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John Marble

@JHMarble

Apr 11, 2020 • 8 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X

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@Square

THANK YOU #Neurodiversity Community at @Square for this care package as I recover from #COVID_19!!!

The beard oil is especially appreciated as my quarantine beard continues to grow.

❤️♾

@jack: Your employees are so kind & amazing! @ClaudiaJNg @CosmicKarmic @cjereneta + more!

@Square

The #Neurodiversity Community at @Square is made up of employees who are #autistic, otherwise #neurodiverse, parents of neurodiverse children, and allies.

It’s a main reason why I started @PivotDiversity: the belief that empowering neurodiverse employees strengthens companies.

I’ve volunteered my time assisting this employee resource group. It’s allowed me to work with them to test concepts which can work for #neurodivergent employees everywhere. It’s an amazing group!

It turns out (slight sarcasm) EMPOWERING autistic & neurodivergent people works.

@Square

In December, they hosted community members for ‘Neurodiversity Month’ events.

Here’s Francie Fiamatta, an autistic business owner who uses @Square, showing off her merchandise. Also, check out @jtknoxroxs in the background! #AutisticJoy!

@YourKinfolkz

Square also hosted my friend @YourKinfolkz for their Neurodiversity Month celebrations. She discussed her community building efforts, her advocacy for communities of color, and brought her (neurotypical) daughter to share what it’s like to have an autistic woman as a mother.

@Square

And last April, @Square hosted author @stevesilberman and I for a community discussion on the future of #autism and the priorities of the #ActuallyAutistic community.

Notice my beard is not quite at the #COVID_19 quarantine level it is today. Also, hi @drdebah!

@Square

And if you haven’t seen, @Square CEO @jack is moving $1Billion to #COVID_19 relief. After the pandemic, the funds shift to girl’s health & education, and UBI.

As I recover from #COVID_19, this Neurodiversity Community at Square care package feels like a $1Billion gift to me.

❤️

We’re all stressed at this time. Many of the members of the Neurodiversity Community at Square are also parents - working & raising kids while sheltering in place.

The fact that they’d take their energy & time and send their thoughts my way is unbelievably touching.

THANK YOU.

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I’m happy to report the string of 4,736 radio ads I’ve heard in the #GASenate runoff has been broken!!

I’m sad to report the ad which did it was a “we can fix your broken kid” ad by #AutismSpeaks.

Give autistic people 1% of their bloated budget & watch the world change. 💯

I’m serious. Give autistic adults 1% of the budget of any big autism group and things would be SO MUCH BETTER for parents, kids, and us.

I’ve repeatedly said that to neurotypical people, but to quote Georgia native André 3000 “Y’all don’t want to hear me, you just wanna dance.”

It seems that every week I’m contacted by someone I know who has someone in their life who is a parent of a newly diagnosed autistic kid.

I spend SO MUCH TIME filling in the gaps that autism groups don’t fill-in because they EXCLUDE autistic people from their leadership...

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John Marble

@JHMarble

Sep 26, 2020

🧵 THREAD 🧵

Someone wrote that Judge Amy Coney Barrett would bring “heart” to ‘special needs’ if confirmed to the #SupremeCourt. After showing my respect for the person who wrote that, and understanding of where they were coming from, this was my response:

“Disabled people don’t need lawmakers or jurors to bring “heart” to ‘special needs’. That’s what has led to patronizing policy which has f%¥ked over the exercise of our equality and marginalized our full participation in society over-and-over-and-over again...

It’s one of the greatest things we organize and fight against and we will continue to fight against it until the law and policy makers recognize that we are just like everyone else...

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John Marble

@JHMarble

Sep 11, 2020

The whole #BobWoodward thing reminds me that our better politicians understand the press will try to ‘get’ them, and that’s a good, healthy thing for our democracy. They respect and welcome that.

—> It’s a BS check.

Bad politicians think the press is there to serve them.

*I should say it’s not as much that the press tries to “get” politicians, but that they don’t regard a politician’s messaging priorities when they are reporting stories. That’s an amazing thing, and when I was a press officer it drove me up the wall.

I hated it, but I loved it.

@WashBlade

And the #BobWoodward tapes remind me of #LouChibarro of the @WashBlade. When I was a press officer, he was so masterful in asking a question, letting you answer, then NOT SAYING ANYTHING.

The subject felt compelled to fill the silence with more information.
👨‍🍳💋

Amazing.

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John Marble

@JHMarble

Sep 6, 2020

I’m an autistic person with #dyscalculia.

So, while I very much *feel* #SpoonTheory in my being, it all falls apart when trying to use it as a metaphor with others (or as an accommodation strategy for myself). I constantly miscount and lose them.

I’m a #Spoonie without spoons.

When speaking, or in meetings, I’m often asked by folks to explain spoon theory. I usually just turn to someone I trust and ask “Could you explain it?”

For myself, I’ve learned to just make myself stop, slow down, or turn down requests when needed — and to be ok with that.

I mean, I’m a huge supporter of spoon theory as a metaphor to explain things to others and as an accomodation peoole can use themselves. It just all gets tangled and anxiety-inducing for me.

I love to laugh at that, though. You kind of gotta.

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John Marble

@JHMarble

Sep 4, 2020

@APAPsychiatric

I often think on how research, medicine, and psychiatry approach and ‘treat’ autistic people today in the exact same manner they approached and ‘treated’ homosexuality until 1972.

Then, thanks to #LGBTQ advocates, homosexuality was suddenly ‘cured’ by @APAPsychiatric overnight.

https://twitter.com/Bob_Witeck/status/1301951582905475072

Where are the endless research papers about the genetics and epigenetics of gay people?

Where are the warnings of “risk factors” for lesbians?

Where’s the pleading for “early intervention” for bisexuals?

What about environmental factors?!?!

We probably know less about gay people now than autistic people. But, we know enough not to funnel everything about LGBTQ people through a pathological frame.

All the questions we ask about autism are still there (and largely unanswered) for LGBTQ people.

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