I’m autistic. Social media has
helped me find amazing friends and
get through some of my hardest days.
If someone makes you feel guilty for
caring or being yourself, you don’t
owe them space in your life. 😊

What a fabulous conference.
Honoured to have been able to present at The Gestalt Language Processors Conference 2025 today with @thespeechden.bsky.social about:Child-Led Play and Monotropism in GLPs: A Journey of Re-Learning.
Thank you to all that joined us
Find out more: thespeechden.com/training/

One of the best video essayists on the platform is like 15 subs from 50k, and it's driving me nuts seeing the 49.9k can you angels go fix this for me???

www.youtube.com/@Ember_Green

Autism $peaks raised ~$34m in 2024 and spent 1% on family services and grants to help Autistic individuals. They spend approximately 25% of their budget on lobbying and another 25% on research (primarily on genetic testing and causation, i.e. eugenics). They aren’t trying to make our lives better.

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

The regime fired everyone involved in the funding and administration of IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act).

They’re letting measles and other infectious and disabling diseases run rampant, and then removing disability support.

It’s eugenics and they aren’t even hiding it.

Here is some reading on why ABA is bad. It’s the cornerstone to Autism $peaks.

Our creed is organized into four sets of “I statements”:

- I know
- I reframe
- I center
- I will

stimpunks.org/creed/

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

ThalloMinds  has kindly translated The Map of Monotropic…

https://autisticrealms.com/%cf%87%ce%ac%cf%81%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%82-%ce%bc%ce%bf%ce%bd%ce%bf%cf%84%cf%81%ce%bf%cf%80%ce%b9%ce%ba%cf%8e%ce%bd-%ce%b5%ce%bc%cf%80%ce%b5%ce%b9%cf%81%ce%b9%cf%8e%ce%bd/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social

“Queer and neurodivergent liberation are entwined.”

Learn about the shared history of queer and neurodivergent people:

🌈🌈 Neurodiversity and Gender: You Hit So Hard With All the Colors That There Are - Stimpunks Foundation

stimpunks.org/library/cour...

Learn about why ABA is bad:

stimpunks.org/why/behavior...

Learn about alternatives to
ABA:

stimpunks.org/why/alternat...

When I (Ryan) think about all the money Autism Speaks rakes in while Autistic-led organizations like ours fight for scraps, I feel justice sensitivity roil through me body and mind. I feel the injustice out to my nerve endings and to the depth and breadth a soul can take.

Autism $peaks is the largest and most popular Autism organization (among allistics), who continues to be 100% in support of ABA. They have lobbyists who push ABA as the “gold standard Autism treatment.” It utilizes same practices as “conversion therapy,” which is currently banned in 28 countries.

#ABA, #PBS, #LovatoMethod, etc: Same thing with prettier sounding names: #BehavioralConditioning without #Consent of the #conditioned. This meets #GenevaConvention for #Torture.

Full definition in reply.

We’re in the middle of a mass disabling event.

Covid isn’t over and Long Covid has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in kids.

Hundreds of kids are in quarantine in South Carolina due to a measles outbreak. Measles disables more than it kills.

All the tear gas & pepper spray?

Changelog: Added quotes from “Autism, it’s Labels and the Language of Pathologising Rhetoric - The Autistic Advocate” to our “Labels” glossary page.

stimpunks.org/glossary/lab...

"Disabled people are often on the front lines of tech users (...) Yet we are usually left out of the conversations around tech for disability."

stimpunks.org/glossary/tec...

Via @ashleyshoo.bsky.social @stimpunks.org

Another devastating blow for the disability community as this administration cuts almost every employee responsible for administering funding & oversight for IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act).

Education should be a basic human right..and disabled kids are just as deserving.

Let’s normalize bodymind breaks in schools. Take them when you need them. Take them in the bathroom. Take them in the library. Take them outside. Take them when you need to pee. Take them when you need to cry. Take them whenever you need to regulate.

stimpunks.org/bodymind-bre...

Not weaponising interests

As a teacher I will think twice about utilising intense interests in the classroom.

Some of my autistic Sts report abandoning their interests due to schools using them.

“This neurodiversity-lite approach is often a sugar-coated version of old outdated models that still centre neurotypical comfort over authentic neurodivergent wellbeing. It’s a way of maintaining control and conformity while speaking the language of inclusion.”

autisticrealms.com/why-interest...

Being “interest-led” isn’t enough.
Monotropism means honouring deep attention, autonomy & sensory safety, not weaponising interests for compliance.

https://autisticrealms.com/why-interest-led-isnt-enough-embracing-monotropism-neuro-affirming-practice/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social