#Meltdowns

Pete Wharmby

commaficionado

Hello. Are you #autistic? No? Cool. Now then, here are a few guidelines for how to work, play and live with #autistic people. I hope they prove useful and believe

Sean Casten

SeanCasten

Today's @GOP: Torn between those who advocate for intolerance and hatred and those who see is purely as a wedge issue to win an election. Almost none willing to simply

NortherlyRose 🌈 💙

NortherlyRose

Getting an autism diagnosis late in life introduced me to a number of new concepts: meltdown, shutdown, burnout and sensory overload. Applied to my life retrospectively these made perfect sense,

FukushimaInFORM

FukushimaInFORM

1/n Pay attention to what #expert #scientists have to say about the threats to the health of iconic #Pacific species like #orca and #salmon. Non-experts tend to misinterpret scientific findings

Pete Wharmby

commaficionado

Holidays as an autistic person: a thread on why holidays are possibly evil but probably worth it in the end. /1 Let's start with holidays abroad. Now, I love the

Bryan

NuclearBryan

#NuclearEnergy Someone was watching the HBO Chernobyl mini-series and commenting on parts of it. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend you do. I assured him that US reactors

Alex Zelasi

AZelasi

God damnit. I just posted yesterday about not seeing quite as much ableism as usual...and now I've seen a bunch of allistic parents complaining about their autistic kids being "nightmares",

Emily♡

ItsEmilyKaty

Why is there such a high prevalence of mental health problems among autistic people and what can we do about it? - a thread. /1 Research shows that 80% of

Emily♡

ItsEmilyKaty

Hypo and hyper sensitivity in autistic people - a thread. /1 Autistic's tend to be either hypo or hyper sensitive.Hyposensitivity is under-responsiveness to stimuli. So someone might not be able

ranpo elitist & 𝙧𝙣𝙙𝙯 overlord 🔍♥🤕

rchimedesu

Ranpo is autistic-coded and here's why: a thread a note before starting: op is autistic. i know what i'm talking about, so please don't try to 'neurotypical-splain' my own neurodivergency

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

I'm slightly obsessed with this "#PenceCard" nonsense which is like the Platonic ideal of the current level of Trump election stealing conspiracy theory nonsense. Here's a thing about the United

Emmanuel Mketu

EMketu

There are no football clubs in Kenya despite what may people assume. What we have is a simulacrum of football clubs.If most of us understood that - we would have

autistictic

autistictic

CW: food„Everyone can go vegan!“A very personal thread.I‘m not vegan.I‘m not vegetarian.I‘m not even pescatarian.I eat „everything“...though in reality I eat a very limited diet.That’s because I‘m autistic.Not because I

Kirsty H

Kirsty_H220

Ive read some negative comments regarding the parents of #autistic children lately. As a parent of an autistic child & many others who advocate and do everything humanly possible for

NortherlyRose 🌈 💙

NortherlyRose

People sometimes ask me if it was worth getting an autism diagnosis so late in life. Two years on I’m convinced it was, and this is why. #Thread #AllAutistics #AutisticElders#OlderAutistics#ActuallyAutistic

AutisticSciencePerson

AutSciPerson

Thread for parents of autistic kids:I answer parents' questions on facebook commonly, and a lot of them are the same.Here are the most common questions I see from parents, answered

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