Gladys Ambert
Ruth Brown
Sirshen du Mallick
Ramdas Dahikar
Asma Akter
Damian Scott
Isabel Rosin
Kathy Erbeldig
Carolyn Walker
Louise Smith
Abigail Humes
10 year old girl
Umesh Balagi
76 year old woman
Alejandro Ripley
Willow Dunn
Unknown elder woman
India Martin
6 year old girl
Waylon Mittens
28 year old woman
Apollo Harless
Avielle Harless
Esteban Harless
Penelope Harless
Billy Hopson
Kylie Mickens
Joshua Vallow
Sherrell Martin
Emi Yamamoto
#DisabilityDayofMourning#DDOM2021
April Zavala
Kylie Larson
Fredererick Johnson
Nicole Jakubek
Diana Rosaly
Klara Wright
La'Marion Thamure
Ryu Sakayama
Sarah Curran
Thaddeus Sran
Dylan Freeman
Leslie Hartman
Donna Harber
Abhijit Rajak
Shanthi
Yoko Shinya
Nancy Arnold
#DisabilityDayofMourning#DDOM2021
Fat-lun Wong
Unknown woman
Pauline Lankford
3 year old girl
R. Devarajoo
Mahalakshmi
12 year old girl
Sayeed Nelson
Adrian White
46 year old man
Vincent Avelino
Jamarion Delancy
Thomas Gruidl
Eric Smithson
William Smithson
5 year old girl
#DisabilityDayofMourning#DDOM2021
Saburo Sato
Joan Wheeler
Michael Montgomery
Chadaporn Khamkeaw
"Sonam"
Manu Savaliya
Guadalupe Martinez
Ekanthachari
Teru Inaba
They were all murdered by a caregiver. People who had lives, loves, hopes and dreams, like all of us.
Remember.
Most people are familiar with the idea that #autistic people are often direct when they speak and that this sometimes leads to misunderstandings, in a society like ours which values indirect communication.
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There is much less discussion around non verbal communication (NVC) for #autistic people, apart from the stereotype "they just don't get it".
Many autistic people I know are in fact experts in NVC, because they've studied it in great depth.
Does double empathy apply here too?
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I see many people who consider themselves 'experienced' in #autism who fail to recognise the most basic NVC from #autistic people.
Body language or behaviour which (to me at least) very obviously communicates distress or anxiety gets misinterpreted or ignored altogether.
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