If you can recommend any books / art / music by Autistic people, I'd love to hear about it.
If there already is a resource for Autistic culture, I'd love to know about it. If there isn't one, I'll consolidate what I find here & elsewhere on my website / blog.
@ferngirl@actuallyautistic I’d like (a bit facetiously) to submit that this video is part of autistic culture. A 10-minute monologue on whether it’s right to rate 10 out of 10 to a musical album if you skip any songs 😄
@ferngirl@actuallyautistic Hannah Gadsby is one of my favorite Autistic creatives. Their standup as well as their memoir, "10 Steps to Nanette," are so good.
if you want to buy a book of poetry from an Autistic poet, check out my profile :) that poetry isnt exactly about being Autistic, but my next book will be. My work as a Spoken Word poet is also on instagram at @sean_poets - some reels and excerpts are there
thank you for asking this question! definitely saving this whole thread :)
Also recommend Emmy Sanders, Autistic author, who writes MM romance, and specifically her most recent book "To Catch a Firefly" which features an Autistic MC.
Also Lindsay Buroker, very successful Autistic author, who writes Steampunk and Fantasy, most recently very snarky Urban Fantasy. She also ran the SFF Marketing Podcast.
@actuallyautistic ok wow thank you everyone for the responses - and feel free to keep them coming. I'm making a list, and will put it all together as a resource sometime in the near future. Also, if you're an Autistic writer / musician / artist don't be shy, you can share your name / book / site.
@ferngirl@actuallyautistic Erika Heidewald does a variety of things creatively. Has an podcast called Aliens Watching Reality TV from two autistics POV. Outspoken autistic.
@ferngirl@actuallyautistic also…openly autistic comedians:
Fern Brady did a really funny dark humor podcast called Wheel of Misfortune taking about ‘trauma from a humorous lens). Still going, only she’s not on it anymore.
Hannah Gadsby has both her comedy specials and very interesting and 2 funny art history series. She studied art history.
And Joe Wells. His whole "I am Autistic" show (on YouTube) and Neurodivergent Moments podcast are available via https://linktr.ee/joewellscomic
It also has a link to read more about his book "Wired Differently" which is a very good introduction to many autistic and otherwise neurodivergent people of note.
@ferngirl@actuallyautistic does fiction count? Ada Hoffmann is autistic, and their The Outside trilogy, and their short stories (and probably their other series I haven't read yet) are abundant with neurodiverse characters.
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