Cléa Knight

How many people know that most non-⚪️ cultures had at least one more gender in addition to male and female... and that norm was stamped out by 🇬🇧 invasion of these places?

India sure did. Then these backward-ass Victorians forced their primitive gender binary on us, and we haven't gotten back since.

regardless of today’s outcome, it is morally indefensible to have a court ruling on something that affects a population, using evidence and findings that did not consult a single member of that population.

This is now peer reviewed and out in Neurodiversity - my first published PhD output!

📰 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Does anyone know of any neuroaffirming psychotherapists offering face to face sessions in the Northumberland (UK) area? For a woman in her 60s undiagnosed likely autistic and ADHD, but going through treatment for breast cancer.

i feel personally victimised by this post

1st March 2025. Disability Day of Mourning.

Remembering the millions who die every year due to political decisions, hatred and discrimination. Never forgotten.

Today I will be remembering and then get back to fighting the open eugenics of the majority of governments, politicians and institutions.

that’s so important, thank you for sharing!

i’m putting together some training about working with autistic colleagues and/or autistic people in the community (e.g. for social workers, teachers etc.) - what’s the number one thing you’re tired of explaining? #askautistics

Kanye West announces he has been diagnosed with autism Rapper and fashion designer says he was misdiagnosed as bipolar in podcast appearance where he also opines on the Drake-Kendrick beef and new album Bully

😒 something for him to blame his shitty behavior on, because he said his ‘symptom’ started after a car accident 😒♾️ #autismnews #autismacceptance #autismawareness #autisticman #autistic #autism #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/f...

Poster advertising a research project which needs participants. The researcher is looking for biological autistic parents of autistic children. There is a scannable QR code which links to where you can register as a participant. The poster is yellow and blue with black text. There are multi coloured raised hands at the bottom. There is a University of Portsmouth logo in the top left corner.

New interview-based study for autistic parents of autistic children (who realise your autism after your child's). Options include Zoom, Teams (for video, audio-only, or text-only), e-mail or face to face (drivable distance from Horsham, West Sussex). To register interest: research.sc/participant/...

Read this whole thread. This is why I never give training about masking without embedding intersectional experiences. You can’t untangle and separate these experiences from one another, they are complex and nuanced and multifaceted.

I’m watching dawson’s creek and even though I rewatch it every January, some scenes still just hit me so hard. not me sobbing at Joey asking her dad if he loves her 😭

"Neurodivergent conditions" gives me the ick. It's creeping into everything, incl. policy. It's like NTs needed a shorthand to make their lives easier while appearing to be neuroaffirming, so they co-opted neurodivergent without any understanding of either the neurodiversity movement or paradigm.

I’m open to changing my mind on this, but does anyone else really hate the term ‘neurospicy’? I find it invalidating and infantilising. Anyone else?

I have one new year’s resolution and that’s to start wordle with a different word each day rather than always using AUDIO.

Being disabled is walking the tightrope of proving you're competent enough to matter and disabled enough to require support

yeah, it’s her game!

a screenshot of the score page from the app ‘Two Words’ showing my score of 738 to susiebot’s score of 711. It shows average scores of 82 and 79, longest words of ‘medicate’ and ‘gangrel’, highest turn scores of 115 and 126, and overall wins draws and losses of 1-0-4.

I beat susiebot!

Yes, to suspire is to utter a deep sigh. It’s all about breath, as are ‘inspire’ (to breathe life into an idea/person), ‘expire’ (breathe out), ‘perspire’ (to breathe through), ‘conspire’ (to breathe together), and ‘spirit’, because the ancients believed the spirit was breathed into the body.

ok so BBC iPlayer has just put up a looooaad of old Eastenders christmas episodes dating as far back as 1986 and I am so here for it. this is the only christmas entertainment I need this december.

I’d argue that inherent implies the problem is within the individual and doesn’t take into account different social contexts. it’s great you’ve discovered the double empathy problem, it’s a really good way of understanding autism within the context of the social model of disability

i’m assuming they mean in general, not as part of what you might learn in french. expressions that don’t convey their literal meaning can be difficult for many autistic people to understand because we tend to take language literally

great, thank you so much!

thanks for pointing me to that resource. i’ve covered neurodiversity and double empathy and will touch on monotropism. also thinking about practical suggestions that the teachers can implement straight away, although this is always nuanced and needs careful thinking

these are great ones, thank you so much!

thanks for sharing!

hey #autsky i’m putting together a short presentation for teachers of adult french courses about autism affirming practice.

what are the top things you would want a teacher for an adult class to know for improved access and to get the most out of learning?

#actuallyautistic

It would be really lovely if I could get through one non-fiction health related book without reading “and THIS is the cause of childhood autism spectrum disorders, ADD and ADHD”

"Autistic people are more likely to experience abuse within a relationship than non-autistic people.

The guide, written by a team including academics and autistic advocates, is designed to help autistic people recognize the signs of abusive or unhealthy relationships."

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