#AUTISTIC

After watching James Corden play a gay man in Prom I had a discussion with my roommate in which i became an ardent oppositionist to "outsourcing" underrepresented roles in movies.
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Let’s have a chat about hidden/invisible/not-obvious disabilities. I’m going to come from my position as someone with various mental health conditions and a couple of hidden physical ones as well
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It’s time to talk about casual ableism. I saw this post by http://preen.ph  on Instagram and want to share it because it’s important that we all unlearn harmful behavior. Ableism
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1/ Why is the age gap trope so popular in WLW?(random thoughts when I should be writing something else)#lesfic#Romance#wlw#agegap 2/ Age gap romances are a popular trope but also a
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I was thinking about trust this morning and the faith we have in the dark early hours that the sun will rise again. As a child I sometimes imagined myself
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The assumption behind registries is that police don’t know they’re responding to mental health crisis calls or dealing with someone with a developmental disability when they “accidentally” kill. Which is
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This is really good and worth doing with the caveat that I don't like the unexamined use of 'cancel culture', since it proposes that any cautioning or reproval falls within
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Indigenous artists! Parents too!The youngest has watched me create art for sale for some time now. He's recently gotten into resin art and sold a piece to a friend. Since
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Flat affect and autismFlat affect is a trait (related, but not exclusive, to autism) where your physical emotional expression is reduced. Maybe your smile isn't smiley enough. Maybe you speak
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We need to talk about the complete debacle that is @PHLschools ESY. It hasn't even started yet and it's already failing students and families in multiple ways. cc: @PHLschoolboard @edlawcenterpa
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Whilst members of parliament like Matt Hancock and Jeremy Hunt praise Simon Wessley today for his #MentalHealthAct reforms for autistic people, can I remind you that this is the same
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Desperate to know how her autistic son Ryan was coping Sharon dialled the telephone number for the ward again, struggling to understand why she couldn’t get through – she had
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Thread of some of the signs from my childhood that I was neurodivergent.They’re coming from an #ActuallyAutistic and #ADHD person unlike ‘official’ lists of traits.(I say ND not just
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lrt: yeah im autistic and often hyper-literal when im tiredthere's nothing confusing about "abolish the police" as a rallying cry outside of emotional whiplash if you're still invested in the
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I have a complex communication disability (my communication difficulties are caused by multiple disabilities, not just one - that makes other people knowing how to help VERY difficult because they
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How to know transwomen are not women: they aren’t concerned with expanding women’s healthcare and birth control coverage for women, they don’t prioritize protecting children (they want to live through
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