Hade först inte tänkt kolla på den här för jag är lite allergisk mot den typ av doku som det här verkade vara, men så fick TV:n stå på och jag kollade ändå, och jisses vad mycket igenkänning det blev. Mer känslosamt än jag trodde.

urplay.se/program/236874-kvinn…

#autism #SVT #Dokumentär

Kvinnor, flickor och autism | UR Play

Vid 33 års ålder inser Christine att hon är autistisk. Bakom sig har hon en lång karriär som modell och tv-profil, men samtidigt har hon brottats med psykisk ohälsa.

^urplay.se

Then, as we’re not listened to, society's understanding of autism develops without us.🤷🏽‍♀️

That flawed understanding is then used to overrule us, again.

Strange little loop. ➰

6/11

#EpistemicInjustice #Autism #AutismResearch

That idea – that there’s a separable ‘pure self’ – is basically not one that's shared by us.

But it's very popular elsewhere!

Many millions are poured into #autism research every year, in the areas of treatment, intervention, prevention, and the hunt for biomarkers.

💰💰💰

3/11

Most autistic people, despite everything, actually like being autistic.

Not all, of course. But most of us.
And I don’t just mean ‘making peace with it’.

I mean: it's bound up with who we are.

A thread 🧵

1/11

(refs at the end)
#Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent

With world autism day around the corner, it's a good time to post this.

#autism
#actuallyAutistic
#InfinitySymbol

They don't know it, but this article is also about autism.

dmnews.com/j-a-p-psychologists…

#ActuallyAutistic
#autism
#introversion

Psychologists say people who need to be alone after socializing aren't recharging from exhaustion.

The quiet after socializing isn't recovery from depletion — it's your brain running a complex sorting algorithm on every micro-expression, tonal shift, and unspoken tension you absorbed, and some of us simply have more data to process.

^{Bernadette Donovan (Direct Message News)}