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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈

@autisticventing.bsky.social

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Autism is my painful special interest, I'm a L2 semi-verbal autistic 90s baby with a "Greta Thunberg complex" regarding the autism industry. ♿🩼♾️ She/Her. UK.

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 20d

It's not difficult to recognise autism in girls. You just need to pay attention!

Decades of suffering could be prevented if allistics stopped ignoring female autism.

11 signs of autism in girls.

Relies heavily on other children to guide and speak for her. Passionate restricted and specific interests. Unusual sensitivity to sensory challenges. Conversation is restricted to limited topics of interest. Difficulty moderating feelings when frustrated. Unusual depression, anxiety and moodiness. Difficulty making and keeping friends. Often described as quiet or shy. Unusual passivity. Difficulty with social communication increases with age. Epileptic seizures.

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 6h

thank you human ♥️

Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 7h

For World Mental Health Day, I am having a mental breakdown.

a man with the number 163 on his shirt

Alt: brown skinned boy looking blank while confetti falls over him during a competition

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 7h

I almost strangled myself this evening, during a meltdown I am currently still having.

It's my 75th meltdown of the year. I have been crying again.

I am alone, exhausted, pointless, and trapped in my Autism.

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 7h

My autistic life, in summary:

I'm forced to suffer the Mel Baggs fate instead of the Zara Beth fate.

I am trapped under systemic oppression I can't escape. I don't get the neuroaffirmative experience, I get the death-by-gaslighting experience.

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 7h

they expect you to be an extroverted, hyper-verbal, info-dumping male Aspie ... otherwise they refuse to diagnose you

but what if you're introverted, semi-verbal and female?

Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 7h

how are clinicians supposed to diagnose female autism when

1) they don't believe female autistics exist?

and

2) their tests don't look for female autism?

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 11h

Apparently, it's World Mental Health Day.

Proper diagnosis of autism is a suicide prevention tool!

#autism

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Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · 14h

A lot of being an autistic woman is just crying while wondering why it's so hard to just be a person

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Communication 4 ALL @communication4all.bsky.social · 29d

Elizabeth was also delighted to see her friend and fellow advocate Grace Falleur who has a poster at the conference about her research.

#aecongress2025

Elizabeth, a white woman with long brown hair, poses with Grace Fuller, a white woman with shoulder-length blonde hair, on a balcony overlooking a large conference room with many booths below. Elizabeth wears a white C4A t-shirt, a red jacket, black pants, and black flats, and holds her iPad. Grace wears a blue sweatshirt with a rainbow shooting star graphic that reads ”I understand more than you know,” black pants, and white sneakers. Both are wearing a conference nametag lanyard.

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 13h

Autism Deniers participate in the oppressive structure of allistic supremacy.

Autism Deniers are the cousins of climate change deniers and other denial-based political agendas.

Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 13h

Over the past few years, autism deniers have stalked, dogpiled and trolled Autistic people.

They are often grievance parents, allistic clinicians or autistic adults with internalized ableism.

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 13h

Autism Deniers.

What are autism deniers? They are people who deny that autism exists, by framing it as a non-genetic disease that can be "cured".

They also deny the lived experiences & identities of Autistic adults on social media.

#AutismDictionary

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 14h

⬆️ the NHS and school system systematically punishing my autism for 15 years while simultaneously erasing my autism

Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 14h

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 1d

I've always believed that "body language science" is fundamentally oppressive BS and an implicit form of allistic neurocolonization.

Misreading my thoughts and feelings from my body is traumatizing.

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Communication 4 ALL @communication4all.bsky.social · 29d

Elizabeth attended Nicolas Joncour’s presentation on independent living for nonspeakers and discussed over lunch how they could work together in France.

#aecongress2025

Elizabeth, a white woman with long brown hair, poses with Nicholas Joncour, a white man with short dark brown hair, in a large conference room with a blue carpet and dozens of people sitting at tables in the background. Elizabeth wears a white Communication 4 ALL t-shirt, a red jacket, and black pants, and holds her iPad. Nicholas wears a navy long sleeved shirt, dark blue jeans, headphones, and glasses. Both are wearing a conference nametag lanyard.

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 1d

I can identify when something has become a special interest because I think about it constantly and can't stop thinking about it. It consumes my life.

#autism

Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 1d

being Autistic in the 21st century is deeply spiritually exhausting

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine watching the world argue about whether the way your brain works is real, valid, or even welcome. That’s what many autistic people are going through right now. It's not "controversy" to us it's erasure.

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 1d

Growing up undiagnosed autistic feels like trying to run a race with invisible weights strapped to you. Everyone else seems to move forward effortlessly. You start wondering, "Why am I always behind?"
Eventually, you just assume you're a failure.
You're not. You were just misunderstood

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine spending your whole childhood thinking you're broken…
Because school is overwhelming.
Friendships don’t make sense.
You're always "too much" or "too quiet."
That’s what growing up undiagnosed autistic feels like.
You don’t just miss support you miss yourself ✨

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 1d

Failing at basic milestones despite working really hard at them, is traumatic.

It's even more traumatic because survival under capitalism depends on it.

It's even more traumatic because I had no explanation, sympathy or solution.

#LostAutisticGirls

Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody explained to me why the world was too intense, why 12 hours of multitasking was too exhausting, why other pupils bullied and ostracized me, why I couldn't shower or use a bus, why I was struggling to learn from textbooks, or why changes to routine were severely disabling and suicide-inducing.

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 1d

I was an Autistic teenage girl who didn't know why she was struggling with basic teenage milestones because nobody made the effort to inform her she's Autistic.

#LostAutisticGirls

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 1d

My confidence is intact, I told the DWP officer.

I'm an angry, assertive Autistic with chronic, violent meltdowns from 15 years of systemic institutional abuse of my autism.

I have plenty of confidence, but people ignore my demands for autism care.