Autistic people deserve to be treated with respect. Our productivity is not a measure of our value. Being autistic does not negate our gifts, talents, experience or skills. We are deserving and should not be treated like liabilities or burdens.

If you're autistic with ADHD, what's your experience with antidepressants (SSRIs)? Do you take ADHD medication and SSRIs? Did you find you didn't need SSRIs once starting your ADHD meds? Do you take both and feel you need to take both? #autism #ADHD #cADHD #stimulants #ssris

This is how I’ve been curing my RSD

Spreading some Neurodivergent acceptance at UK Parliament, really excited to work with the team on improving accessibility and Neuroinclusion for the public

the autistic experience of saying “I could be wrong, so don’t quote me” right before giving an airtight, thesis-level, explanation that was researched for weeks out of sheer curiosity.

Epistemic Injustice: The Great Gaslighting of Autistic Lives

a friend of mine was the absolute top-performing employee at his job, blew everyone else away, and he was let go because he just *could not* get up in time to be in at 9am. all the early bedtimes, alarm clocks, phone calls and door knocks in the world couldn’t beat his ADHD

I'm still here guys

RT @pot8um: i want to live in a world where women and their lived experiences are fucking believed by default

This week is sexual abuse and violence awareness week and everything we’re seeing shows how easy it is to dismiss the voices of survivors.

Notice how people don’t care when you self-diagnose with a cold or flu? Sounds like the concern about self-diagnosis is not about who the diagnosis comes from, but what is being diagnosed.

Everyone self-diagnoses; literally everyone. You notice symptoms, form an idea, then go in to get that idea confirmed or corrected. Either way, the diagnostic journey always starts with a degree of self-diagnosis. In psychology and medicine, it’s known as “presenting self-diagnosis” or “self-perceived condition.” It’s a recognised part of how people seek care. Even in clinical training, doctors are taught to start from the patient’s own perception of illness (“What do you think is going on?”) because it guides the diagnostic conversation. The only difference is accuracy and how seriously people act on it before professional input.