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Eric Michael Garcia Profile picture
@EricMGarcia
May 6 • 5 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Oh, my sweet young girl. How my heart breaks for you. How I wish we had a better world for you. How I wish you knew your #ActuallyAutistic tribe wanted to care for you. How I have been close to where you went. I'm so sorry Caitlyn Scott-Lee.
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And my heartbreak can coincide with my rage, so fuck it, I'll say it. Suicide is the biggest killer of #ActuallyAutistic people without intellectual disabilities behind heart disease. We haven't done enough to save these youth. Her blood is on our hands.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
I'm gonna uncork even more: Caitlyn Scott-Lee's death is an example of what happens when we tell #ActuallyAutistic people's worth to their intelligence and their ability to accomplish. She feared her infractions would kill her hopes and dreams.
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Autistic people deserve to grow old, to be happy. To know their lives value more than just their intelligence. And to hell with it, I'm going to go there: #ActuallyAutistic girls get trapped into this far too easily and probably worse than I did as a boy.
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I usually don't like mouthing off about this stuff. But dammit, I just finished traveling across the country and have met so many amazing autistic people who've dealt with drug addiction, suicide attempts, depression. I'm angry she died.

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May 6
In light of North Carolina’s impending abortion ban, I tried to explain why #NCPol hasn’t tended leftward the way Virginia and Georgia have and arguably, policies like the abortion ban may make North Carolina more firmly Republican. #NCGA #NCPol independent.co.uk/voices/north-c…
Long short of it: North Carolina lacks an urban hub like Atlanta, suburbs full of college-educated whites like Virginia or enough of a Black population to make a difference.
#NCPol
independent.co.uk/voices/north-c…
Incidentally, North Carolina passing a 12-week ban could wind up repelling college-educated whites from moving to the state while more students at NCSU, Duke, Wake Forest and UNC will likely leave the state if this passes.
#NCPol
independent.co.uk/voices/north-c…
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Mar 25
Ok. So I gathered my thoughts because I didn’t want to mouth off. On one end, this is good because it means #ActuallyAutistic Black and Latino kids are getting diagnosed. On the other end, I worry this will lead to autism being stigmatized and therefore kids won’t get services
Autism has historically been seen as a condition that affects upper-class white folks. Leo Kanner in his first study of autism featured nine WASP families and two Jewish families. All of them had elite parents. Well, guess who could afford to send their kids to be observed?
Of course autism services weren’t a cakewalk for white folks. One study showed that upper middle class people benefited the most from Medicaid home and community based services waivers because they wouldn’t have access to those services otherwise
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Mar 24
Conservative opposition to disability has shifted. In the 1980s to the 2000s, conservatives mostly hated accommodating people with disabilities because of regulations big business. Now it's more about "owning the libs" and not wanting them in public space.
Under the old style of former iteration of conservatism, adaptable clothing would be welcomed: Government doesn't need to mandate accessibility. The Market will innovate! Now, it's about not wanting to see them at all.
Trump, of course, spearheaded this. He reportedly didn't want to feature wounded veterans since "Nobody wants to see that."
theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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Mar 22
Interesting discussion I had with Mama Garcia (who turned 60 earlier this month) when she visited. When I mentioned how Democrats appeal to college-educated voters, she was confused because growing up, they voted for Republicans because college-educated voters made money.
My grandmother Hernandez, the first in her family to be born in the US, ADORED Franklin Roosevelt. Many of my Tios and Tias on my mom's side are Democrats (though some of the Protestannts are more Republican). But few in that generation have degrees. A handful voted fo Trump
Given, this the California side of my family, who are Arellanos and Hernandezes. The Garcias from Texas are more spread out but my dad, as most of y'all know, is full MAGA. My grandfather used to be a Democrat but voted for Reagan in 1976.
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Mar 22
My analysis ahead of Trump's potential indictment: Republicans, Democrats and many others had a chance to put Trump down for good long ago. But nobody took it for fear it would hurt their careers personally.
independent.co.uk/voices/trump-i…
Every Republican candidate in 2016 had a chance to put him away for good. But Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and everyone else refused to make a kill. Hillary Clinton wanted Trump to be the nominee in 2016 to give herself an easier time 1/
independent.co.uk/voices/trump-i…
Republicans could have abandoned him for good after the Access Hollywood tape and they didn't. They could have dropped him at any point during his presidency, but he passed Paul Ryan's tax cuts and confirmed Mitch McConnell's judges. So they looked away.
independent.co.uk/voices/trump-i…
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Mar 4
Lake says "every man woman and child knows that." Face check: Most REPUBLICANS don't think the election was stolen. ktar.com/story/5468042/…
Lake says "How many of you lost a client or to a friend or two, maybe a family members may become estranged because of this?" #CPAC
Lake calls King George, the "original globalists" and calls 1776 the "Original Brexit" and gives a shout out to Nigel Farage.
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