Lightbringer Designs @ltbrngrdesigns.bsky.social · 01/04/2025We who are #ActuallyAutistic do NOT use the puzzle piece! That's from a group called Autism Speaks, which is controlled by Neuroplurality "caregivers", who make it more about sympathy for how hard our lives make them. ⬇️ 110
Lightbringer Designs @ltbrngrdesigns.bsky.social · 01/04/2025They see our differences as something that we're missing; that's offensive, like men talking over women about women's oppression, focusing on their lack of 🍒. Many within the Autistic community refer to those outside it as "allistic", & autistic folks as part of the broader "neurodivergent"... 100
Lightbringer Designs @ltbrngrdesigns.bsky.social · 01/04/2025...community, vs the "neurotypical" out group. Personally, I prefer calling us Neurominorities, compared to the Neuroplurality; that reflects our relative numerical prevalence, without defining one of the groups as "typical" & all the others by how we're different from them. 110
