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DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic

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Championing adult-identified & BIPoC autistic life. Your OG Autistic Auntie dropping unsolicited knowledge. #AuDHD #Autizzy #AutisticWhileBlack ✊🏽♿☮️ autastic.com/community Links @ autastic.carrd.co

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DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · Nov 29

#AutisticBlackSky If you'd like to be added to the Autastic BlueSky Starter Pack, comment here or DM. Similarly, if you want off the list, let me know. Safety first fam.

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DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 1d

🍂Ooh! The new fall Berry colour is on sale for $75 from $170!

Getting a Comfrt weighted hoodie? Get it from Autastic and support our autistic BIPOC members and moderators!

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#ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Autistic #AutisticBIPOC #AutisticPOC

DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 2d

Autistic BIPOC Social Club is today • 1pm PT. Questioning whether you're autistic? Want to feel the difference when you're in a space with your people? Our clubs are free for 3 months & you're free to lurk. Want to try?

Autastic’s BIPOC Social Club – Melanin Melanin Melanin

Struggling to make or keep friends? Our BIPOC Social Club is a relaxed, regular Zoom event by and for adult-identified autistic POC to connect at our pace in ways that fit. 3 months free!

www.autastic.com

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DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 3d

Your periodic reminder: Non-speaking autistic people have the right to communicate. I refer you to Isaiah Tien Grewal who explains it best:

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#ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Autistic

Nonspeaking Autism - My Point of View

My parents did not fully understand me until I was 13. Many medical professionals still don't. This blog will help you get nonspeaking Autistics like me right.

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DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 3d

Just here, ever so softly circling my cat's third eye.

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#AutChat Mod @autchatmod.bsky.social · 3d

Next Sunday’s #AutChat is on pattern recognition. October 12, 1pm Pacific / 4pm Eastern / 20:00 UTC / 9pm BST on BlueSky. autchat.com/pattern-reco...

If you know anyone who might be interested and is autistic or similarly neurodivergent, we encourage you to invite them.

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DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 3d

OMG #AutChat lives on!!! SO happy to find y'all here. Never stop.

DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 3d

I suspect that many of the titles in The Autastic Shop are banned somewhere 🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🏳️‍🌈
Which have you read?
Which should I add?
📚🧠❤️

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Carrie Schneider Author/Illustrator @carrieschneider.bsky.social · 3d

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DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 3d

Oh yay! bsky.app/profile/embe... is here. Looking forward to more from Ember!

DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 5d

Alrighty! It's time for October's Autastic Social Club! We meet in a few minutes for our monthly drop-in. We love welcoming new members, especially those who've never felt the magic of hanging out together. We'll be here for 2hrs. Come on by!

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#autistic

Join the Autastic Social Club

Struggling to make or keep friends? The Autastic Social Club is a relaxed, regular Zoom event where adult-identified and questioning autistic community members connect at our pace in ways that fit. 3 months free!

www.autastic.com

DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 7d

It's Gabriel Byrne and someone took Judy Parfitt's hand out???

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Judy Parfitt and Gabriel Byrne in Diamond Skulls. A white woman with an auburn updo rests her hand on a white man's shoulder. He looks sullen. Both are in formal dress.

DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 7d

And remember casein is capsaicin's nemesis. Wash in some milk maybe.

DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 7d

I'll probably regret this...we're collectively mad that the media continually tells the same story leaving a huge segment of the population out. No one is mad at parents or people with ID and other disabilities.

Here, this explains it better: youtu.be/D9Ihs241zeg?...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story | TED

YouTube video by TED

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DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 7d

Oh my lord. Really??? FFS I JUST... Ugh. This world is too much to keep up with. Thank you. I'll look. Not sure what to do at this point as I've done all this to get to today.

DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 7d

autasticreframe.substack.com

Forgot the most important bit. The link. Sorry everybody 🤦🏽‍♀️

The Reframe From Autastic | Diane J. Wright | Substack

Shifting the view on adult-identified BIPOC life. Click to read The Reframe From Autastic, by Diane J. Wright, a Substack publication.

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DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 7d

Well, I just did a super #actuallyautistic thing. I spent weeks setting up Substack because I was told that’s where people would be able to access work that I share. Launched today. Checked the feed for the first time and I am hit with multiple anti-VAX posts instantly. So now what?

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Sydni - what in the ADHD?! @whattheadhd.bsky.social · Apr 28

FYI 💊🧠

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DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 7d

The Reframe from Autastic is out today! Our new Substack will deliver articles on autistic BIPOC life to your inbox from time to time #ByUsForUs 💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿

#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticWhileBlack #AutisticAndIndigenous #AutisticAAPI #AutisticSWANA #AutisticLatine #AutisticBIPOC

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DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 7d

I wish there was some middle ground. School environments, brutal as they are, teach the social rules we'll need to navigate as adults. There's just no need to bludgeon us with them tho'. And those rules need to change to include us. So far to go...

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DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 7d

And also, follow non-speaking autistic self-advocates across your socials. Support the full spectrum.
#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticWhileBlack #Autism

Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 7d

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) is a way to communicate without talking, like using a letter board or typing on an iPad. We want AAC available for anyone who needs it, and for autistic people to be supported to communicate in the way that works best for us.

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DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 12d

Says pretty much every Autastic community member who worked with autistic clients after they too learned they are autistic. I LOVE how we suss each other out 💛🧡💚

DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 12d

Y'know, just when I feel like quitting, someone shows up to tell me my work changed their life. In no world can finding hope and the will to rebuild be measured against follower count. I may be marginalized by, well everything, but regardless, onward.
#ActuallyAutistic

DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 15d

Sharing this explainer and encouraging others to do the same, particularly now. Entertaining education. What more could anyone need?

"Profound Autism" & Anti-Neurodiversity by Ember Green.

#Autism #ActuallyAutistic #ProfoundAutism

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"Profound Autism" & Anti-Neurodiversity

YouTube video by Ember Green

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DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 19d

Come on in! Once you've signed up, you can join any of our Circles that you like.

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The Autastic Community

FOUND OUT YOU’RE AUTISTIC? WELCOME TO THE CLUB. The Autastic Community is a private community centering adult-identified autistic melanated people 💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿 Not BIPOC? 👉 Check out our other Autastic spac...

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DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic @autastic.com · 19d

It's been a trying week of caucasity. Imma leave this here for anyone who needs it 👑

#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticWhileBlack #AutisticBIPOC

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