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#neurodivergence

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Ember

@DrALJONES Autistic people also often lack empathy or experience it in non-standard ways, but I'm doubtful that many would be comfortable with similar stigmatization applied towards autism.

Supposed "proper" neurotypical people have repeatedly demonstrated an incredible lack of care towards others in recent time. Mass support of genocide, increasing support of fascism, increasing misogyny and transmisia. The more longstanding and near universal support for carnism among "normal" people is a desert of empathy or conscience.

People like Elon Musk are not unique. Should they be removed from power? Yes. Will removing them from power remove the capitalist and white supremacist systems that produced them? No.

For so long as such systems of oppression exist, power will be rewarded to oppressors for their continued participation and support of those oppressive systems. People like Elon Musk or Trump can be replaced like the heads on a hydra. Voting someone who is not disordered, who is not a "psychopath" into power will not challenge this; because, the issue is not clinical, it is not that the wrong people are in power, but rather the very systems of power which people have been indoctrinated into.

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Silver Arrows

@actuallyautistic @joelle I agree. Apparently my doctor told my mum he suspected I had Aspergers (as it was then) when I was fifteen. She kept that to herself and maintained I had all these issues because someone had put black magic on me.

It wasn't until my late twenties when I learnt about Aspergers properly. If I had known at fifteen, I could have got my diagnosis, I could have got support (maybe) and at least not spent another 12 years hating myself and wondering why I just couldn't fix myself and be like the other women.

#autism#actuallyautistic#neurodivergence
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AUTSCAPE

#CallForProposals

We are now accepting proposals to the main conference programme for Autscape 2025: “Evolving Autistic Space”, held Mon 4th – Thu 7th Aug 2025 at The Hayes, Swanwick, Derbyshire, UK.

Read the Call for Proposals at:
autscape.org/2025/proposals/cf

Submission deadline: Monday 31st March. Presenters will be required to attend in person.

www.autscape.orgAutscape: Call for proposals
#Autscape#Autscape2025#ActuallyAutistic
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Diotima

Reminder: If you're marginalizing ppl bc they're not using alt text, you're being #abelist.

Some ppl who are neurodivergent in a way that makes alt text impossible. You telling them to "just try harder" or excluding then is no diff than telling blind ppl to "look harder" or paraplegics to "just walk.

Stop valuing ppl with #neurodivergent traits as less important than ppl with physical challenges. Haven't we marginalized #neurodivergence enough?

If you didn't know, now you know.

#AltText
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Silver Arrows

@Jaden3 @servelan @actuallyautistic

Given the climate in the US, it might be worth considering whether a professional diagnosis is better than a self diagnosis. Weigh up the pros and cons.

autism.org.uk/advice-and-guida

I found this list to be useful. Copy it into a word processor or print it off and highlight all the ones you see in yourself. I did that, and got my ex to highlight what he saw in me. Before that I did used to doubt, but seeing that made me realise that I do have a lot of autistic traits (already got fobbed off once when trying for a diagnosis years ago, so I'm trying again).

Mine: mastodon.social/@SilverArrows/

There's also the raads-r test and a few other good ones on Embrace Autism, and idrlabs.com has a few that give you a cool pie chart. I find the AQ ones to be meh, the questions are too open for interpretation, but my GP required it before he could refer me.

www.autism.org.ukSigns that a child or adult may be autisticThe signs that people notice in children and adults are usually consistent with the core characteristics of autism, but this isn’t always obvious.
#autism#diagnosis#neurodivergence
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Vox and the Pack :Fire_Enby:

The hardest part about unmasking is developing the courage and resilience to act against the interest of another person (usually by upholding a personal boundary you've ignored so far) and to then strike the right balance in determining who deserves an explanation (because they actually want to listen) and who is a lost cause and just wants you to admit that you're wrong.

It's a really odd thing to go through when so far you've tried to please everyone. Who are you to put your judgement over the judgement of other people?

#unmasking#neurodivergent#neurodivergence
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Rachel Megan 🇨🇦

This has me terrified.
I am a parent to an #autistic child with #adhd. She is not broken. She does not have a disease that needs to be cured.
She has a #neurotype that is only recently being acknowledged and accepted.
#neurodivergence need sto stop being seen as "other" or as needing to conform to some arbitrary "normal".
#vaccines save lives. There is 0 link with vaccines and autism.But even if there were, if you'd rather your child have #polio than autism, you shouldn't have kids at all.

IMG_1519.jpeg Image Breakdown Long Description: The image shows a background of a sandy beach with gentle waves lapping against the shore. In the foreground, there are several overlaying text boxes containing text. A child wearing a yellow outfit is crouching on the beach, partially visible at the bottom of the image. The sky appears cloudy, and there are trees or dense foliage visible in the distance. Alt-text: Text overlay on a beach background with a child crouching. Transcribed Text: The CDC under RFK jr’s direction will be investigating AGAIN whether there is a correlation between vaccines and autism This study has been done multiple times with over 1.2 million autistic children already No link has EVER been found and it won’t be This will likely have knock on effects, it could normalize harmful non evidence based “treatments” that are already gaining traction, like enemas, restricting safe foods, detoxes Not to mention fuel vaccine skepticism Let us live.
ALT
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Jolan C. Bertrand

Yo Mastodon ! Est-ce qu'il y en a ici qui prennent ou ont pris des anti-dep en même temps qu'un traitement du TDAH (Sertraline l'anti-dep, et Medikinet pour le TDAH, mais si pas les mêmes dîtes toujours) et qui pourraient me faire un retour sur les éventuels effets secondaires ? C'est pas pour moi, mais c'est un poil urgent, la personne commence les anti-dep demain matin.
Merci et love sur vos têtes <3
Ah, et "le repouet est doux" ? Selon l'expression consacrée ?

#medicaments#TDAH#AntiDepresseurs
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Naomi Jacobs

Please join us for this one-day conference on research and practice on #religion, #disability and #neurodivergence (focusing on social scientific research but anyone with an interest is welcome)! Online or in London, UK. Also I am the keynote speaker so don’t make me talk to an empty room. Or do. I’m not sure which is more nerve-wracking just now. (Yes, it’s my first keynote, why do you ask?) britsoc.co.uk/groups/study-gro

www.britsoc.co.ukEvents
#ReligiousStudies#DisabilityStudies
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