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tiktaalic
Anonymous asked:

one of my beloved friends (very autism) was in.. not denial but ignorance sounds mean. but that abt themself last time you brought up the raads r test so i sent it to the gc (full of autism) and they were like psh. fake test no one could get below 100. they know now but i think about it so much

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The thing is. When you take the autism test. And you see your score is in the 100 to 160 range. You think. Oh this is probably the middle? Middle autism. Tinge of autism. Your relatives calling you bright but shy autism. Just a whiff of autism. And then you see the score ranges. And you go. This test is lying to me there is absolutely no way the majority of people score under 65. The 65 number is such a low cutoff and so many of these experiences are clearly universal a score under 65 is something they made up in a lab. People who score under 65 are obviously scoring just under that mark from 59 to 64 and they’re also obviously lying or purposely misrepresenting their experiences as less severe than they are. And then you find out there are real people who get a 20 or 30 or 7 on it. And you go. Ah

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murphysletsdraw
#yea wow#autism#im dead tho literally the hair trigger reaction was like ''this cant be'' LMAO#''everyone does this!''#''dang i sure am hitting 'agree' a lot...''#my score on the 'camoflauge' test was even higher slfjslkjf#always for queue
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metapianycist

it is really cool that there is now an official maori word for autism, created with input from autistic maoris, and it was specifically coined to be nonjudgmental

quote from article:

“In my experience, people with autism tend to have their own timing, spacing, pacing and life-rhythm, so I interpreted autism as ‘takiwatanga’, meaning ‘his or her own time and space’,” [Keri Opai] told government-funded Maori Television.

(source)

#language#autism#amazing#always for queue
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azuremist

For people who haven’t heard: this month, the DSM (diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders) are planning on updating the criteria for getting an autism diagnosis. On paper, this sounds like a good thing. It’s not.

The DSM is the handbook used by healthcare workers worldwide, for diagnosing mental disorders and the like. You may have read that the autistic diagnosis criteria is getting updated and, like many in the autistic community, hoped that this meant that it would be expanded, to make it easier for AFAB, transgender, and non-white people to be diagnosed (as it is notoriously hard for anyone except for white, cisgender men to obtain an autism diagnosis). However, they recently released a statement saying that they were not expanding the criteria, but were instead making it more ‘conservative’, as they feel autism is being ‘over-diagnosed’. (Which is, of course, bullshit for a whole plethora of reasons which I’m sure you’ve heard before.)

As-of my posting this, they have not released the official, updated criteria yet, so there is not much we can do right now. But there is one thing that we must agree upon: DO NOT SHAME PEOPLE FOR SELF-DIAGNOSING WITH AUTISM. Because obtaining an autism diagnosis is, quite literally, only getting harder.

#always for queue#autism#mental health#fucking sigh
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gryphonrampant

It is maddening how much the field demands we use only interventions and therapies from published studies, and then offers next to no studies on interventions with adults. People don’t age out of autism, folks.

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gryphonrampant

I’m working with a 30-something guy who uses ASL. I want to help teach him more signs to help him advocate for himself–even things as simple as “stop!” “no” “I don’t want to” aren’t in his regularly used vocabulary right now. He ought to be able to tell his home staff no if he wants to. that’s kinda adult life 101.

But the literature on efficient and effective teaching of signs to folks on the spectrum is all stuff from the 80s and 90s to teach little kids in school or early-intervention programs. All the current research on nonspeaking communication methods is communication devices or picture-exchange, because those are easier to teach little ones quickly.

Just because new methods are in vogue for early intervention, doesn’t mean that the recipients of earlier teaching should be cast aside.

#always for queue#autism#aba
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ryan-sometimes

It would be so funny if autistic people started describing allistic experience the same pathologised way doctors describe autism

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ryan-sometimes

Symptoms of being neurotypical:

  • You have immobile, frozen hands that do not fidget.
  • Your interests are shallow.
  • You read into phrases past their actual meanings.
  • You are unbothered by eye contact and enjoy staring into people's eyeballs.
  • You do not notice patterns in numbers and objects even when they are logically connected.
  • You don't mind doing things without planning them out first.
  • Instead of saying exactly what you think, you expect others to infer it based on subjective social rules.
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ryan-sometimes

Don't be discouraged if you're neurotypical. If you work hard, you too can be decent at math and accomplish the same things autistic people can!

#always for queue#fantastic#autism
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winterlace

why do people insist on saying autism isn’t a disability. disability is not a bad thing, disabled is not a bad word, and for the love of god stop forgetting autistics with high support needs exist. not all of us can work, go to school, live unassisted, etc.

#always for queue#autism#important#disabilities
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gryphonrampant

sometimes, people don’t understand that we are hated for being autistic. “But I don’t hate autistic people!”.

That’s right! Because you don’t know how autistic people are.

You know, people never bullied me for being autistic. Because neither me nor they had the terminology. Nah, they punished me for being weird. And what made me weird to their eyes? I spoke weird and often stumbled, and I spoke like a grownup anyway, and I wouldn’t shut up about Ancient Greece. I moved weird too, because I was (am) really clumsy, and I didn’t have any friends. I was boring and didn’t catch jokes (made at my expense) and I didn’t look them in the eye, and so on and on.

If you asked any of the people who bullied me for years whether they hate autistic people, they’d say “no!”. Because they don’t hate autistic people, but oh boy do they hate weird people. Perhaps they don’t hate autistic people, but surely they hated me for being obviously autistic.

I’ve been trying to explain this concept to a lot of people. You did a really good job summing it up.

ive seen people online claim to support autistic people and then kind of mock/ostracize others for not immediately picking up on all the unwritten online social rules

#always for queue#autism#bullying cw
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mistakenforamistake

elle woods is autistic

  • singleminded and incredibly dedicated to whatever it is she’s focused on at the time (gets into and then goes to law school to get back warner, even though it breaks with everything she’s done in her life up until that point)
  • incredibly knowledgeable about her chosen point of interest (”it’s impossible to use half-loop top stitching on low-viscosity rayon”)
  • has a dog who’s permitted to live with her on campus and go to court with her, and who completes daily-living tasks like fetching mail (i’m calling it: bruiser’s a service dog)
  • relies on routine and an established set of coping mechanisms (manicures; tries to schedule social events to maintain some sort of consistency) 
  • struggles with social cues (for instance, the way she delivers her introduction when she first arrives at school, the way she interacts with warner)
  • is incredibly smart (got a 179 on the LSATs) but struggles in school — has difficulty keeping track of her assignments (first day in stromwell’s class), has difficulty answering questions on the spot in class (”do they always do that? put you on the spot like that?”)
  • struggles with codeswitching in different environments (with her friends in LA, in the classroom, with the other harvard students, in court, etc)
  • when she does try to institute a change like this, she does it overly dramatically; she over-plays it — see: the outfit she wears for her first day of classes 
  • that line also — ”i totally look the part!” — that idea that what she wears, says, and does are largely performative (maybe also she’s trying to pass?)
  • uses overly formal or informal language; language inappropriate to the context (”and i am fully amenable to that discussion” when warner is breaking up with her; the ‘valley girl’ language she uses at harvard)
  • has difficulty identifying sarcasm and mocking (the costume party)
  • is set up in the narrative as out of place in her social environment 
  • the narrative about elle ultimately winning the case because she uses her existing skills, knowledge base, and passion rather than What She Learned In Law School ™ is also, like, a really strong neurodiversity narrative   
  • i love her and i only care about autistic characters, so she must be autistic
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ayellowbirds

she’d be a textbook example of the sort of woman who falls through the cracks in diagnosing autism, if the textbooks didn’t fail so egregiously in regards to diagnosing women.

#always for queue#legally blond#autism#headcanon or no this is just#a post i really value#u can interpret the character however you want#just...sounds like my sister#who was never diagnosed but the older she gets the more obvious it's getting
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faleronofkingsreach

Julia, a Muppet with autism, makes her debut appearance on Sesame Street. 

“She does things just a little differently, in a…Julia sort of way.”

It’s great that Sesame Street has designed a character with autism. I think the character will help kids understand autism in a better way and encourage acceptance. Adults can try and explain things like autism to a child, but it can be difficult. I grew up with Sesame Street, I’m glad the show is still helping kids learn and grow! Media representation always matters, thank you Sesame Street for still teaching us.

#always for queue#sesame street#autism
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faleronofkingsreach

look, if you’re gonna talk about autistic representation, don’t just talk about nine year old white boys who memorize train schedules and plane models and can recite like 500 digits of pi. talk about the chubby filipino girl who’s terrified to speak up in class but can talk for hours about welcome to night vale. talk about the bigender indian person with pdd-nos who found out about asl and felt a weight lift off their chest. talk about the newly diagnosed black man who was always told he was just lazy, unmotivated, a burden.

neurodiversity is important, but diversity within that community is even more important.

#autism#representation
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vastderp-placeholder

A handy flyer about Autism Speaks.

[Source]

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jumpingjacktrash

welp, it’s that time of year again!

please spread this far and wide. it’s high fucking time a hate group stopped getting all the spotlight (and all the donations) where autism is concerned.

Reminder that if you want to give to a GOOD autism charity, ACT Today is effin’ awesome. (autoplay video on site, turn your volume down/off)

NGL, while I don’t know much about ACT Today, its site looks kinda sketchy to me. When in doubt, always go for the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network.

#autism#autism speaks#is this what ppl were wearing blue for? i should pass this along
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autisticbee

Heya friendly reminder since it’s getting close to April

If you know someone who is autistic and love them dearly pls do NOT donate to autism speaks

If you care about autistic people at all do NOT donate to A$

If you do wanna donate tho to actually help autistic people, try ASAN (autistic self advocacy network) [autisticadvocacy.org/?theme=active]

#autism#autism speaks
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realsocialskills

Social skills: noticing when repetition is communication

So there’s this dynamic:

Autistic person: The door is open!

Other person: I *know* that. It’s hot in here.

Autistic person: The door is open!

Other person: I already explained to you that it’s hot in here!

Autistic person: The door is open!

Other person: Why do you have to repeat things all the time?!

Often when this happens, what’s really going on is that the autistic person is trying to communicate something, and they’re not being understood. The other person things that they are understanding and responding, and that the autistic person is just repeating the same thing over and over either for no reason or because they are being stubborn and inflexible and obnoxious and pushy.

When what’s really happening is that the autistic person is not being understood, and they are communicating using the words they have. There’s a NT social expectation that if people aren’t being understood, they should change their words and explain things differently. Sometimes autistic people aren’t capable of doing this without help.

So, if this is happening, assume it’s communication and try to figure out what’s being communicated. If you’re the one with more words, and you want the communication to happen in words, then you have to provide words that make communication possible. For example:

Other person: Do you want the door to be closed, or are you saying something else?

Autistic person: Something else

Other person: Do you want to show me something outside, or something else?

Autistic person: Something else

Other person: Are you worried about something that might happen, or something else?

Autistic person: Worried

Other person: Are you worried that something will come in, or that something will go out?

Autistic person: Baby

Other person: She’s in her crib, and the baby gate is up. Is that ok, or is there still a problem?

Autistic person: ok

#autism#children#important#communication#something i sincerely hope to remember if i'm ever with children in this sort of situation
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