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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 6h

They call it “support”.

But what they mean is compliance.

They call it “resilience”.

But what they mean is silence.

They call it “inclusion”.

But what they mean is performance.

So much of the narrative aroundNeurodiversity Inclusion” is nonsense.

Put our voices first.

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 17m

This is interesting because as an undiagnosed Autistic teenager, I had too many expectations placed upon me and was desperate for people to see and respect my limited competence.

People saw potential that I didn't possess. Refuting them was futile and exhausting.

Michelle Dawson @autismcrisis.bsky.social · 6h

Autistics (age 4-18) on their experiences in school journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "feeling insufficiently challenged was reported by our participants across both mainstream and specialist settings alike. This finding may be driven by the presumption of limited competence held by schools..."

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 21m

when I monotrope so intensely that the buzz fills m entire body and I have to flap, shake it out, and jump around

this excitation transcends the valence of the subject matter, meaning my body can feel happy in sad situations

Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 23m

As a person with noticeable processing delay and initiation problems that borders on diagnosable apraxia, I have often considered Autistic Inertia to be part of the apraxia spectrum.

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

Autistic inertia is one of those phrases that people hear tossed around without really understanding what it means.

It’s not procrastination, laziness, or a lack of motivation.

It’s not a moral failure or a mindset problem.

Autistic Inertia and Safety

Why getting stuck isn’t a failure of willpower but a message from the bodymind - and how learning to listen to it changes everything.

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 26m

CAMHS applied these labels on me as a burned out, traumatized school refuser who couldn't speak or leave the house:

selfish, stubborn, arrogant.

... allistics always talk about their "empathy", but where the heck is it? I've been waiting decades for an allistic authority figure to "feel my pain".

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 1h

Telling all autism stories means:
More accurate research
Better supports for kids
Better understanding of adults
Centering voices often left out
Representation isn’t a trend it’s survival
You are allowed to share your experiences

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 1h

Too many autism stories are told about us instead of by us.
And even when we speak, some voices are amplified while others are pushed aside.
Let’s make room for all stories not just the ones that are comfortable.

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 1h

Representation isn’t a checkbox.
It’s about shifting who gets to speak and be believed.
Black autistic voices bring insight, nuance, and truth that this world needs.
Center us. Listen to us. Amplify us

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 37m

my special interest is Autism;

my mental health is very bad partly because this special interest is traumatizing and re-traumatizing;

to have Autism as a special interest, means I suffer ongoing traumatic stress;

... not all special interests are "healing escapes". I am tormented by mine.

Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 40m

we existed for thousands of years without a professional assessment;

we lived in a state of Nature;

we were as Natural as the trees and small creatures;

now we are a Disease, or a professional assessment of Divergence ... we are industrialized creatures

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 40m

neuronormativity is so insidious that the implicit ideology is almost inescapable, even progressive Autistics are beholden to this framework of the Neurocolonizer;

alternative assessment is still a reactionary part of the Neuronormative framework

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 40m

the diagnostic 'burden of proof' is inherently violent;

it is neuronormative epistemic violence;

allistics carelessly identify as allistic without critical thought or diagnostic assessment, but Autistics are compelled to identify carefully & "responsibly" or via an Allistic "professional"

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · Feb 11

They just cannot accept that we are fundamentally different in ways they'll never understand. And I don't mean that as elitist even though it sort of comes out that way.

It's just EXCEEDINGLY difficult to imagine an internal experience that differs radically from our own.

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 22h

Allistic self-aggrandizement is an obstacle in "autism science".

In fact, the very existence of "autism science" is a reflection of their self-positioning above us.

Autism needs investigating, but not allism.

#neuronormativity

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 23h

Generally speaking, humans don't have social biases against plants, rocks, trees, stars, planets or bacteria.

That's why we can do good science on them.

But we are rarely neutral to other humans. That's why the science on human variation is predictably crap.

Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 23h

Allistic bias is unavoidable because they are not "untouched particles living in a vacuum", they are flesh creatures with impulses, priorities and biases.

Starting from the position of "these people are broken", is not a scientific position, it's a bias!

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 23h

🤞🏼 the 21st century is the dawn of the Autistic Enlightenment

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 23h

Allistic bias is unavoidable because they are not "untouched particles living in a vacuum", they are flesh creatures with impulses, priorities and biases.

Starting from the position of "these people are broken", is not a scientific position, it's a bias!

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 23h

I thought we'd learned this lesson via all the previous demographics who've been systematically dehumanised and mistreated by Western science (Indigenous, Black, gay etc) ... but apparently not.

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 23h

I feel like any allistic who wants to participate in autism science should take a Critical History of Science course first, because they should know you cannot do perfect objective science on human populations.

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 1d

for example, it's isolating to be hyperlexic in this world because I discover and use words that many can't or won't understand;

I want them to understand, that's why I'm using neologisms to more accurately describe things, but it just makes me even less comprehensible.

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 1d

to be Autistic is to be on an analytical life journey, while many allistics never start such a journey;

for them it may start and end with school, for me it starts with birth and ends with death;

they are status oriented; I am knowledge oriented.

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 1d

each day I ponder the burden of being a "learning person" in a non-learning world

#autism

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Disability is one of the only minority groups you can join at any time.

Everyone thinks they will be the exception.

It won’t happen to them. They will “try harder” and overcome.

They think we’re failing.

It is not a moral failing and very few people will be the exception.

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Autistic Advocacy Month @autisticadvocacymonth.com · 1d

Stop Accepting. Start Advocating. April 2026 - we rename Autism Awareness/Acceptance Month to Autistic Advocacy Month.

No more passivity. We want CHANGE. We want ACTION.

Join us: AutisticAdvocacyMonth.com

#Autistic #Autism #AutisticAdults #Change #AutisticAdvocacyMonth

Digital graphic with text about autistic advocacy and images of a newspaper, hand, and megaphone.

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AutisticAdvocacyMonth.Com
Stop Accepting.
Start Advocating.
April 2026
We are moving away from Autism Acceptance & into Autistic Advocacy.

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 1d

brilliant idea 👍🏼