Emily Anne

Don’t tell me what I can’t do! – The impact of deficits thinking and disability For many years I thought I couldn’t manage staff. The reason for this was a housemate I had telling me I could be public servant but I couldn’t manage staff because I am autistic, and autistic peop…

The deficit model of disability sucks: “We get told what we can and can’t do & it mixes around in our brains and becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is based very firmly in ableism & doesn’t help anyone, least of all the person with disability.” -Yenn Purkis

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Trump calls Tesla boycott ‘illegal’ and says he’s buying one to support Musk President makes statement in support of Musk’s ‘baby’ as company shares fall hard and owners sell vehicles

Boycotting Tesla is not "illegal", as Trump claims.

The purpose of a boycott is to send a clear message: We the people have the power and choice to not give our hard-earned cash to billionaire oligarchs.

Exclusive: U.S. CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.

It has been shown again and again that vaccines do not cause autism. The CDC's proposed study is a waste of time and resources that could be spent on research that would actually help autistic people.

Tell Your Legislators: Protect Medicaid! - Autistic Self Advocacy Network Table of Contents Words to Know What is this Action Alert? What is Medicaid? What services does Medicaid help people get? What is happening with Medicaid right now? Medicaid and the Budget Process The...

Today is a Save Medicaid Call-In Day! Lots of people will be calling Congress to tell them: NO cuts to Medicaid. Please use @autisticadvocacy.org's plain language Action Alert to learn how you can talk to your legislators about protecting Medicaid:

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Nothing will ever trickle down.

March 5, 2025 In the gym of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, former and future prime minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill rose to deliver a speech.

March 5, 2025:

🔥 Rep. Al Green is not new to standing up

We’ll see the Trump administration in court.

BREAKING: The Senate declined to advance a bill that would exclude transgender student athletes from playing on sports teams that align with their gender identity.

All young people deserve the freedom to be themselves on and off the field.

DEI and Accessibility, Explained | ACLU Diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility policies…

President Trump's attacks on established civil rights programs would reverse decades of progress.

Square Canva graphic with a white background. Black informal text at the top reads, "We can support autistic kids in joyous, obsessive, atypical play. And we can back off and let autistic kids be autistic kids. -Julia Bascom" Underneath is an illustrating of a cheerful winking teddy bear with its arms raised as if for a hug. Smaller black text at the very bottom reads, "tinyurl.com/AboutFunctionalPlay and "@ThinkingAutism"

"We can look at the sensorimotor, language, cognitive, emotional & social experiences & skill building that play can provide & we can find ways to make sure that autistic kids are getting that practice in ways that work for them." @juststimming.bsky.social:
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A brief word today at the end of the sixth horrific week of Trump 2.0 https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-sermon

Spectacular!
Saturn, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and crescent moon just before sunrise.

📸 Ren Theelen

In Colorado, we support freedom, and we will not cater to a brutal Russian dictator who is no friend to America, our interests, or our future. America plays a crucial role in supporting our international allies and protecting democracy abroad; Colorado continues to stand with Ukraine.

The top 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth.

The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth.

Read that back.

Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

February 28, 2025 Today, President Donald Trump ambushed Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in an attack that seemed designed to give the White House an excuse for siding with Russia in its war on Ukraine.

February 28, 2025

Dark blue gradient background with three glowing candle illustrations near the bottom (two on right side, one on left). The ASAN logo is in between the candles. Text reads: Today, March 1st, is Disability Day of Mourning. On Disability Day of Mourning, we remember those in our community lost to filicide. In the past five years, over 542 people with disabilities have been murdered by their parents, relatives, or caregivers. We hold vigils on March 1st to commemorate the lives of those we've lost and to draw attention to these injustices. Join us tonight for our virtual vigil.

Today is Disability Day of Mourning, when our community remembers disabled people lost to filicide. Join us for our virtual vigil tonight at 6pm ET: youtu.be/MXGAnBRM5zM

The Anti-Vaccine Movement : Throughline The alleged link between vaccines and autism was first published in 1998, in a since-retracted study in medical journal The Lancet. The claim has been repeatedly disproven: there is no evidence that v...

Sigh: Learn about the rotten roots of the modern anti-vaccine movement, and of the misinformed and skewed fears that still fuel it – from the fallout of a mishandled polio vaccine, to mercenary former doctor Andrew Wakefield's fully discredited autism "study". @npr.org:

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Action Alert: Stop McMahon’s confirmation! - Autistic Self Advocacy Network The president’s pick for the new Secretary of Education is Linda McMahon. The President is trying to destroy the Department of Education, and nominating McMahon is part of his plan. Normally, we…

Anxious about calling your Senators? Offices are closed for the weekend — now is a great time to call and urge your Senators to vote NO on McMahon for Secretary of Education before the confirmation on Monday, March 3!

Child Dies from Measles in Texas as Disease “Comes Roaring Back” Amid Anti-Vaccine Disinformation An unvaccinated child has died of measles, Texas officials announced Wednesday, the first death from measles in the United States in a decade. The child’s death in a hospital in Lubbock, in West Texas,...

Child Dies from Measles in Texas as Disease "Comes Roaring Back" Amid Anti-Vaccine Disinformation

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Yes, you did label people when your were younger too…

Just instead of Autism/ADHD/etc., they were labelled “disruptive”, “stupid”, “difficult”, “problems”, and all sorts of slurs (even more than they are today).

ASAN’s Equity and Strategic Plans - Autistic Self Advocacy Network Since the beginning of 2020, ASAN has been engaged in a formal process to examine our internal structures and practices, and develop a plan to embed equity and racial justice in our work and…

All autistic people need to be included in our advocacy. Our equity plan explains the steps ASAN will take to center anti-racism and intersectionality in everything we do.

Trickle up economics.

Donald Trump has reportedly spent an estimated $10.7 million worth of taxpayer money to play golf since his inauguration.

This is happening as Head Start programs have struggled to access previously approved federal funding due to the Trump admin's illegal impoundment.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Social Media and Effective Debunking. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Social media is a powerful tool for our community to connect, organize, and educate, but we need to be prepared to combat misinformation! Misinformation is when people share things that are not true.…

Join us for Social Media and Effective Debunking on February 20th at 4-5:30pm ET! We’ll talk about using social media to connect, organize, and educate and how to combat misinformation — register today!

Trump handed massive tax cuts to the rich in 2017. Now he's planning even more cuts.

How are Trump and MAGA Republicans planning to pay for them?

By making it harder for millions of Americans to access Medicaid, food stamps, and other federal programs.

Trickle up economics.

What We Believe - Autistic Self Advocacy Network Our Motto: What is “Nothing About Us Without Us”?“Nothing About Us Without Us” means that autistic people need to be involved whenever autism is discussed. When non-autistic people make decisions…

ASAN works to make sure people understand that autism isn’t a bad thing. It's a developmental disability—and disability is a natural part of human diversity.

The fight for trans rights is a fight for liberation.

We will never back down.