I can’t stress this enough - especially if you post regularly, have a large following or have got yourself on the radar of right wing extremists….

CHECK THE LISTS YOU ARE ON REGULARLY.

Go to Lists.
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Autistics ‘we don’t want or need ABA’

ABAers ‘we want to keep our science and our jobs so we’ll just keep rebranding-

But like we’ll definitely listen to your community’ 🙄

This is great if it really is so! 👍🏻

'Autism spectrum' doesn't mean that some autistics are a bit autistic and some are very autistic. Here's a good explanation. #Autism

Autism is a spectrum. This does not mean that everyone is a bit autistic. It means that every autistic person experiences different combinations of autistic traits and each to different intensities. It is non-linear and our ability to cope with different things varies day to day.

It's been a while since I've said if you're strongly against autism self-diagnosis/identification, go ahead and hit that unfollow button, you don't support me. #ActuallyAutistic

Autistic Lexicon

Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)

An *informal* diagnosis from the 90s describing “sensitive” people that didn’t conform to understandings of Autism at the time.

HSP is now indistinguishable from being an Autistic person.

Here is the Venn diagram of traits:

I really think there has been a lot of awareness raised about low mood and anxiety the last few years. Is it not time we moved on to raising awareness and sharing lived experience from people with more severe mental illness? We are constantly left out of these conversations.

Psychosis is terrifying.
Why anyone would think it might be best left untreated is beyond my comprehension.
This 👇is the reality of psychosis and why medication is so vital:

Reposting this account I wrote about Eva, one of my three good friends who took their lives at young ages as a result of bipolar disorder.
Bipolar disorder has a very high risk of suicide, and can result in tragedies such as this if left untreated, or if treatment is abandoned.

It's like badly heated sauna on the bus, as we say. No water. Pretty hard to deal with. Hate being hot anywhere else but in an actual sauna 😫 #ActuallyAutistic

F'ing #RSD

Samaritans Centre for Mental Health BBC News (UK) Office for National Statistics (ONS) louis appleby Local Government Association (LGA) YoungMinds Black Mental Health Manifesto We need to talk about severe mental illness.

Samaritans Centre for Mental Health BBC News (UK) Office for National Statistics (ONS) louis appleby Local Government Association (LGA) YoungMinds Black Mental Health Manifesto Rethink Mental Illness AHRQ We need to talk about the link between autism/ADHD and mental illness, and misdiagnosis.

This comes from AA this is DEEP sh*t and gives you a little look into the kind of people who might turn to alcohol . . . See if you recognise the type?

A week?? 🤣

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Looking for #ActuallyAutistic dads to interview for my book about autism and manhood. Anyone interested? My email is [email protected]. DMs are open.

This is the way! Looking forward to Lidl having 'my sock' on sale again (they haven't for years 😩) so I can go buy lots more.