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Dear #ActuallyAutistic activist friends: I know that many of you have been through a rougher than usual time in the advocacy space these past two months. I have several bits of encouraging news to share that I think will give you hope for your own efforts.
But I am exhausted now, so I will not share anything specific today.

Just know that changes can come.

My good trouble is slowly paying off. My friends are brewing a revolution and we see its effects around us.

Some of our big dreams are possible and realistic.
Hebrews 11:1 says that faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

I don't have faith. 😝 I am certain of nothing.

What I do have, is hope. For me, hope is seeing a logical possibility.
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For nonspeaking autistic people, good fine motor skills and coordination are rare.

Expressive facial communication, fancy dance movements -- these things are SUPER difficult for many nonspeakers because of...
The reason why I am doing this poll is because recent representations of a fictional nonspeaking autistic character in some entertainment videos doesn't take the actual problem into account at all.
This can create a huge misunderstanding of autism, because to non-autistic people, the character looks autistic, so the character informs people's picture of autism.
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