Parents of "twice-exceptional" children - those with both learning challenges and advanced skills - may choose #homeschooling to address the "masking" phenomenon and provide more individualized instruction. A scholar explains the benefits: https://buff.ly/ymllsgx
Rachael Cody, Oregon State University #ASD

For the avoidance of doubt, I would rather be autistic than either Donald Trump or Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
And I don't just mean now, I also mean when they were at the peaks of their physical and mental abilities.
Even then, I would still rather be autistic.
#ASD #autism #trump #ADHD

Elon Musk refers to people on benefits as "the parasite class", conveniently forgetting that as someone on the autism spectrum, he would probably be collecting disability checks if he hadn't been born rich.

I've been eyeing up this monster at my local record shop for about 18 months. Today I gave in. Probably my fav opera.
The record shop is literally a couple of streets away from where part of the opera is set. The opera texts are by a 13-year old #autistic kid. No-brainer, really.

Nobody:...
Neurodivergent brain at 4am: Recreate the block of flats from the 1969 kids' TV series Mary Mungo & Midge, exclusively as a vector graphic, complete with them waving from the window. Make every flower accurate. Do it do it do it do it do it...
#illustration #graphics #TV #art #ASD #ADHD

Marriage and Lasting Relationships with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder): Successful Strategies for Couples or Counselors by Eva A. Mendes, 2015

Proven counseling strategies that will help improve the relationships of married, long-term or co-habiting couples with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder).

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#autism
#Asperger
#marriage
#relationships
#ASD

I hate that I have skills, but I can't apply them because the social workers have crippled me so far that I can't comfortably work on stuff at home at my own pace, & my mental health prevents anyone from hiring me. (Anyone except disgusting recruiters for low functioning people)

I used to have a healthy local friend support network, my previous eviction wiped nearly everyone.

A new phone would prompt me to start a Odysee channel on being an Aspie on social welfare... That can't happen cause the person that previously agreed to a phone trade was denied a family loan for a car. He's now avoiding people to finish paid commissions.

As much as it hurts to ask, I need #mutualaid again to help either myself with food costs in a house that is collectively lying to me, or help my friend achieve a car purchase to ensure he gets his full driver's license this year so he can resume helping me. Links pinned to my profile.

#MutualAidRequest #autism #asd #aspie #aspielife @actuallyautistic

Moved to my new instance, so here's an #Introduction

I'm Rosie. Married to @wouter. Mum of 3. Dutch Indo #designer #artist #illustrator.

I to #paint #draw #craft #sew #sculpt #design #code #drupal and build #lego

Sometimes I stream games and art on #Twitch.

Neurospicy (#ASD), and I have #lipoedema in my legs/arms.

Love to connect with fellow artists, crafters, gamers and geeks.

Paper crafts: @RosieSoCrafty
#TheSims stuff: @SimsNetwork
#AnimalCrossing stuff: @RosieSoCrossing

Another post on #diagnosis

"Using AI to treat autism"

HOW ABOUT FUCK NO.

@actuallyautistic #asd

Before getting my diagnosis, I sat in this booth.

It's hard to feel we are enough while feeling we are far off from a normal we can't be.

Do you ever find yourself wondering if your flaws are simply a product of being human?

Why do autistic people get fixated on interactions we've had with people?

I think we do it when things bother us.

But why can't we just ‘let go’?

A thread.

1/9

"What even is autism, if it's not a disorder?"

I get asked this. Sometimes curiously. Sometimes more as a challenge, e.g. from those who 'don't believe in labels' or feel we're 'all on the spectrum.'

How to answer?

A thread

Researchers have discovered air pollution could increase a child’s risk of developing autism spectrum disorder. The research, published in “Brain Medicine,” suggests ultra-small pollutants impact a young brain the most. @sciencefocus has more. https://flip.it/dXm9UM
#Science #Autism #ASD #Health #Pollution

Please stop with "autistic people are more moral". It's a modern-day "noble savage" myth. Yes, there are some amazingly good and moral autistic people. I also remember the army of sysadmins, engineers, and mere trolls who brigaded the comment sections of news sites and social media ~2014-2016, terrorizing and shaming minorities, rape victims, bullied children, and grieving parents, the same people who swamped online polls with bots and worked tirelessly to get Trump elected, many referring to themselves as "weaponized autists."

Some #autistic people are victim-blaming, billionaire-worshiping, conspiracy-theory-spreading MAGA followers. There are autistic evangelicals, bitcoin fanatics, and disinformation workers.

These people exist exist in the same universe as every autistic person who behaves in more moral ways, and who thinks more rationally than average.

AFAIK, the cluster of cognitive, social, social-cognitive, emotional, and behavioral differences that define #autism do not map well to morality.

Autistic people are _people_, as it turns out.

(Edits: removed redundancy, fixed grammar & sentence structure... I wrote this very late at night and it needed help)

I found this Venn diagram very helpful, might be of interest to others.

From Katy Higgins Lee, MFT (https://www.katyhigginslee.com/)

#ADHD #ASD #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD @actuallyautistic

Ok, I have a request that I am hoping Mastodon can deliver.

I am looking for some reading material on Autism and supporting autistic kids *in Persian*. I have a friend who may be going down the diagnosis path with their kid, and so far they have been using Google translate, but it's really bad for Persian translation. If anyone can point me in the direction of any documents, books, advice etc that is in Persian that I can show to her, that would be amazing.

Any leads would be great, thankyou

Adding hashtags as recommended

#Persian #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #ASD #askfedi

(also worth noting, my own kid is on the autism spectrum, and we can see from her diagnosis and talking to the person who dx'd kiddo both me and my dad are too - but we are new to this and I want to find already translated text by a human because we have found google translate to be really unreliable and sometimes says the opposite of what we are trying to say. we both speak a little french, but not enough for a proper translation.)