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Alice Wong is the reason I did what I did for as long as I could, and her words were there, too, when I stopped being able to. Hers is the first work I give to anybody looking to learn more about disabled life.

we can't help allistics dismantle our systemic oppression when the allistics don't even know we're oppressed;

I don't know how to fix this because allistics have severe listening impairment

allistic saviourship causes allistics to think we can't possibly be oppressed because we're little children being "helped"!

allistics don't know that they're all passively genocidal towards Autistic people because they think we're being "saved"

most people are familiar with the concept of sexism or racism but don't seem to understand the concept of Autistic people suffering from severe systemic oppression;

this needs to change

FAFO

What? A man of fighting age like him?

a crocheted gnome is knitting a ball of yarn . Alt: A tiny knitted gnome is knitting red hearts from a ball of wool. Each heart floats away as it's finished.

ADHD is rad
Autism's NOT blue
To all my ND folks
Happy Valentine's to you
💖

I remember when Labour used to talk like this.

Black history is also neurodivergent history Highlighting Instagram accounts that enlighten and inform about the Black neurodivergent and disabled experience.

There is never an excuse for murdering a child. Coverage of these heinous acts should focus on the victims whose lives were ended by their parents & not pity for the parents—nor on feeding the lie that disabled people are better off dead. By @ejwillingham.bsky.social:

buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...

They'll tell us about "safeguards" as if that means anything.

No matter how many so-called safeguards exist, disabled people can never be protected from an ableist society (including many members of medical professions) making judgements on lives it doesn't understand or value.

Funny how people claim to be "anti establishment" while siding with billionaires against the most vulnerable. If your "rebellion" involves punching down at immigrants instead of looking up at the tax avoiding tech giants and media moguls hoarding the wealth, you aren't a rebel. You’re a shield. 1/4

Black history is also neurodivergent history Highlighting Instagram accounts that enlighten and inform about the Black neurodivergent and disabled experience.

Black Histoy is American History. Black History is Disability History. Black History is also Neurodivergent History. buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...

The Blair Witch Project: some teens go camping in the woods and make a film about how nature should be left undisturbed, and the local billionaire decides not to cut the trees down for a shopping mall after all

Reminding everyone in UK. The
Ombudsman has told universities to be mindful of ‘limitations’ of detection tools and to consider if they are biased. Equality Act hammering these types of cases.
Reminding everyone it's trash guys this catch them tech 🙄

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/student...

Thanks so much for sharing @autisticrealms.bsky.social 💛 Your work on burnout and monotropism has been incredibly influential in my own practice, so it really means a lot.

Thank you also for amplifying it, I hope it reaches those who will most benefit 💛

Here's the thing with AI et al. LLMs were, and potentially still could be, an interesting and even genuinely useful technology. They were chugging along fine in the background for some years before this hype train started, and I can see why early innovators feel aggrieved that everyone hates it now.

I don't *care* if it might actually be useful. I don't *care* if I'm unfairly dismissing a whole gamut of technological innovation as corrosive slop. The burden of proof is on the defenders, not on me. There is more than enough evidence to convict already.

You cannot separate the technology from the ways in which it has been deployed to, in seemingly every facet of life, make society measurably worse. It's killing us. One does not admire the sharpness of a murderer's knife as it stabs us. One does not critique the stitching on the executioner's hood.

This, exactly. Thank you.

"The purpose of a system is what it does" - and what LLMs are doing *right now* is simply not something I can accept. The potential is irrelevant at this point.

It doesn't matter how good the intentions are of the person trying to justify its use. It's too late.

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."

No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded.

A Systematic Review of Autistic Adults’ Experiences of Anxiety From a Qualitative Perspective - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - Many autistic adults experience anxiety in ways that are qualitatively unique when compared to the experiences of non-autistic adults. In this...

Today in How to Make Autistic People's Lives Easier: Reduce uncertainty! Autistic anxiety—which can be debilitating—often happens because of unexpected changes or transitions, or unpredictability in social environments or daily routines.

link.springer.com/article/10.1... #autism #neurodiversity

Increasing autism rates "may just be kids with mild forms getting diagnosed"...OR:
- decades of annual autism awareness day/week/month so we RECOGNISE IT NOW
- realising girls, women, older folks can also be autistic
- ditto for more diverse ethnic groups
It would be amazing if rates hadn't gone up!

Without any new pics, describe your gender

Well, then.

... point to a place in world history, in which we had already defined modern fascism... and find one piece of not-dreadful fascist artistic output. Just one. (No, not that goddam KKK film, particularly.)

I mean, as far as I can tell,
Maga doesn't actually *like* art or creativity at all. It goes entirely against everything they believe.

How, therefore, could they possibly make anything beautiful?

"What’s important is for disabled people to understand that their situation is political, and for caregivers to understand that their situation is political, and that the same system of ableism that’s entrenched in every care policy we have is entrapping both people." – @lauramauldin.bsky.social

Absolutely this. It seemed for a while that people were beginning to understand that autism isn't a medical issue. The active attempts at reversal of this are terrifying.

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We have a few fully funded spaces available on our Neuro-Affirming Discovery Programme for 18-24 year olds starting 18th Feb.

Register your interest here:
thrivingautistic.org/discovery-pr...

When people complain that "There is an autism epidemic", they're not showing you their knowledge of medical science, they are merely demonstrating their ignorance of modern diagnostic methods and cultural bias.