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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they)

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I build neuroaffirming communities by empowering my fellow autistic humans with advocacy & self-care tools for navigating an NT world based on productivism AuDHD ♾️ 🌀 דזשענדער־טרייף #POTS #Dyspraxia ♿️ theautisticcoach.com Also @autisticrabbi.bsky.social

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 1d

You’ve spent decades adapting.

Performing.

Surviving.

Now you finally know why - do you do with that truth?

www.theautisticcoach.com/late-diagnos...

late identified autistics workshop - starting ocotber 22

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 1d

Unmasking means learning to notice those quiet implosions too.

And giving yourself permission to come back to your body - without needing to prove to anyone that you were hurting.

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 20h

Autistic humans don’t burn out from being autistic.

We burn out from pretending we’re not.

From jobs, families, and systems that punish difference and call it “help”.

Recovery isn’t about fixing us.

It’s about changing the conditions.

Even one small one at first is already a huge step.

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 19h

Do my autistic comrades get dysregulated from using the toilet?

If so, you’re not alone.

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 8h

There aren't enough spaces for autistic trans folx

Come join us on November 18 as we dig into SELF-CARE.

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 1d

You weren’t “lazy”.

You were autistic and overwhelmed.

You weren’t “indecisive”.

You were autistic and unsafe.

You weren’t “procrastinating”.

You were autistic and frozen.

Autistic inertia isn’t refusal.

It’s a nervous system doing its best to survive.

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 8h

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 9h

So Bari Weiss is an autistiphobe too, no shocker I suppose

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How One Man Overcame His Autism

YouTube video by The Free Press

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 1d

While I love talking about autism, I love talking talmud even more!

In my 5-week class we will be exploring how to neuroqueer the talmud and see what the tradition has to say about opression and ableism.

All learning levels welcome!

www.theautisticrabbi.com/autistic-tor...

Neuroqueer Talmud - Ableism, Power Dynamics, and Oppression in Rabbinic Literature — The Autistic Rabbi(nical Student)

Join Neuroqueer Talmud: Ableism, Power Dynamics, and Oppression in Rabbinic Literature (Nov–Dec 2025). A 5-week online Beit Midrash exploring Talmud on personal harm through a queer, disabled, and neurodivergent lens. No prior Talmud study required—just Hebrew alphabet recognition. Learn in chevruta

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 16h

I’ve been saying this for years - you cannot understand autism or autistiphobia without understanding how antisemitism plays a roll in it and autism's intellectual development.

Now RFK Jr is claiming circumcision causes autism.

This isn’t accidental.

🧵🪡 a thread

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 10h

Come chat autistic burnout in a safe and supportive online discussion group on October 20

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The #ActuallyAutistic Coach

Schedule your appointment online The #ActuallyAutistic Coach

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 13h

You’ve spent decades adapting.

Performing.

Surviving.

Now you finally know why - do you do with that truth?

www.theautisticcoach.com/late-diagnos...

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 14h

You spent decades adapting.

Performing. Surviving.

Now you finally know you’re autistic - but what do you do with that truth?

A 5-week space to unmask, rebuild, and begin living on your own terms.

www.theautisticcoach.com/late-identif...

late identified autistics workshop starting october 22

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 14h

looking for a safe and supportive queer autistic space?

i'm hosting a free q&a and discussion on october 14

www.theautisticcoach.com/autism-discu...

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 15h

autsitic people don't have a physical look - some of us may have similar mannerisms - none of them apply to all.

The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 15h

You don’t need to be less autistic.

You need support that understands how you actually work.

My 1:1 peer-support coaching offers autistic-led guidance to help you unmask, and rebuild life around your actual needs.

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Autistic Peer-Support Coaching | Autism Coaching for Professionals — The Autistic Coach

1:1 online coaching for autistic adults seeking neuro-affirming support, regulation, and balance. Sessions available worldwide and covered by Access to Work in the UK. Personalised autistic-led coaching to explore regulation, burnout, and authenticity.

www.theautisticcoach.com

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 16h

And autistic people, Jews, Muslims - we’ve seen this script before.

We know where it leads.

Circumcision doesn't cause autism.

Jews and Muslims aren't making you autistic.

We need to continue to call this out.

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 16h

Antisemitism, islamophobia, capitalism, white nationalism - they all converge on the same question:

Who gets to be human?

This isn’t about RFK Jr alone.

It’s about a system that keeps recycling fascism as wellness, eugenics as science, purity as progress.

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 16h

The same obsession with control over whose lives are seen as “polluted".

And autism and antisemitism has always been at the center of that story.

Autism isn’t a symbol of decline.

It’s a mirror held up to a world that can’t tolerate difference unless it can profit from it.

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 16h

The “return to nature” ideology that Nazism dressed up in homeopathy, vegetarianism, and “natural healing".

Don’t be fooled by the aesthetic of peace and purity.

It’s the same old hatred repackaged.

Nothing here is new.

Pure white nationalism.

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 16h

And now RFK Jr shows up pretending to be interested in “natural ways of being”.

Talking about purity, “toxins,” “unnatural interference".

That language isn’t new.

It’s the same fascist dream of the perfect, "uncontaminated" body.

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 16h

That logic didn’t vanish after the war.

It continued under different names - into capitalism’s obsession with productivity, independence, “resilience.”

Autistic people still get measured by those same standards.

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 16h

All of it born from the same evil worldview - eugenics and antisemitism feeding each other.

White Nationalism.

In Nazi ideology, value came from output.

If you could work, you were redeemable.

If you couldn’t, you were disposable.

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 16h

The “autistic” was imagined through the same stereotypes used against Jews.

The overintellectual.

The emotionally cold.

The unproductive.

The weak, "effeminate male" who drains society’s strength.

The “useless extractive leech".

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 16h

It was shaped inside a Europe obsessed with purity - with who was “fit,” who was “useful,” who was “worth saving".

The same ideas that fueled antisemitism built the foundation for how autism was framed.

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 16h

This is white nationalist hate dressed in “research".\

I don't care that he's of Irish descent - he plays into the White Nationalist agenda and autism is at the crux of it.

Autism didn’t just “develop” as a neutral scientific concept.

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