I found this on a Facebook group and thought it was worth sharing.

I hope this can help provide some support to people in our community 💗

#mentalhealth #queerhealth #coviding #covidingcommunity #autismcommunity

- ferociously rediscovering my childhood interests,
- structuring most of my time around solitude… without shame.

But hard as I’ve worked for 6 years to make my life work… in joy…

The topic sentence came to me just this morning…

#AutismCommunity #ActuallyAutisticAdul

Vous êtes invités 🤗🙂

#autismcommunity #fundraiser #villemontroyal #TMR

I love when I find people who echo what I believe, and this image is the case. I've been talking about how much the history of autism and of trans people are similar, since we're taking about autonomy, identity and exclusion.

The same way we don't need a diagnosis to be autistic, we will find validation within community. This is very true with trans community that saves many lives of those excluded and suffer violence by family and society. Maybe this is what we need with autist too: a strong community that helps fight psychiatric violence.

We don't need diagnosis: we need acceptance.

@actuallyautistic #ActuallyAutistic #autismCommunity #autism #transCommunity

Just finished watching another Philosophy Tube video, a longer one about the [lack of] medical healthcare for trans people in England.

🔗 https://youtu.be/v1eWIshUzr8

But what calls my attention to all of this - and to my precious toots about #transphobia is how closely related the history of #Autism is to all of this. All the bigotry, the violence, the medical treatment and exclusion, the diagnosis. I wish I had the time to collect and build all the resources there are about this.

But to start, I want to lead with a paper about the Queer History of Autism, that shows how #ABA treatment for autism was first made as queer #ConversionTherapy. Their main proponent, Autism Speaks, poses as allies but are actually a hate group. A lot of what #ActuallyAutistic people go through daily is very similar to what queer and trans folk go through as well. And Abigail Thorne, from Philosophy Tube, also ends her reflection on this process talking about disability, the medical and social models and how a lot of ot comes down to #SocialExclusion.

🔗 https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/29579

Not considering, as well, how much of our communities - #AutismCommunity and #QueerCommunity - overlaps:
"Autistic people are more likely than neurotypical people to be gender diverse, several studies show, and gender-diverse people are more likely to have autism than are cisgender people" (🔗 https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/largest-study-to-date-confirms-overlap-between-autism-and-gender-diversity/ ).

My point is that we should all work together and learn from one another.

#ABAisAbuse #BanABA #BoycottAutismSpeaks

I have a young art student. She is autistic and has other special talents. We are looking for a community here on Mastodon. Can anyone recommend one for her? Currently, I am tutoring her and my goal is that she can sell her art one day to support herself. Thanks #autism #AutisticArtist #Artist #SpecialNeedArtist #AutismCommunity