CommunicationFIRST is a good resource for and by non-speakers (many of whom are autistic). The autistics in this organization are exactly the kind that are being dismissed and dehumanized by parents and RFK Jr., and they are doing such important work for their community.

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it's that time of year, it's time to get your flu and covid booster shot unless you're from massachusetts then it's time for your flu and covid borcester shot

Not everyone can boycott Amazon

Many disabled & elderly people are housebound and rely on it

Some medical supplies are more affordable there than anywhere else.

Instead of judging, help create networks of care.

Give rides, drop off food and meds, donate to mutual aid

Take care of each other

And it goes without saying that RFK Jr's approach will do nothing to address any of this! Some parents blame the autism for the hard stuff rather than the ableism. They see it as an individual problem rather than a systemic injustice.

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.

I wrote a thing about how this split the MMR up into monovalents is bullshit that Andrew Wakefield cooked up. It will be used to strip access to the MMR.

The MAHA movement continues to destroy public health.

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No, we cannot defeat fascism with a national cultural mindset that SOME people deserve to be kidnapped and caged, ESPECIALLY not when the prevailing reason justifying that is "FOR THEIR OWN GOOD" cuz they're "too crazy/on too many drugs" do u even know what "bodily autonomy" IS??

Teachers didn't know what to do with my kid because he defied their binary views. He had meltdowns and ran out of the classroom in kindergarten, but he also could read and write, and understand multiplication and exponents. He had huge support needs and he was smart, and the adults were so confused.

We keep saying this until we’re blue in the face. And it’s especially exhausting now because folks at the center and on the left cannot acknowledge that they have now adopted and enacted what was far right behavior in 2020.

Massive pandemic failures and collective capitulation brought us here.

Since 2020, disabled people have been pointing out the rising ease with ableist rhetoric/language, the comfort with which so many people used the r word, the number of people willing to abandon disabled people for some notion of the "normal."
All of it mattered/matters to understand fascism today.

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

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Cohen said: “If I’m going down, I’m taking you all with me. I’m handing out epiphanies like Oprah hands out cars. You get an autism! And you get an autism. You only get an ADHD – but you can still hang with us.”

"Anti-ableism vs. scientific accuracy is a false dichotomy," plus "autism science has a history of false leads in part because of unexamined ableist ideologies that undergird researcher framings & interpretations of evidence." @kbottemabeutel.bsky.social et al:

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Literally please just repost this or reply "Happy Birthday Wajih!"

A little boy is suffering. Please help me give him some joy.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Recognized the woman in the photo instantly. She once had to hear her mother talk on camera abt driving them both off of George Washington Bridge. That talk—abt taking yr child’s life& yours—was in a video made by autism org that worked to demonize autistic ppl. Ghorayshi is a straight line from it

The accompanying editorial tells the sad truth that is largely being ignored
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Children and teens who had a Covid reinfection had a doubling of #LongCovid risk (PASC) and a significant increase in many other adverse outcomes (Figure) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

There are so many in the autism community who have been fighting this narrative for years, only to have these misrepresentations be the focus of this article. Just like with vaccines, it's a big step backwards.

This article uncritically accepts the framing of the "profound autism" parents, wrongly suggests that the neurodiversity movement is taking funding away from autistics with higher support needs, & never mentions the employment challenges and high suicide rates of autistics with low support needs.

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This! I think the opposite of fascism isn’t “normal,” it’s taking joy in weirdness

Something I hadn’t even considered until I wrote this piece:
Not taking Tylenol is not an option for #ActuallyAutistic moms since many of them experience pain and nausea and many of them have hypermobility, which increases pain during pregnancy.
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