Thread by @ekverstania

I want to talk about my availability in the light of my focus areas for 2021.

https://twitter.com/ekverstania/status/1353291178574303233

I'm not available to review your masters thesis or your book on autism. I appreciate that you ask, but I don't have time. Depending on your topic, I can recommend a number of qualified autistic reviewers with a broad range of experience who you can hire for this type of work.

I'm also not available to counsel/support you or your friend/family member personally, even informally, because this requires commitment and I can't commit to more people than I am serving already. I also can't always connect you to another suitable individual. However...

Depending on your questions, I can either refer you to a handful of useful Q&A groups on Facebook and in some cases also to therapists. Also, you can attend one of the seminars or workshops where I'm co-presenting.

The Autistic Strategies Network has a mailing list for event notifications. I'll post a link once the fields are updated. (The current form was for in-person events, and mainly focused on Southern Africa.) We'll be having some international online events soon.

I want to be more specific, though. Even though I collaborate internationally in areas of mutual interest (such as nonspeakers' rights and the global campaign against ABA), my priorities for all these focus areas lie in Africa.

https://twitter.com/ekverstania/status/1353291188816797702

This is also why our first online seminar will be focused on the needs of African autists, particularly the underserved nonspeaking community — people who mostly don't get to experience a "sense of community" right now.

This priority is shared by a number of my African allies, including @karen_muriuki and @veronicamuinjo.

But now, bedtime. I was supposed to get an early night for a change, but that ship has sailed!

Here's a random pic of biological interest which I took near my home.