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The Autistic Rabbi(nical Student) | Mati [he/they] @autisticrabbi.bsky.social · 21h

Disabled Jews have always been here.

But most synagogues still treat access as optional.

“Inclusion” means nothing if we can’t even get through the physical or proverbial door.

When Access Is an Afterthought (If at All)

On the violence of “inclusion” and the struggle to belong in the Jewish community

open.substack.com

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The Autistic Rabbi(nical Student) | Mati [he/they] @autisticrabbi.bsky.social · 21h

Disabled Jews have always been here.

But most synagogues still treat access as optional.

“Inclusion” means nothing if we can’t even get through the physical or proverbial door.

When Access Is an Afterthought (If at All)

On the violence of “inclusion” and the struggle to belong in the Jewish community

open.substack.com

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 1d

mutual aid isn't a luxury.

autistic folx need to look out for one another.

and also need to recognise that not all of us will have the spoons to do so on a moment's notice.

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 1d

Autistic people aren’t broken versions of normal.

We are the proof that “normal” was never real.

The world needs our way of seeing - it just doesn’t know it yet.

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The Autistic Rabbi(nical Student) | Mati [he/they] @autisticrabbi.bsky.social · 1d

Simchat Torah is about celebrating our textual heritage.

It’s not about alcohol.

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The Autistic Rabbi(nical Student) | Mati [he/they] @autisticrabbi.bsky.social · 2d

BH

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The Autistic Rabbi(nical Student) | Mati [he/they] @autisticrabbi.bsky.social · 2d

hope you'll have it one day!

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The Autistic Rabbi(nical Student) | Mati [he/they] @autisticrabbi.bsky.social · 2d

visiting truly radical & progressive jewish communities in the US are always a blast of fresh air

and it's always difficult to go back to europe where we are still fighting for disabled and queer people to be treated as full members of the community.

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 3d

Shavua tov

Let’s learn together

The Autistic Rabbi(nical Student) | Mati [he/they] @autisticrabbi.bsky.social · 29d

Neuroqueer Talmud is back!

Come claim back your tradition as we learn about ableism, power dynamics, and oppression via a Jewish lens.

We will learn together over 5 weeks - all levels of learning welcome!

www.theautisticrabbi.com/autistic-tor...

neuroqueer talmud in green letters - ableism, power, and oppression in rabbinic literature - more info @autistic_rabbi - online - november 16 23 30 december 7 14

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 5d

You’ve spent decades adapting.

Performing.

Surviving.

Now you finally know why - do you do with that truth?

www.theautisticcoach.com/late-diagnos...

late identified autistics workshop - starting ocotber 22

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve been saying this for years - you cannot understand autism or autistiphobia without understanding how antisemitism plays a roll in it and autism's intellectual development.

Now RFK Jr is claiming circumcision causes autism.

This isn’t accidental.

🧵🪡 a thread

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 5d

Jewish tradition doesn’t belong to cishet far right dudes

It belongs to you too

The Autistic Rabbi(nical Student) | Mati [he/they] @autisticrabbi.bsky.social · 6d

Ableism distorts relationships.

The redactors of the Talmud knew this.

Our task is to read those texts with the fullness of our own embodied difference - and to reclaim what was meant to be ours all along.

Neuroqueer Talmud starts soon.

www.theautisticrabbi.com/autistic-tor...

https://www.theautisticrabbi.com/autistic-torah/neuroqueer-talmud-ableism-power-dynamics-and-oppression-in-the-rabbinic-literature

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The Autistic Rabbi(nical Student) | Mati [he/they] @autisticrabbi.bsky.social · 6d

Ableism distorts relationships.

The redactors of the Talmud knew this.

Our task is to read those texts with the fullness of our own embodied difference - and to reclaim what was meant to be ours all along.

Neuroqueer Talmud starts soon.

www.theautisticrabbi.com/autistic-tor...

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The Autistic Rabbi(nical Student) | Mati [he/they] @autisticrabbi.bsky.social · 6d

Ableism distorts relationships.

The redactors of the Talmud knew this.

Our task is to read those texts with the fullness of our own embodied difference - and to reclaim what was meant to be ours all along.

Neuroqueer Talmud starts soon.

www.theautisticrabbi.com/autistic-tor...

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 7d

You just realised you’re autistic.

Everything suddenly makes sense - and nothing does.

My 5-week workshop is for newly identified autistic adults who want to understand their needs, unmask safely,
and start building a life that fits.

www.theautisticcoach.com/newly-diagno...

newly identified autistics workshop starting october 21

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 7d

It’s one thing to learn you’re autistic.

It’s another to live it.

If you’ve known for years but never had space to process it, my 5-week autistic-led workshop is that space.

No fixing.

No performance.

Just returning to yourself.

The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 17d

Understanding that you're autistic later in life is both a blessing and pain.

Come join me and others in 5 weeks of self-discovery, grace, and community.

My new workshop begins in October.

www.theautisticcoach.com/late-diagnos...

Dark teal background with bold white title “Late Identified Workshop.” Text below reads “Five weeks for autistic adults – Wednedays starting October 22” in white. Red subheading “With Matthew @theautisticcoach.” Four color-coded boxes: teal (sensory regulation, alexithymia), royal blue (burnout, masking, unmasking), bright orange-red (executive function, energy), and white (meltdowns, shutdowns, co-regulation).

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The Autistic Rabbi(nical Student) | Mati [he/they] @autisticrabbi.bsky.social · 9d

We build the sukkah knowing it will fall.

That’s the point.

Sukkot teaches us that safety is temporary but connection is real.

We can’t build permanence, but we can build care and authentic relationships with our world and with others.

That's Sukkot folx.

Chag Sameach!

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The Autistic Rabbi(nical Student) | Mati [he/they] @autisticrabbi.bsky.social · 9d

Learning Talmud is not about mastery.

It’s about relationship.

With the text. With each other. With our own bodyminds.

This is the heart of Neuroqueer Talmud.

Let's study together and reclaim our tradition.

www.theautisticrabbi.com/autistic-tor...

neuroqueer talmud ableism power dynamics and oppression in rabbinic literature

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The Autistic Rabbi(nical Student) | Mati [he/they] @autisticrabbi.bsky.social · 9d

We build the sukkah knowing it will fall.

That’s the point.

Sukkot teaches us that safety is temporary but connection is real.

We can’t build permanence, but we can build care and authentic relationships with our world and with others.

That's Sukkot folx.

Chag Sameach!

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 9d

You weren’t lazy.

You were exhausted.

You weren’t unmotivated.

You were in burnout.

You weren’t “too sensitive".

You were under-supported.

Now you’re rebuilding.

At your own pace.

And that’s beautiful.

That's the autistic experience.

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 9d

Autistic spaces change everything.

You stop translating.

You start breathing.

Your nervous system exhales.

That’s when healing begins - not when you’re alone, but when you’re seen.

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The Autistic Rabbi(nical Student) | Mati [he/they] @autisticrabbi.bsky.social · 10d

An autistic meltdown isn’t a loss of control.

It’s your body demanding to be heard.

It’s not moral.

It’s biological.

Not weakness.

It's Information.

The question isn’t “how do I stop melting down?”

It’s “what have I been forced to hold for too long?”

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The Autistic Rabbi(nical Student) | Mati [he/they] @autisticrabbi.bsky.social · 10d

absolutely incredible - except, sadly, nothing is incredible anymore.

Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 10d

Extraordinary.

Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli tweet on X
"The @BoardofDeputies
has, regrettably, become first and foremost a political organization - openly aligned with left-wing, woke, pro-Palestinian parties.

Just hours after Jews were murdered in Manchester, instead of demanding protection or holding the government accountable, the Board rushed for a photo-op with the Prime Minister.

Once proudly Zionist, now politically adrift,
If only they showed the same energy attacking Britain’s recognition of a Palestinian terror state as they do attacking me and
@TRobinsonNewEra
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10:51 PM · Oct 4, 2025
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The Autistic Rabbi(nical Student) | Mati [he/they] @autisticrabbi.bsky.social · 10d

And it struck me that those lines sit right next to each other.

Perhaps the author felt the same tension.

No line in liturgy ever lands by accident.

The healing I need isn’t from disability.

It’s from shame.

From a world that won’t carry us.

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The Autistic Rabbi(nical Student) | Mati [he/they] @autisticrabbi.bsky.social · 10d

And then - immediately - the next line - Avinu Malkeinu, chazireinu b’teshuvah shleimah lefanecha.

Return me to myself.

I realised I had just asked to be saved from myself.

But I don’t want to be different from who I am, or to be like everyone else.

I want to be myself.

Which is different.

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