but the shouting and demanding answers about bubbling is tantamount to demanding

There's this pervasive idea that adults who like things that are seen as 'for kids' are inherently creepy and dangerous, and I can't get away from how this is essentially

Clearly Bucky's arm is removeable, as prosthetics generally are AND he knew immediately to pick it up and put it back on and how to do that. So I read

The Sia stuff has led to having people in my mentions over the last twenty four hours telling me it would be kinder on myself, an autistic person, to not

I don't really know how to convey to people that it wasn't just that kids bullied me in school for my (as then undiagnosed) autistic traits, but that teachers totally

Have you considered that the answer to your 'why do I meet more people who say they're disabled online than I do in real life, hmm?' hot take is that

162 people have died in police custody in the UK in the past ten years.Where were their condolences from politicians? "Now isn't the time, Erin." It's never the right fucking

One day I'm going to do a thread about how narrative storylines work, particularly in soaps, and how it's literally okay if the characters featured in a relationship or family

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

You can spend a large chunk of your life being disabled without realising you're disabled. Only getting my autism diagnosis at 23, and then taking several years to feel comfortable

We need to have a conversation about how many cishet white autistic men are radicalized into far right supremacy, but that discussion has to consider the whole 'cishet white man'