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Erin Ekins (she/her)

@QueerlyAutistic

19 Dec

As a neurodivergent person who has lived on this earth for nearly 29 years, I should not be surprised that EE's story about Mick's trauma response to repressed memories of childhood abuse resurfacing has been focused heavily on his wife's 'not getting enough attention' feels.

I mean, that's exactly how they treated Ollie's autism. It's all about how it gives his mum sads that he's autistic and how she responds to the sads.

Neurodivergent people only get to exist as burdens to those we love and/or as people who don't deserve love and support.

Surely not a coincidence that Ollie's mum and Mick's wife are the same person.

Mick should find someone who will recognise that this is so obviously a mental health crisis, support him through it, and then get primary custody of Ollie, and that's that on that.

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Erin Ekins (she/her)

@QueerlyAutistic

19 Dec

Every single way that researchers find that autistics differ from non-autistics will be labelled as a 'deficit' or 'disordered', even if that difference is not negative in any way (and sometimes even when it's positive: i.e. when they found us to be more honest and ethical).

This is because they inherently view autistics and autistic behaviour as 'bad' by virtue of it not being neurotypical. We are nothing more than broken neurotypicals that they're trying to fix, because normality is king even when the difference is harmless or even beneficial.

They are so blinkered by the idea that they have to make us 'normal' that they forget to consider what's actually best for us. So if we express or show distress in a slightly different way, the issue is in making us do distress 'correctly' rather than mitigating distress.

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Erin Ekins (she/her)

@QueerlyAutistic

18 Dec

tw: suicide, self harm

I've just a note from Twitter saying that someone reported their 'concern' that my recent tweets indicate I'm going to harm myself.

I have tweeted nothing of that nature, so I can only assume this is an attempt at harassment or to make me be quiet.

If you're genuinely concerned about me, please don't do this? It's actually quite intimidating and in invasion of privacy. Please reach out to me, or someone you know I interact with, if your concerns are genuine. Don't do this.

I don't feel protected, I don't feel loved, I don't feel supported.

Don't do this.

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Erin Ekins (she/her)

@QueerlyAutistic

17 Dec

tw: child abuse, spiders

#Yale just did a study, passed by their ethics committee, which literally measured 'distress' in autistic children by frightening them with Halloween masks, large mechanical spiders, and strangers encroaching in their personal space #AttendLessFearMore

Not only this, but they then tried to defend it when the autistic community expressed outrage whilst blocking the Twitter user who leaked the paper, followed by them removing the paper from the link so that people can no longer see for themselves what they did #AttendLessFearMore

A single traumatic moment in childhood can have a lasting effect and is often the basis of phobias. This is especially true for autistic people. The researchers who claimed to be concerned about anxiety in autistic people have potentially created that anxiety #AttendMoreFearLess

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Erin Ekins (she/her)

@QueerlyAutistic

16 Dec

You don't need to just stop using the word 'burden' when talking about accessibility and disabled people, but that you also need to change your entire mindset. If you don't say 'burden', but still think 'burden', you'll treat us just the same. And you won't do right by us.

Meeting access needs must be something that becomes second nature - for example, rather than building a ramp outside your restaurant being seen as additional extra or burden, view it in the same way you would view not installing an oven: unthinkable, of course you have one.

Building new buildings? Installing amps, lifts, wide enough corridors, quiet rooms etc. should be as automatic as installing a front door or putting a roof on the building. They're not add-ons, they're a vital and inherent necessity of the structure. It's a mindset change.

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Erin Ekins (she/her)

@QueerlyAutistic

15 Dec

tw: abortion, eugenics

All discussions about reproductive rights and reproductive justice must include the voices of disabled people who are concerned about eugenics and how abortion plays into that.

These conversations aren't at war with being pro-choice, they're part of it.

There are very few disabled people who think the answer is to ban people from having abortions.

But we do need to have a discussion about pre-natal testing, how doctors frame disability to pregnant people, and the impact of societal ableism on decisions.

Only 2/3 babies with Downs are born each year in Iceland because of virulent testing and a culture that essentially encourages abortion if the test comes back positive. Many of the babies who ARE born are only born because their test was a false negative. cbsnews.com/news/down-synd…

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