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In Austin? Come meet us at Metal Health Fest this Sunday for free food and music and group stim dancing.https://t.co/kg3DB29KQZ#neurodiversity #disability #music— Stimpunks (@stimpunks) January 26, 2023

New wave, new phraseNew wave, new crazeIt take a joyful soundTo make a world go aroundCome with your heart and soulCome on come and rock your boat—Punky Reggae PartyNeurodiversity is one of the most powerful ideas of our generation.Reframe.https://t.co/ZbhxYvtCXT— Stimpunks (@stimpunks) January 26, 2023

We are going to talk about this article so buckle up. I am featured and I am not particularly happy with how I am featured in it, given the depth and breadth of what I discussed in my interview. I am not happy at the lack of nuance in the portrayal of autistic people 1/ https://t.co/EayYCBmWUn— Monique Botha is actually they/them 🤷🏻‍♀️ (@DrMBotha) January 25, 2023

We are going to talk about this article so buckle up. I am featured and I am not particularly happy with how I am featured in it, given the depth and breadth of what I discussed in my interview. I am not happy at the lack of nuance in the portrayal of autistic people 1/ https://t.co/EayYCBmWUn— Monique Botha is actually they/them 🤷🏻‍♀️ (@DrMBotha) January 25, 2023

What this article lacks iis any real examination of systemic and institutional power between groups of people who by definition do not have equal access to or use of power. It begins by pretending that autistic and non-autsitic people are on an even playing field 2/— Monique Botha is actually they/them 🤷🏻‍♀️ (@DrMBotha) January 25, 2023

Worse so - that autistic people and researchers who have spent years dissecting our lives, our bodies, and our existence, are on an equal playing field. Lord help me, that is (pardon my language) crap. Autistic people are a marginalised minority and some are quick to forget it 3/— Monique Botha is actually they/them 🤷🏻‍♀️ (@DrMBotha) January 25, 2023

Who has a "pathological" need to control whom?— Richard Woods (@Richard_Autism) January 25, 2023

Evdokia Anagnwstou et al would like to enjoy the freedom of mislabelling ppl, without fear of receiving constructing feedback. Amazing. Is it 1923 or 2023? Epistemic injustice.— GRRAND (@grrand_team) January 25, 2023

What the hell did I just read? I have never seen a more biased, nasty "article". Tell me you hate Autistics without telling me you hate Autistics...— Caroline Kimrey (@AUtimestwo) January 25, 2023

You bait autistics into talking to you, knowingly misrepresent autistics, omit info about autistics you KNOW would undermine your lies, include non-autistics KNOWN to be anti-autistic...and then blame US for "hindering progress" when it's YOU upholding the HARMFUL status quo.— autistictic - #EndAutmisiaNow #StopTheShock (@autistictic) January 26, 2023

Next I am painted as the Good Kind of Autistic. The Rational Autistic. Autistic Who Knows How to Control Themselves. Unlike my often close friends or colleagues who are painted as the Bad Kind of Autistic. The Mean Kind of autistic. I will not be pitted against my community 16/— Monique Botha is actually they/them 🤷🏻‍♀️ (@DrMBotha) January 25, 2023

How did my #ActuallyAutistic comrades who have been thru / are in #AutisticBurnout come to know that they were in it? #AskingAutistics— The #ActuallyAutistic Coach | Matthew (@AutisticCoach_) January 24, 2023

New research. Autistic eye contact.https://t.co/HVrmk5N4TbInteresting. "...neurotypicals, compared to autistics, seemed to be much more distressed when their [test partner] did not gaze at them during the experiment".Well worth a read.— Ann Memmott MA 🌈 (She or they) (@AnnMemmott) January 24, 2023

I never hear about the overlap between #autism and #Tourettes. So, as I experience both, I thought it might be useful share my experience.🧵— Tics n Tatts (@TicsnTatts) January 24, 2023

“Autistics don’t like hugs” is an oversimplification.“We” don’t feel one single way about hugs.There are as many thoughts & feelings on hugs as there are Autistics.It could be sensory, timing, or reading social expectations. #AskingAutisticsThoughts?— You Might Be Autistic (@mightbeautistic) January 25, 2023

We are grateful and excited to have you as one of our key content developers for the new #AllAgesAutismMH curricula across a range of settings for professionals to work with autistic ppl of all ages in humanised and evidence based ways. https://t.co/E0mbi5GFkH— Dr Georgia Pavlopoulou (she/her) (@JoPavlopoulou) January 22, 2023

Can't wait to get started! Such a pleasure to be part of this project #DreamTeam— Jo Billington (@MsJoBillington) January 24, 2023

Changelog: Updated and New on https://t.co/bxDEfG3xxh for Calendar Week 3, January 2023 https://t.co/BTctb8Wa7x— Stimpunks (@stimpunks) January 23, 2023

When autistic people are children, they call us 'old souls'. But when autistic people grow up, we're told we have 'childs' minds'.— Erin Ekins (she/her) (@QueerlyAutistic) January 21, 2023

Autistic "unmasking is something I am coming to terms with, but having an environment within which I can feel safe and be myself helps significantly with that. As things stand, it’s a lifetime of damage that needs reversing." @hassaan97, at TPGA:https://t.co/Ru8e7i0Mdg #Autism— Thinking Person's Guide To Autism (@thinkingautism) January 21, 2023

“High-functioning #ActuallyAutistic self-advocates want to erase #profoundautism!” Have you heard this frequently stated lie? It stems from a HUGE misunderstanding of #neurodiversity, which has fueled a manufactured, unnecessary “war” btwn #autism parents & #autistic adults. /1 https://t.co/utB4u5LtNn— Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, PhD (she/they) (@MorenikeGO) January 21, 2023

Autistic "unmasking is something I am coming to terms with, but having an environment within which I can feel safe and be myself helps significantly with that. As things stand, it’s a lifetime of damage that needs reversing." @hassaan97, at TPGA:https://t.co/Ru8e7i0Mdg #Autism— Thinking Person's Guide To Autism (@thinkingautism) January 21, 2023

Autism with intellectual disability is not accurately “Kanner’s autism” or “classic autism”. Kanner insisted on the “good cognitive potentialities” of all his patients in his first autism paper and attacked the ability of standardized IQ tests to measure their intelligence. 3/— Steven Kapp (@drstevenkapp) January 19, 2023

We certainly do not seek to sabotage support for people with the high support needs, including ourselves for some of us. Clearly supporters of "profound autism" think it would result in more support for such autistic people, but as I explain, I think in practice it would backfire— Steven Kapp (@drstevenkapp) January 21, 2023

Autism is under identified NOT over identified.It may seem like “suddenly there are more Autistic People than ever” but we’ve always been here.— NeuroDivergent Rebel (they/them/Xe/Xem) 🧠 🏳️‍🌈 (@NeuroRebel) January 21, 2023

My review article critiquing the scientific and social validity and feasibility of “profound autism” is out, free: Profound Concerns about Profound Autism: Dangers of Severity Scales and Functioning Labels for Support Needs@EducSci_MDPI @MDPIOpenAccesshttps://t.co/TGiO34Jydk— Steven Kapp (@drstevenkapp) January 19, 2023