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A lot of discourse about staying/leaving Twitter that is bringing up good points about the point of social media. Regardless of what you choose to do I hope you realize that those of us who leave are likely those who already feel unsafe here. 1/5— Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD (@Nicole_Lee_Sch) April 25, 2022

I’ll say it again:Disabled people NEED social media. We don’t have the luxury of boycotting and burning down every platform.Fight for safe spaces and ethical management of these platforms. Please don’t rip away every last one of our online communities.— Karli Drew ♿️ (@KarLeia) April 25, 2022

Please look up the long, awful and literally deadly history of viewing disability as ‘a curse from God’, with ‘healthy child’ as blessing, ‘unhealthy’ as burden. It’s horrifying well documented.Better yet, listen to #disabled people. They speak often about this.— Tara Moss (@Tara_Moss) April 21, 2022

Stark difference between abled and high risk people’s experience of the pandemic is that abled people are relieved things aren’t like 2020 anymore and I would give anything to go back to late 2020 levels of protection, precaution, and actual transparent public data about risk— Lauren Kayes (@LaurenRKayes) April 20, 2022

Being AuDHD means being able to make friends because you're high energy and can pass as outgoing at a single event, but being doubly unable to keep friends because you forget people exist when you can't see them and because your recharge time is measured in weeks— Structured Success (@StructuredSucc) April 21, 2022

It’s honestly wild to me how much schools set autistic kids up to fail when I don’t know a single #actuallyautistic person who doesn’t love learning. Like when we hang out together it’s “did you know” after “did you know”, followed by some excited googling— self-taught human (@idkmybffcal) April 21, 2022

Gonna shoot my shot. Since May is #APAHM month, I would like to co-organize an online screening of #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce for folks who cannot watch in theaters due to the pandemic & accessibility Hey @Daniels @a24 hit me up! DisabilityVisibilityProject@gmail.com https://t.co/XpoMvbZJsg— Alice Wong 王美華 (@SFdirewolf) April 21, 2022

I submit for your approval: the ND experience of not knowing when you actually displayed the wrong feelingsme: "I'm sorry, I got frustrated and I shouldn't have reacted that way" everyone, 1-1 : "uhhh? what are you talking about? you were chill"1/2— rowasc is building keyboards and stuff (@rowasc) April 22, 2022

"When students “fail” to learn by the measures of the traditional model it is assumed to be the student’s fault and they are given a double dose of “accountability” to make up for it..." - Nick Covington @CovingtonEDU #restorehumanityhttps://t.co/FkXIrOUget pic.twitter.com/htt9HRLy7E— Human Restoration Project (@HumResPro) April 22, 2022

Dear dentists & dental hygienists,Please ask your patient if they'd like to know what you're doing in their mouth and, if so, show them the instruments you're using and explain what you're doing with them.Many thanks,Every #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #GAD #PTSD #cPTSD patient— Dr Petrichor 😷🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🇬🇧 (@DocPetrichor) April 22, 2022

This is also a disability rights issue.The option to work from home is more inclusive as offices are not accessible to all. https://t.co/nbsIEHcF5E— Sarah Boon #StopTheShock (@Saraheboon) April 19, 2022

How fun is this? What's your neurodivergent love language? https://t.co/ZVDTzhKKkQ 📰: @stimpunks ✏️: @rboren— Embrace Autism (@_EmbraceAutism) April 19, 2022

I have new hair! I went to a hairdresser on my own without significant anxiety (the Hair Lounge in Polwarth, Edinburgh is chill, helpful, and trans-friendly, and there’s a cute dog)! Yaaaaay! pic.twitter.com/qlM1jTJ9EI— Sonny Hallett (@scrappapertiger) April 19, 2022

The myth that autistic people can't or don't experience empathy is dangerous and entirely untrue.What is true is that autistic people often feel and express empathy differently than neurotypicals expect. Let's talk about it.An #AutismAcceptanceMonth Thread— Structured Success (@StructuredSucc) April 17, 2022

Once you realize how many Neurodivergent brains are in your family, so much makes sense. It does not erase your valid trauma, struggles and pain you experienced. It doesn't erase the things that deserve apologies. But, for me, it's both fascinating and helpful in healing.— Brandi Thompson (@awesomebrandi) April 18, 2022

To learn about conversion therapy in neurodiversity contexts and its shared history with gay conversion therapy, visit our website @stimpunks.https://t.co/kR0utD4Nd1— Ryan Boren (@rboren) April 18, 2022

Check out @stimpunks, our 501(c)(3) nonprofit and philanthropic LLC serving fellow neurodivergent & disabled people so we can keep on living through the onslaught.https://t.co/kR0utD4Nd1— Ryan Boren (@rboren) April 18, 2022

The entire autism community (which is to say not just #ActuallyAutistic people, but our family members, professionals working with us, and yes, non-autistic researchers) stands to gain from this broader understanding of what autism means.Our biggest problems are not biomedical. pic.twitter.com/Zi945TpoWB— Oolong 🍉 (@MxOolong) April 16, 2022

"The medical model is essentially individualist"Feeling that.https://t.co/CrBeloCPLq— Ryan Boren (@rboren) April 18, 2022

This phenomenal review article from @liz_pellicano and @JacdenHouting for @TheJCPP lays out exactly why autism science needs the neurodiversity paradigm, and what it means.The biomedical approach to autism has yielded slow and patchy progress, leaving major questions untouched. https://t.co/XvaihD8idb— Oolong 🍉 (@MxOolong) April 16, 2022

I excerpted the review on our new Research page @stimpunks in the "Stop, Hammer Time" section. https://t.co/LkmgmxMAQp— Ryan Boren (@rboren) April 18, 2022

There is me currently: @stimpunks But no reason there can’t be more.— Born Borg (@iputahexonyou) April 18, 2022

i loveeee stimpunks. i think when it comes to community, it’s better for us to join than start, unless there is a non-negotiable moral disagreement. the bigger any body is, the more it can do. idk, it just seems like we can move faster by adding to what’s already moving— Shu-Shu Fontana (@MauiMescudi) April 18, 2022

Sure. I haven’t looked into it yet. I’m a little reticent to join mutual aid orgs after previous experiences. And I think mutual aid can work really well at a small informal scale, but I’m open to possibilities.— Born Borg (@iputahexonyou) April 18, 2022

definitely. i haven’t worked with them personally, but from what i’ve read they’re having pretty significant success making mutual aid happen on a much larger scale, which is what draws me to their model— Shu-Shu Fontana (@MauiMescudi) April 18, 2022

Love looks like someone bustling around at home doing everyday things that wanted to call just to be with me across time and space. Love looks like not trying to fix everything and just allowing bad days to be bad. Love looks accepting my need to isolate as much as possible. 3/4— Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD (@Nicole_Lee_Sch) April 15, 2022

Love looks like spaces for shared grief. Love looks like celebrating our mere existence and survival in a world so set on eradicating us. Love is everywhere in disabled communities. 4/4— Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD (@Nicole_Lee_Sch) April 15, 2022

When treatment and support for a person with a learning disability (whatever that means, we know many measures are spurious or eg ppl are incorrectly labelled as this because they cannot speak) differs to those without, red flags are raised for human rights breaches. https://t.co/6yiqfCAHMN— Fiona Clarke (@Fiona_Clarke_) April 16, 2022

"Instead of discovering our neurodivergence, finding a community, and celebrating our existence, we are instead being told that our personalities are disordered" How neurodivergent people are being diagnosed with #BPD by @jaunty_aphorism https://t.co/FpRBLlkZ6R— H.Spandler 🐕 (@HSpandler) April 16, 2022

I am all of these. My husband and I have done parallel play/body doubling for years… https://t.co/ba5C8PyS0Z— 𝙷𝚊𝚗 || 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚗𝚎𝚢 𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗 ♡𖤐 (@Hannaesthetic__) April 15, 2022