Ginny

I've been thinking about the whole 'don't make Autism your whole personality thing', and quite frankly, f*ck people who say that, because it was the one part of my identity which was always actively denied me, so I will always embrace it and Autistic culture where I can and where it is safe to do so

Worst #autismacceptancemonth ever 🥴🫠♾️ #actuallyautistic #autismacceptance #autismawareness #autisticadult #autism #autistic #neurodivergent

📣THIS🔥IS🚨BAD
#actuallyautistic #autisticnotless

From someone who is actually autistic, these are not true! Yet, we still hear the myths!

Dr: does your head hurt most of the time?

Autistic person: [thinks: well it hurts 3 days out of 7 every week which is clearly not normal, but since it's only 3/7 it's technically not "most of the time"] no :)

Dr: well, then it's probably nothing!

Autistic person: okay :) [dies from brain tumor]

Omg so this

This is not normal

Autistic people have always been here.

You institutionalized us. Imprisoned us. Assaulted us. Lobotomized us. Killed us. Left us for dead. Abandoned us.

We never left.

We aren’t going anywhere.

A lot of people are going to die from this

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

Yuck

Join us in solidarity—fly your American flag upside down, the traditional signal of distress and extreme emergency.

I despise the term "autism mom." you are not a mom of the world's autism. you are a mom with an autistic child. or you are an autistic mom with an autistic child.

a group of people standing around a statue with the words 4-u 4-u 4-u 4-u ALT: a group of people standing around a statue with the words 4-u 4-u 4-u 4-u

We are revolting children
Living in revolting times
We sing revolting songs
Using revolting rhymes
We'll be revolting children
'Til our revolting's done
And we'll have the Trunchbull bolting
We're revolting!

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

said well here:

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

What is it about watching a 4-year-old tell a 78-year-old with the maturity of a 2-year-old to "shut up and go away" that is SO deeply satisfying?

If you support any of this, you’re honestly just a terrible person. People’s lives are being upended and destroyed. For every 1% increase in unemployment, 40,000 people die—yet some are celebrating.

Cosmo and Wanda

👇🦋💪

What on earth

Autistic masking: making sure everyone else is comfortable instead of yourself

#autism #AuDHD

Just because you find that life's not fair, it
Doesn't mean that you just have to grin and bear it
If you always take it on the chin and wear it
Nothing will change
- Matilda

I don't think my mental health can deal with my current job situation. But finding a job is so difficult and now with all the disability stuff it seems scarier. I did submit an application for a job I think I'd like. And I can't Xanax my way through my current situation because it makes me tired

hello this is your semi-daily reminder that for the most part Autistics say what they mean, mean what they say, and don't generally let things "go without saying". secret agendas are unlikely, assumptions are often unnecessary, if you have questions please ask them AND expect direct answers kthnxbye

When you combine an autistic sense of hyper empathy, feeling everyone's emotions, with alexithymia, not being able to understand what you are actually feeling, along with a heightened sense of social justice, inability to switch off and need to fix everything, the world is a nightmare at the moment

A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.