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Yes. One person’s necessary stim can be another person’s sensory hell.— Joanne Limburg (@JoanneLimburg) June 15, 2022

Neurotypicals when you tell an autistic person "I never would have known you were autistic" please know that that is just a pleasant way of acknowledging that they have been waging a silent lifelong war (against themselves) to fit in and you have been of precisely no help— Neurotypicality Research Inc 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (@SNeurotypicals) June 15, 2022

Sometimes different autistic traits in separate autistic people really clash, quite badly. It's hard to know how to smooth other these situations.— Pete Wharmby (@commaficionado) June 15, 2022

I often feel sad for my past self, for not being kinder to her at the time. Yet being kind to myself now still feels impossible. Even when I know I will one-day look back on now and wish I had been. Why are we always so hard on ourselves?— Emily♡ (@ItsEmilyKaty) June 14, 2022

Trying to find an affordable, smoke-free, wheelchair-accessible apartment is fucking hopeless. Safe, affordable housing is a form of suicide prevention that low-income, disabled people are denied. Remember that.— Brain Frog ♿ (@brain__frog) June 14, 2022

"The shift from an active and exploratory early-childhood pedagogy to a more scripted and instruction-based model...favors shallow mimicry...while devaluing complex, integrative learning." The curriculum isn't about ideas - just "naming and labeling": https://t.co/HqQrQ0ZtHg— Alfie Kohn (@alfiekohn) June 15, 2022

"The earlier [that schools try] to inculcate…academic skills, the deeper the damage and the more permanent the achievement gap" -Deborah Meier— Alfie Kohn (@alfiekohn) June 15, 2022

My GP: *gives me a complete script for my specialist appointment, with the lines I should say, options a, b and c how the specialist might react, and then some more lines for me depending on which option the specialist chose*Me: *stares in surprised and delighted autistic*— Autistic Science Girl 🌈 (@ScienceAutistic) June 14, 2022

The only way for them to get back a few precious seconds with their vital item was for them to comply. No matter how painful. No matter how uncomfortable. No matter how sensory-overwhelming. No matter how scary if they felt unstable on that item.Welcome to new, kind ABA...— Ann Memmott PGC🌈 (They/she) (@AnnMemmott) June 15, 2022

Society: "you're so high functioning!"Me: Someone accidentally bought the wrong cereal for me yesterday and I didn't find out until this morning, poured a bowl with milk, had a cry, then waited until my cereal got almost too soggy to start eating it.— AutisticSciencePerson, MSc (@AutSciPerson) June 14, 2022

https://t.co/N6tLctfVr5 I see the ABA industry has a new book out about how ABA adds to quality of life. Allegedly. Between them, they managed to find six autistic people to say ABA is wonderful. Others declined to take part...— Ann Memmott PGC🌈 (They/she) (@AnnMemmott) June 15, 2022

Beyond buzzwords: If you want to know what restorative justice means in practice, look no further than the Circle Keepers, a student-led group from Harvest Collegiate High School in NYC. Here's a preview of the Circle Keepers' Conference to Restore Humanity flipped keynote: pic.twitter.com/UII5OvASec— Human Restoration Project (@HumResPro) June 14, 2022

Hello world.If anyone's wondering where I've been for the last few weeks, my father passed away a couple of weeks ago after several harrowing weeks in hospital... 1/— Autistamatic (@autistamatic) June 15, 2022

My ADHD ass needs a partner who lives with me to keep me from regularly letting my apartment turn into a mess; my autistic ass needs to live 100% alone with no other people around. Such fun!— Fochti (@fochti) June 15, 2022

An absolutely core issue I need policy-makers and people in decision-making positions to grasp is that the people you think "help" us disabled people or "care" for us or ensure our "wellness" are often the people and systems who are the source of our harm and trauma.— Gabrielle Peters: Pauper crip👩🏻‍🦽💚 (@mssinenomine) June 16, 2022

I'm not high functioning; I'm high masking.— neurodelicious 🌈🍯✨ (@GummiPies) June 15, 2022

Once again time to do battle with MyChart because Heaven forfend I be allowed to contact my physician.— s. e. smith (@sesmith) June 15, 2022

Accepting people for who they are is suicide prevention.— Natalie, MS, LPCC 🍪 (@kneadtotalk) June 15, 2022

Why do autistic people flap their hands? "The problem is not autistic hand flapping. The problem is when the decision has been made that hand flapping is annoying or weird, and not natural (and adorable!)." From @UnstrangeMind, at TPGA:https://t.co/9QoMn142Zj #neurodiversity— Thinking Person's Guide To Autism (@thinkingautism) June 15, 2022

now do ABA + autism https://t.co/P8a4rHDEvr— human barometer, M.M. (@laurenancona) June 15, 2022

Just occasionally I think it'd be nice if I could just dial down the level at which I feel feelings. Whether good, bad or in between, they're just LOUD, y'know. Intense. It's an autistic thing I think. Tiring sometimes!— Erin Stevens (@aclientfirst) June 15, 2022

Lizzo deserves credit for listening to the disability community when it told her a piece of language was offensive. But her actions should spur other people to examine how we use ableist language in our daily lives. My latest @MSNBC https://t.co/rQJGUtInfK— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) June 15, 2022

These words from @stevesilberman inspire me to think that we should never assume likewise that being "articulate", "fluent", or able to speak and to write "correctly", or simply able to read and to write equals intelligence or learning.Via @stimpunkshttps://t.co/5dRsVoFQLm pic.twitter.com/cYOuDNQtNg— Isabel Rodríguez (@ecomentario) June 14, 2022

I encourage students to consider narratives within books. This is the 'handbook of quality of life' by four ABA team members. I have highlighted the decisions they made on how to describe us, each of which was a deliberate choice/ https://t.co/tUnfQc9Fhe Page 1 at this link pic.twitter.com/MKSRxXJI0f— Ann Memmott PGC🌈 (They/she) (@AnnMemmott) June 16, 2022

It's a brand new book.So, let's look at what they want people to believe about our lovely marginalised community, which as we know from other research is generally filled with people who are gentle, kind, empathetic, honest, diligent, specialist & keen social-justice seekers/— Ann Memmott PGC🌈 (They/she) (@AnnMemmott) June 16, 2022

"Parental choice" is a big seller for the conversion practices and anti-trans laws and the ABA/IBI industry. https://t.co/D06yMh8b9p— fun facts with lulu (@FunFactsLulu) June 16, 2022

Choose your fighter 💪 pic.twitter.com/VOb0eU50za— Steam Powered Giraffe (@SPGiraffe) June 10, 2022

In case anyone is wondering about my design practice. I wake up every morning, search Twitter and LinkedIn for the phrases 'design for all', 'inclusive design', and 'first adaptive' and then I shitpost my findings before delving into my emails.— Liz Jackson (@elizejackson) June 16, 2022