I love the radical roots of the Autism Rights movement. For me it’s ultimately a movement based in liberation that shares all the elements of all other liberation movements.
To understand it in its Marxist context is essential. Marta Russell’s work is a great place to start.
It scares me to see the heavy hand of mainstream Neoliberalism and it’s various vessels in the movement.
We’ve seen what centrists and moderates have done in every other liberation movement of the 20th and 21st centuries. It isn’t pretty.
Liberals (as opposed to Leftists) have entered each & every liberation struggle only to sanitize it. To make it appealing to the ruling class.
Russell shows us how this was done in the Disability Rights movement in general. Same to be said re: Gay Rights, Feminist movements.
In order to achieve #AutisticLiberation we need to be radical in our approach and our actions. Understanding the Capitalist system and how being a disabled person under it is essential for taking control of our lives and changing our outcomes and those of future generations.
All #ActuallyAutistic comrades have a place in the movement. Every autistic person has a voice and the ability to change our world in every interaction they have in their everyday lives wherever they are. Everyone has influence in their own communities in their own way.
The movement is not restricted to those who talk down to others because of their followed counts, positions of socio-economic or educational privilege, or being an perennial invited speaker at the cocktail parties of the very class that oppressed us.
We’ve seen that before. We will not be sold out.
Organize where you are.
Speak to people where you can and advocate for yourself.
Self advocacy IS advocacy for all autistic humans.
#AutisticLiberation #actuallyautistic
Finding the Union of Autistic Liberation and Yoga Spirituality
An often quoted passage from the Bhagavad Gita states that yoga is the path to the self, through the self, and this is at the heart of yoga spirituality. When we look at Patanjali's 8-Limbs of Yoga, some of stated his goal was the absolute se
https://ayt.chickenyogi.com/finding-the-union-of-autistic-liberation-and-yoga-spirituality/
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What does #AutisticLiberation mean to you?
#AutisticLiberation #AskingAutistics
There isn’t an #autism epidemic, you clowns. We are better at diagnosis today. We are better at recognizing ourselves. We are becoming more aware. It’s something to celebrate, not bemoan. You won’t keep us down.
#autism #AutisticLiberation #actuallyautistic
I'm thinking about topics for videos on the #PeerTube channel I started a while ago. I just started a new semester, so no promises about when they'll be out, but I should be able to at least write a script or two. My channel is going to be about #SocialEcology, #AutisticLiberation, and #Astrophysics as well as related topics. Here are some of my ideas. Please vote for your favorite, and give suggestions if you have any. (Keep in mind that I know almost nothing about video editing.)
#peertube #socialecology #AutisticLiberation #astrophysics
If #behaviorists truly cared about improving the health and well-being of #neurodivergent people, they wouldn’t be behaviorists; they’d be neurodivergent-affirming practitioners. Quit disparaging #neurodiversity activists and defending pseudoscience that’s been used to reduce democracy and oppress minority groups for 70-ish years. #Neurominorities #ActuallyAutistic #KineticAutistic #PluralGang #SaturdayNight #SaturdayVibes #ABAharms #ABAisAbuse #SayNoToABA #BanABA #AllABA #PBSisABA #AutisticLiberation #NeurodivergentLiberation
#behaviorists #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurominorities #actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #pluralgang #saturdaynight #saturdayvibes #abaharms #abaisabuse #SayNoToABA #BanABA #AllABA #PBSisABA #AutisticLiberation #neurodivergentliberation
As #ActuallyAutistic humans we have been told from a young age, both directly and indirectly, that we aren't entitled to think, do, feel, or express ourselves in an authentic way. Each of us has suffered damage to our #AutisticSelf. YOU ARE WORTH IT. #AutisticLiberation
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It’s important for #ActuallyAutistic humans to recognize the difference between disability, handicap, impairment. Disability is a societal and political construct meant to exclude us and other #disabled comrades, to ensure we pushed to the edges of society. #AutisticLiberation
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I know very little about the status of autistic people in the #GlobalSouth. It seems like that's the case for most #ActuallyAutistic activists in the Global North as well, even those of us who have been in the movement for years. It's just not something we talk about, and that's a shame.
On the birdsite, almost all of the autistic people I follow, and who follow me, are from the USA, Canada, the UK, the EU, Australia, or New Zealand. There are a few from various African countries, mostly South Africa and Kenya, all of whom I learned about from the same white South African person. That network of activists is the only autistic perspective I can find on the birdsite from the Global South.
It's important that we do find and listen to those perspectives. I have no clue how many there are, actively, but they're definitely out there. It's likely that many assumptions we have about autistic experiences are incorrect, and only apply in the Global North. We also would likely learn about things we're doing that cause harm, as well as possible avenues for Global North autistics to support Global South autistics.
Autism knows no borders, and #AutisticLiberation shouldn't either. It's important that we learn all we can about autistic life elsewhere, and what is needed. And it's important that we follow through with #solidarity.
#globalsouth #actuallyautistic #AutisticLiberation #solidarity