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This week's host: - - Rocur account, hosts wanted! Email us wearedisabledtwitter@gmail.com Chronically ill, but chronically funny
Apr 11, 2022 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
Last thread: Neurotypical's Guide to Friendship with an autistic person.

Don't worry, the bar is very low here.

#ActuallyAutistic
#AutismAcceptanceMonth
#AutismAwarenessMonth
#Friendship 1) Don't mock them.
Apr 11, 2022 • 23 tweets • 14 min read
Hello folks!

This is @pinguicverse here.

I am going to start to slowly wrap up.

I am weaving all the threads we created this week.

#WeAreDisabled
#DisabledAndCute
#AutismAwarenessMonth
#AutismAcceptanceMonth
#ActuallyAutistic Before I do that, I want to thank you all for your participation and engagement.

I have learned a lot from all of you.
Apr 11, 2022 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
Today's thread:

How to create a space for Autistic Adults.

How to design and decorate your home that feels welcoming to an autistic person?

#AutismAcceptanceMonth
#AutismAwarenessMonth
#ActuallyAutistic Background:

i) About a year ago, I started looking for interior designers who have experience in designing homes for autistic adults - someone who designed one home. I was not looking for an expert.

Spoiler alert (Not!) - I did not find any.
Apr 8, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Yesterday I asked you what your neuroatypical superpowers were.

Let me do a small-ish thread on my superpowers.

Some of them are very similar to what you shared.

A thread.

#AutismAcceptanceMonth
#AutismAwarenessMonth
#ActuallyAutistic 1) I love big data and I cannot lie.

I am not a statistician. It is not heavy duty maths.
But often, for work (and sometimes for fun too), I have to look at patterns.
I tabulate judgments and analyse them.

Even though the content is very #TW-ish, I love doing this so much.
Apr 7, 2022 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
Second Thread: While I have asked you what your neuroatypical superpowers are, I will make a list of ways Autism comes in my way on a daily basis.

Here's a thread of things others seem to do so easily, but I struggle. 1) SOCIALISING

Navigating unwritten social rules is one of my biggest challenge.

I often say- I feel like a different operating system altogether.

Sarcasm, innuendos, implicit expectations are my nemesis.
Apr 6, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Q1. It can be a two step process.

a) read what #ActuallyAutistic folks have said on it to get a rough idea of what support looks like in general.

b) when it comes to supporting a person, ask them what they need. It will differ from person to person, and day to day. For eg:Depending on what my life looked like in the past week or month, my need may vary.

If I have had a very busy few days of socialising & work, I may need silence, space to recover and stim.

If I have had a few days of rest, I may have higher tolerance to change and sound.
Apr 6, 2022 • 26 tweets • 4 min read
First Thread: I wanted to talk about Autism.

Common myths and misunderstandings.

A Thread.

(Please excuse spellings and syntax error) 1) Autism is not a disease.

Therefore, there are no "causes".

You will hear all sorts of things people think cause autism: medicines, vaccines, milk, gluten.

This is all incorrect.
Apr 6, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Hi folks,

This is @PinguicVerse here.

Before I begin, I want to apologise for the delay.
We were facing some technical issues.

I am from India, currently based in Ireland.

I am autistic.

I also manage @_serotonin_club. This is a club for first person narrative by neurodivergent people in South Asia.

theserotoninclub.wordpress.com
May 25, 2021 • 91 tweets • 20 min read
When I first began to experience neck & shoulder pain in 2015 and the inability to digest food, I switched my 2016 insurance plan to a barely affordable PPO, determined to find out what was ailing me. Here's a diagnostic thread for #InvisibleIllnesses. - @jenna_payne Like most people who thought they were healthy (more on that tomorrow?), we've been told that if you feel sick you go to the doctor and they can fix you unless it's something like cancer or Alzheimer's. I was in for a rude awakening....
May 25, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Greetings! I'll be your disabled hostess for this week. I am grappling with #AnkylosingSpondylitis, #Hashimotos, #EhlersDanlos, and some yet to be discovered issues. I write, direct, and produce films and am figuring out how to do that while disabled. - @jenna_payne A wall of money with the writing $300 MILLION. In front of tMe with dark hair pulled up in a messy bun lying on a white The above pictures are from my wedding & after the last biggish live action short film I directed.

In 2015 & 2016, I felt an increasing amount of pain & began to struggle to digest food. In late 2016, it began to rain inside our apartment. Six months later my spine caught fire.
May 6, 2021 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
Today, I want to talk about growing up with a disability that nobody recognized as a disability. In fact, not a single one of my doctors so much as breathed the word disabled until I was 19 and signing paperwork to enroll me in FMLA so I wouldn't get fired if I had to miss work. Before I could even talk, I knew how to pop my own elbows back into place, because dislocations were that frequent. "But she'll grow out of it," said the doctors. Then, I learned to talk and frequently expressed that I was in pain. "It's just growing pains," said the doctors.
May 5, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I can't tell you the number of times someone found out that I'm asexual and asked, "Is it because of your disability"? This is harmful on many fronts. First of all, no. My spouse is also asexual and is able-bodied, so obviously, that's not the case. But questions like these stem from deeper prejudices. Disabled people are constantly desexualized and infantilized. Many disabled people live healthy and fulfilling sex lives, and my asexuality is not a byproduct or "symptom" of my disabilities.
May 5, 2021 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
Hey everyone! For those of you just meeting me for the first time, allow me to introduce myself in more detail. My name is Courtney Lane (she/her), and I am a Victorian Hair Artist, Historian, and Professional Weirdo based in Kansas City, USA. 🧵 1/11 Courtney looking into the camera with passion, as if she's a My business is called Never Forgotten where I make bespoke works of art and jewelry out of hair! A majority of my work is done for sentimental purposes, and I can work with the hair of your beloved humans, horses, and even small animals.🧵 2/11 A single flower made out of brunette human hair standing up A large, brown metallic calyx crater vase containing an arraA fancy, gothic black frame which contains a snowy graveyardAn open, silver locket sitting in someone's hand. There is a
May 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Flaunting my zebra striped nails and one of my numerous braces for #EDSAwarenessMonth! Extreme hyper mobility is a weird thing, because on one hand, I can do some really interesting contortion tricks...but on the other hand, if I yawn too hard, I might dislocate my jaw. A photo of Courtney Lane lo... This is problematic when my condition causes chronic fatigue & therefore a lot of yawning. I have a brace for just about every joint in my body, & several canes with handles of various shapes & sizes, because my accessibility/mobility needs vary day by day.
Jan 4, 2021 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Ok, time to talk about my psychiatrist experience.
For the course of approx 12 months from mid 2018 to mid 2019, I was abused and mistreated by a psychiatrist who is considered to be one of the main 'experts' in Adult ADHD in Melbourne. I shrugged off my concerns initially because I was so happy to finally be treated and medicated for my ADHD. In my first appointment, he pressured me to let me Mum join the appointment even though she was only there because she gave me a lift.
Nov 27, 2020 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
One thing I think about a lot is how, in research, disabled people are always viewed as participants. But it goes beyond that. We're a resource, to take from, always to take and take and take from. And we're subjected to some really problematic stuff, but we're told we should be thankful, because the research will benefit us in the end.
Nov 25, 2020 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
As a blind person, one of the most difficult things I experience is other people's negative and inaccurate misconceptions about blindness. This happens to all disabled people of course. Often people approach me, wanting to solve the "problem" of blindness with new technologies, because they see a blind person and assume that person can't live or function in society. I then have the task of explaining that it is this attitude that is the problem.
Nov 24, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Hi everyone, I'm Holly, a blind person from the UK and I will be hosting the account this week. I usually tweet as @CatchTheseWords I was born blind, but grew up with very conflicting and complicated feelings about my blindness. I started blogging when I was 17, and through this I met a lot of disabled people who educated me about ableism, activism and figuring out my place in the world.
Nov 12, 2020 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
If anyone can make threadreader unroll after this, I appreciate it.

TW Eugenics. I have said it a lot on my personal page but I will say it here as well. A lot of people keep claiming that the society during Covid is showing the worst in people but honestly that is just not the case. The society during Covid is a direct result from the society before Covid. And ableism.
So we are going to talk about one of those elements I have seen a lot from in the Netherlands and eventually ended up being the reason the hashtag GeenDorHout and the action group was
Nov 12, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Tw racism

Oh yeah we absolutely had and still have covid related racism in the Netherlands just like a lot of countries. Punching down, for humour or not, is a favourite pastime. That song was met with a lot of controversy but also a lot of people liking it. And politicians do a lot of Covid related racism too. From small microagressions to bigger ones. Like not wanting to acknowledge successes in covid management in Asian countries and failures in those of western and claiming it's population density or they don't know why those countries manage
Nov 12, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
TW trauma. To add into talks about mental health: Covid and trauma. I think that after this all is over, You will see a lot of trauma appearing in people related to Covid. Whether it is from how people are treated by society, near dying, of having closed ones dying, it is a lot. I actually see it already in myself and some friends that we seem to be getting trauma responses and many in our community talk about this. The thing what bothers me is that there is no talk about this on the grand scale, and in the Netherlands the breakdown of mental health