Access Togetherness

We made some awesome pizzas at our last food group. Check these out!

Join us this Saturday for our second Food Group social!

We'll provide the ingredients to create healthy meals together while discussing nutrition.

Afterwards, we'll enjoy a dinner party with friends from the community.

Atlanta disabled adults are welcome! Come eat with us!

This Saturday, January 11th we will host FOOD GROUP at our home with myself and a chef from the community! We will be making pizzas with cauliflower crusts and a wide variety of topping choices so that we can all share in the process of choosing foods from all the food groups to make balanced meals.

Today we took someone to get signed up for Marta mobility and get some public transportation training! #ridemarta #martamobility

Today is #givingtuesday and we are hoping for $500 in donations today! Will you click our bio to see what resonates with you?

Tag someone, share with someone you know who cares about disabled adults in our community! This is also a call for collaborators and partners as we finally become a 501c3!

Making the clarion call for book research: I'm looking to interview #ActuallyAutistic LGBTQ+ people to ask how their gender identity intersects with their autism. Let me know if you'd be interested in speaking. EMGarcia2009@gmail.com.

I am £97 short for rent and it has to be paid tomorrow.

If just 2 people sign up for annual subscriptions, I'm covered!

Thanks for all the follows! I’m still new here and I’m still figuring this app out. Nevertheless the Access Togetherness family appreciates the warm welcome. #autismsky #nonprofit #disabilityjustice

Toolkit for autistic people | Menu for support Toolkit. A menu for supporting autistic audults intimate lives

Check out the Supporting Autistic Adults' Intimate Lives (SAAIL) team's latest guidance and tool for professionals

Starting Conversations to Support Intimate Lives: A guide for social care professionals

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#AutRes #Autism

Can Social Skills Ever Be Neuro-Affirming? Column 1: WHAT THEY USUALLY DO: Shame ND ways of thinking, feeling, playing, and socializing; Frame NT ways as the right way and ND ways as the wrong way; Target ND kids; Aim to assimilate NDs into neuronormative culture; Tell NDs they have to do this in order to make and keep friends; Train people to worry more about what others think of them than their own wants and needs; Teach masking; Set NDs up to now know what real friendship is and get taken advantage of. Column 2: WHAT THEY COULD DO: Validate ND ways of thinking, feeling, playing, and socializing; Frame ND ways and NT ways as equally valid; Teach both NTs and NDs about each other; Present it as an optional way to more safely navigate neuronormative culture; Tell NDs that true friends will like them for who they are; Promote self-acceptance and self-advocacy skills; Teach ABOUT masking and the risks that come with it; Help NDs spot the difference between real friends and fake friends

#autism #autistic #actuallyautistic #adhd #audhd #neurodivergent #socialskills #neuroaffirming

Social media reminds me of a big popularity contest, while everyone pretends it isn't, even as they engage in it and perpetuate it. Weird.

I can't unsee it. I am so different this way.

The quiet forest beckons.

#autistic #AuDHD #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic

Graphic with text at the top stating Autism Books by Autistic Authors. Published November 2024. In the centre is a collage of book covers, tilted on an angle. Each book is listed in detail in the subsequent graphics and text. At the bottom is the text The Autism Books by Autistic Authors Project @AutisticBooks. In the bottom corner is a small logo with colourful books and a small plant either side.

November 2024 Book Releases Recap!

Here are the books about autism, or with Autistic main characters, written by Autistic authors, published this month!

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#AutismBooks #AutisticAuthor #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #BookSky

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Donate to Access Togetherness launch for disabled adults!, organized by Davey Swinton Hi! I’m Davey! I’m starting a new charitable organization called Access … Davey Swinton needs your support for Access Togetherness launch for disabled adults!

Help us reach our goal of raising $3000 for #GivingTuesday gofund.me/11f1a086

Three longtime friends get to watch a free Joan Jett concert in the park together on a sunny day.

#brookhavencherryblossomfestival #brookhaven #disabledcommunity #IDD #intellectualdisabilities #joanjett #community

Human connection is a basic need for all of us, but so many disabled adults lack access to social engagement and often don't get to leave the house or have friends. Instead, we create a household full of peers that makes its own plans for community involvement.

Offering support where someone has access needs is part of our mission! A supported life is a free life!

Finding jobs for people with disabilities is much harder than just job hunting, and we work very hard to locate people who will hire them and make the connections in communities so we can offer this when the state funded resources are not successful.

Having a job is so important for many people with disabilities. It provides structure, gives a sense of purpose, is a reason for social engagement, and allows people to make money to support themselves and be independent.

#disabilityawareness #jobhunting #accessibility

Introducing Access Togetherness!

Our nonprofit exists to provide affordable housing, support services, and life skills training for disabled adults seeking community living with their peers.

Follow us to watch what we do!