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#ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AutisticParent #SEND - #NATPmentalhealth #Humanistic She/They *Views My Own*

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I’m going to start posting some of the ridiculous targets I see in #OT #SLT #EdPsychology reports. These will be shared with permission only and will be anon’d I hope this raises awareness of the #Trauma that #Autistic #SEN children are being faced with every day as ‘support’ 🧵
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I saw a little boy in town, spinning with #Autistic joy today 💕 I said ‘that looks fun!’ Mum apologised, said he’s Autistic. Me: ‘cool’ Mum looked shocked. I said: ‘I am too!’ He beamed. Made a mouth noise and grabbed my hand. We walked round town together a while, until… 1/2
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he was ready to say Bye. This was my #Autistic joy 💕 and he knew it too! A beautiful moment of connection 🥲 2/2
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@Wibblywobble1 This screams complete ignorance to the #Autistic experience 🤦🏽‍♀️ That’s your problem and your job to fix yourself. Hopefully before making such ableist comments in future. I’m 45 and nobody gives a 💩 when I spin! The world is catching up and your flagging
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Dreading tomorrow. Cousins wife is visiting. She’s an #Autism ‘expert’. Career in Neurodiversity. PhD. She likes to drop hints about my child. So much of an expert, she hasn’t noticed I’m also #Autistic OR her husband OR herself. Send strength 🤦🏽‍♀️😣
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So the pharmacist at the chemist came to me with a confused look and said ‘is this medication for you’ Me: yes Pharmacist: You don’t look like you have #ADHD Me: 😳 So not only do I not look #autistic but I don’t look #ActuallyADHD either??!!! Sigggghhhh
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What creates perpetual trauma in me as an autistic woman: 1. Constant ableism 2. Constant micro aggressions 3. People offering accommodations and supports then withdrawing them when they’re ‘ having a bad day ‘ 🧵🧵1
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Anyone else getting this resistance from psychiatrists/psychologists…. ‘You sensory issues aren’t real/it’s an over firing amygdala’ ‘ How you react to it is your choice’ Help! #Autism #AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic
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@simonharris_mbd Im sorry for 🤣🤣🤣 but I get this statement so much and it REALLY pisses me off!! But this had me in hysterics! Apparently I can’t be autistic because I wear makeup! 🤦🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️
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@wonder_cripple A psychiatrist told me I’d never work again. He said I’d be lucky to stack shelves in a supermarket for 8 hours a week. He told me to be realistic. Burnout over. I now work for the NHS and have delivered Autism training professionally to the very same man 😂
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@MagicalOverload Being cruel to homeless people and the less fortunate. Racist, homophobic, sexist, ableist. Autism Speaks supporters. People who tell me that I “have autism” and not respect my identity first. I am autistic
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@hann_mcg I once had a clinical psychologist say at work (not knowing I was autistic) “and you know… some of them are actually quite clever”
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4. Me then supposedly having to be flexible and predict they are having a bad day and be able to accept the accommodations I NEED aren’t available to me this day 5. To accept the micro aggressions thrown my way that day because the person is having a bad day 2/
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@HolSmale If we look at as… if it was Me that made this film - even as me being an autistic person - it would be wrong. There’s many intersectional ways this film was ‘wrong, wrong, wrong’ - they can’t use the ‘but she’s autistic too’ card
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@SkyCatch_Her @ZoeInTheory @Cassandraglynn For some people there may be years of generational trauma attached to that though and unless there is support for a student I don’t think it is the place to approach
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@SheraFamily @amcampbell84 First thing I did when pregnant was got myself in therapy. I was petrified of history repeating. Every therapist reassured me that would not happen and I was nothing like my parents
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6. I then call out the micro aggressions and ableism 7. I then get accused of ‘upsetting’ the person further when they are having a bad day and making them cry 3/
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8. Low and behold… the meltdown arrives 9. I am accused of being over emotional, of upsetting the ‘offender’ 10. I spend a prolonged period in recovery from meltdown
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It always amuses me when my followers decrease when I disagree with a Healthcare Professional on #Autism You do release I’m an #ActuallyAutistic Healthcare Professional don’t you?? I can see things from both sides. And my experience is valid
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@KT_NI89 @thedavidcurrie @Tesco Similar story… the NHS refused to give me compassionate leave when my mum died. As I’d had 4 days carers allowance nursing her through her last days of cancer. I raised a grievance. It was upheld in my favour THEN 5 weeks later promoted the manager that bullied me
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#ActuallyAutistic #Autism This one is for all the Mental Health staff working with people. Don’t ask autistic or possibly autistic people whether they can hear voices using closed questions. Taken literally the answer will always be a closed YES
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Asking #ActuallyAutistic - what’s your favourite colour? Please bear with me... I have a theory
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@commaficionado Lol!! Felt like 389 years! I meant 38
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11. I am accused of over reacting, being manipulative 12. Not being flexible enough 13. I should accept people have bad days #whataboutme #ActuallyAutistic End
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@nikmatdoeslife @JodieSmitten I had a teacher give a child of a family I work with… a detention…because he didn’t recover from meltdown within 3 hours… like they LEARNT in training!! WTH!! It takes me two weeks to recover from a meltdown!!
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I've sat in #NHS meetings with Healthcare Professionals where #Autistic people were mocked and belittled, othered and dehumanised. No they didn't know one of THOSE people was sat in the very room with them. A colleague 💔😥
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#Oliverscampaign I have been sent this photo of me during a Teams meeting If you see this expression on my face, KNOW that I am not happy On this occasion a very senior GP kept referring to learning disabled & #autistic people as THOSE types of people who come into my surgery
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Wanted to share this tip with #Autistic people wanting therapy in the UK on the #NHS . Your local IAPT service will try and give you CBT as it’s the cheapest. I don’t know an #Autistic person who hasn’t experienced #Trauma . You have to literally say the words … 1/
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@Goth_Gisborne Happens with my colleagues… Group of 4 conversation. Except my words are not heard. Not responded to, not acknowledged… like I’m silent and I’ve not spoken. What is this?? Is the an #AskingNeuroTypicals hashtag?? #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #autistic
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#AskingAutistics Have you ever fully 100% recovered from a burnout? I feel after each one that a chip is taken off me that never comes back and that I’m damaged further forever. Please comment with experiences and RT for reach
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@slooterman I had the copper IUD. For two years I went to my GP saying I’m in pain, it hurts, I can feel it every minute of every day. I was told I was imagining it. I eventually had it removed and felt instant relief. The GP then says ‘oh yes we hear that often! Gaslit for two years!
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@autcareandshare Woman in the supermarket: you need to sort your child’s behaviour out Me: Which medical school did you get Neuro Doctorate at? Yes she ran off
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#AskingAutistics looking for advice. How do you deal with ableism and micro aggressions from people? I am often stunned to silence when caught off guard. I need processing time to challenge it, then miss the opportunity
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#AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic I have been asked to separate myself from my Special Interests by a colleague (seems bizarre to me) My question is: Could you separate yourself from your special interest?
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#ActuallyAutistic To the late identified/diagnosed…. What would the ideal age for you to be to have discovered you were Autistic and why? #Autism
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@stimulacra_ Yes my Mum was definitely undiagnosed. She was an appalling parent who created a lot of trauma. I don’t think Autism was the main reason tho. Her Mum was also un dx and a fantastic parent to my Mum. My Mum chose to be horrible to me. And I chose to break the cycle with my child
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#ActuallyAutistic What creates Trauma in Autistic people?Being traumatised perpetually by the world and having absolutely not one person,not one service, not one professional to help you!All can’t be funded, service doesn’t exist, #Gaslighting #Autism Anybody out there listening?
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@commaficionado I told everyone I possibly could I was autistic... from 17 yo. Nobody believed me. A host of misdiagnosis and misdiagnosis. I was finally diagnosed at 389
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@Autistic_Lia Because I wear make up; because I’m a parent, because I live on my own, because i don’t look it, because I work, because I am clever, because I’m funny, because I’m caring and help others….. shall I go on?? 🤦🏽‍♀️
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@Bronaghminx @dave_democracy @MoniqueCherrie My friend paid a bill once in 1p cheques. It would have cost them more to process it!
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@LiamOMaraIV @RealCandaceO Sorry... from the UK here, so don’t really know who’s who.... but has a white guy in politics just posted a photo of KKK hood to a POC on an opposite party?? Am I getting this right?? A battle of what is this?? #baffled
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#ActuallyAutistic I’m processing something that happened Tuesday. I think I completely unmasked in a dentist appointment. I was in that much pain it was the only way I could get through the appointment, I didn’t spk, make eye contact, my body movements
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Has anyone ever been in the position of wanting to dump their special interest coz it just consumes too much of your life but you can’t let it go? #ActuallyAutistic #AskingAutistics
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Took the little one to Urgent Care today. Was dreading the usual drama of ableism. Unsympathetic staff. Refusal of Reasonable Adjustments… you know the usual for #Autistic ppl. It didn’t happen!! 🥹 Staff proudly told me they’d had Oliver McGowan training @PaulaMc007 💕
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@hann_mcg I get this on a regular too… I am also faced with regular ableism. Unintentionally I must add, but the incomprehension of what ableism actually is completely baffles me daily. Society really must do better
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@Autist4Library @karriehiggins @AutSciPerson Ahhh! Yes! Disability confident employers, until you have to take medical appointments for your disability! Happened too many times!
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@Autist_Writer @commaficionado Hard relate! Some of my most difficult times of my life are because of me revealing my diagnosis, thinking I will be accepted and adjustments made. It just leads to more damage
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@Jim_OGara Her husband is ‘just OCD and likes things in order’ oh and he’s also a mathematical genius, very kind, empathetic, placid and fun to be around. Doesn’t fit neatly in to the diagnostic criteria boxes, so can’t be Autistic *sarcasm* 🤦🏽‍♀️
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@maria_m_town @barisanhantu I work in the autism field: with adults. Children transition to adulthood! Where we encourage autistics to live as authentically as possible to ease strain on their mental health. These adults have often been forced to “sit” “kept still” “stop fidgeting”. 1/1
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Image I’ve just sent to LA #SEN team management. Explaining the frustration at lack of communication from them OR ANYBODY in health communicating with us. This journey relates to an #Autistic child. 1 year in to the #EHCP journey.
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#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #Autism So I’ve finally got the attention of commissioners on Trauma… and that CBT therapy is inappropriate for Autistic people in most cases. Can you please hit me with research backing this up guys? @Lau_Cob_ @AnnMemmott @milton_damian @Noahsasson
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@BillJDavies @stuffysour @BBCRadio4 @Autism @BBCRadio4 A quick Google search for the media advice @autism would have stopped harmful misinformation and stigma being spread. Of course this completely depends on how you value autistic people
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All of this stuff going on in the world whilst in #Autistic burnout! How am I supposed to recover? The world is going too fast! It’s like a carousel of screaming kids whizzing passed and I have no idea how to get back on it! Or if I ever can! Everything needs to slow down
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@ElaineMcgreevy Aw Elaine, she’s hard work 🤦🏽‍♀️ Ableism 101 and ‘oh Autism is soooo waaaay over diagnosed’ / ‘it’s trendy to get a diagnosis now’ 🤦🏽‍♀️ if I had the spoons for a 5 day sit down with her! But she wouldn’t listen. Not wasting my energy. It’s 2/3 days a year we see her
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#AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic My sleep has been bad all of my life. Trouble getting to sleep, but as I’ve aged the bigger problem seems to be staying asleep. If I wake for the bathroom that’s it I’m up. My brain flicks on and I’m off. Anyone else experience this?
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@auticulate I was once told by a physio that he thought that I should see a psychiatrist?!! My response: Do non Autistic people see psychiatrists for MSK pain after child birth? Him: it depends where on the spectrum they are?!! 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤣🤣😭😭 Ridiculous
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‘I’ve experienced repeated #Trauma in my life starting at xxx age with xxx’ if you’ve had CBT in the past and it’s not worked - tell them! Because if you don’t your likely to get 6 sessions of CBT that will try and change the way you …. 2/
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#AskingAutistics Looking for some resources on stimming. My friend has recently been diagnosed and going through a rough time with big movement stims and vocal stims. I want her to see some of the fab stim advocates I’ve come across, but can’t locate right now.
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@Ceri_turns @Wibblywobble1 Tbh… nobody notices 🤣 it’s only when you put the word #Autism or #Autistic in a sentence that it becomes a ‘problem’
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#ActuallyAutistic A poll ran by @AnnMemmott yesterday about A and E departments. Many of us reported bad/traumatising situations. Probably where many of us won’t return to seek healthcare again. A thread to your rights accessing healthcare as an #Autistic person #Autism 1/
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@soundcube @Richard_Autism How do we get this? My trauma is added to constantly by different people I trust. The result is trust nobody. I get met with the reason for your trauma is not valid. Move on. We have to move on. Try to move on. In defence mode. Trauma. Repeat
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Think about the #Trauma and not actually dealing with the Traum you have experienced #ActuallyAutistic I know you may have tried this before but #IAPT are now only just realising we are a revolving door until they give us the right #therapy #TherapistTwitter
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@natchan1 @EChickentender Yes! Me having to have my Reasonable Adjustments basically ‘refused’ because they forgot their lunch or they got rained on is NOT my problem! My disability is negatively affected because ‘your in a bad mood’?? I can’t trust again after this… it’s that deep!!
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@BaileyDevine20 No, unfortunately not. She knows I work in the same field. But where as my work is Neurodivergent Affirmative, hers is deficit based. If she was concerned, she could pick up the phone any of the 362 days a year to discuss. Rather than at family meals
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@AutZebra Meltdowns are a flood of stress hormones on the Para Sympathetic Nervous system (adrenaline and cortisol are the main ones). If you imagine how many times this happens in an autists lifetime. These stress chemicals cause damage and lead to cardio vascular disease
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@WhistleblowingT Maybe because they can see you causing harm? And they are being gentle in their approach with you because you think you know everything and know you won’t handle direct feedback well. I’d be grateful for such a colleague
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The ‘family’ are visiting weekend. Cousins wife is an ‘Autism specialist’ (she gets paid a lot too)in #SEND (not a diagnostician) her opinion is that #Autism is way over diagnosed. She doesn’t know and hasn’t recognised that I am #ActuallyAutistic
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Being #Autistic and being ‘employed’ is often like being back at school. Bullying, exclusion and not having needs met. Reliving and experiencing trauma. Over and over again
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@scope @YvonneBolton11 I have a hidden disability. I am EXCELLENT at my job. Unfortunately, my employer's repeated failure ro provide agreed reasonable adjustments is making working almost impossible. The main issue is something that would take 5 mins of time per week for my manager, but isn't done.
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@alainateni I’m currently delivering these courses now 😝💕
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#Autism #ActuallyAutistic Being Autistic and working in Autistic healthcare. Just one thing I want parents to do… stop telling your kids they have ‘ASD’. ‘Autistic’ is just fine. Kids don’t need to be labelled with a ‘disorder’. It’s a different neurology. Build them up! ❤️
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From an #EdPsych - Amelia is 7. She is ‘unfocused’ in class. If Amelia is focused in the morning, staff can give her, HER ear defenders in the afternoon Hhhm- what if Amelia NEEDS her ear defenders to cope with sensory in the morning? What if Amelia needs them ALL of the time?
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@StayAtHomeTrans @namekianprince This has just come up in my therapy today. I set a boundary, they cross it even after explicit instruction to not cross the boundary. They do it anyway and then it becomes my problem. Anyone else? What’s the deal with this? Why do they do this? What then is your action?
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Changed, I didn’t remain in the chair. This was an ‘autism specialist dentist’ but they were that ‘weirded’ out that they phoned me the next day to check what was going on. Basically I just unmasked. Would this have been me ALL of the time? If the world didn’t force me to act?
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@Goth_Gisborne *Nodding head* Is this not just absolutely rude behaviour though?? Like what we get accused of? I don’t see how this can be seen as anything but rude, regardless of Neurotype
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#ActuallyAutistic - Semi Speakers What sort of Reasonable Adjustments/Accomodations do you ask for at work.I’m advocating for someone who’s work don’t understand their pressure in certain situations creates the semi-speaking @AnnMemmott @ekverstania @KieranRose7 @EChickentender
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2 years
#ActuallyAutistic - anyone willing to share their experience of shutdowns and inertia?. I’m trying to differentiate and label my life experiences
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2 years
#ActuallyAutistic #AutismAcceptance Today is a screaming into the void day. Can someone else give this a sense check for me please??! To exclude the only #Autistic person in your work place from an #Autism event is bullying!! Right???
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2 years
@purrrmeowpurrr That’s why they’re a GP and not a psychiatrist. Saying that… I saw my ADHD specialist a few weeks ago who told me my Sensory issues weren’t real!! 🤦🏽‍♀️ How I kept my ADHD mouth shut I do not know!!
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2 years
@rachelmewes1982 @HollieAnneB @JadeChronically My last one wrote she saw me run up the stairs in my house? Why would I run leaving a stranger in my house. She didn’t know I had a pregnancy related issue and was on crutches. My GP wrote to them and basically called her a liar. My pelvis had separated!
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@auticulate Family meal, so not entirely possible. But I’ve enlisted support from my step Mum who will be allocating seats on arrival 😉 we’ll be sat at opposite ends of the table if all goes to plan
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5 months
@KatyElphinstone Ableism in healthcare Diagnostic Overshadowing Can't emigrate to certain countries
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4 months
@MorrisonBeth Dear teacher. The child is ‘violent’ because his Central Nervous System can’t with a class ot 30 kids Time to flip the blame!
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2 years
@lisaboswellreal @Megletmeow Damned if you do, damned if you don’t! Also in many cultures it’s the norm to sleep on floor mats, not beds. Many ND people sleep on floors - it’s called grounding. Put this in front of a Social Worker doing a ‘routine’ check and you could be in trouble
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10 months
@KateAndersonLTD @antallan Performative. I’m sorry you had to experience this 💔
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6 months
@rosiejsargent97 @TheMediator @DWPgovuk I photocopy and repeat all questions exactly as before. And I have a letter from my last specialist that states - life long condition, that will not change for the better, nor should anyone suggest trying
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2 years
#ActuallyAutistic Life as an Autistic person trying to access support for #Trauma , just creates more trauma. What do I do? Go and hide under a rock forever? If I create a Go Fund Me, will people bring me food and I’ll just go live in a tent in the wilderness??!!
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3 years
@thecrow_19 @JujuliaGrace @EveryDoctorUK Some NHS bosses are like this too! Unions are fighting for us. The description of cannon fodder fits well too. NHS bosses refusing to admit in sickness procedure meetings that we even caught Covid in their Trust buildings! Disgusting
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3 years
@commaficionado I’ll let you know when I find out, I’m in a too delicate a state to address it right now - teetering on the edge of meltdown/burnout because of the mental energy used on this and had shutdown/mute after the ‘incident’
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2 years
@steepsandstims @Noodnood966 Or ‘we’ve been very accommodating’ like I’m supposed to be grateful for you giving me the Reasonable Adjustments your required to be by law! = More Trauma
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2 years
@JodieSmitten Petrifies me every time I hear of a service being developed! ‘We’ve has Autism training’ 😩 aka …. ‘Triad of impairments next up’
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2 years
@AnnMemmott @Dr_Woodall @EmilieWigdor I wonder if they feel guilt or shame or empathy? When they see our feedback on how hurtful and pointless their research is. That would be a great study for #ActuallyAutistic folk to conduct 🤔
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2 years
I was in town early this morning. The police were just getting out of their cars as I passed a bag…it turned out to be a local homeless woman. She had died. In her 40’s. I’d spoken with her in the past. She was so unwell. Services didn’t help her. How can this be happening 😭😭
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2 years
@ZoeYork_ *We’re all friends and equals on this team* Nope not true *if you unsure of someone’s specific communication you can always ask* Nope not true either -People Will literally stamp all over you to make ‘their’ career happen - giving you absolutely no thought
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2 years
@hyperandfocused @HopeGraceFury I’m Autistic and know I definitely am (I work in the field) I also don’t experience the things on your list. The thing with the stereotypical traits is they are just that.., they can be subtle that even now being an Autistic Autism Healthcare Professional I’m still discovering
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1 year
@_curious_one @scope @Telegraph I find the word ‘woke’ is often used by people un informed people in relation to Equality and Diversity. It’s often followed by an eye roll from me
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5 months
@AnnMemmott Grief for not receiving a typical child? 🤔 I’d have been petrified if I’d been given an NT child if I’m honest. I have no frame of reference for a non autistic family member! How would that work out I wonder ?! 🤷🏽‍♀️
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1 year
@ItsEmilyKaty I’m so sorry. My story was similar. I too went to work in mental health to do my very best to help resolve the situation
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2 years
Fighting this one for us!! #ActuallyAutistic … and again it stems from the LA! ‘Autism Co-Ordinator’ for our local area stood in a lecture hall yesterday and told Y2 LD/SW course that Autism was categorically not a Disability. Full year now saying we don’t need support!! 😡
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2 years
Facts! Autistic children that need support become autistic adults that need support!! #Autism #SEND #parents #carers
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5 months
@naomicfisher It’s wild how many teachers get offended/angry/abusive towards Dr @naomicfisher posts. It seems some can’t see there may be another side to their narrative. I mean a Clinical Psychologist specialising in child Trauma couldn’t know more about school trauma?!! It’s disturbing!
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2 years
@tayl3rt0t I took part in #Autism research on visual processing a few weeks ago.. apparently the colour most #Autistic people said they didn’t like was yellow. Purple most common favourite colour
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