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2 Mar, 9 tweets, 3 min read
My goal this April is to wear something relating to autism acceptance everyday - primarily with the slogans Light it Up Gold and Red Instead. I can't buy enough shirts to wear one everyday, so I'm thinking picking up a pin or two is a good idea (plus ordered some masks today)
I did open back up my #RedInstead bonfire campaign if anyone wanted an Autistic & Cute shirt to wear next month. ☺️

It comes mostly in shades of red, but there are a few other colors.

I'm thinking about making a Light It Up Gold shirt this year too...

bonfire.com/red-instead-fo…
(I also have a version for parents/siblings/friends of autistic people)

bonfire.com/i-love-someone…
Alright, I went ahead and created the Light it Up Gold shirt I wanted ha

bonfire.com/light-it-up-go…
I'm also going to add some of the designs I like that I see for either #RedInstead or #LightItUpGold

These ones aren't designs I made, just things I like that I want to be able to easily find later/that some of y'all might appreciate seeing too!
redbubble.com/i/tank-top/Aut…
This might be a good pin - nice thing about pins is I can wear them multiple days in a row without any need to wash.

redbubble.com/i/pin/Autism-A…
redbubble.com/i/mask/Neurodi…
redbubble.com/i/pin/Actually…

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You can't fucking take away an autistic person's AAC in the hospital as a fucking punishment
He will be stuck there at least a week. Minimum.
He has been given back his AAC but they have threatened to take it away again. One doctor said that he will not have his phone taken away again. But I don't currently feel like I can trust that.
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I need to just thread all the things I read for school that I like. I love sharing the little snippets with y'all so you don't necessarily have to read through all the material yourself to hear them.

Though I don't know that anyone else actually appreciates them as much as me.
Every once in a while I'll do these threads where I just, ya know, summarize a 200 page dissertation I just read.
(like I did a few days ago)

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2 Mar
Book I'm reading on Psychotherapy for Disabled people says:

"The fear of domination that Winnicott talked about may bring out, in someone with learning disability, a reaction that leads to them being permanently smiley or permanently nice,
which has the effect of warding off attack from other people. Valerie Sinason (1992) has described
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2 Mar
I'm currently looking through disability themed masks on RedBubble (thinking about picking up an extra mask or two)

And there's some really rad ones and I can't buy them all, so I kinda want to make a thread of some of the ones I've seen I really like. Sorry y'all 😅
This one made me think of @NeuroCoolWheels 😅

redbubble.com/i/mask/Disable…
This one uses the gold infinity ^_^
I'm not getting it as a mask but I do think I'm going to get it as a pin

redbubble.com/i/mask/Autisti…
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People who know me irl and know about my Twitter always make jokes about me being "Twitter famous" (I disagree lol) because I have 12k followers.

But the secret is the more people see my tweets, the more anxious I get I'll embarrass myself. 😂

I have social anxiety. 🥲
I made this account to vent to the void. I happened to find the autistic community & learned about neurodiversity & such. Shortly after I learned nonbinary people exist and *that* flipped my life upsidown. 😅

But I never thought I'd have more than like 200 followers max.
Not that I don't appreciate it.

I legitimately don't think I would be on the career path I'm on now if I hadn't found the neurodiversity community through Twitter. And I *really* like what I'm studying now.

I don't know that I'd be where I am with my gender identity either.
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I can never get into old black and white tv shows.

Mostly it's because I can find things like that difficult to enjoy because of things like the misogyny.

But also I legitimately think I have a difficult time telling characters apart without color.
I know many autistic people struggle with recognizing faces.

I don't have much trouble with it in person. I have a little bit - like I used to get kids at summer camp mixed up if they had the same hair color and cut.
But generally I don't have too much trouble recognizing people.

I do know that I am primarily informed by broader details. I can't remember people's facial features unless I intentionally study them, but I do remember things like hair color and cut, skin color, face shape
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