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Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · 10d

…I’m sure there are more that I didn’t list here!

(It’s also the month of my birthday and Halloween! 🎂🎃)

Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · 10d

🤯 Found out that October is an awareness month for many things…

- Selective/Situational Mutism Awareness Month
- ADHD Awareness Month
- AAC Awareness Month
- Disability Employment Awareness Month
- Down Syndrome Awareness Month
- Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · 10d

Part 2: www.autisticasfxxk.com/blog/selecti...

How my selective mutism is connected to childhood trauma (part 2)

After sharing my last post about the connection between my selective mutism and childhood trauma, more memories and realisations have continued to surface. Perhaps they finally feel safe enough to res...

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Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · 10d

For Selective/Situational Mutism Awareness Month, I’m reposting these 2 deeply vulnerable posts I wrote earlier this year. I hope my sharing helps people better understand the deeper aspects of Selective/Situational Mutism.

Part 1: www.autisticasfxxk.com/blog/selecti...

How my selective mutism is connected to childhood trauma

I was diagnosed with selective mutism at the age of four, and my selective mutism has always been unusual in its pattern: I was completely mute around my grandparents until the day they died, while I ...

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Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · Sep 11

Idk what possessed me to write a long-ass post about my celebrity crushes but here ya go!

www.autisticasfxxk.com/blog/celebri...

Special interest infodump: a history of my celebrity crushes

It was a consistent recurring pattern throughout my life: I would go through phases of becoming completely obsessed with a particular male celebrity. And then after a period of time—around a year or s...

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Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · Sep 1

I wonder if there are other Autistic or Neurodivergent people out there who play The Sims in a similar way that I do. Let me know if you do!

www.autisticasfxxk.com/blog/inner-w...

Exploring my inner world through The Sims

I had an idea one day to create and play Sims that represent different parts of myself, as a supplement to my Internal Family Systems (IFS) work. I figured it’d be a fun and creative way to visualise ...

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Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · Aug 25

Here are some ideas I have on what I’d like to see in a job training programme for Autistic people, based on my lived experience: www.autisticasfxxk.com/blog/job-tra...

What I would like to see in a job training programme for Autistic people

After sharing about my horrific experience with a job training programme for Autistic people in Singapore, I’ve been thinking a lot about what a truly supportive programme would look like. Here are so...

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Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · Jul 8

For most of my life, I didn’t know how to scream. Now I’m learning to scream like my rock idols and reclaiming my anger. www.autisticasfxxk.com/blog/learnin...

Learning to scream like my rock idols

For most of my life, I didn’t know how to scream. Now I’m learning to scream like my rock idols and reclaiming my anger.

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Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · Jun 18

This was a difficult post for me to write, but I felt it was important to share this story so that other Singaporean Autistics who had similar experiences wouldn’t feel alone.

www.autisticasfxxk.com/blog/job-tra...

My horrible experience with a job training programme for Autistic people in Singapore

I’ve mentioned a few times before that I had an awful experience with a job training programme for Autistic people in Singapore. I talked a bit about it in my “Autistic As Fxxk manifesto” post, but af...

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Reposted by Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️

Eric McDaniel @ericm.cd · Apr 17

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.

This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out

Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.

www.npr.org

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Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · Apr 17

Autistic people shouldn’t have to prove their worth through their accomplishments, intelligence, productivity, and usefulness to society in order to be seen as fully human.

No matter what your support needs are, you are already worthy, even if others don’t see it.

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Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · Apr 17

In response to RFK Jr. saying that Autistic people “will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted.”

Background is purple with a crumpled paper texture. Text reads,
“Your worth does not depend on:
• How well you mask.
• How independent you are.
• How gifted or intelligent you are.
• How productive you are.
• How useful you are to society.
• How inspirational you are to neurotypicals.”

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Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · Apr 15

I highly recommend checking out the interviews on the website to learn about the diverse experiences of Autistic people around the world!

If you’d like to be interviewed for this project, get in touch with AutismDialogues.com!

Autism Dialogues

Autistic stories from around the world

AutismDialogues.com

Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · Apr 15

Autism Dialogues is an Autistic-led project that highlights the lived experiences and thoughts of Autistic people through interviews on a range of topics. It is a safe space where interviewees can freely share their insights, stories, opinions, and experiences without judgement.

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Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · Apr 15

Sharing this interview I did with Autism Dialogues for Autism Awareness/Acceptance Month! I think it gives a good overview of my background and experiences as an Autistic person in Singapore.

autismdialogues.com/2024/08/15/i...

Interview 41: Rachel (from Autistic As Fxxk)

Forty-first interview on Autism Dialogues.

autismdialogues.com

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Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · Apr 14

Please help Victor Perez’s family if you can: GoFundMe.com/f/Justice-For-Victor-Perez

Donate to Justice for Victor Perez, organized by Victor Perez

April 5th 2025, Victor Perez, 17, was shot at nine times by four members of the Pocatello PD wi… Victor Perez needs your support for Justice for Victor Perez

GoFundMe.com

Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · Apr 14

To learn more about the pervasive and systemic problem of police violence against Black and Brown neurodivergent and disabled people, check out @StimPunks.org’s excellent trove of resources at: StimPunks.org/Policing

The Cult of Compliance and the Policing of the Norm

If my children are autistic or mentally ill or both, I don’t want them to grow up in a world where their humanity is questioned every single day, or where police brutality based on their disability st...

StimPunks.org

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Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · Apr 14

This Autism Acceptance/Awareness Month, please remember our neurokin who lost their lives to systemic racism and ableism.

Rest in peace Victor Perez. And I still haven’t forgotten Ryan Gainer, who we lost last year. 💔

Background is purple with a crumpled paper texture. On top, text reads, “They should still be here.” Below the text is a cutout photo of Victor Perez, a 17-year-old Puerto Rican Autistic teen, and a cutout photo of Ryan Gainer, a 15-year-old Black Autistic teen.

To learn more about the pervasive and systemic problem of police violence against Black and Brown neurodivergent and disabled people, check out @StimPunks’ excellent trove of resources at: StimPunks.org/Policing

Please help Victor Perez’s family if you can: GoFundMe.com/f/Justice-For-Victor-Perez

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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · Apr 13

Police violence against neurodivergent and disabled people is a pervasive and systemic problem. We collect resources on our page “The Cult of Compliance and the Policing of the Norm”.

stimpunks.org/policing/

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Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · Apr 11

Yes, the West isn’t perfect either, but as my friend Auti_Anthology (from Instagram) has said, “If you live in the West, you already have more autism awareness and support than many others. Appreciate what you have — and please listen to those who have far less.”

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Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · Apr 11

Sharing this for Autism Awareness/Acceptance Month as a reminder that some countries and cultures are decades behind in their views of autism (and disability in general), and Autistic people such as myself struggle a lot in such places.

www.autisticasfxxk.com/blog/autism-...

How autism is viewed in Singapore (spoiler alert: it’s bad!)

Consuming content about autism in most Singaporean media can be triggering for me. The narrative is often either “Look how brave and inspiring these parents are for having to care for this poor tragic...

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Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · Apr 9

Sharing this for Autism Awareness/Acceptance Month! ♾️

Download My Autistic Survival Kit customisable mini-zine for free and print it out or fill it out digitally!

Download link: www.autisticasfxxk.com/blog/autisti...

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Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · Apr 7

Thank you!! 💗 would love to scream on stage one day lol

Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · Apr 7

After sharing my last post about the connection between my selective mutism and childhood trauma, more memories and realisations have continued to surface. Perhaps they finally feel safe enough to resurface now that both my grandparents are gone.

www.autisticasfxxk.com/blog/selecti...

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Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · Apr 2

Sharing this for Autism Awareness/Acceptance Month! ♾️

I wrote this manifesto in 2016, after quitting a job I was placed in by a job training programme from an autism organisation.

www.autisticasfxxk.com/blog/manifesto

Autistic As Fxxk manifesto

I wrote this manifesto in 2016, after quitting a job I was placed in by a job training programme from an autism organisation.

www.autisticasfxxk.com

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