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26yo queer audhd nerd, they/them pronouns please! ️‍🌈🧠✌️ 'I'm still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.' (Rudy Francisco)

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 18/02/2026
This one's for parents who "may not know when it is the 'right time' to tell their children that they are autistic. Parents may be struggling on how to start a conversation about how to tell their children about their autism, and when to tell." At TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2022/06/we-s...
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We Should Tell Children They Are Autistic As Soon As Possible — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Parents should tell their children they are autistic in ways that help them understand and feel good about who they are.
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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
It’s okay for white autistic women not to be centered in every autism convo. When I center Black autistic women, “we struggle the same” shows up 😒 you don’t. Research/media center whiteness, Black kids are misdiagnosed, diagnosed later, and face racial barriers
Phenomenally autistic with rainbow butterflies in her hair a black t shirt & text inside pink highlights that read : White autistic women this is important
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Not all autistic experiences are the same. And pretending they are? It's selfish & causes harm.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
(My also-disabled doctor and I joke that I should have a Told You So card and every time I was right and a doctor didn't listen, I get a stamp, and at 10 stamps I can redeem the card for a visit in which the doctor doesn't argue and does whatever I need them to)
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Michelle Travis @samuraiko.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Every time someone brings up the theory of 'intelligent design', I just point at my body and go, "Okay, then God is either an idiot, a sadist, or both. There is nothing *intelligent* about this at ALL."
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Steven Halsey 🌍 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @sh1882.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is considering scrapping the windfall tax in the autumn budget this month. The Windfall Tax was introduced for a reason: to make oil and gas companies pay their fair share while families struggled with sky-high energy bills. action.greenpeace.org.uk/dont-scrap-t...
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Don’t scrap the Windfall Tax
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Cube (1997, Dir. Vincenzo Natali) @prototypecube.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
rachel reeves has done this shit without actually finding out how the motability scheme actually works and has instead rammed through an evil and quite frankly stupid change in legislation off the back of how the theoretical shouty old gammon in the pub has told her it works
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Fresh from meddling in the Palestine Action case and getting the judge replaced, Starmer's government also wants to abolish the right to a jury trial for most cases. The UK is sliding into the abyss. Democracy and the rule of law are in peril. Fascism is on the rise. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Labour MPs are just aping Reform now! Why do they even bother - none of the far-right are gonna vote for 'fascism light' when they can get the 'full fat' version with Farage! Also, what is it about police/ ex-police (don't answer that, I know!) 😣
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 25/11/2025
You know it’s serious when Autism Speaks and the ASAN are in a “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” situationship Vaccines don’t cause autism Neither does Tylenol Nor circumcision Autistic people shagging, fellas! That’s the leading cause It’s that simple
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Felicia Krieg @feliciakrieg.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
“The Trump administration is working toward treating autism as something to be prevented, rather than building a health-care system that helps people who are autistic. It’s part of a larger backlash, both in the United States and around the world, against the concept of neurodiversity.”
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Alex Karp (not the CEO) @autistic.af · 25/11/2025
If you’re going to have AI chatbots replace human customer service workers, please don’t give them names and pretend like they’re actual humans. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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Eve @evenicholls.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Seems like a good moment to mention this book, which I'm told is excellent! I recommended it to a friend, who loved it. bsky.app/profile/mbro...
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 25/11/2025
We should ask those who would try to silence Autistic Autism advocates - what is your stake in this? Why does this matter to you? It’s either fear or greed We can educate fear 🫶🏻 & the greed speaks for itself They don’t want to believe us because they DON’T want to help us because that’s expensive
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Discourse surrounding “AI” these days often feels like a guy showing you his shovel and you say, “that’s a nice shovel” and he says “I am going to perform surgery on my mother with this shovel” and you say “Oh God please don’t that is not what a shovel is for.”
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Riley Aurelia @rileyaurelia.org · 01/08/2025
I realized I was nonbinary at 18, I realized I was a nonbinary woman at 22, I started on HRT at 24, I realized I had been experiencing dysphoria at 25. The problem with "youre only trans if you experience dysphoria" is that its really hard to realize that youre experiencing it once you stop.
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Sarah Kelly @sarahkelly.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Life gets easier for neurotypical people (and the neurodivergent people around them) when they realize that some things are very easy for them and very hard for other people. Your friend who’s always late is probably actually trying harder than you.
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ADHD Jesse @adhdjesse.com · 01/08/2025
The phrase “if you cared, you would [remember, notice, be on time, listen, etc]” is so funny because I care so much it hurts but I can’t just change the behavior because that’s not how my brain works. And by “so funny” I mean “utterly devastating.”
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Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
We're disabled and queer. 🏳️🌈 We sell our writing to eat. We launched two book sales — each has 20 books for $30. Itch bowed to conservative pressure, and hid them without warning. Do you agree this is bullshit? Then help us make them pay. disabilitypac.carrd.co #MakeCensorshipCost #BookSky
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Disability Pride Against Censorship
We’re Disabled and Queer — Itch.io and the Payment Processors Are Starving Us.
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Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
visa and mastercard deciding what games are allowed to be sold is an apocalyptic level threat to the games industry. phone calls are the highest impact way to help. this is an all hands on deck situation. the enemy got results with 1000 phone calls. we can beat them phone numbers and a script:
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The Sassy Savant @theautisticsista.blacksky.app · 26/07/2025
Continue being phenomenally autistic, Sistren. I wanna see us tell our stories
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Marty Tina G. ⚢ @geezmarty.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
the more the merrier if you haven't signed already petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act
We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.
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Steph Paton @stephpaton.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Google searches for VPN after the UK government's online censorship bill comes into effect.
Chart showing a surge in searches for VPN over the past day or so
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 26/07/2025
Autistic friends, we are somewhere greater than 9-13x likelihood to die by suicide as compared to our peers If you're suffering & you want it to end, I hear you I hope you have reasons to live & they don't need to be great ones if they're temporary I once chose life to finish pastry leftovers 🫶
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 26/07/2025
It also works with loved ones who are afraid we are clinically depressed when really it is burnout and a need to re-charge "I'm safe but I need alone & low stim right now. Can you check on me (at x-time/date)? I might not be ready to emerge from my cocoon but I know I need at least that much time"
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
NEW VIDEO – youtu.be/_vU5wwwkoB0 This one is about how fascism doesn’t just rewrite history—it erases it. The grief of what’s been lost. The people, the stories, the futures we’ll never get back because someone decided they didn’t belong in the record. This video is me trying to make sense of it.
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How Fascism Erases Our History
YouTube video by Jessie Gender
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ADHD Jesse @adhdjesse.com · 15/07/2025
Someone told me I HAD to do the thing I was just about to do. So obviously I can't do it now. ... Look, I didn't design this brain. I'm just as confused as you are. But it do what it do.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR, 1937
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan
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MnXalns @mnxalns.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Is the Government all right? www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
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UK government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms
Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals guidance for retailers in England changed after campaign by global food firms
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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Me being autistic means spending at least an hour writing a “quick” reply because tone + honesty + neurotypical expectations = emotional calculus.
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 17/05/2025
“The SAVE Act only serves to discourage participation in the democratic process and disenfranchises voters in multi-marginalized communities, including the disability community.”
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 15/05/2025
@emergentdivergence.com said it best: “Autism does not need to be cured. It needs to be embraced, uplifted, supported, loved, empowered, accepted and given a place in a world that was never meant to set boundaries around what humans were and weren’t worthy of life and compassion.”
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Does Autism Need To Be Cured? - Emergent Divergence
An exploration of autism cure culture.
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 15/05/2025
Hyper and hypo pain sensitivity is a well documented phenomenon in the literature, even to the point where it’s a specific indicator on the MIGDAS-2. And so why do healthcare providers continue to treat patients like they’re full of shit whenever they report an atypical somatic experience?
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 24/11/2024
Between 11 and 66% of autistic adults think about suicide during their lifetime, and up to 35% plan or attempt it (2020). "Obviously, I'm wondering now, if part of that is being driven by the fact that nobody's understanding them, empathizing with them, you know, feeling what they're feeling." 😔
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Do you feel me? Autism, empathic accuracy and the double empathy problem - Rachael TS Cheang, Maya Skjevling, Alexandra IF Blakemore, Veena Kumari, Ignazio Puzzo, 2024
Empathy deficits in autism, particularly cognitive empathy, have been a long-held, but much debated assumption. An alternative perspective challenging this defi...
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 08/05/2025
It can be hard to find information on gender affirming care in language that is easy to understand. We’ve got you covered with our resource “A Self-Advocate’s Guide to Gender Affirming Health Care,” available in plain language and Easy Read: autisticadvocacy.org/resources/pr...
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Proud and Supported Series - Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Definitions and Beyond There are many ways to identify. Everyone is different and that's good! This guide, “Definitions and Beyond,” will explain some of the ways people identify. Maybe you are…
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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🚨NEWS🚨 'Disability benefit cuts impossible to support, 42 Labour MPs tell Starmer' The biggest rebellion Starmer has faced to date, backbench MPs have called for a change in direction ahead of the parliamentary vote next month👇 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Disability benefit cuts impossible to support, 42 Labour MPs tell Starmer
Exclusive: Backbenchers sign letter calling for change in direction on plans expected to be put to vote next month
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Trans Legal Project @translegalproject.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
This is from the MP from Folkestone - it’s really clear and it’s really accurate. People should download it and refer to it should they run into any hassle from service providers or employers who are using the EHRC ‘guidance’ as if was ‘law’.
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Patrick @patrickb2.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
This video was eye-opening. RFK is a true monster who pretends to be an expert. To anyone who buys his bullshit, I PLEAD YOU TO TALK TO AN ACTUAL AUTISTIC PERSON ON WHAT THEY THINK OF IT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEIb...
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What's REALLY Behind America's New Autism Obsession?
YouTube video by I'm Autistic, Now What?
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Gledster @gledster.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This x1000. Starmer, McSweeny, Reeves et al are going to spend their time making things worse for so many and will gift the country to Reform. It didn't have to be like this but they so hated Corbyn they made SURE this was the outcome the country got. They should never be forgiven.
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Dr. Amy, PsyD 🎃 @dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com · 22/04/2025
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 19/04/2025
This Autism Acceptance Month, I demand that you accept that sometimes people's needs look different than you might expect and that you are the asshole if you make a big deal out of it
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 16/04/2025
Cass report - Sex Matters etc consulted, trans participation refused. FWS Supreme Court case - Sex Matters etc consulted, trans participation refused. Puberty blocker ban - Sex Matters etc consulted, trans input ignored. That should be everything you need to know.
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Trans Legal Project @translegalproject.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Thread -please read all of it 1/8 An extraordinary day in London. Many thousands. The police seemed blindsided by the way we completely filled Parliament Sq & later the surrounding streets and then St James’ Park. And wow did we need it. But…
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 19/04/2025
“We cannot talk about feminism unless our feminism includes trans folks. We cannot talk about reproductive rights without trans rights. We cannot advocate for human rights without trans rights.”
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Adhd Wisdom Tools @adhdwisdomtools.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
💭 ADHD makes it easy to get lost in a sea of thoughts, distractions, and tasks. ⏳ But sometimes, taking a step back to breathe is the most productive thing you can do. ❤️ Give yourself grace, even when you feel behind. 💡 You’re doing the best you can, and that’s enough. #adhd #adhdsky #adhdawareness
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Saying that "autism is preventable" is essentially saying that autistic people should not be born. It's a eugenicist claim.
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