If you want to show love for autistics, @Sia, you need to use your platform to correct this misinformation, and to ensure that your millions of followers are aware of the dangers of, and are encouraged to join the pushback against, the use of such restraint on autistic people.
It won't remove all the harm that's been done, but it'd be a damned good start that could actually help people. Use your influence and power in a way that helps us to mitigate future harm. It's the right thing to do.
For example, here is a campaign in Scotland against these types of restraints, which people can get involved in or use as a basis for their own activism on this: enable.org.uk/insafehands/
This is a coalition of organisations in the US telling the stories of people who have suffered from being restrained in this way, and campaigning against it: stophurtingkids.com

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21 Jan
I don't think we should be gentle or patient with politicians.

'Give them time to settle in.'

People are literally dying every second they don't do something, this isn't like you starting a new job and getting to know your surroundings before getting to work.
People aren't expecting them to fix everything instantly, however, demanding it loudly from the second they set foot in that fucking building is the way to make sure it does get done.

That's why people are doing the 'Biden still hasn't cancelled student debt' type tweets.
Because that's how you exert pressure from the very beginning and let them know you aren't fucking around with these demands.

You wanted this position of power? Then you put up with people shouting at you to save their lives from the moment you start to the moment you finish.
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20 Jan
Tw: restraint, death

In showing the main character restraining her autistic sister by lying on top of her on the floor (without criticising it), @Sia has promoted a technique that routinely kills autistic people under the guise of 'caring' for them.

Love letter to who, sorry?
I cannot emphasise how fucking harmful this is. How can you make a whole film out of your 'love' for autistic people and not be aware of the multitudes of autistic people who have been killed using this technique? People may walk away thinking this is the correct thing to do.
You have caused real harm with this, @Sia. People could get hurt or die, whatever your intention. Please just acknowledge the harm you have caused, apologise, and seek to put it right by correcting your misinformation and spreading the word about how dangerous restraint is.
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9 Jan
You should pursue an autism diagnosis whenever it feels right for you to do so. You do not have to cross a threshold of suffering first - in fact, you deserve whatever it takes to help make sure you don't ever reach breaking point, and diagnosis is often a part of that.
The fact that so many people only get diagnosed when they are struggling the most, because people only see the suffering side of autism and therefore don't recognise anything else, is an issue that we have been trying to rectify for years - it ruins and takes lives.
You deserve to have a diagnosis and access support and accommodations BEFORE you reach breaking point.

You deserve better than to have to wait until you can't cope anymore.

You deserve to never have to hit the depths of that rock bottom place.
Read 4 tweets
7 Jan
The problem with them ending Tuesday on a weird 'well he does SORTA know but also he doesn't' is that it's not a big enough of a lie to have any sort of dramatic reveal, but it is a big enough of a lie to matter if they never address it?

This isn't how you tell stories #Ballum
Like, the only way for it to come out is if Callum admits the true story of how it actually happened, because anything DIDH says to Ben can be brushed under the carpet as 'well he was secretly working against you the whole time'.
Add to that that we literally don't actually know what Ben knows? He knows that Callum was asked to spy, but then apparently Callum went to Jack, but they didn't mention if he actually did spy to keep up the pretence, so does Ben know about the bug? THE WIRE AT LEXI'S DANCE?
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19 Dec 20
'Christmas is cancelled' is such hyperbolic bullshit rhetoric because it literally isn't, it's just different this year.
I'm just saying, if you were planning big family gatherings for Christmas this year because the restrictions were lifted, I'm not sad that you now have to cancel them because you should have known fucking better.
I'm beyond done with abled people. I don't have anything left.
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19 Dec 20
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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