"Keep trusting your needs. Staying in isn’t isolation, it’s resistance to a world that demands constant performance. It’s you choosing peace over pressure".

Belief. Solidarity. Safety.

You have the autistic urge to google words and their synonyms. It is a natural thing for you to do. You do this so that you can find out their precise meaning then use the words that most closely capture what you want to express. The thought of using inaccurate words can feel very uncomfortable.

Allistics scientized their bigotry. #autism

I was a healthy Autistic girl and school ruined me. I was a healthy Autistic girl and the NHS ruined me. I was a healthy Autistic girl and society ruined me. #autism

I'm done with going out. It is traumatising. I'm sick of trying to fit into a world that ignores my needs. I'm done.

I need allistics to stop punishing me for being Autistic while simultaneously believing autism doesn't exist in females. If you punish me for being Autistic, you've shown your belief that I'm autistic. You're just in denial.

I fantasize about carrying a water-squirting bottle witth me so that when an allistic is being an ableist ignorant twat I can squirt them with water. "Bad allistic! Naughty allistic!"

"Preparing me for the real world" simply doesn't work. It's impossible. I've tried. They can't make me non-Autistic. They can't eradicate my impairments through brute force. I'm not a broken allistic, I'm an Autistic that is broken by "fixes".

Olivia Buckingham, 7543, reportedly experiences time in what scientists are calling an “eternal relentless slog continuum”.

Secondary school taught me that I don't belong in the world, that I'm a broken alien that people don't listen to. Secondary school was the start of my marginalization. Society didn't prepare me for the horrors and deprivations of Autistic adulthood.

I carry a deep, unrelenting sadness for my teenage self. I am sad that even 15 years later, the child abuse I suffered from school and CAMHS still doesn't matter. I have been ghosted, gaslit and denied accountability, justice or closure.

Why is chronic child abuse acceptable when it's the school system being ableist towards an autistic child/teenager? I have been massively damaged by school and the NHS. Where's my survivors' support group?

Neuronormativity. Allistic supremacy. The allistic gaze. Autism denialism. Systemic oppression.

My core identity, my genetics, is that I'm autistic. Anything or anyone who ignores this, and my class, my social situation, my political situation, is not worthy to call themselves a professional.

it's genuinely lonely being one of the most "woke" autistics on Earth, forced to reject most of the crap other people accept unquestioningly due to their privileges

and the "angry woke" is a L2 semi-verbal autistic girl, unemployable and with no qualifications, living in poverty, with a history of homelessness and grooming! my anger is proportionate to how difficult my life is

the more intersections of oppression you have, the more "unrealistic" your anger appears to a privileged person; "OMG stop being an angry woke!"

The new Barbie comes with a range of accessories to reflect her status as an autistic woman, such as: - noise-cancelling headphones - a fidget spinner - intense social media scrutiny about how she's Being Autistic Wrong

The only thing that can heal my PTSD to any extent, is a proper autism process. I need someone to see and understand my struggles. I need some proper fucking healthcare!

I went home from my last autism assessment, the "diagnosis", feeling as though I had been raped. I was exhausted, broken, covered in tears. His gaslighting had me crying on the floor of the office while the two ladies watched.

it's weird that I suffer the consequences of autism every day, I've been repeatedly threatened with prison/fines/homelessness because of my harmless Autistic behaviours, I've been persecuted by CAMHS and school for being autistic, but I am still undiagnosable?

I just wanted a proper process, where someone finally sees the struggle underneath. I just want what the NHS website promised me.

I have been through an entire NHS process and yet I still haven't had my struggles seen and empathized with by a clinician. Nobody sees the Me underneath. Nobody sees the disability. I am trapped in gestalt. Autism is so isolating it's killing me.

thinking back to the time that the "autism clinician" tried to force socialising onto me makes me want to kill myself, not just because of the masking but because she couldn't see how much manual effort it takes to produce a response

people with full-blown allism should not be dictating the lives of Autistic people #ActuallyAutistic

vast quantities of allism

Each industry is named after its product. ... except the autism industry. Instead, it's named after the people it subjugates. But semantically, ir should be the "allism industry", as the goal is to produce allism. #autism

Bigots seem weirdly attached to 20th century autism "science" ... so I've decided I'm going to refuse to acknowledge pluto as a dwarf planet, the Higgs Boson, net positive fusion or the mRNA vaccines until female, masked autism is finally recognised by the allism industry.

every day I am devastated by the fact that ... this is it, this is all society has to offer me after a lifetime of Autistic persecution, marginalization and exclusion? ... it's sui-fuel can't even get a proper expert for my extremely life limiting disability? 😭 genuinely I have nothing left to try

NHS autism diagnosis had all the competence and professionalism of DashCon and the Willy Wonka experience combined.

Autism diagnosis is a bourgeois pseudoscience. "Autistics" lived for thousands of years without diagnosis. It's a document of control for the involuntary, and a document of vanity for the voluntary.

Diogenes looking for a real autism expert:

I feel too old to have special interests. I can't have happy obsessions anymore. Society and adulthood has crushed the joy out of me. All I can think about every day is the neurocolonizer, and how trapped and pointless I am in this world.

"everyone's a bit Autistic" then why did you bully me to the brink of suicide for being different, enslave me into suicidal burnout, force me into daily sensory rape that made me non-verbal, call me the R slur, complain about my lack of speech, and call me selfish, stubborn and arrogant?

It's so infuriating that I've gone through a lifetime of severe difficulties because of my autistic underclass femalehood, only for people to think that I've had an easy life. If allistics lived my life, they'd change their patronising tone.

Privileged people are obsessed with "disagreement" as a form of necessary adversity, completely missing the point that minorities live under constant disagreement re: their deservingness to exist. Disagreement is not new to us. It's new to THEM, and then they project that novelty onto us.

the situation was made even more difficult by the fact that there were posters on the wall saying that we're not allowed to abuse staff; so I'm expected to abuse people in order to get diagnosed, but lose my healthcare if I do? #ableism

the NHS genuinely believed that I had to do something racist or sexist in order to be Autistic; I had to commit a "social faux pas" and be "intolerant" of other people #ableism

Every autistic person has been screaming this stuff for decades while genocidal shitheads have been saying we need to be eradicated.

randomly feeling angry that there's no official support for autistic girls, we're just expected to figure out bra sizes and menstrual products on our own, as though we have the same functioning capacity as allistic girls and can access their secret knowledge

Autistic girls are a threat to the autism industry because we're an example of Autistic heterogeneity. They don't want to recognise us because then they'd have to dismantle their ideology. #autism #misogyny

When there's an opportunity to participate in an academic survey of Autistic experiences, I always take it, because I am asserting my existence and contributing to the demolition of allistic hegemony; since 2021 I have participated in 18 studies.

Thank you to everyone who has taken part so far! We are still recruiting for this study on Autistic sensory joy and would love for more parents and family carers to take part so we can get a diverse range of perspectives. Please share! @kerenmaclennan.bsky.social redcap.bath.ac.uk/surveys/?s=W...

Picard social tip: A Vulcan can laugh. A Klingon can soothe. A Ferengi can give. Your preconceptions are not facts.

The very concept of diagnosis is violent. It was designed to detect and control the most annoying autistics. It's an allistic tool that grants them ownership of autistic existence. Allistics "copyrighted" autism.

While children across England unwrap presents this Christmas, disabled children are unpacking something else: fear. The fear of going back to school. Because for too many disabled children, school isn’t a place of safety or inclusion. #AgainstRestraint