Jon Bernys<p>Benevolent Ableism is a very real growing problem around ABA and it's infringing of autism/human rights these days....</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntiABA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiABA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EndABA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EndABA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ABAReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ABAReform</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StopABA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopABA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Neurodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neurodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AutisticVoices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticVoices</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ListenToAutistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ListenToAutistics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DisabilityRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AutismAdvocacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutismAdvocacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SayNoToABA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SayNoToABA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AutismAcceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutismAcceptance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ABAisAbuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ABAisAbuse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BoycottABA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoycottABA</span></a><br> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AutisticJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticJustice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AutisticRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AutismEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutismEducation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AutismAwareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutismAwareness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AutismRevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutismRevolution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StopTheHarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheHarm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BanABA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BanABA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NothingAboutUsWithoutUs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NothingAboutUsWithoutUs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AutisticCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neurodivergent</span></a></p>
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#AutismAcceptance
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gaze into mayz’ maze<p>Question 4 from <a href="https://autistics.life/@marionline/114262841963843028" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">autistics.life/@marionline/114</span><span class="invisible">262841963843028</span></a></p><p>4. How would you explain autism to someone who never heard about this?</p><p>Hm.<br>Hard question. Especially because not many people have actually NEVER heard of it. Everyone I know seems to at least believe they have an idea of what autism is. They know someone who has a child who is autistic or know someone who knows someone who's cousin is autistic and so on and so forth. That leads to many half-truths and stereotypes being shared around. </p><p>So, in a hypothetical world where that is not the case, what would I do?<br>I don't quite know. </p><p>I would probably start by saying it is a neurodevelopmental disorder. It encompasses a vast spectrum and every autistic individual faces individual challenges. Some people's support needs might be bigger than others and not all of them are easy to spot at first glance. Some autistic people might be able to hide their problems in public which does not mean that they do not need accommodations. There are commonalities between people on the spectrum which include:<br>A difference in how the brain interprets stimmuli, resulting in either hyper- or hyposensitivity in areas like sound, smell, pain etc. That also effects the inner world of autistic people, knowing and understanding their own feelings, boundaries and things like proprioception, hunger or the need to pee. <br>Most autistic people have a "spiky ability profile" meaning they have high skills or expertise in some areas while underperforming in others. Executive function is probably impacted by that. You should not assume a task is easy just because you find it easy.<br>Additionally, social interactions with autistic people can be confusing to non-autistic people because their behavior deviates from what is commonly referred to as "the norm". Autistic people are very capable of showing love and care, it might just look a bit different to what one might be used to. </p><p>This is like the basic framework I would like to work with when explaining autism to someone. I would go further to include things like meltdown, shutdowns, skill regression, masking, etc. I would probably talk for hours if they let me. But at the end of the day I can only truly speak about my own lived experience which taints my judgement. </p><p>The autistic spectrum is vast, i do not think I can encompass all the aspects it entails. Which just makes it that much more important for autistic communication, by voice, writing or otherwise, to be shared with the world. <br>We are all worthy of being heard.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/autismacceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autismacceptance</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autism</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/AutismApril" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutismApril</span></a></p>
elliot { }<p>you cannot "cure" autism. it's a part of someone and how their brain works. you can't always tell if someone has autism. if you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person. no, autism isn't a disease, it's a disability. no, vaccines don't cause autism. yes, girls can be autistic. :neurodi: </p><p><a href="https://social.lol/tags/neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurodivergent</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autism</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/AutismAcceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutismAcceptance</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disability</span></a></p>
Loops 🍑 :audhd: :ir:<p>7 days.</p><p>I lasted 7 days this time. </p><p>It wasn’t personal, or course. It was just everything about the way I communicate and who I am. </p><p>Just not a fit.</p><p>:blobcat_weary: </p><p>I really thought it was going well this time. </p><p>Remember, <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/AutismAcceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutismAcceptance</span></a> means accepting people even if you don’t know they’re autistic. Working with them, not cutting them loose. Human beings take time. </p><p><a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/Neurodivergence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neurodivergence</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/AutismAtWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutismAtWork</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span></p>
Rootbrian<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/redinstead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>redinstead</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autismacceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autismacceptance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/original" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>original</span></a> <br>Hate groups do not like seeing this at all. Let's show autism speaks the door.</p>
Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama<p>Honestly, I'm not sure if it's the Grave's, getting worse with age, or getting worse with long COVID, or if it's the "normal," CFS from long COVID, but my whole sense of functionality disappears after any exertion at all.<br>.<br>Something about this relates to Autism.<br>I walked across the street today, it's a mall, like a megastore strip mall, so everything's big, it's just across the road but it's a 2km walk to pick something up, from box store to box store, past a few to reach the small stores.<br>.<br>So, I'm trying to avoid activating the Grave's trying not to exert myself and run out of whatever runs out, the opposite of thyroid hormone, I think, so I'm trying to walk old man slow, not get my breathing or my heart rate up - but I lose some race and already I'm not thinking straight and I keep forgetting and catching myself biting down and fighting through something to walk at a normal pace, you know, pushing through.<br>.<br>And I'm remembering I was proud of this trait, give me a hike, and I could just bite down and keep pumping those legs, get to the top of that hill or whatever, despite the sweating and the feeling . . . I can't say I remember the symptoms early, like at summer camp, teen years, only the sweat, but I know there was nausea, etc., through my forties, on the golf course, or at work.<br>.<br>But I'm thinking it's like masking, masking my illness forever. I'm not sure most people need all that drama just to keep walking. Just a metaphor, really. I'm starting to see that sometimes you need a lot of thought and therapy just to realize you're in pain, like a lot of my life is about being generally miserable, but I'm starting to think there's just always pain, but when it's always there, it's normal or something.<br>.<br>I'm constantly performing pain to no-one, grimacing and moaning, and I think of it as emotional pain, but . . . <br>.<br>The Autistic bit at last, sorry:<br>.<br>Autistic, "sitting strangely," and "odd positions" - I think of it as just me and the rare crime of my birth, but all my weird positions and all my being super particular about chairs and mattresses and pillows - that's about pain for me. I sit in your chair for an hour, I might get a kink somewhere that plagues me for days or weeks, same with the bed and the pillows.<br>.<br>Maybe I got the T-baby thing AND some plain old , I know we hate the word, comorbidities. But this idea about pain, including pain we manage not to be aware of, I bet it's connected to us and our weird furniture needs.<br>.<br>Sorry for going on so. 💜 <br>.<br><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <br><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a> <br><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/autismacceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autismacceptance</span></a></p>
Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://autistics.life/@marionline" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>marionline</span></a></span> <br>.<br>it’s all my usual weird rap about my interests, which I call my theories, but I got a laugh when after thinking the Biblical creation was such rubbish for so long, because We are All the Same, that when I imagined it as the actual approximate creation date of Allistic people, that was funny to me, ironic. Now I’m saying (most) people really were created in what was it, 5,731 BCE or so.<br>.<br>I’ve come full circle! 😜<br>.<br><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a> <br><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/ActualllyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActualllyAutistic</span></a> <br><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/autismacceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autismacceptance</span></a></p>
Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama<p><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/ActualllyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActualllyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/autismacceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autismacceptance</span></a> <br>.<br>A thread.<br>Jeff’s Antisocialization theory and Neurodiversity theory.<br>.<br>/3<br>.<br>In a (too?) convenient bit of possibly only NT psychology, maybe not, the fact that we generally don’t remember this infantile learning experience, don’t remember making this likely pre-verbal decision, is sort of already accounted for.<br>.<br>Again, it was probably during our pre-verbal times, so wouldn’t have the words, plus maybe trauma, plus we are forever directed not to worry about that. “Human Nature,” has that covered, we supposedly had a poor opinion of people BEFORE the punishment.<br>.<br>If they have evidence or proof of that, I’d like to hear it. “Human Nature,” is not an explanation unless we are divinely created and/or completely impervious to everything in actual nature. In the real world things happen for reasons.<br>.<br>/3</p>
Kewlio: gideo vames?!<p>I kind of missed that we had a media pack for this, so at least I'm posting it now. Unfortunately too late for the streams for this weekend 😓</p><p>But I will do my best to post ads for these for the coming weekends! Streams start at 2 PM Britain Time (10 AM ADT, 6 AM PDT) on Saturdays. My stream for the event will be on the 26th! It'll be a Special Super Shuffle with a couple of guests which I'll announce closer to the stream date.</p><p><a href="https://kind.social/tags/AutismAcceptanceMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutismAcceptanceMonth</span></a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/AutismAcceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutismAcceptance</span></a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autism</span></a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/LPTW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LPTW</span></a></p>
Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama<p><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/ActualllyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActualllyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/autismacceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autismacceptance</span></a><br>.<br>A thread.<br>Jeff’s Antisocialization theory and Neurodiversity theory.<br>.<br>/2<br>.<br>4. So, my experience, my reading of the Allistic science and psychology is that it starts with, “Humans are social animals, SO,” right, “THEREFORE,” - it’s at the beginning of the causal chain, it all starts with our supposed Natures and proceeds from there.<br>.<br>Surely I have people, proper psychologists around here - is this a theory, what I said about spanking creating social discrimination?<br>Anyone?<br>.<br>I always feel that I must be being immature and unfair to say these things - but people keep surprising me too. In fact, if I were a betting sort - anyone?<br>.<br>/2</p>
Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama<p><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/ActualllyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActualllyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/autismacceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autismacceptance</span></a><br>.<br>A thread.<br>Jeff’s Antisocialization theory and Neurodiversity theory.<br>.<br>/1<br>.<br>Always I am trying to lay it out in short form, spoiler alert: it never works.<br>.<br>1. Spanking is an attack and can be a trauma and what a spanked human baby, born to learn, learns is that the human they archetypically expect to love them attacks them, the first human they interacted with attacked them.<br>.<br>2. If we could run, it would be like any hostile animal, like a predator, simple, and possible to learn, but we cannot, so there is conflict, pain, fear, and hatred, we have reasons not to acknowledge or express these, we are still in the predator’s larder.<br>.<br>3. This conflict produces ambivalence, we learned early to hate and fear, but we must find love also, somehow, and so we are split within ourselves - and this splitting is what we produce in the world, this splitting is what makes us a “social animal,” whereby we must have people to love, which seems healthy enough, but we must also find people to hate, to reconcile our earliest childhood survival learning.<br>.<br>/1<br>.<br>I think that’s new, a thing I intuited but never said before: this early abuse creates the NT social life. 🧐💜<br>.<br>tired. TBC, hopefully.</p>
Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama<p><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/ActualllyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActualllyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/autismacceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autismacceptance</span></a><br>.<br>(Geezuz, that’s better than the Truman Show AND The Metamorphosis put together. Sorry if anyone felt that like I did. 💜)</p>
Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama<p><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/ActualllyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActualllyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/autismacceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autismacceptance</span></a><br>.<br>it’s like the Sixth Sense - spent my life thinking I was alive and talking to people and in retirement I’m learning that I’ve really been dead the whole time and nobody heard me.<br>.<br>Found you all late, but you’re my HJO 💜</p>
Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama<p><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/ActualllyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActualllyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/autismacceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autismacceptance</span></a><br>.<br>oh hey, Sunday, innit.<br>Can I get an Amen 😈</p>
Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama<p>OMG this argument on TV sounds like my kid to me - and they're talking to fucking CROMWELL 😈 <br>.<br><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <br><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a> <br><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/autismacceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autismacceptance</span></a> <br><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/IWatchTooMuchTV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWatchTooMuchTV</span></a></p>
kazé<p>Je connaissais quelques chiffres déprimants sur l’autisme (très forte proportion de personnes sans emploi et/ou présentant des troubles mentaux, notamment), et là j’apprends que l’espérance de vie des personnes autistes serait réduite de 17 ans par rapport à la moyenne. Voire 30 ans pour les autistes avec déficience intellectuelle. Outch.</p><p><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortalité_des_personnes_autistes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortalit</span><span class="invisible">é_des_personnes_autistes</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autisme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autisme</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AutismAcceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutismAcceptance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AutismAcceptanceMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutismAcceptanceMonth</span></a></p>
dominicdelagol2<p>Here's a drawing of Mrs. Eddant for Autism Acceptance Month! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/originalcharacter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>originalcharacter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>beach</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autistic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/curvy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>curvy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cute</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mother" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mother</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/red" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>red</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/elementeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elementeon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autismacceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autismacceptance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autismacceptancemonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autismacceptancemonth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/redinstead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>redinstead</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lightitupred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lightitupred</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rainbowinfinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rainbowinfinity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mrseddant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mrseddant</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sky</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/clouds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>clouds</span></a></p>
ActuallyOwltistic<p>Ah yes, awareness month. Be VERY aware. We walk among you... Muahahaha!</p><p>Reshare~</p><p> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/AutismAcceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutismAcceptance</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/Autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autistic</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autism</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/Neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neurodivergent</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/RedInstead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedInstead</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/AutismAcceptanceMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutismAcceptanceMonth</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/InvisibleDisability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InvisibleDisability</span></a></p>
Green Roc Thoughts<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://autistics.life/@punishmenthurts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>punishmenthurts</span></a></span> some of the worst-for-me people I have ever met, have a demeanor to express themselves as the nicest people, with their co-workers also in agreement, but those same kind of "nice" and "correct" people tend to react to me if I had literal shit on my face.</p><p>You and me both, tricked since birth into believing in the wrong-for-us stuff.</p><p>We know better now, but damn... that's a lot of decades we lost.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AutismAcceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutismAcceptance</span></a></p>
This month is Autism Acceptance Month. As Autistic people, we don't need just the term thrown about for a month. We need people to understand our differences and accept them. Then, maybe, we can feel included, accepted and supported.
So, I will be posting about autism-related terms to try to increase understanding.
The first one is: the “double empathy problem” — A term coined by Dr Damian Milton to describe how people with different backgrounds may have trouble understanding each other. Both autistic and non-autistic people have differences that can contribute to social disconnection and understanding.
Here is a link for more information: https://reframingautism.org.au/miltons-double-empathy-problem-a-summary-for-non-academics/
Reframing Autism · Milton’s ‘double Empathy Problem’: A Summary for Non-academics - Reframing AutismCurrently, Autism is classified as a diagnosable ‘neurological disorder’. Most non-autistic people think of Autistic people as ‘lacking empathy’ and […]
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