Thread by @social_parasite

Thought I'd live tweet my thoughts on #InsideOurAutisticMinds episode one. So here goes...

I love how Chris moves his hand when he speaks and I've always loved his voice.

I love the idea of films showing our Autistic experiences. It feels very much like the work I'm getting involved with at @AutekCIC which is exciting.

Aw, I just want to sit with Chris, he looks a bit lost and anxious in that table alone!

"Any conversation at any time is improvisation" - Flo

Ewwwww... 'camouflaging' bit of an outdated term. Not the worst but still a bit ick.

"I never speak my native language [autism]"

"Abdominal migraine" what the doctor described Flo's anxiety as.

I don't really know what to do with that term. It's almost a joke.

Flo think she masks 95% of the time. Her Mum reckons she knows 93% of her.

This is so sad and I think Mum is Autistic too.

Murray (a non-speaker) desperately wants people to know what's going on inside his mind.

"Autistic people need to be heard in this world"

[Whoops Little Man has woken up - I'll have to catch up with this another time!]

Because what Murray says through his Ipad is few and far between it is all the more powerful - Murray's Dad.

"The horses are dear souls in an Autistic world" - Murray

Flo getting Chris: How are you?

Chris: I've got a bad back.

Flo: So have I! Come in.

This is thee most Autistic interchange ever!

Unmasking means going against the years if behaviour you used to hide yourself.

Flo's husband checks in with her when she stims, he'll ask "is that a good or bad rock?"

I love this - my husband asks similar!

I had so many words in my head trying to say them was like putting rocks through a filter.

Flo, talking about a shutdown.

It's so nice to hear a narrator on the TV talking about Autistic people and saying "we" and "us."

So, so nice.

Listening to and understanding conversations but not being able to respond in time must be some kind of torture - Chris

I know what its like when you get like this... it's like your heads on fire but on the outside everything looks fine.

- Chris on Flo's 'unmasked' behaviours and stimming

The benefits of going to this Autistic school means we can learn all the unwritten rules about society - Eva

Autistic women are 8 x more likely to commit suicide than non-Autistic women.

A very harrowing statistic but unfortunately not a surprise to me.

Trans and non-binary folk were not commented on whilst talking about gender. Not surprising but still annoying.

Come on use of "support needs" and no functioning labels!

The board which spoke out the pictures is amazing, I had no idea that even existed.

I'm so glad there's more tech out there for non-speaking people to use, I just hope everyone has access to it.

I love that Murray choose the person who was doing his voice with the voice he most felt sounded like him.

He said he was happy to be able to sound like "a normal man."

*so many tears in my eyes right now*

I think the voice actor for Murray is also Autistic.

I'm so excited about a series which thinks about Autistic people not just as the subject but as people involved in all elements of the project.

"Masking is a survival strategy, to avoid bullying and to fit into the non-Autistic world.

It's exhausting to pretend to be normal all the time...

I'm worried you'll think ill need fixing...

I'm ready to me myself I hope you won't be disappointed" Flo to her mum

I'm in tears about that video, I was (and am) privileged enough to be my weird and wonderful self with my Mum, always.

"Every single word in this film comes with a cost that most of us can't imagine so it is extremely precious and poignant."

- Chris talking on Murray's video.

Non-verbal people are a pleasure to be around as we feel the world more deeply.

- Murray

"Each of us [non-speaking Autistic people] is a star in the atmosphere waiting to be discovered and named."

- Murray

"We [neurotylicals] need to start listening in a way that may take us outside of our comfort zones"

All in all a really good start to the season. I'm looking forward to the next one.

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