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"An Introduction to Neurodiversity and Autistic Culture for (Music) Therapists" is now back in stock through Etsy. You can also get an eBook, but if you get the paperback directly from me I'll sign it and send you some postcards I made, too.

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Yésica or Nosica 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️

@YessicaYesOrNo

3 years

Autistic people are good at pattern recognition and unfortunately sometimes it means I get anxious about things that people don't understand, but then it turns out that I was right to be anxious, which actually sucks because it reinforces my anxiety.

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A big part of the being autistic for me is being very intentional with my word choices in order to say what I mean & mean what I say and then having a bunch of people claim I said something I absolutely did not because they chose to add additional meanings they made up themselves

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5 months

I accidentally grew broccoli and then accidentally didn't eat the florets in time so now it's just beautiful flowers.

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Yésica or Nosica 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️

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4 years

Sia's movie "Music" has now led to her fans saying that autistic people are "not worthy," comparing autistic people to serial killers, saying that autistic people don't possess any logic or reason, that autistic people are morons, that we are "not serious people" and so much else

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Yésica or Nosica 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️

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4 years

@bizzres @hqdada fun fact teachers are also often poor themselves and are already providing resources to the max of their capability. this is a failure of the government to provide adequate standards of living for people, it's not the teacher's fault.

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There is peer reviewed research from more than a decade ago showing that autistic people are less susceptible to peer pressure than allistics. But the people who say stuff like this about autistic people usually know nothing about autism.

Jennifer Litton Tidd #StopTheShock

@JenniAgitator

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Insisting autistics are succumbing to peer pressure to identify as LGBTQ shows an inherent misunderstanding of autism. My oldest autie child wouldn’t wear clothes w/status labels in HS, bc they refused to advertise for free for designers & would actually cut out all labels

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I admin an autism and music therapy group, of course today an allistic came in trying to sell autism awareness shirts to benefit her business. And of course when she was told we're not that type of group (we are autistic led, unapologetically guided by neurodiversity) -

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@kaylakillshot @Sia Or maybe you weren’t paying attention to the fact that these things have been widely criticized in every format imaginable. You’re claiming that because autistic people have been harmed in the past and you refused to listen then that it’s ok to continue to harm and not listen.

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Yésica or Nosica 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️

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1 year

Non-autistic parents of autistic children will be like "I know my child best, I speak for my child, I know what is best for my child" and then will proceed to force their autistic child to participate in social holiday events because it pleases them as a parent to do these events

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4 years

The abuse Sia is allowing to go on in her comments is unending, and Sia herself is participating in it. Don't act surprised to learn that Autistic people have incredibly high rates of suicide when this is how people treat us who are claiming to be our allies.

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Yésica or Nosica 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️

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4 years

It's mind blowing how people can be simultaneously so overtly and unapologetically abusive to a marginalized group of people while also claiming to be allies for that same group of people. The number of times I've seen my community referred to as "those people" is not ok.

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Yésica or Nosica 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️

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She dirty deleted and left the group rather than use the opportunity to learn about the culture she claims to be spreading awareness of. Of course another allistic chimed in to say we should center allistic feelings and desire to be seen as the disability savior.

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3 years

Unfortunately this is also one of the reasons that many of the traditional treatments for "anxiety disorders" are at risk of being actually oppressive and unhelpful for neurodivergent and other marginalized people. Our anxiety is not irrational: it's insightful.

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And yet I'm the one with the communication disorder??!?

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Yésica or Nosica 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️

@YessicaYesOrNo

2 years

When I was a kid I'd have shutdowns and become selectively mute, basically. I'd stop speaking. (still happens, but less frequently). And honestly like it makes sense to me why that happens because why bother speaking when allistics cannot understand words?

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So happy it's an autistic cultural space do we don't have to center allies. But how are you gonna be selling yourself as an ally doing awareness when you're not even aware of how autistic people see that kind of merchandising? I feel like this is basic stuff.

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@YessicaYesOrNo

3 years

Anxiety treatments that treat anxiety merely as a symptom to be eliminated through intentional techniques can be oppressive and ineffective because they can fail to acknowledge that anxiety can be a protective and productive response to an unsafe environment.

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Yésica or Nosica 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️

@YessicaYesOrNo

2 years

We really need to stop using the word neurodivergent if what is meant is autistic. Neurodivergent does not mean autistic. Autistic is not a bad word. Autistic experiences are often not the same as allistic experiences. If you mean autistic, say autistic.

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2 years

ABA practitioners should not be referred to as therapists, what they do is not therapy.

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3 years

To be clear I am not saying that anxiety is pleasant, fun, or cool, or desirable. Actually it sucks while simultaneously having the potential to serving a communicative or insight-developing function. Anxiety can be both shitty and useful, simultaneously.

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4 months

Feeling very autistic right now because the ableist are big mad that I used a term they never heard about.

Yésica or Nosica 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️

@YessicaYesOrNo

4 months

@kiranfatimaopal Bodyfascism isn't leftist.

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@kiranfatimaopal Bodyfascism isn't leftist.

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3 years

This summer I had a few days where I became really distracted by anxiety about my friend's dad. Seems random, right? Well I was just very worried about his health and it started to really bother me. Unfortunately, during the time I was very anxious he was dying. I found out later

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Yésica or Nosica 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️

@YessicaYesOrNo

2 months

And it's just always outstanding whenever you see a therapist lacks the capacity to cope with bring corrected. Certainly this therapist gives correction and feedback to clients and expects them to handle it, but she can't cope with feedback and correction? Why is that?

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Yésica or Nosica 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️

@YessicaYesOrNo

3 years

The good news is that therapists can actually help people explore whether there are protective or productive functions of anxiety & if so, collaborate with the client to determine how that information should be used to impact treatment, goals, and methods of evaluating symptoms.

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@YessicaYesOrNo

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@AngelaSterritt Their problem isn't with one word or another... The problem is they are uncomfortable having a marked identity. They want to privileged of being unmarked.

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2 years

ABA practitioners will really tell parents it's normal for kids to cry a lot when beginning ABA and the fact that this isn't a red flag shows you how much abuse in therapy is normalized.

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Yésica or Nosica 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️

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3 years

@rluxford @matteo_wong There is a white supremacy problem in the mental health fields. The whole thing is based on white cultural supremacy and professionals are taught to be racist through professional acculturation. Some mental health professionals are challenging this problem but most aren’t.

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Yésica or Nosica 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️

@YessicaYesOrNo

2 months

Why do music therapists have the gall to suggest that being a music therapist should mean someone is above being corrected? This is such a harmful attitude. And it's only ever used to protect the most privileged from accountability and education.

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@YessicaYesOrNo

3 years

I've also had anxiety about the health/wellbeing about some other specific people, like a teacher I work with who is just an outstanding, fabulous, wonderful, caring, talented, creative person. Now she has covid and I'm sad to have my anxiety confirmed as realistic.

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Yésica or Nosica 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️

@YessicaYesOrNo

6 months

New weird autism stereotype just dropped ! "people with autism don't get into confrontations" lol, lmao even

Lucas

@MyGravePast

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@hannaweeny @kaceytron Also, imagine being so called "autistic" and actually get into this conversation People who actually have autism don't get into confrontations. So you're either lying and commiting disability fraud or you're incredibly confused. Don't lie about mental illness, if you are

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Being autistic is mostly people just constantly misunderstanding you and when try to correct the misunderstanding being told that you are just a contrarian or are being intentionally difficult or pedantic or need an attitude adjustment.

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I'm reading an anti-eugenics book for work, written in 1922, and the author is spending a lot of time connecting capitalism and eugenics, dropping bombs like "Prosperity does not favor self-examination" .... true in 1922, and just as true in 2024!

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3 years

Things I hate: reading this "34% of COVID survivors suffer neurological or mental disorders: study" and knowing that the future is now going to involve therapists who specialize working with COVID survivors. Just honestly. I hate everything about this.

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2 years

There is "late diagnosis" discourse and so I'd just like to point out that because of assumptions that autism diagnosis is made in early childhood, any adult diagnosis is often called "late diagnosis" in research literature - this includes people in their 20s.

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11 months

If a therapist who works with autistic people says it is "hurtful" to be told they should listen to autistic adults, I'm not sure that therapist got into this career for the right reasons. Therapy doesn't exist to make therapists feel like helpers or to have power over others.

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@YessicaYesOrNo

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ABA practitioners and non-autistic parents of autistic children often stand in support of ABA because it pleases parents. This should not be surprising. ABA is a parent-centered therapy meant to please parents and other caregivers.

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@usbebdjrbrjbr @elizahmh1 @kaylakillshot @Sia Do you hear how derogatory it is to claim that acting in the lead role of a film is too demanding for an autistic actor?

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@YessicaYesOrNo

5 months

@forestvanslyke The phrase "listen to Black people" does not mean "listen to Black people that you think confirm your pre-existing biases and then use that to assert your authority to speak on Black people's culture and liberation as an exceptionally pale white person.

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@DrCarolineMWF Why, so you can misinterpret them due to your own subjective biases?

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@YessicaYesOrNo

2 years

People worrying about self diagnosis but never worrying about "professional" diagnosis like hello I got diagnosed with multiple mental illnesses after a 3 minute written evaluation and was then immediately prescribed harmful, useless medication and exploitative, useless treatment

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Yésica or Nosica 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️

@YessicaYesOrNo

2 years

FYI, especially for music therapists: please do not go to Tania Marshall for information about autism, while she promotes herself as an "autism expert" - she is openly anti-trans; her rhetoric is harmful for trans and nonbinary autistic people.

Tania Marshall 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿Psychotherapist Author

@TaniaAMarshall

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I’m doing this because no health professional should be censored, silenced, coerced, manipulated, shamed, cancelled, controlled or threatened for voicing concern about #safeguarding and it’s NOT transphobic to say so

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@YessicaYesOrNo

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Forest hid this tweet because I referred to them as an exceptionally pale white person but had no problem with calling a Black person a monkey, just so we're clear.

Yésica or Nosica 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️

@YessicaYesOrNo

5 months

@forestvanslyke The phrase "listen to Black people" does not mean "listen to Black people that you think confirm your pre-existing biases and then use that to assert your authority to speak on Black people's culture and liberation as an exceptionally pale white person.

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@dr_cosmo @hannaweeny I suggested to forest a specific book that has journaling and reflection prompts (me and white supremacy) ... they blocked me. So forest knows there are materials out there that could help them and they are choosing affirmatively to do this instead.

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Yésica or Nosica 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️

@YessicaYesOrNo

4 months

a reminder that therapy can be harmful, involuntary treatment is less likely to be effective, and coerced treatment can be an unethical violation of human rights

HumanBeingAwkward

@humanbeingawk

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Should ongoing lifelong therapy be mandatory for everyone?

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@plscallmeky I liked the book "All the Weight of My Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism" because some of the authors talk about stuff like this. We need more though! One book is only a start.

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3 years

So apparently there is research showing that autistic people can have some long term autobiographical memory impairments. I always thought that it was because of trauma, that everything is stressful so why spend brainspace to remember it.

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One of the biggest red flags in a therapist is when they claim to have clients who "don't want to get well." Imagine having a therapist who dehumanizes you in that way. It shows an extreme love of power in the therapist, and a comorbid lack of insight and humility.

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3 years

Some people describe themselves as survivors of the mental health system and mental health professionals need to spend sometime thinking about that.

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@YessicaYesOrNo

3 months

@debaeser So you saw all those kids with their limbs blown off and thought to yourself, nah, that's not a disability issue. Interesting claim.

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@erinthemarxist Stares in Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean and Americas who now, according to contemporary colonizer narratives, *no longer exist* due to genocide.

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If it's not already, this should be one of the questions on autism assessments. "Do you ever get bullied due to casual use of advanced terminology that confuses and enrages peers?"

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1 year

@hi_its_annaleah Because 1) it is false, 2) it invalidates autistic experience and positions nonautistic people as qualified to speak on autistic experience

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@YessicaYesOrNo

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@GoldenExpIosion Awesome is when you can't tell the word no from a c hand

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@YessicaYesOrNo

4 years

Autistic Life Hack: if a tag is bothering you and it can't be totally cut out and you're in a rush, cut what you can and put a bandaid over the "stub." #ActuallyAutistic #neurodiversesquad #Autism #Sensory

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@forestvanslyke Forest, nobody asked for you to speak on Black people's business. It's time for you to step away the subject of Black people and Black people's culture and liberation. It's not your lane, you're just parroting white supremacist conservative talking points now.

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1 year

There is a significant critical thinking gap here, because listing the goals of ABA does not actually address the question of whether it is traumatizing or not. It is well established that survivors of abuse learn to read the emotions of their abuser as a survival strategy.

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Heard a great example of someone using the language of the neurodiversity movement without understanding the neurodiversity paradigm. A clinician said, several times, that she worked with people with "neurodivergent disorders."

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2 years

A question I see a LOT from MTs is "what therapy is good for autistic people?" Especially gets asked after criticism of ABA. And I just want to remind people that it is dangerous to try to generalize all autistic people as having the same needs in therapy.

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@YessicaYesOrNo

1 year

Every time straight people ask this question they should be required to pay a fine in the form a donation to their local LGBTQ+ charity.

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This should be fun: Can men and women truly be platonic friends? Go. I say yes.

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And then if their autistic child is unhappy or has a terrible time of it, and other people do not want to be around the child's unhappiness, then the parent will have a pity party about how their child is missing out etc ...

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Israel normalizing not only bombing hospitals, but posing as medical professionals to infiltrate a hospital and murder patients sets an outrageously disturbing precedent. If they can justify these immoral acts, anyone with power can justify these immoral acts against anyone.

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Never occurs to them their child is their own person, apparently doesn't see or experience these events the way the parent does, and in fact might be perfectly happy and thriving if they weren't forced to participate in something for their parent's sake.

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@Chriswb71 @spamaps That's because nonprofits aren't really about creating change and they quickly transition towards prioritizing their own business interests above whatever cause they claim to exist for.

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@clardennn @Gayyytlyn @viIIainwiIbur a lot of people would consider what you used as an example to be very offensive because you are turning someone else's trauma into an opportunity to show off your cleverness

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My pet peeve is using the term neurodivergent as if it's a synonym for autism and ADHD rather than an extremely broad way to describe all neurotypes that differ from the expectations of the dominant social majority. If you mean autism, say autism. If you mean ADHD, say ADHD.

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@dbthepoet21 @kaylanijuanita This is a serious question and I want a real answer: why would you presume that only politicians influence society? Why would you think one tweet defines every act a person takes? For the energy it takes to post like this, why not use the same energy at the elected officials?

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@AnaMardoll A lot of men suddenly concerned about women's health since they saw a gorgeous curvaceous woman on the swimsuit illustrated cover who never said a damn thing when women's rights to healthcare have been under attack or a pandemic is raging unmitigated, killing millions.

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Just learned that my older brother was informally diagnosed with Aspergers as a kid (back in the day when that was a diagnostic term in use). They were doing assessments on him that stressed him out so much it started to cause problems and he refused to continue the assessment.

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@YessicaYesOrNo

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@forestvanslyke What you are doing here is not talking about it and discussing it in a way of learning, you are making statements asserting facts. At this point, you should be focused on learning, not providing your own opinion or asserting what is true.

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4 years

FYI if you want to interview Autistic people for your research instead of asking them to meet you on zoom or on the phone offer to do research via chat could be one option for getting "accurate data" without causing your participants extra stress.

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@YessicaYesOrNo

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@kiranfatimaopal Some of y'all big mad that you never heard of a word that was coined more than four decades ago, and yet not mad enough to use your Google to look the word up. Fascinating.

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@DACDAC4DAC I'm not convinced you understand what the word "selfish" means but maybe I shouldn't expect that from a eugenicist.

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New book alert!! I just got this and haven't read it all but just flipping through it it looks AWESOME it's not lying about being tailored towards autistic and neurodivergent people. Like there are self affirmations for rejection sensitive dysphoria and lots of sensory stuff.

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@forestvanslyke I am not convinced that you actually have a strong enough understanding of the subject to determine what is best for a group of people you aren't part of, particularly when your method is repeating conservative (white supremacist, anti-Black) culture war talking points.

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@JustAutistFrank Were you under the impression that I was asking for an example of this gaslighting, silencing behavior to occur in my mentions? Because actually I wasn't.

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A textbook on body fascism was published in 2002, like this isn't even close to a new term. It was coined in like 1980. Yet somehow I'm supposed to be ashamed that a bunch of random assholes never heard the term before.

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I'm Cuban American, and for many years I called Venezuela my home. I lived in Maracaibo and Caracas. Venezuela has been a huge part of my life with a huge impact on my identity and experiences. So it's very painful to hear white leftists in the US say so many ignorant things ...

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@EffiMai @DrJenGunter I got an eye infection from reading that. Why would you do this to me

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Sometimes I think how Autistic people are pressured to use speech and socialize, but then when we do the allistics are like, "NO NOT LIKE THAT" and they call us dumb, tell us we need to seek help, and if stand up for ourselves we get called aggressive.

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@FunkSmuggler @allinarowplay "our most challenging children" - this sort of phrase is why you should not be writing about autistic characters.

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I used to think there was something wrong with me - thought I was born on the wrong planet & only wearing a human suit. I was diagnosed as mentally ill, given meds and treatment that didn't help. Turns out I was misdiagnosed - I'm #ActuallyAutistic & nothing is wrong with me.

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ABA practitioners are not trained in language development. They are trained in how to reinforce desired Bx. An SLP is better for developing language skills. I worked for an ABA company for years and they never provided training for employees about speech and language development.

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@MPtenant @marbrow23 Rent costs more than a mortgage but you have to have a lot of money up front to qualify for a mortgage. It's expensive to be poor.

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@fitness_kjd Tone is subjective and how it is subjectively interpreted is largely cultural. Neurotypical people are not as good at interpreting tone as y'all think you are, it's why you constantly have misunderstandings.

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damn the research world out here getting autistic researchers to refer to themselves as disordered in their own research, ouch

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As a child, I often became mute during these events. Which was fine, but people would never be able to just respect that and would always ask why I was not talking. I think that is a foolish question especially when you ask it year after year or if then you mock the person for it

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@hutchleah @FunFactsLulu I think a lot of people engage in ableist magical thinking, they think it can't happen to them because there is something special about them. Like they think their religion makes them special, or they have fascist ideas about health and the body that make them exceptional.

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@KaroroMitchelle Fun fact: Different people have different communication styles and preferences and what you want and expect is not some type of default that applies to all humans.

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I don't celebrate most US holidays. Most of them are highly unpleasant, filled with bizarre traditions celebrating death, violence, war, and other unpleasant things. They often involve the worst music ever written and a heavy focus on conspicuous displays of consumption/wealth.

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@forestvanslyke Don't lie about my statements-I said you are parroting the talking points. It's also a supremacist view for you to believe that your whiteness qualifies you to speak on Black experiences, just like it's supremacist for allistics to think they are qualified to speak on autism.

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Hearing music in your head is called audiation. You have an auditory efferent and auditory afferent pathway. The afferent pathway transmits the information from ear to brain. The efferent pathway transmits info from brain to the sensory organs. So audiation uses efferent pathway.

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I just learned that people can ACTUALLY HEAR SONGS IN THEIR HEAD. I burst into song randomly so that I can hear the song I am thinking of. You folks can actually HEAR music in your head? I thought that was just a figure of speech! What is worse… I am a musician and I had no idea

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I know the phrase "neurodiversity affirming" is a new buzzword in therapy, but as an autistic therapist it sounds VERY much like allistics heard neurodiversity is the new thing and want to jump on that for branding purposes without ever really learning or changing.

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found out my landlady from about a decade ago, who was horrifically ableist (she once shouted at me for not telling her i was autistic before renting her room) is now selling "neurodiversity affirming" therapy.

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@forestvanslyke I think your time would be better spent with books like "Me and White Supremacy" by Layla Saad, and do the journal/reflection prompts. There's so much material to engage in to learn, to presume you are ready to make statements is real hubris. "Sit down. Be humble."

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@blkcoffeecvnt That I should deal with trauma, grief, depression and worse by distracting myself.

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So I wonder if it's actually a neurologically based cognitive difference OR if the researchers just simply ignored any potential impact of chronic stress and trauma on autobiographical long-term memory in autistic people.

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@dubiousfriction @buckadeath There are no gendered pronouns in spoken Chinese.

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If I treated ABA therapists the way they treat Autistics, we would treat them as if all of their behavior is motivated for attention, access to tangible items, to escape a demand, or because it provides automatic sensory reinforcement.

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My loves, it's time to check what lists you've been added to because the ableists can't control themselves. To check, go to lists, upper right corner three dots for lists you're on. Report abusive lists and block the user to remove yourself. Here's one they added me to recently.

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Please stop telling women they will regret not having children. Not only do I never regret being childfree every day I am happier about that choice.

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