Tag: Autism
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SHARE: “#AutisticWhileBlack: Against The Erasure of Ron’Niveya O’Neal”
Are we… the #ActuallyAutistic social media community… erasing the #AutisticWhileBlack community…?
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☝️✌️👉ShortShort: Stumbling into #AutisticJoy… Backwards
Most folks feel they achieve their best in their youth. Then slowly decline as they age. Not #AutisticAF me…
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Millennial Friends: You. Are. Right… Question EveryTHING. (Transcript)
Podcast here… Millennial culture is my favorite on Earth. And autistic Millenials…? I identify with them like no others. I talk with autistics who are staring at turning 30… or 40… every day. Smart. Educated. Eyes wide open…Yet bewildered. Uncertain. Some think they’ve done something wrong… but can’t figure out what. But some are… mad.…
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On #AutisticJoy, Personality & Being in the Flow… s1e2
Today, I’m hot on the trail of #Autistic Joy. What it is. Why you want it. How to get it. Podcast, with transcript. Play now: click on arrow at left — Download: 3 dots at right.
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Training Cops NOT to Shoot Autistic Folks…? DOES. NOT. WORK.
Iowa City feels good about itself this morning… The autists who live there shouldn’t…
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Link Roundup 21/2/7… Autism, Politics, Pop Culture
Tips? Suggestions…? To the Editor… Great thread… Great Twitter account… White Supremacy on the socialist left?? Unconscious. Or simply ignored… 💨 Overview of cannabis for testing autism symptoms #Autism as defense in Australian child porn case. 👶 Ever feel like a “caring” fellow adult treats autistic you like a child…? UK government calls for review…
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Dear Autist: Forgiving Your Family? NOT a Cosmic Rule…
Forgiving abusers… as much as SOME therapists, pop psychologists, and self-help gurus insist on it… Is NOT a Cosmic Rule.
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Opinion: Autists Need Safety from Cops… Not ID Papers
We autists aren’t the problem. Killer cops are.
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Autism in Art: America Enters the Bardö, Trump Departs
In Tibetan Buddhism, a “bardö” is the intermediate gap we experience between death and rebirth… Said to be, for most, a foggy, confusing, dreamlike state… lost… abandoned… fear… desire… hope… The world has been obsessed with Donald J. Trump for 5 years. Nervously checking our phones dozens of times a day… What has he done…
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Groton City Council Takes Autistic Safety Seriously… But… Won’t Be Enough.
No human services should be delivered by someone packing a gun… There’s no excuse for deadly mistakes… delivering human services.
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Coming Out Autistic: Chat with an Old Friend
Mebbe the hardest, weirdest thing about coming out autistic? Telling folks who knew me many years ago. Before ANY of us figured out I’m #ActuallyAutistic…
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50 Shades of Autistic Thinking, Pt 2: Verbal Processing
What could be more basic to human experience than… Speech…? Mebbe, just mebbe… I’m not precisely… human.
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Music that Rocked My World: A Damn-Near Autism-Free Journey
What pop music changed your world…?Autistic. Or not.
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Autism in Poetry: It Burns
I’ve seen the fiercest hearts of my generation burn themselves alive, lips wrapped around a pipe… Family is complex for this autistic.
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I’m Autistic. I Fear Cops….
I fear every police officer & cop car I see. And in 21st Century America… I see them everywhere. So I bought a Medical Alert Bracelet. To protect myself from “helping” First Responders…
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