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A thread about what excellent customer service means to me, an autistic: The problem: I have an Apple Music subscription, but I wanted my 7yo to have his comfort-music on

Why I, an autistic, always bring the conversation back to myself:A thread I can’t tell what the other person is thinking or feeling during a conversation, so my responses are

Autistics watching #LoveOnTheSpectrum: “It feels like they’re infantilizing autistics, but maybe it’s just me...”Neurotypicals watching #LoveOnTheSpectrum: “Adorable!” “The cutest things!” “Autistics deserve love too!”

As a white autistic, my ‘suspicious’ behaviors got me stopped by police twice. Once for hiking, once for looking like I was ‘on drugs’ at a checkpoint.If I was #AutisticWhileBlack,

What LOOKS like ‘stubbornness’ in an autistic is really ‘an innate need to understand the request and its reason’ before unnecessarily expending precious mental resources, wasting time and possibly subjecting

WARNING: I retweet autistic sex workers because their tweets contain valuable perspectives and information. If you think their experience and lives are less valid than yours, unfollow me now. I

Instead of paying neurodivergent kids to do chores, what if we paid them to utilize their special interests with real-life skills?Autistic and adhd kids should at least have the option

I need to tell you about my gecko and her home. Buckle up, because this is going to be a thread. Okay, if you watched the video in the previous

Fun games autistics play: ‘Why is this person mad at me?’‘Is this person mad because of me?’‘Am I also mad at this person for possibly being mad at me?’‘If I

Autistic kids don’t lack imaginative play, it just might look different than the imaginative play of allistic kids.#AutismAwareness #AutismAcceptance While other kids were dressing up and pretending to be superheroes

If you try to tell me Lilo isn’t autistic (or coded autistic) I WILL fight you. https://twitter.com/khaleesi_britt/status/1248392062665277442 Exhibit A: Lilo in shutdown mode, while playing a comforting song. Exhibit B:Lilo

How Autistics Are Mistaken for Shoplifters: A THREAD.#ActuallyAutistic #AllAutistics #Retail #LossPrevention I've spent half of my life in retail, and was pretty good at spotting shoplifters. But since being diagnosed