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1 Apr, 13 tweets, 4 min read
It is officially #AutismAcceptanceMonth and I thought I would make a thread of my most stories with #ActuallyAutistic characters.
I am autistic. Technically self diagnosed, which is totally valid. I went through an assessment and they I didn't have enough records from my childhood to officially make a diagnosis.
I think most of my main characters are autistic. At least, you would have a hard time finding one that is absolutely not autistic. It's just the way I think, and that translates to my characters.
But this list will be canonically autistic stories.

Enjoy!
Make America Goblins Again
A story of fairies and assassinations and red hats that drink blood. And an autistic lady trying to solve a conspiracy and learn to trust her own brain again

jenniferleerossman.blogspot.com/2021/03/make-a…
The Unwelcome Destiny Of Virginia Monahan
Gin can see into the future, and she doesn't like what she sees.
(I technically don't refer to her as autistic in the story, but I definitely wrote her as autistic)

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Of Clockwork Hearts And Metal Iguanodons
Queer disabled girl versus inaccurate dinosaur statues that are upsetting her autistic crush in the 1800s.

glittership.com/2019/06/24/epi…
The Girl With Silver Feet
An autistic retelling of The Wizard Of Oz… in space!
(Available in Brave New Girls: Tales Of Girls Who Tech And Tinker)
amazon.com/Brave-New-Girl…
Not Like Other Ghouls
An autistic zombie who doesn't want to turn people tries to befriend (and maybe date) a human man
Available in Strangely Funny VII

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The Doll In The Ripped Universe
Very queer, very autistic, very… don't want to spoil the ending.
Available in Spoon Knife 4

amazon.com/Spoon-Knife-Ne…
Names
An autistic girl in the old west needs to find her own way to defeat the monster terrorizing her town.
Available in the Aurora nominated Nothing Without Us

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The Repatriation Heist
A time traveling autistic witch makes a time loop to rescue a spirit from a hotel room
Available in Five Minutes At Hotel Stormcove

amazon.com/gp/aw/d/194500…
My Fair Cavelady
Steampunk retelling of My Fair Lady in which autistic girl genius Henrietta Higgins debates the ethics of "curing" herself and her autistic Neanderthal friend Eliza
Available in Brave New Girls: Adventures Of Gals And Gizmos

amazon.com/Brave-New-Girl…
Enough
Frankenstein's second monster navigates support services for disabled people and tries to find meaning as an autistic monster who was never good enough
Available in We Shall Be Monsters

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31 Mar
It's #TransDayOfVisibility which means you can all see me! Hi! I don't know what I am, but I'm not really a girl most of the time.
But I am an author! And here is a thread of my stories featuring trans and non-binary characters!
Velocirapture features lesbian velociraptors, one of whom is trans, who save the world

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Non-binary magical artist versus depression and antidepressant stigma!

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21 Mar
I'm going to start season two of the Mandalorian, or as I call it RELUCTANT SPACE DAD
#JenLiveTweetsMovies
Here's season one, if you want to catch up
EPISODE ONE… is like an hour long so I'm probably not going to watch all of it tonight
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18 Nov 20
OK so I have two ideas for this Christmas horror story.

The basic idea is that the main character is too busy for Christmas and love but she comes back to her hometown for Christmas and needs to save the Christmas pageant because all the kids are getting eaten
She discovers that her tendency to overwork is based on growing up believing in the Yule cat, a lorge boy who eats children who are lazy.

And I want it to be like a romance movie. Like all of the beats of a romance, but horror instead

Here is where I have options
OPTION ONE.

The Yule cat is the "Love interest". They have a meet cute but she doesn't realize he's the one (… eating all the children). She doesn't even recognize him from high school (… when she believed in him and no one else did)
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18 Nov 20
Hopefully going to watch more/most of labyrinth tonight. And I should figure out what movie to do next.

I have: netflix, prime, hoopla. Let me go through them and see what is interesting…
My main criteria for movies are:

🦋 Science fiction or fantasy
🦋 movies I haven't seen since forever
🦋 movies everyone else in the world has seen and somehow I missed
🦋 I am gay

A movie should get at least two of those points
I have never seen any of the Star Trek movies. I don't know if I have to watch them in order or not. But that is an option
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18 Nov 20
By popular demand, it is time to watch Labyrinth #JenLiveTweetsMovies
I am a 30-year-old queer person who has never seen Labyrinth and it's time we change that.
Things I know about this movie:

Muppets
David Bowie

I fail to see how these things go together but I am intrigued.
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17 Nov 20
Oh shit I have idea for this Hallmark channel Christmas movies horror story thing.

OK so. The main character is a workaholic who doesn't have time for love or Christmas, but she goes home anyway and that's where she meets the Yule cat.
The Yule cat is a kitty from Iceland. And he is an absolute unit.

Like. He protec, he attac, he eat children as snac. Except without the protecting part
His whole deal is making people not be lazy. He checks in on you once a year, and if you haven't made a new article of clothing for yourself? He eats you
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