Living with #DissociativeIdentityDisorder and also #actuallyautistic. We discuss #trauma, #masking and being #authentic.
UK
Joined March 2021
- Tweets2.7K
- Following3.4K
- Followers3.5K
- Likes3.9K
Autistic Selves retweeted
One of the most crucial articles you could read about #autism research: How ridding research of ableist framings of what autism is leads to greater scientific accuracy, not less. Please spread this link. frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
Autistic Selves retweeted
I basically assumed that childhood was a terrible experience for everyone. I didn’t realise that not everyone finds the usual demands of childhood impossible and can’t cope with the lack of safety and autonomy. This belief was one of the reasons I didn’t have children. 😶
Autistic Selves retweeted
8 years ago today, my 22-year-old daughter Alice died whilst sectioned on a MH ward, after 5 months of abysmal & utterly reprehensible failings in care & safety on every level. In 2016 a criminal investigation began & her inquest was suspended. 1/
Autistic Selves retweeted
Really pleased to be shedding light on this today - new @JustLikeUsUK research shows LGBT+ people disproportionately face family estrangement, and 1/3 aren't confident parents will accept them.
Not supporting LGBT+ young people has devastating consequences.
Half of LGBT+ young adults in UK are estranged from a relative, survey finds theguardian.com/world/2023/a…
Autistic Selves retweeted
We are hosting an online event on Menopause for autistic people in London on 28th Feb - do please pass around your networks & sign up if you'd like. events.england.nhs.uk/events…
@CarlyJonesMBE @Shona_Mu @AnnMemmott @milton_damian @martinbeecher @A2ndvoiceCic
Autistic Selves retweeted
The government also recently announced possible intentions in changing the definition of sex in the equality act, leaving trans people at risk of discrimination.
This petition calls for the government to keep protections for trans people
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Autistic Selves retweeted
Nurses are under attack. The government have decided they will take them on and break them if needed
They are the same people who kept this nation going through the pandemic
They are the backbone of society
RT if you stand right behind them and will back them whatever it takes
Autistic Selves retweeted
the second you do something like this to someone you claim to love and someone you told they'd be safe to open up to you and love you, there's no coming back from that. piece is from my poetry book, i won't apologize for what i'm about to say.
readmartineashley.com to buy 💕
Autistic Selves retweeted
Autism + environment = outcome; environment could include: autistic self (e.g. understanding of self); others in that environment; the sensory environment; society (broken down into: values, attitudes, knowledge); policies; & the law @autisticrealms
Autistic Selves retweeted
i hate it when people tell me i must have been “safe” to show my autistic traits and that’s why i don’t mask as much as they do. i literally got beaten up at school for being annoying and i just kept being annoying anyway! i was not safe, i was stubborn and unhinged
Autistic Selves retweeted
My daughter doesn't care that I take psychiatric medication.
She doesn't care that it's damaged my thyroid.
She doesn't care that it's made me go up 2 dress sizes.
She would have cared if she lost her mum to suicide.
Treatment has saved my life and I'm so grateful.
Autistic Selves retweeted
Why do people say ‘it doesn’t define you’, or ‘you’re still the wonderful person I’ve always known you to be’ etc when you tell them the good news of discovering you’re autistic? Presumably they say that because of the view that autism = bad? It’s also super patronising…
Autistic Selves retweeted
I wonder how many autistic children go undiagnosed because their parents are undiagnosed autistics who don’t see anything atypical or out of the ordinary about their child and think everyone experiences what they do but just muddles through?
Autistic Selves retweeted
Can’t think of anything more patronising than being an autistic parent of autistic children and “support” services thinking what u need is a parenting course to help you understand your child’s autism!!!! Please! Make it stop! #ActuallyAutistic #autistictwitter #autisticParent
Autistic Selves retweeted
Autistic masking behaviors vary from person to person. What are some of your masking characteristics?
#AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic
ALT A graphic by @alittlepuddins.ie shows a woman standing holding a mask with her face on it. The title reads, “Autistic Masking Can Look Like”. There are many masking examples that surround the woman. They read, “Surpressing Stims, Forcing Eye Contact, Intensely Self Monitoring, Rehearsed Scripts, Intensely Adapting To Suit The Social Environment, Exaggerated Facial Expressions, Ignoring Sensory Trauma, Ignoring Spoon Levels, Appearing to know what's happening, but actually are lost, Ignoring Own Social Interactions Capacity
Autistic Selves retweeted
Please stop making up words that mean:
“I am disabled but I don’t want to be called disabled”
Not “wanting” to be called disabled while being disabled should enlighten you as to your internalized feelings about disability.
Autistic Selves retweeted
As much as we try, we can’t will ourselves into health no matter how much exercise and veggies we get.
Being healthy doesn’t make you good.
Being sick doesn’t make you less valuable.
Needing care doesn’t make you unworthy of the best of life.
Autistic Selves retweeted
There is a suicide epidemic in the #ActuallyAutistic community. We are 11x more likely to take our own lives. Suicidal thoughts happen to most of us. Let’s remember that & support each other and work together to fight the stigma against us in NT society. #AutisticTwitter #Autism
