One of the hardest things about being autistic, for me, is never truly knowing if I'm being reasonable when someone suggests that I'm not. It feels isolating, like I'm the only one who sees something. Especially when I have pretty solid reasoning and the other person isn't open. #ActuallyAutistic
If you know an autistic person, you’re probably aware that April is “Autism Awareness Month.” What you might not know, however, is that April is a month of pure hell for #ActuallyAutistic folx.
The concept originated in 1970, when we understood a lot less about autism than we do today. Since then, the month has been co-opted by groups like Autism Speaks for fundraising. But what neurotypical people don’t realize is that the vast majority of these groups are actually
considered to be hate-groups by the #ActuallyAutistic community. So much of the discourse and dialogue around autism has centered NT people. When you consider NTs to be the ‘norm’ and NDs to be outside of that norm, the discussion veers toward “how do we help them be normal?”
Autistic people will have to yet again suffer a month of being talked about by people who don’t think that our opinion matters. Misinformation will spread like wildfire despite autistic people trying their hardest to fight it. Companies and organizations will trot out the color blue and their puzzle pieces to show how much they "care”
Another fun fact: the puzzle piece is not the symbol that #ActuallyAutistic people identify with. In fact, if you see an organization use a puzzle piece as part of its logo or website, you can be 100% guaranteed that they’re on the wrong side of autism. So yes, April is going to be hard for us. /8
Does anyone ever pass by empty office buildings and look inside, longing for the ability to sit a couple of hours sitting in traffic and pay an outrageous amount to park, just to spend 8 hours in an office with other people a few days each week?
This is the hill I will die on: accessibility shouldn’t be a department. It should be ingrained in everything that a company does and people should be held accountable for it.
As a Jew whose great grandparents died in the Holocaust, please don't invoke the Holocaust as a reason to give carte blanche to the Israeli government. It's deeply offensive to me. Two wrongs don't make a right.
I love how my health insurance gets to overrule my doctors in deciding what is medically necessary for me. It's not like they're financially incentivized to decide that things aren't "medically necessary" when they are, or something... 🙃
@AutisticManager My Dr yesterday wanted to get me a referral to a nutritionist, but my insurance says under no circumstances will they cover nutrition services. I have to pay out of pocket as a cash patient.
I like being able to see where the delivery truck is on the map. That way I can see how many times it drives by within half a block of my house but doesn't stop!
Fuck the GOP. Fuck your annoying neighbor who says he’s “socially liberal, fiscally conservative”. Fuck the guy who likes to play devil’s advocate at work. Fuck every last one of them. Just like they did with student loans and affirmative action, we will not forgive. We will not forget. 🤬