#autismawareness #autismawarenessweek #autismawarenessday #autismappreciation

April 2 marks World Autism Awareness Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness and understanding about autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Join us in promoting the acceptance, inclusion, and empowerment of individuals with ASD and their families. Let's work together to create a more inclusive and supportive world for everyone.
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#CoalCreekOMS #WorldAutismAwarenessDay #WorldAutismAwarenessDay2023 #AutismAwarenessDay #Autism

Today is my first official #autismawarenessday as a newly diagnosed #ActuallyAutistic looking forward to a good month I hope.

#Autism #Autisme
#AutismAwarenessDay
#JourneeMondialeAutisme
Apprenons, écoutons, relayons 👇
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RT @desentredeux
THREAD infos #Autism

2 avril, journée mondiale de sensibilisation à l'autisme ;

Réponse aux messages qui se veulent soutenant avec la vehiculation de codes discriminants, juste parce que vous écoutez pas les concerné•es et voulez vous donner bonne conscience une fois par an
https://twitter.com/desentredeux/status/1642452905172119552

The great irony, of course, of #AutismAwarenessDay / #AutismAwarenessMonth / #AutismAcceptanceWeek is that the voices of #ActuallyAutistic people are being drowned out by the very people who are oppressing us, silencing us, abusing us, commodifying our very bodies.

@actuallyautistic

Wereldautimsedag. Nee geen feestje. Laat staan dat ik ooit ervaren heb dat het iets bijdraagt aan het begrip, de hulpverlening, etc. voor mij. Ik lijk alleen maar harder te moeten knokken voor hulp en mee mogen doen. Ik ben inmiddels moegestreden.
#AutismAwarenessDay

Important to remind everyone on #AutismAwarenessDay that labels such as high/low functioning, support needs, speaking, masking, etc are not helpful. These things are not static. Treating them as if they are is ableist.

Every #ActuallyAutistic person can experience variations in support needs, functioning, masking, speaking, and any other label which outsiders may see as permanent. What & how one is today isn't necessarily what one will be tomorrow. Life changes us. None of that is permanent.

Just because today I am verbal and appear to be "high functioning" to you doesn't mean that I will be so next week, or even a minute from now. While you may see me as a "success" and "well adjusted" now, next month I may be in an institution, catatonic and non-verbal.

Perhaps today I am "living unmasked" but tomorrow that can be different, depending on MANY THINGS. That being said, I may not be. We are all different. Each #autistic person has their own brain and their own life. NOTHING IS PERMANENT. Lose the labels.

But to that end, this is MY take. I DO NOT speak for all autistic people, just like no one autistic person speaks for another. Our experiences are different AND shared. Respect that & if you want to learn ONE thing during #AutismAcceptanceWeek it's that we are all unique.

@actuallyautistic

💙💙 2 April is #WorldAutismAwarenessDay If you are a person with autism, be proud to be autistic & on the rainbow spectrum! Your honesty, focus, passion & deep sense of injustice are traits the world needs! #wearblue #LightItUpBlue #AutismAcceptanceDay #AutismAwarenessDay 💙💙

💙💙 2 April is #WorldAutismAwarenessDay If you are a person with autism, be proud to be autistic & on the rainbow spectrum! Your honesty, focus, passion & deep sense of injustice are traits the world needs! #wearblue #LightItUpBlue #AutismAcceptanceDay #AutismAwarenessDay 💙💙

💙💙 April 2nd is #WorldAutismAwarenessDay If you are a person with autism, be proud to be autistic & on the rainbow spectrum! Your honesty, focus, passion & deep sense of injustice are traits the world needs! #wearblue #LightItUpBlue #AutismAcceptanceDay #AutismAwarenessDay 💙💙

On World Autism Awareness Day let us remember to see beyond the spectrum as autism doesn’t define a person.
World Autism Awareness Day!

#GramyaAyurveda #WorldAutismAwarenessDay #WorldAutismAwarenessDay2023 #AutismAwarenessDay #Autism

There are so many hashtags for #AutismAcceptance / #AutismAwareness that I'm always a bit confused and overwhelmed. Awareness vs Acceptance, generic vs Day, Week, Month. And the Week starts in the month before the Month, and the Day isn't during the Week. Do we really need all this? Then there's the nascent move to #AutisticPride which isn't going anywhere yet but maybe someday. Who did this to us???

#AutismAcceptance
#AutismAcceptanceDay
#AutismAcceptanceWeek
#AutismAcceptanceMonth
#AutismAwareness
#AutismAwarenessDay
#AutismAwarenessWeek
#AutismAwarenessMonth

What's the optimal way to tag things here? Use them all at once? Pick one and hope for the best?

It was hard enough when it was just deciding among #ActuallyAutistic* vs #autistic or #autism. I think I want hashtag synonyms for explore/search, and synonym suggestions while composing a post.

* - the #ActuallyAutistic hashtag is for use only by actually autistic people to distinguish us from parents, partners, providers, and other autism-adjacent people.

Heute ist #AutismAwarenessDay - was dazu zu sagen ist, hat Greta Thunberg gut zusammengefasst:
https://nitter.pussthecat.org/GretaThunberg/status/1378052993191440389#m

Voilà, s'affirmer dans sa singularité et affirmer que chacun.e a, avant tout, le droit d'être soi.
#AutismAwarenessDay

RT @GretaThunberg@twitter.com

Today is #AutismAwarenessDay. At the age of 12 I was diagnosed with Asperger, a form of autism. At that time I had no idea what it meant. When I and my parents told people I was autistic, they always reacted with shock since I didn’t fit into the stereotype of autistic people.1/7

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1378052993191440389

RT @depressionnote
signs of autism ⚠️

• finding it hard to understand what others are thinking or feeling

• finding it hard to say how you feel

• seeming blunt, rude or not interested in others without meaning to

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will you retweet for #AutismAwarenessDay ?

Today is #AutismAwarenessDay and it's really something that needs to be talked about. I may not have an official ASD diagnosis, but I do for other neurodivergent things which ofter come together and have a lot in common.
First of all, there's a lot of misinformation out there, so the best way to learn is to look at what's put out there by autistic creators. Listen to what we say using #ActuallyAutistic on social media, and realize that we can't change ourselves.