I still see people ask why autistic people like me can't admit to the hell that parenting an autistic kid with higher support needs or "profound" autism supposedly is...

So has anyone ever hired a dowser in NYC? A paranormal investigation team? I'm only partly kidding.

www.businessinsider.com/starbucks-po... Imagine thinking that this is the key to improving customer experience and not, like, having someone consistently working the register.

I obviously can't speak for all autistic people. But MANY of us experience the bandwidth and effort required for "passing" or "masking" to be so burdensome that it would crowd out the ability to develop and maintain other skills.

This is something that really gets me. That as neurodiversity proponents still get accused of being privileged or "very high functioning" or of looking at autism through rose-colored glasses... a ton of us still live in poverty, are marginally employed...

I wasn't planning on walking home from work tonight, but then I had to hear the #Royals break the Etsy witch's spell.

There’s no excuse for any Democrat going to sleep tonight without following Pritzker’s lead first.

I have a question, friends. What adjective would we apply to denote queer communities, say, 30-40 years ago? "Historic” seems maybe too much? “Elder” is also not quite right (at least for talking about those communities as they existed at the time, rather than the age of the people in them now)?

I have a question, friends. What adjective would we apply to denote queer communities, say, 30-40 years ago? "Historic” seems maybe too much? “Elder” is also not quite right (at least for talking about those communities as they existed at the time, rather than the age of the people in them now)?

"And in light of the abhorrent and destructive policies coming out of Washington every day, I needed to know the next mayor will not be someone who would surrender one inch to President Trump." @governor.ny.gov Thank you for speaking unequivocally on this. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

What are some programs modeled on TEACCH in other states? I get asked this all the time, and I still struggle to point parents who don't happen to be in North Carolina in the right direction...

Happy Josh Ritter Day to all who celebrate!

Real talk (reel talk?): BWDR recently lost a partnership that covered nearly half our operating budget, so things are suddenly very tough. If what we do has ever meant something to you, or you’ve ever thought about subscribing, now’s the time—it *truly* makes a difference.

Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed

votefwd.org Friends, there is still plenty of time to sign up to write some letters to voters ahead of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court election this October! It's easy to sign up, and fun to do!

It really shouldn’t be easier to access firearms than it is to access vaccines.

ICYMI: Wrote a little bit in response to a recent article about why I think the PDA label obscures more than it enlightens, and that we'd be better off looking deeper than accepting it.

If you are in NY, 19+ uninsured and need an MMR booster you are entitled to have it for free under the STATE vaccines for adults programs. Info here: www.health.ny.gov/prevention/i...

chavisory.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/u... New blog post!

"Poses to be?"

chavisory.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/l... Short blog post!

hussmanautism.org/praxis-and-a... Who wants to bet on this having relevance for why heart disease is one of the major killers of autistic adults?

It's HAPPENING. Tomorrow, 08/04/2025, the inaugural edition of the @thinkingautism.com newsletter goes out. It's a weekly roundup of autism news&resources we're curating, w/Yours Truly as writer. Sign up at the link below to get delivery directly to your inbox. buttondown.com/TPGA Pls share!

A3: Oh, 100% I think partly b/c my ability to listen ALSO depends on my visual processing abilities, I can't really watch/understand anything else and listen to what someone's saying at the same time. I can do one at a time. #AutChat

A1: I have a really hard time with visual clutter, either in a room, a space where I have to function, or on a page. As a stage manager, one thing I've learned is to eliminate visual clutter to the greatest extent possible in my calling script... #AutChat

First NYC earthquake I haven't been either asleep or on the subway for! 🙌

5: Whether someone says autistic (noun), autistic (adjective), person with autism, on the spectrum, or whatever other terminology matters *far* less to me than all the other words in the sentence and paragraph.

How are judges not losing their entire shit at this happening?

I've donated to this charity for over a decade now, they're legit and do excellent work. Amidst everything else in today's hellscape, if you can afford to donate, please consider including the Florence Project amongst your recipients.

25. I hate hate hate the term “neurospicy.” I have a disability, not a cutesy nacho dip.

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany. But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

neurodiversitypodcast.com/home/2025/6/... Was on the Neurodiversity Podcast recently, talking about neurodiversity and biodiversity, "autism is a superpower" rhetoric, and my misgivings about the PDA label. Thanks for having me, @emilykm-lpc.bsky.social!

PSA: Have you heard of any ICE activity (or federal agents conducting immigration enforcement) happening on the grounds of a house of worship recently? If so, please shoot it my way. Working on a story. Signal: jackmjenkins.60 Other was to contact me here: www.jackjenkins.me/contact.html

chavisory.wordpress.com/2019/01/11/l... There's now a funny addendum to this post (see comments) that I wrote six years ago, which induced me to go back and reread it for the first time in a while. I'm glad I did.

“Fall On Me,” the first single from the band’s fourth album, Lifes Rich Pageant, was released in the 🇬🇧 on July 14, 1986. The video was filmed and directed by Michael. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf6v...

I started re-listening to "Gone" by @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social from the beginning, and just... holy god.

A1: To me it means not presuming that any given autistic person can necessarily do any given thing, but we all have the ability to grow, learn, and understand our own capabilities and experiences. #AutChat

Senate Republicans told you that “we’re going to die anyways.” House Republicans just expedited that for millions. They just passed a cruel and inhumane bill that will leave millions uninsured. Vote. Them. Out.

It has a very real chance of failing—and *even if it passes with changes* it still has to go BACK to the Senate to get voted on AGAIN. And it barely made it through the first time This thing is way more killable than you’d think and the longer we can drag out the process the more killable it gets

You can and should still be calling. Yes a few Rs have voted NO on the rules(!) but Johnson has threatened to keep the vote open for as long as it takes so he will do whatever he can to strong arm them to change their votes. WE NEED TO STRONG ARM those yeses to switch some to NO. Call your Reps!

New post from me at TPGA this week! I'm talking about how broad generalizations that autistic people all just used to be in institutions does a disservice to the truth and complexity of our histories.

“We’ve got about 26 Republican targets. We need four of them. This is not a done deal.“ @ezralevin.bsky.social highly encourages you to stop doomscrolling and start contacting your representative. We can still defeat Trump’s Tax Scam and save Medicaid and SNAP: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

A5: These days, it has to reallly be worth the time I'd otherwise be reading, writing, or walking in the park. I have to be leaving feeling better about things, and myself, and other people, than when I came. *Tired* is okay, but not flattened, or feeling steamrolled or sidelined. #AutChat

A2: I feel like I don't actually go looking for groups all that often...and the ones where my experiences have been most successful are rarely the ones I've looked for, as opposed that seemed to kind of fall together organically... #AutChat

A1: Church, Girl Scouts, school clubs, occasional book groups...lots of smaller online autistic communities...X-Files tweet chats... Experiences have been...very variable. #AutChat

Don't know how many people might be into this (usually, not many) but I've fallen into a summer habit of live-blogging a Willa Cather novel over on Tumblr! This year is "Song of the Lark." chavisory.wordpress.com/2025/06/28/b...

neuroqueeringtherapy.substack.com/p/empathy-is... This is really stellar.

Anyway...

i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan