CHINESE AUTISM UK 英国华人自闭症基金会 @ChineseautismUK

Research opportunity with @Autism ! We are recruiting a co-design group for a year-long project, researching autistic people's experiences of travel. Please take a look and share. More info/screening questionnaire: smartsurvey.co.uk/s/autistictrav…

imagine if people who have never spent a single day living with ADHD just… didn’t think they were the best people to comment on it???

We're launching the Neurodivergent Peer Support Toolkit (NEST) this summer! ☀️ This is a suite of free resources co-designed with neurodivergent young people & adults to help mainstream secondary schools establish a peer support group for neurodivergent students🌈

Learning I’m autistic finally allowed me to begin working with the complex trauma caused by…not knowing I’m autistic. Understanding how & what I was masking to survive means I’m finally “meeting myself” for the first time…in my 4th decade. Finally…I can breathe.

Alex Harpin @AlexHarpin

a week ago

I almost feel like life just began when I found out I’m Autistic. I began to learn about me, what’s challenging for me, what my skills are, what helps me to thrive. I had words to describe my experiences. I could try to help others understand and put in place things to help me.

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Autism assessments put too much emphasis on external signs and behaviours. There is little consideration of the internal world and direct experiences. The criteria need to be rewritten and diagnostic tools updated with direct input from #ActuallyAutistic people.

Submitted my diss today on the 3rd anniversary of my ADHD diagnosis, sought out when I couldn’t cope at uni anymore 🥹 So grateful to have the opportunity to write about autism under capitalism incl the Autism Industrial Complex, welfare state & “Neurodiversity At Work” ♾️

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Before I discovered I’m Autistic, I couldn’t understand my experiences. I assumed everyone experienced similar but somehow managed better. I also assumed it was just me and I needed to change. It was a struggle, with repeated burnouts. It helps to know and make sense of it all.

When we talk about the ADHD medication shortages, please remember it is not just ADHD medication. The ‘if it was any other medication, there would be uproar’ argument isn’t true. We have had major shortages in Diabetes and Epilepsy medications, amongst others, too.

As someone who has ADHD and is also autistic, it feels like I am not a part of either the ADHD community or the Autistic community. Since ADHD is my dominant diagnosis, I don't experience autistic traits like other autistic people. I feel like I don’t fit in the ND community💔

i get really frustrated when i am unwell as an autistic person because my interoception is so bad that i can’t tell whether i’m physically unwell or i’m just burnt out or unhappy or what is actually wrong

There is SO much negativity about disabled people getting the support they need. The media does not take ADHD and autism seriously. Constantly amplifying the perspective that increased diagnosis is bad, that increased support being needed is bad.

I never would have believed you if 6.5 years ago you’d told me whilst sectioned on a CAMHS ward that not only would I be here living life, happy & thriving, but that my book sharing my journey would be a Sunday Times Bestseller. But here I am. Thank you so much. 💖 #GirlUnmasked

Reasons an ADHDer might claim PIP: - extra costs eg therapies, coaching, support tools, medication, prepared foods etc - extra costs due to “ADHD tax” eg forgetting about food in the fridge or losing items - issues with money management averaging an extra £1600 a year (Monzo)

being both autistic and adhd is wanting to explode if someone else is 30 seconds late for something, but always being late yourself x sorry x

Let's start using #WhitewashAutism because I am tired of white autism parents and white autistic people taking up spaces and not giving the mic to marginalized parents of autistic children/adults or autistic people. It needs to end. And happy autism awareness acceptance month.

Celebrities stop talking about things they know nothing about, PLEASE!? Takes like this just reinforce the completely false & devastatingly harmful narrative that ADHD is a correctable moral failing I'm so tired of being portrayed as a lazy fuck up (Alt text in replies)

ADHD UK @ADHDUKcharity

2 weeks ago

In response to Joe Wicks saying #ADHD is caused by ultra-processed foods: Joe is a force for so much good but on this he's abjectly wrong. His point that a good diet can help almost everyone is right. But diet good, bad, or ugly won't make you have ADHD or make you not have ADHD.

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Why do activities for autistic people have to be framed as 'therapy'?

AutismResearchCentre @ARC_Cambridge

2 weeks ago

Are you a parent of an autistic child? Please complete a very brief survey to help us design a study to evaluate if surf therapy improves autistic children’s mental health. Thank you cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ez…

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⭐RT🌟Calling all educators, healthcare pros, and social advocates in Cardiff! eventbrite.co.uk/e/autism-proje… Join us for the morning to empower neurodiversity within the Chinese autism community in Wales and beyond. Engage, connect, and enjoy a Chinese buffet! 📅 Date: April 30th

A survey of more than 500 autistic people found 80% preferred identity-first language vs 6% for person-first language. 74% opposed functioning labels vs 13% who supported them. Among people opposing functioning labels 86% supported stating the individual needs of each person 👇

Nathan Keates @KeatesResearch

3 weeks ago

"The proposed best option for language choice is not to find consensus, but instead choose the optimal choice that is one in which people find the least offensive or disagreeable." Read more: rdcu.be/dBW3z #autistic #language #functioninglabels #community

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i honestly don’t care about a few teenagers wrongly self-diagnosing. i care about a severely underfunded system built on ableism, misogyny & white supremacy that is letting down endless people (which ultimately forces them to feel they have to find their own support & answers)