the literal DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION asked me to create content with/for them with zero budget loooool sir i literally pay my taxes to you!!! asking disabled people to do free labour as the actual government is not a good look!!!

Someone on our street put their bin out yesterday. A couple of hours later, many more bins had appeared. It wasn't bin day, but it's nice they were being sociable.

Tip - If you’re gonna try and teach an autistic person “social skills”, don’t use a real situation they were in as an example and point out everything you think they did wrong. People tried that on me, just made me more insecure and socially anxious

Is anybody aware of an alliance, a co op or some sort of organisation, possibly a non-profit for autistic and adhd people?

I’m talking about something with its own money pot charitably maintained, that provides:

Legal support (not just appropriate adults, but lawyers,

Let’s talk abt why sexual violence is so often committed against #Autistic women.
It’s a perfect storm of opportunity, from multiple angles:

1. We’re often kept at arm’s length, excluded from female friend groups. Predators find us easy prey bc we’re at the edge of the herd 🧵

I've been trying to shift my sleep pattern back by 7 hours for the last month. Only managed to move it by one hour. In the end I resorted to valerian tablets, which worked. I hate the way they made me feel, but for a few hours of feeling weird, it was worth it.

THE BRAVEST WORD PUBLISHES IN THE UK THIS WEEK!!! 😱 🥳

Ooops. Someone asked me how I was, and I told them. Well, not all of it, but a fraction of it. And that was a lot. They're still processing and will be for a while. 😀

for me, learning about D.A.R.V.O. gave me the language to first define (& later communicate) my experiences with my abusers & their enablers.

finally having access to these (once ambiguous) concepts was key (& an important starting point) to my recovery & healing.

ARTISTS, you can only use ONE art picture to convince people to follow you. Which art piece are you using?

ARTISTS, you can only use ONE art picture to convince people to follow you. Which art piece are you using?

This gifted art for @/shades_autumn it’s one of the few times I painted a background. This was weeks of work for me and the most proud I’ve ever been of an artwork.

It's amazing how much complete strangers will project onto 280 characters and then attack based on the things they coloured in, to prove they are more emotionally evolved, psychologically superior, and respect boundaries so much better than you.

I was socialized as neurotypical and it didn’t work

Made my first infographic. 🙂

I’m going through pretty bad autistic burnout after pushing myself so hard with so many things.

Thought maybe this might be relatable for someone.

I'm at the rage cleaning stage of trying not to tell someone what I think of them, because that will just create a lot of fallout and change nothing. I may as well get a clean house out of their behaviour.

Autistic people, especially autistic children, may not realise might not know that they don’t have to push on through pain if they are told to do something and it hurts. The literal interpretation of 'try your best' is often to keep going at all costs.

Being Autistic can be like: someone makes a joke at your expense. To them it's a one off thing, you shouldn't be upset, you're overreacting. But it's not a one off thing to you. It's a pile on of people throughout your life. So when you react, it's reacting to 1000 'jokes'.

The way I see my autism in relation to me as a person has evolved a lot over the years.

I feel like sharing, so here‘s a thread:

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I used to wonder why I felt so exhausted when I got home. I had no energy to do things like talk, cook and keep up with housework. I spent my days off resting and recovering. Now knowing I’m autistic and breaking down everything I experienced everyday it makes a lot of sense.