Riah (ry-uh)
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me as myself. a whole person that ain't a profile, or content, or ya mammy. #AutisticWhileBlack . 🚫 No Screenshots 🚫
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"My kid isn't traumatized"
Your kid is convinced down to their bones they are hurting other people simply by being alive.
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Please watch this & share, it could be useful to know for a kid you might know even if you haven't met them yet.
Everyone in the foster care system should know this 👁👄👁
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🗣📣📢 THE REVOLUTION WILL BE ACCESSIBLE
Volunteer interpreters at the
#BlackLivesMatter
march in Hollywood is the exact disability inclusion I want to see in activism😌✊🏻
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There's this pattern of new ppl to the ADHD scene postin their experiences, and not realizing they describing autism 🤣
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If you have ever used the term “women & non-binary,” you are now required to take in this very important testimony.
Okay, let me tell you about my friend Jose. Jose is AMAB, 6’5” and built like a linebacker, with lots of visible tattoos. They’re trying to grow a big lumberjack beard but the genes for it aren’t quite there so for now it’s Quentin Collins-style mutton chops. /1
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Drug users deserve to live.
Drug users deserve to be revived after OD.
Drug users deserve safe locations to use.
Drug users deserve access to care, treatment, & therapy.
Drug users deserve to be looked at & treated as human.
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@sgarretteskin
Ah yes, because it's the music that make you hood. Totally isn't a marginalized people group that makes the best of life & is shamed while simultaneously profited off of for clout.
I understand now.
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Fun Fact: Many disabled folk still cannot get married.
Fun fact: Gay marriage has now been around longer than the Confederacy.
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Just a reminder that "canceling" was something that was created by Black women to hold abusive people in power accountable by essentially divesting & encouraging the divesting of the individual.
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Friend on priv tweeted this n it hit so hard i asked permission to share lol
This has been some of the hardest truama to lift, ha
Especially when you find yourself in environments n around ppl who affirm it through their words n actioms
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CW: suicide
Found while diggin up resources
"When pain exceeds pain-coping resources, suicidal feelings are the result. Suicide is neither wrong nor right; it is not a defect of character; it is morally neutral. It is simply an imbalance of pain versus coping resources."
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For whoever needta read it,
Whither or not you believe it rn,
You are not a harming others just for existing
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Some disabled people need more time to speak. Speech, just like a lot of other cognitive/motor functions or hecka complex. While they are speaking, you wait for them to finish, the same as you would anyone else.
You. Do. Not. Interrupt.
You. Do. Not. Rush.
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Sex workers keep reciting the true history of platforms using sex workers to build up their users & revenue, then making sex workers presence illegal once a goal of visibility & profitability has been met.
BREAKING: OnlyFans, after building a successful and safe space for sex workers, is now kicking them to the curb.
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I'm wondering how many ways this analogy could be used, & I'm also grateful that it exists
'ADHD is like everyone has to hold 100 marbles and you're the only one without a bag'
#ActuallyAutistic
#NeurodiverseSquad
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"You're too young to have [heath condition],"
Legit risks quality of life
Age bias like that easily causes folk to have to go without dx & care that they need. Entirely preventable.
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It's not white privilege, it's white supremacy. Y'all do not get to cake this over with pretty terms. This Is Raw.
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Just a reminder that enough stress can cause memory loss
So, maybe, let's believe people's communicated boundries when they share that they are at capacity? Or need support? Yea?
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Y'all need to let go over this weird requirement for prolonged direct eye contact
Release
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CW: sex
I know I've said it before, but imma hit a repeat.
Sex positivity includes *not sex*;
Insinuating otherwise is harmful.
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If you work with autistic folk, normalize having a text line.
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"You can even be friends with people who you are (sexually/romantically) attracted to, that's called self-control"
👆🏾 more of dis
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@MiamiPD
Does this mean that autistic people will no longer be brutalized/killed by cops in the Miami area?
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Imma just say it.
Medical professionals concluding that they should take a patients personal ventilator upon them entering a hospital, to make up for the shortage of ventilators, is threatened assault.
This should not even be a discussion.
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I am determined to see that autistic BIPoC have visibility & proper representation within autistic communities.
In thread are lists, organizations, ect that you can look to to be a part of this goal.
• • •
BIPoC: Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽💖
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@LustforJewls
Adut Akech, Anok Yai, Majesty Amare, Amar Akway, Janet Jumbo, Maty Fall, Nyagua Ruea, Abény Nhial, and Akon Changkou
🥰
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@notblaccbrry
Black disabled people exist,
So you can just drop that bs rn
We not finna treat disability like some white issue, she dropped it cuz it was outa pocket
That's how learning happens
The word use need ta die
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Tip:
When talking to disabled folk, check to make sure that you aren't using your falsetto voice.
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Despite what many autism professionals try to say,
Parallel play is intimate AF
'Will you be with me as I am right now?' takes a lot of vulnerability and trust
More people should learn from it
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Release calling white folk Caucasian
Caucasian folk deserve their ethnic name back
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"I never saw your autistic traits before?"
that's because i would go hide in the bathroom
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Why...isn't there a way to fold up bus seats so that there is no limitation on how many wheelchair users who can be on?
Serious question
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*talking w friend with an accent different from mine*
My brain for some reason
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We Don't Want Your
Cis Kids To Be Trans
We Want Your
Trans Kids To
Survive
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Someone awhile back told me how a popular autistic advocate had been told by some other well known autistic advocates to not talk about or display their autistic meltdowns or undesirable stims, because *it's not a good image for autism*
Annnd I will never not be bothered by this
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If your most ideal reality doesn't include disabled folk, you're dreaming of eugenics. No ands, if, buts about it.
Reflect. Do better.
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Eugenics..they keep..rediscovering eugenics 🤦🏾♀️
This is so disturbing I don't know what to say
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✨ Autistic Performers & Artists ✨
Y'all are amazing, even if you think what you do is small. Your beingness will always be more than enough.
Pop on in the thread, if you want to.
What do you do?
What do you want to plug?
What is something you want to celebrate (if anything)?
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Note on Autistic Masking:
Some autistics mask because that's what they've learned,
Some mask because they have to (safety, ect.),
Some mask for the fun of it,
Some literally CANNOT take of their mask.
And, Some autistics cannot mask At all.
Even those that may want to.
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ID: images of Palestinian elders holding the keys to the homes stolen from them
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When you grow up thinking a slur isn't a slur because how normalized it was in your experiences, that doesn't make it less of problem.
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“He doesn’t have anybody there. He hasn’t been back to Jamaica, he doesn’t know Jamaica. When he found out the Home Office wanted to remove him he said: ‘Mum, is there a bus that I can come back on?’ His removal would be a death sentence.”
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If posting pronouns isn't optional, then making them public is counteractive
I need cis folk to understand how much at risk trans folk are just by them being themselves; especially in work environments.
For cis folk, posting your pronouns is whatever.
For trans folk, it's more
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why do kids get in trouble for grunting out of frustraiton?
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Some of y'all are really convinced that the only way to raise a child is to be a real world truama simulation
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The argument that disabled folk shouldn't be payed livable wages exposes the cultural value of exploitation.
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All these tweets asking about "What are you going to do after COVID?"
Grieve.
After I feel safe enough to go outside, I'm going to grieve.
We can't just act like what happened was just some event to get through, & we'd need to acknowledge that collective truama & passing.
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My unpopular take is to stop trying to make disability rights people say that they are for disability justice 🧍🏾♂️
There is meaning to a name. "Disability justice" isn't just a modified "politically correct" version of a term, it holds specific commitments
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"People who menstrate"
Is inclusive to
• trans folk who menstrate,
• intersex folk who menstrate, &
• cis women who menstrate
It also is considerate towards
• trans/cis women who do not menstrate
Your terf logic of " say women" makes aggressive assumptions that does harm.
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Someone asked "accesibility to what"
Legit everything.
Like, ya. Everything.
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Reflecting on how much I got attacked for this video when I initially posted it for "faking autism" & "making fun of autistics" by folk who believed that stimming & autism only presented in a specific way ... when I was literally just being myself ... accidental affirmation?
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idk who out there tellin y'all that autistic/ND's are absolved from respecting boundaries, but you can leave that lie at the door
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I would encourage folk to really lean into what Black Disabled folk with chronic illness, & specifically cancer, have to say in all this.
Even if you are disabled; chronically ill folk often get bumped out if spaces & conversations, & cancer carries specific experiences.
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For those who question or wonder how blind folk can be on social media --or the internet in general-- here is an example.
This is also why we encourage alt texting images.
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The fact that "identity politics", a term rooted in Black feminism, has been so diluted over the years that we would believe to think it's some passive comment is exactly why it's important that we be aware of how radical language is stolen & twisted into other meanings.
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Ok, so, is it safe to qualify making a child, who has appeared left handed, write with their right hand as harm?
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Right now
#ActuallyAutistic
is trending,
For *after this* things, please know that we have
#AskingAutistics
for everyone including nonauts to use whenever there is a question that is wanting to be answered by us.
#ActuallyAutistic
is one of the tags we use to find other auts.
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People who say that disabled people shouldn't be dependent on their aids/supports should have, at the very least, their phones taken away.
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I understand the intended energy behind this, but this is untrue,
These things are still happening
“So many ppl autistic now a days”
Yes…because y’all stopped lobotomizing us and sticking us in hospitals to die and euthanizing our autistic children around the late 1900s So yes you’re gonna see more autistic ppl showing up.
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Just a reminder:
Autism is developmental, not behavioural.
Our behaviour is often seen as what needs to be modified, and that brings some truamatic consequences. In truth we need accomodations & resources for our sensory, motor, & cognitive needs.
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nearly everyone produces testosterone & estrogen 😭 please, with all of these over-gendering of hormones
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"I had a student who passed this class while going through cancer treatment, you have no excuses"
What is something that’s ACTUALLY ableist but people feel like it isn’t?
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Please don't call people smooth brained.
That's an actual condition, & using it as a derogatory is additionally perpetuating negative connotations on intellectual disabilities. That's all, thanks.
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I am anti-religious missionaries
There is no reason for people to be doin this
Leave folk tf alone
A plane carrying mostly Mormon missionaries brought
#COVID19
to Kiribati — one of the last places without any outbreaks.
Passengers tested positive after arrival on the island nation, which closed borders for 2 years, despite being vaccinated. Cases there are now at least 181.
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Getting rid of single-use plastic straws is punching down, y'all.
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Do Not Out Your Friends
Just because they're out online, or on a specific platform, doesn't mean they are out anywhere else!
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What is truama but sobbing after people respond kindly to you when your body had been tensing up in panic to prepare for being lashed at.
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And would ya lookie that 😱
Drea also happens to be a selectively mute autistic actress.
It's almost as if 😱😱
These kinds of things can all co exist together
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"anxiety has no physical symptoms"
Bahahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣
Tell that to the electricity running up & down my spine on a panic day
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CW: suicide tings
Too many ppl don't understand how calm suicide can be, especially when the final decision is made
People will be like "I will be gone on Tuesday" and then just be gone. And that's not me sayin to guilt ppl to stay either.
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This is what basic human decency looks like.
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if y'all ain't get queerplatonic relationships, then maybe acknowledge that you literally aren't a part of the group of people that it's for ???
instead of pushing slander through allonormativity
gettin tired af of this pattern
allos stay tryna center themselves in everything
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Because that's called eugenics
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So, there's this researcher on tiktok that is asking for neurodivergent folk to share their stories for her book.
No compensation.
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Normalize asking people if they just want to be listened to, or if they would like convo/feedback. Also, normalize letting people know ahead *if possible*.
People communicate differently & no one can read minds, clarifying info helps produce the best supportive experiences.
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Also, a casual reminder that:
1. Autism is not a mental illness; it's a specific group of neurodevelopmental attributes,
2. Autism falls within Developmental Disability; many autistics are also Intellectually Disabled, &
3. "Male-brain" isn't a thing 😑 that's just bad science
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I feel increasimgly uncomfortable by the use of the trope that "slavery ended" when our prison systems still exist, & slavery & human trafficking still exist domestically & globally.
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"Matthew Rushin was having an autistic meltdown. He suffered from PTSD and traumatic brain injury caused by a car accident. Any autistic person coming in contact with this story will find it relatable and will immediately understand Rushin’s behavior."
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Thinkin bout how many disabled folk been written off as bougie when it’s just fatigue & sensory retreat
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To the nonautistics, this is what authentic autistic representation looks like
It's easy to spot
I actually cried the first time I saw it, because ??? it's really VERY obvious for us what is fake & what is real.
This is as real as it gets.
It can't be acted.
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*gets the slightest bit of additional accomodations*
me: OMG Have I Been Capable Of Things This Entire Time
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It's weird tryna explain to drs why you use a cane when the the reason why you still walk well is Because you got the cane when body needed it
It like...doesn't line up in their brains at that point because of how we have been ingrained to hold out until it's an undeniable need
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THIS IS SUPER CUTE AND ACCURATE
@steve_asbell
These graphics make me sad, so here's a graphic I drew (with alt text) in case it makes people happy.
Email it to any teachers if needed.
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It's all "am i really autistic"
Until you find yourself coping through a tough conversation by rocking, clawing at your legs, singing what you say in another accent, and mumbling "I'm sowy, I'm sowy, I'm sowy" as the other party speaks
Although I prefer truama not be a marker
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We. Don't. Praise. Transphobic cops.
for adding pronouns to their twitter bio
Really, this is a VERY low bar
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Same as 2020, please continue to be careful at protests if you choose to go to any.
• Who is hosting,
• Phones off or left at home,
• Cover your face to limit recognization,
• No capturing/posting media that could be used against folk,
• Planning to avoid arrest as best can.
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Wait, "latchkey kids" are thing?
People just... there are people who weren't at home without their parents??
I'm confused 😳
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One of my biggest concerns is that after white folk go out to protest they'll feel entitled to the concept of them not being racist anymore.
"But I was there." "This is what I did for you." Are the kinds of phrases that I am fully prepared to drag through the dirt.
Don't try us
The BLM movement is dying down especially on the white people side. Some think their job is done. After only about a week cause they think the
#BlackLivesMatter
movement was only about
#GeorgeFloyd
. When it was simply a tipping point. They need to be consistent in their support.
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