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Inaccessibility at university, a short thread 🧵
The undue pressure to make our own accessibility needs meet in education is astounding.
This doesn't get any easier as we get older and go into further education. 1/6
The undue pressure to make our own accessibility needs meet in education is astounding.
This doesn't get any easier as we get older and go into further education. 1/6
University is filled with so many difficult social interactions, sensory overwhelming spaces, changing timetables and the emails, oh the fucking emails!
There are freezing rooms, boiling hot rooms, tiny tables, people everywhere... 2/6
There are freezing rooms, boiling hot rooms, tiny tables, people everywhere... 2/6
...and the smells and noises which come with them), no windows in some rooms, feedback from class microphones...
There were no lockers at my uni so I had to take all my stuff with me, including lunch as food is so expensive - and not very nice - there. 3/6
There were no lockers at my uni so I had to take all my stuff with me, including lunch as food is so expensive - and not very nice - there. 3/6
Excited to be "at" the first #AutismJournalClub. @milton_damian presenting on the development of the #ParticipatoryAutismResearchCollective (emerald.com/insight/conten…). I've not had the pleasure to see Dr. Milton present before, so I'm quite excited! #PARC #AutisticsInAcademia
"How much interactional expertise is possible between autistic & non-autistic people? (Milton, 2014)"
"Expertise in what it is to be autistic would take immersion.. extent such immersion is possible [is questionable] for non-aut people, doubtful many researchers have made effort"
"Expertise in what it is to be autistic would take immersion.. extent such immersion is possible [is questionable] for non-aut people, doubtful many researchers have made effort"
A main objective of #ParticipatoryResearch is ceding power from the researcher to the participants.
PARC was preceded by the Theorizing Autism project, which is now on my list to check out! #AutismJournalClub
PARC was preceded by the Theorizing Autism project, which is now on my list to check out! #AutismJournalClub
It's #AutisticSpeakingDay and I don't have the energy for the long post that's in my head and heart right now.
But here's a short one.
Academic Violence:
But here's a short one.
Academic Violence:
1) at [conference], I listened to multiple panels describe autism as a tragedy. Something to pity. Autistic traits as something to avoid. Something to program out.
#AutisticSpeakingDay
#AutisticSpeakingDay
2) at [conference], I learned that if I don't tell interviewers I'm autistic, they won't hire me because I won't look at them right. If I tell them I'm autistic, they won't hire me because of assumptions that I'm not a team player.
#AutisticSpeakingDay
#AutisticSpeakingDay
Autism in academia. A thread.
#Autistic people often have intense interests. These can quite quickly become areas of specialism & expertise.
Presumably, universities would have high numbers of autistic people, surely?
#ActuallyAutistic #AllAutistics #AutisticsinAcademia /1
#Autistic people often have intense interests. These can quite quickly become areas of specialism & expertise.
Presumably, universities would have high numbers of autistic people, surely?
#ActuallyAutistic #AllAutistics #AutisticsinAcademia /1
It's hard to know.
I began my PhD 10 years ago. I've yet to meet a scholar or student who is openly autistic. I am literally the only one I know. I 'network' a lot, I've worked in 3 institutions.
Not one person.
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I began my PhD 10 years ago. I've yet to meet a scholar or student who is openly autistic. I am literally the only one I know. I 'network' a lot, I've worked in 3 institutions.
Not one person.
/2
On Twitter, there are a fair few of us. Many autistic scholars specialise in autism research. This is extremely important. #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
Why is it so hard to find other autistic academics 'on the ground'?
Why is it so hard to find other autistic academics 'on the ground'?
“All supposedly educated people have ceased to believe that the dead can become visible as spirits, and have made any such appearances dependent on improbably and remote conditions.” -Freud, The Uncanny #GhostlyMatters
What are the implications of the scholarly dismissal of the ghostly- on scholarship, on spirits, and on haunted academics and academies? #GhostlyMatters #AcademicAbleism
How do we- the haunting and haunted, the scholar and subject- reckon with ghosts that have been removed or ignored? #GhostlyMatters #AcademicAbleism
Pulling some important quotes from (thesis-related) close reading of the @autselfadvocacy Navigating College handbook. #AutisticsInAcademia #helenreads
“Remember one thing: You made it to college because you have potential. You are in college because you demonstrated capability to get here.” -Samantha April Davis, Worth
“Consider applying to the disability office under a related condition, such as anxiety.” -Samantha April Davis, Self Accommodation
This is crucial for people who are self-dx and/or don’t have current documentation of certain disabilities.
This is crucial for people who are self-dx and/or don’t have current documentation of certain disabilities.
