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Please help!We're so grateful for all your donations so far that mean we can enable some autistic people of colour to attend Autscape. However we have had some last minute applications which we would love to also be able to fund!Please share widely and donate if you can!🙏 https://t.co/Ie3Fv0VLaU— George Watts (@autgeek) June 27, 2022

Please consider donating to enable greater representation and access to Autscape this year, a conference run by and for autistic people. https://t.co/CSxFt6fiA7— Fiona Clarke (@Fiona_Clarke_) June 30, 2022

My love languages are infodumping, parallel play and “look at this random thing I found!!!” https://t.co/RfqTtwmJsE— Katja SchmidDoyle #stoptheshocks (@kschmiddoyle) July 1, 2022

Let's organize our lives around love and careLet's write each other letters and call it prayerLet's congregate in the place that isn't anywhereAt the temple of broken dreams--Ezra Furmanhttps://t.co/8HiEGo0dHp— Stimpunks (@stimpunks) July 1, 2022

Our multi-age learning community sets up and runs our organization. This is some of the software we get experience with.https://t.co/16vUhZyp27— Stimpunks (@stimpunks) July 1, 2022

“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.”—Letter From Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.https://t.co/TqCfpUbirr— Stimpunks (@stimpunks) July 1, 2022

🤲 It is time to celebrate our interdependence.https://t.co/TqCfpUbirr— Stimpunks (@stimpunks) July 1, 2022

🌈People are constantly mis-diagnosed as something else when they are really Autistic🌈Many people have multiple diagnoses that overlap🌈Understanding of Neurodivergence is changing by the day🌈Many people believe ADHD and Autism are part of the same spectrum1/5— Elora - Online 1 Room Schoolhouse (@1Schoolhouse) July 1, 2022

🌈The Neurodivergent community is constantly pathologized and reduced to symptoms, rather than seeking to express the experience🌈Many people know they are Neurodivergent and don’t know what condition they have🌈There are likely brain types we haven’t identified yet2/5— Elora - Online 1 Room Schoolhouse (@1Schoolhouse) July 1, 2022

🌈Often people in the Neurodivergent community will tell me about their experiences and it will contradict the general medical consensus about their “disorder”🌈Medical consensus on our “disorders” is shaky at best and constantly changingSo…3/5— Elora - Online 1 Room Schoolhouse (@1Schoolhouse) July 1, 2022

My ASL 745 students want to follow more Deaf Studies & adjacent scholars. Tagging a few to begin. Please tag others, feel free to boost your pubs & the work of others, or introduce yourselves. @leahcaitrin @linasigns @mdemeulder @jmhenner @DrDaiJestive @cancorpion @ErinMoriartyH— Dr. Deaf Historian (@DeafHistorian) June 30, 2022

I refuse to believe that happiness and accomplishment can only be earned through struggle and suffering!! pic.twitter.com/w1L7CTHlAw— 🐑 Bex Ollerton (@Schnumn) June 30, 2022

🌈People are constantly mis-diagnosed as something else when they are really Autistic🌈Many people have multiple diagnoses that overlap🌈Understanding of Neurodivergence is changing by the day🌈Many people believe ADHD and Autism are part of the same spectrum1/5— Elora - Online 1 Room Schoolhouse (@1Schoolhouse) July 1, 2022

We are shooting ourselves in the foot when we try to divide ourselves before our community has got its footing in the world in the first place.— Elora - Online 1 Room Schoolhouse (@1Schoolhouse) July 1, 2022

Consider, for instance, how parents and teachers often first notice autistic children are 'different' when they 'fail' to share the same interests as other children of their age. Hence the idea of the autistic 'special interest' as a 'symptom' of autism.— Robert Chapman (@DrRJChapman) June 29, 2022

Petition to replace "quantitative" and "qualitative" with "numbery" and "feely"— Michael Leung (@MYCLeung) June 29, 2022

Increasing I am of the opinion that many autism researchers want to define autism as only those who can’t communicate and therefore can’t contradict them.— Mary Doherty 🇺🇦 (@AutisticDoctor) June 30, 2022

Read our head of lab @rosa_hoekstra's editorial on ensuring that progress in #autism research & in services for autistic people reaches those who too often miss out on support due to poverty, poor literacy and access to education, minority status, stigmahttps://t.co/fowkOYIDkV— GLADlab_KCL (@GLADlab_kcl) June 30, 2022

One of the worst things about life is that something awful happens and time doesn’t stop, it carries on, and you just have to keep going through the motions, carrying on like that awful thing didn’t happen.— Emily♡ (@ItsEmilyKaty) June 30, 2022

Autistics are more likely to identify as #LGBTQIA+#Autistic children are subjected to #ABAabuse, which inspired #queer #conversiontherapySo, to ensure the safety of the Autistic-LGBTQIA+ community of #Minnesota, @peggyflanagan & @Tim_Walz must #BanABAhttps://t.co/Iof4uLlcja https://t.co/4KXOh21E9u— Bruce Wenzel (@brucewwenzel) July 1, 2022

Yes, this is also extremely important. In mainstream society people don’t understand how Autistic people support each other, love each other, and care for each other in ways that go far beyond the culturally impaired neuronormative imagination https://t.co/Gtp03H8TrJ.— Jorn Bettin (@jornbettin) July 1, 2022

Yes, this is also extremely important. In mainstream society people don’t understand how Autistic people support each other, love each other, and care for each other in ways that go far beyond the culturally impaired neuronormative imagination https://t.co/Gtp03H8TrJ.— Jorn Bettin (@jornbettin) July 1, 2022

"It is time to celebrate our interdependence!"Collaboration allows us to create genuinely safe spaces for autistic and otherwise neurodivergent people." https://t.co/sC9r2Oh0Yi— Stimpunks (@stimpunks) July 1, 2022

@LauraJaneGrace Thanks for helping us tell our story.https://t.co/52DMdaoYtu— Stimpunks (@stimpunks) July 1, 2022

Autists depend on assistance from others in ways that differ from the cultural norm – and that is pathologised. However, the many ways in which non-autistic people depend on others is considered “normal”, or rather it is brushed under the carpet https://t.co/xY56AX1xn9. https://t.co/ru0n5Dig0y— Jorn Bettin (@jornbettin) July 1, 2022