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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 23h

This was magnificent.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Dr. Ironclad, Brunch Democrat @feclad.bsky.social · 1d

Look at MTG's recent statements about health care. I think pressure on them would actually be helpful

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Dr. Ironclad, Brunch Democrat @feclad.bsky.social · 1d

It's never ever gonna be enough for them...meanwhile the Republicans are the ones who need a talking to between now and the midterms...we take the house and/or the senate, there's a different conversation to be had.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13h

“Oh my god… I have no words.”

Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news.

NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 1d

You know how ppl weren't super fussed abt gay people until it was lgbtq and there were more people than they realized? And those ppl weren't hiding anymore? IAutism is similar. They aren't hiding. More ppl than they thought. And straight neurotypicals are weirdly worried abt being outnumbered.

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Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 1d

I'm high-functioning autistic, have ADHD, and used to manage a pediatric developmental center.

What I want people to know most about it is that it's not a single thing and not even a "spectrum" thing, as the word denotes a linear severity scale when autism is really 3-dimensional in presentation.

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Spageddy "Undead Boochetta" Lee @deadbarchetta.bsky.social · 1d

I have worked in developmental disabilities services for 15 years, and am also autistic with an autistic kid. So this is something I've put a lot of time and thought into. I'll try not to make it too long but it is gonna be a thread. 🧵

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Spageddy "Undead Boochetta" Lee @deadbarchetta.bsky.social · 1d

"I'm not disabled by my autism. I'm disabled by my environment."

When you view autism from this perspective, it's much easier to accept that it's not something that needs to be (or even can be) cured. It's something that needs to be supported. And it's easier to accept the autistic people you love.

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Schmutzie @schmutzie.com · 1d

It is not. Unless I and a bunch of other autistic people I know are living awful lives without knowing it. The way they're talking about us makes my typing here seem like a miracle. OH MY GOD LOOK AT ME RIGHT NOW HOLY CRAP.

a man wearing glasses and a turtleneck is holding something in his hand .

Alt: a man wearing glasses and a turtleneck is repeatedly putting his fingers to his head and pulling them away like his mind is exploding

media.tenor.com

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Schmutzie @schmutzie.com · 1d

My "nonverbal" cousin was able to communicate with a laser pointer at her temple connected to a board she wrote sentences with. She fell in love, she had deep faith and gave her testimony at her baptism, she had a wicked sense of humour. Our lives are the worst at all times.

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 1d

I think neurodivergence that specifically affects social skills makes people read to neurotypicals as part of the out group, & people get weird and paranoid about out group members, & don’t know how to deal with having them in the ultimate in group, the family

(I don’t have much patience for this)

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 1d

I think there’s also a super problematic thing about how a lot of the research is by neurotypicals & interventions focus on performing NT well, which has nothing to do with how autistics experience autism & what supports they would find helpful, but hugely impacts how NTs frame their understanding

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morninggloryvt.bsky.social @morninggloryvt.bsky.social · 1d

I'm an autistic parent of an autistic kid. Autism isn't bad but no autistic person I know has sufficient support. Public schools exclude our kids, the biggest autism therapy is super problematic, families don't have enough help. None of that is due to autism! It's the societal abandonment.

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Jen Dick @jendick.bsky.social · 1d

We literally process stimuli differently, think differently, frequently relate to people differently, and boy howdy, do people hate folks who are different and have different needs.

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Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 1d

I’m an Autistic person who has led a rich and varied life. I’ve dedicated myself to making the lives of neurodivergent folk easier since my late diagnosis at 37. I’m a classically trained chef and wrote a Big5 published food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide (COLOR TASTE TEXTURE).

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mz-dreamaya.bsky.social @mz-dreamaya.bsky.social · 1d

Autism mama here. Profound autism can make a semi independent quality of life for a child pretty much impossible. There are SOOO many factors that can influence it tho. Its very hard and challenging to get the stuff your kid deserves but nothing that, TO ME, warrants this response.

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Nichole @tnwhiskeywoman.bsky.social · 1d

Remember how as soon as the stat came out that POC were most affected by covid, 👱🏻‍♀️👨🏼‍💼
stopped caring about precautions bc it became a “those people/ low class” issue? They can’t do that with autism & it fucks with them. bsky.app/profile/tres...

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17d

I think…people’s obsession with “a cause”…is precisely because autism’s genetic randomness is hard to stratify by social class……………..

Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 17d

THERE. ARE. NO. 'CAUSES'. OF. AUTISM.

(other than being born as a member of Homo sapiens, which is a huge risk factor for turning out to be Autistic).

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Atlas Mugged ✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 1d

We're learning so much more about the experiences of nonverbal autistic people now, too, thanks to increasing awareness and assistive technology, and what really stood out to me was how much their intelligence, experiences, and suffering have been unheard and dismissed in favor of the parents' POV.

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1d

it's a whole thing. there's a giant schism in the autistic community bc a community of autistics and a community of "autism parents" are most definitely at odds.

a lot of the autism "treatments" are child abuse (like ABA)

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 1d

i have two autistic kids and yes it’s more “work” but as a neurodivergent person myself, i think we actually make a great team. most autistic people can have great lives with just a little support or accommodation. unfortunately even that can be too much to ask in the US bc we hate disabled people:(

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 1d

Not autistic but broadly as a disabled person, this and myriad other ableisms come from and cater to the desires our parents. Often very little to do with us. Being disabled or not-neurotypical in a country that hates healthcare + education can be hard, but again also systemic rather than inherent.

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 1d

So … RFK Jr. is cherry picking Support Needs III Autistic people with specific traits and various co-occurring conditions as his “profoundly autistic” example and then applying that to the entire diagnosed-with-ASD community and claiming there is some kind of “devastating” “epidemic”

Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 1d

Part of the extreme dishonesty of RFK Jr. and the administration is that they keep screeching that they are only talking about a “subset” of the Autistic community (and getting people to parrot that) but then they keep using the statics of the *entire* diagnosed ASD population to scaremonger.

Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · Dec 27

It's unclear what your specific goal is but if you want to focus support on the subset of people diagnosed ASD Support Level III with co-occurring Intellectual Disability, then ...

the current diagnosis system *already* identifies that category ...

bsky.app/profile/annm...

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 1d

Part of the extreme dishonesty of RFK Jr. and the administration is that they keep screeching that they are only talking about a “subset” of the Autistic community (and getting people to parrot that) but then they keep using the statics of the *entire* diagnosed ASD population to scaremonger.

Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · Dec 27

It's unclear what your specific goal is but if you want to focus support on the subset of people diagnosed ASD Support Level III with co-occurring Intellectual Disability, then ...

the current diagnosis system *already* identifies that category ...

bsky.app/profile/annm...

chart titled: Distribution of Diagnosed Support Level Across 996 People with a Diagnosis of ASD

ASD SL I Total 756 ASD co-occurring with ID 122
ASD SL II Total 180 ASD co-occurring with ID 81
ASD SL III Total 62 ASD co-occurring with ID 56

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 1d

There is a multi-billion dollar industry that profits off of abusing Autistic kids into the performative mimicry of Allistic kids …

so there is a huge industry of sunk cost fallacy that is devoted to terrifying parents into the belief that Autism is a tragedy that they are the only “cure” for.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t exactly how to phrase this, but like… is autism that bad???? Like, why is it such a source of fear??? Of course there are challenges but you can be autistic and have a rich, fulfilling life! Many people do! I don’t understand the preoccupation.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Many parents are stressed about lack of support and their child’s different needs but look to other stressed parents for information rather than to autistic adults.

Some experience their child’s autism as a narcissistic injury. (The child doesn’t fit into their fantasies of who the child would be.)

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