Plus, many contemporary incentives behind implementing ABA therapy have nothing to do with helping autistic clients, and instead are about profits, private equity, and milking an emerging market. #BetterWaysThanABA

And please remember: Autistic wisdom, in this case about understanding and respecting varying autistic energy capacity—applies to ALL autistic people, *including* those with intellectual and/or communication disabilities. It is self-defeating for " #ProfoundAutism " parents to ignore such insights.

"We need to rebuild a society where ppl who say terrible things experience negative consequences—loss of friends, loss of status, loss of redistricting votes in Indiana (OK, that one is pretty specific). First, we gotta make the text back into subtext again. Then I hope we can erase it completely."

And please remember: Autistic wisdom, in this case about understanding and respecting varying autistic energy capacity—applies to ALL autistic people, *including* those with intellectual and/or communication disabilities. It is self-defeating for " #ProfoundAutism " parents to ignore such insights.

look sometimes humans need specific tools for specific tasks this applies to using wheelchairs for longer distances, instead of walking just like how you might take a plane to travel a long distance, instead of driving

Oh, it's just incredible and effortless how Kristen Stewart dismantles and diagnoses the pathology and ego of Brando (and... well, all the dudes in Hollywood) here. www.youtube.com/shorts/_h-iK... There's just so many parallels to tech in this. And I'm so glad she's solid in herself to just SAY it.

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For my newsletter, I wrote about how the Democratic Party "Big Tent" fell in on trans kids yesterday. www.burnsnotice.com/the-big-tent...

3. Rather than directly banning Medicaid reimbursement for transgender care, the rule would bar any hospital that accepts Medicaid funding from providing gender-affirming care for trans youth at all, regardless of whether that care is paid for by Medicaid.

2. On Thursday, the Trump administration’s HHS, under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., released a new rule that uses Medicaid "conditions of participation" to strip funding from hospitals that treat trans youth—the most aggressive attack on trans healthcare in U.S. history. The rule is seen here:

1. The federal government has just attempted to enact a national trans youth care ban. A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide. It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months. Our latest story here:

Parents who refuse to listen to autistic people are like the American tourists who don’t bother to learn words in local languages, but think they can be better understood if they just talk louder—and then get upset when the situation doesn’t improve. #autism #neurodiversity #parenting

Trans healthcare IS lifesaving care, particularly for minors. Banning it WILL lead to misery and higher suicide rates. This is sheer ugly bigotry with ZERO basis in science or medicine. CALL YOUR REPS.

Let Werner Herzog cheer you up today (no, really). This is where we are, folks. www.instagram.com/p/DSNwWpgDE83/ [video: Werner Herzog cheerfully showing off his three toy musical Bavarian yodeling rodents.]

Journalist Brian Deer "found that not one of the 12 cases reported in the 1998 Lancet paper was free of misrepresentation or undisclosed alteration, and that in no single case could the medical records be fully reconciled with the descriptions, diagnoses, or histories published in the journal."

We all need to treat autistic people like my son with the respect they deserve, and do our best to understand that my son lives a full, happy life and is no one’s cautionary tale. #VaccinesWork, have nothing to do with autism, & protect autistic people too. thinkingautismguide.com/2025/03/bust...

So basically if my kid was younger, they'd be f***'d, because we relied on Sutter. My trans kid was so miserable before they got the care they needed. They are living such a fulfilled life now. These cruel, bigoted ghouls are cutting off literal lifelines for younger trans kids. I am disgusted.

This reboot of the Exorcist leaves a lot to be desired

So basically if my kid was younger, they'd be f***'d, because we relied on Sutter. My trans kid was so miserable before they got the care they needed. They are living such a fulfilled life now. These cruel, bigoted ghouls are cutting off literal lifelines for younger trans kids. I am disgusted.

Parents who refuse to listen to autistic people are like the American tourists who don’t bother to learn words in local languages, but think they can be better understood if they just talk louder—and then get upset when the situation doesn’t improve. #autism #neurodiversity #parenting

So I am watching the series Parks and Rec for the first time, and don't know if Rob Lowe's character Chris Traeger is considered autistic if not canon? Because it is a fascinating variant if so. #autism #Neurodiversity

We all need to treat autistic people like my son with the respect they deserve, and do our best to understand that my son lives a full, happy life and is no one’s cautionary tale. #VaccinesWork, have nothing to do with autism, & protect autistic people too. thinkingautismguide.com/2025/03/bust...

A reminder that "too much information coming in too fast for an autistic brain to process can lead to meltdowns" applies to autistic people whether they can speak or not, whether they have ID or not. Explaining away this imposed distress as "autistic behavior" is both unkind, and unhelpful. #autism

Question for Trans friends in the U.S.: Would you feel safer traveling across the country by Greyhound and Amtrak, or by plane? Asking on behalf of a young trans loved one.

Here's a better headline for Axios: "How Trump has normalized racism and racist slurs." Why can't some journalists just call a thing what it is? https://loom.ly/hiKWr58

"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."

Obviously 2025 is trying to destroy me. RIP, Claude, you raised my children.

Obviously 2025 is trying to destroy me. RIP, Claude, you raised my children.

It’s giving abundance! It’s giving solidarity! It’s giving …Tuesday. ✨ Mental health outcomes for trans people can be different if we have community-based support, free from police & involuntary hospitalization. Share and donate: give.translifeline.org/HopeisaDisciplineTL

Great post. And actually for all of us thinking a bit harder, a bit earlier, about what life is for and what gives us value would help all of us lead happier lives. And by "earlier" I mean before we ourselves become disabled, which most of us will if we are lucky enough to live long enough.

"If nothing else, I want us to focus on what we can do right now, as individuals, to make our kids’ lives and ours easier on a day-to-day basis: treating our kids with acceptance and love, which is what all kids deserve." #neurodiversity #autism #parenting

🗣️🙌🏼💥 THIS: “… if you focus on accepting them for who they are and understanding how they experience the world, you will all be happier. If you don’t believe me, well, research says so, too.” THIS TRUTH APPLIES UNIVERSALLY TO ALL HUMANS 💖

Autistic and other disabled people have always been and likely will always be part of our societies, and are valuable human beings who deserve unqualified love, acceptance, and access to supports. Truth from an older article, since I don't write so much anymore: www.buzzfeed.com/shannonrosa/...

When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee. But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education. A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.

Encanto is such a lovely, creative, thoughtful movie. I don't mind watching it hundreds of times. I mean this sincerely. Also, this is a post about autism.

Holiday gatherings can be really hard for autistic kids and adults. And the reasons why aren’t always obvious. So please use and share our guide to helping autistics avoid meltdown triggers. At TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2022/01/auti... #autism #neurodiversity #autistic #sensory

USians: "Ask your representatives to make sure the White House follows the law. Remember, Congress made the Department of Education. Congress is in charge of okaying any changes to the Department of Education. Congress needs to stand up to the White House to protect the Department of Education."

"The CDC under RFK Jr. & Acting CDC director Jim O’Neill has proven that it can no longer be trusted to provide truthful information about health to the American public. We deserve public health info we can trust to help us make important health care decisions for ourselves and with our loved ones."

Sending all the love to our trans community members, while we grieve those we've lost on this Trans Day Of Remembrance. (For those who aren't aware: the autistic community has more trans people in it than the non-autistic one does, so our community wins.) #TDOR www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

USians: "Ask your representatives to make sure the White House follows the law. Remember, Congress made the Department of Education. Congress is in charge of okaying any changes to the Department of Education. Congress needs to stand up to the White House to protect the Department of Education."

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

We really needed these rains, and we also really needed this break between these rains, because when we can’t hike, we lose it just a little bit—and I am not necessarily talking about the guy in the picture. [image: Leo from behind on a forest path. Blue skies are visible between the trees.]

Other than always listen to Dr. Willingham @ejwillingham.bsky.social , No notes.

Absolutely cannot wait to bust down the doors for a drink made by a company whose unionized workers are on strike in a store that doesn’t want to hire minorities anymore.

"Maybe if [Hitler's DNA] looked at associations with a predisposition to being a vile hatemongering polemicist with a serious anger management problem & a magnetism for gullible bigots, that might actually have been useful." Just a sample from @ejwillingham.bsky.social in the latest TPGA newsletter.

Losing Alice feels like being hit with a phaser. I will be offline doing Klingon death screams in her honor until I can process this horrible blow to the space-time and disability and community and geekdom and comraderie and cat lover continuums. -SR

Journalists rarely treat my autistic son with respect—instead foisting negative stereotypes on him; never seeing him as the human he is. But @stevesilberman.bsky.social always treated Leo as a fellow traveler. He had my complete trust. And I miss him so much. thinkingautismguide.com/2024/12/reme...

1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports. This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Last night was the launch party for my latest book, YOUR KID BELONGS HERE: An Insider's Guide to Parenting Neurodiverse Children (Johns Hopkins). Thank you to La Vita Dolce Cafe in Chapel Hill for hosting, and to all who braved the COLD to come out. Get yours at yourkidbelongshere.com

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.