Fear-based narratives around autism don't protect autistic people they dehumanize us. When autism is framed as a tragedy, we are treated like tragedies. That hurts. It isolates. It kills. We need understanding, not fear.

Your Autism Action Plan should be to leave us the fuck alone.

the fact that so many people frame autism as “a problem that needs to be solved” is a constant reminder that being “not normal” isn’t acceptable to a large amount of the world. it’s the same reason there’s a trans panic right now too. they think people are defective

All this autism stuff is making me want to hurt myself. I can't cope with the fact that so many powerful people think I'm a plague that should be cured.

I feel like we’ve lost over a decade of progress around reporting on autism in just the last six months. It’s depressing.

I refuse to be told by a guy who has suggested all neurodivergent Individuals should be institutionalised, and another whose brain was eaten by a worm, that my being autistic is the problem, or a crisis. Autistic individuals aren't the problem, the way we are treated and minimised damn sure is.

On Trump, autism and tylenol: A student I was talking to today had it exactly right on this latest White House bullshit claim “It’s at the perfect intersection of hating disabled people and wanting women to be in pain” There’s not only no link, the claim is both ableist and misogynist.

Not really a fan of how most people talk about autism. Even those who support autistic people will act like it’s some disease to be avoided. Something we should be reducing the chances of. I think a lot of people do think that. Because they don’t view us as desirable.

You could murder us all - god knows they'll probably try eventually - but there will be just as many of us in the next generation.

Your regular reminder that trying to 'cure' autism or queerness is as medically implausible as 'curing' left-handedness, aversion to coriander, or not being able to roll your tongue. They are part of normal human variation and will keep showing up in every population in roughly the same proportions.

"People who received a different diagnosis or no diagnosis in prior generations now have an autism diagnosis, said Ari Ne’eman, an assistant professor of health policy and management at Harvard. "That’s not an epidemic—it’s better understanding of a disability that’s likely always existed."

Steve Silberman is so pissed about this Tylenol bullshit that he's screaming from the afterlife he didn't even believe in. Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol. It's like his work never happened.

LIMERICK It was the Medical Council’s belief, That as a form of effective relief, Paracetamol would Be next to no good From the pain of the Satsuma-in-Chief.

“Many experts are sceptical” is a weird way to spell “most experts say this is totally delusional horseshit” but you do you BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The thing is, being autistic doesn't need to be "stopped" or "cured" or further demonized. The entire conversation is wrong.

This will directly affect both my Dad and my brother, who both have ILR as they were born when their parents were living outside the UK. I'm utterly sickened by the possibility of this. Dad's been here over 65 years, my brother over 40.

They might as well have called it 'We're a bunch of selfish cunts' and had done with it. Also, if they want to PRIORITISE UK CITIZENS they could try sorting out the mess that is the healthcare and benefits systems first rather than reporting half of our doctors and nurses.

Been to the dentist, apparently I've been grinding my teeth at night, which doesn't surprise me given the amount of tension I hold in my neck and shoulders. The mouth guard they've recommended is going to set me back over £250 though. Why is going to the dentist always so fucking expensive.

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

I love words like this

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Instead of an account blackout to protest BlueSky’s anti-sex T’s and Cs update, how about you share content from adult creators whose work you love? We’re drowning. It’s not just me, I don’t know anyone who produces adult content who is doing well right now.

(Oh and Trans Rights are Human Rights, let's get that one in there too)

So: Fascism is bad The First Amendment is good Genocide is an actual fucking crime And also: It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore

Disabled people aren’t “less than”. It’s not a moral failing. Most people will experience disability at some point. It’s a minority group you can join at any time. We need more accessibility, inclusion, accommodation and compassion. There’s no social justice without disability justice.

Stands on rooftops: 📣 🗣️ 🗣️THERE IS NO LINK BTW ACETAMINOPHEN & AUTISM. IT HAS BEEN STUDIED FOR MANY YEARS IN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. 🗣️THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE TALKING ABT THIS IS THAT THEY DO NOT WANT AUTISTIC PEOPLE TO EXIST. 🗣️IT IS EUGENICS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER. -EmilyPhD

Causes of Autism More Plausible Than Tylenol &/or Vaccines: phase of the moon consumption of chicky nuggies capitalism insomnia unexpected texture in foods stepping on legos reading too much tide level one or more parents playing D&D or MtG yarn exposure fire truck sirens in infancy diet & exercise

🎶 I wish I was special / So fucking special 🎶

Loki author @louiestowell.bsky.social presenting her Lokifesto about reading – this is brilliant!

Anyhow I saw the best garden hedge in London today A+++ no regrets

I am autistic and everybody in real life IS SO LOUD 😭

Hana and Miri are still with us, but there will never be another Maru. I loved him because he knew what he was about, deep in his weird little kitty bones, and he just did it. He never seemed to be aware that he was being silly, much less care. He was completely at peace with his own oddity.

Brb, I need to go and have a cry. RIP Maru, one of the most genuinely lovely things on the internet.

And now a short advert for the Spray tour! Get your tickets here snd.click/@sprayontour

Oh my god @selennathegreat.bsky.social you need this for Ready Player One

Wheeee.

The general air of everything in this country being broken and shit that has pervaded throughout since about 2010 makes me very tired. One fucking incompetent government after another while everything everybody does just gets more broken and more shit. I am so tired.

lately when i’m feeling hopeless i just think of the Katamari cat wearing scuba gear. if she can survive in an inhospitable environment then so can i

It's so weird to me when people are like "I have an IQ of 160" because I had an IQ of 160 in high school and I was a dumbass. I just had good pattern recognition skills due to neurodivergence. IQs are BS pesudeoscience full of biases and have no real meaning and you can ignore them.

My friend just used the phrase, “When the world was normal bad.”

My work computer clock has been running about 8 minutes slow for ages and yesterday I finally got round to fixing it, but it being correct now has totally thrown my brain! I was so used to being 8 minutes behind everything.

Our bird feeder ran empty while we were away for the weekend and I came back to it’s camera roll full of disappointed looking birds

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Dear neurotypicals. We don't want her. She was your problem, stop foisting her off on us.

man the mental health difference between online and offline is pretty big in normal times but it an absolute chasm right now being super aware of what’s happening is important but my god it is a drain

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this is one of those posts which really makes you pull up short and think 'what the fuck, it wasn't already?'

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.