Have a fruitful & wonderful #Autism Acceptance Month to all of us! #AutisticActually
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#Autists (and others too ) might find this consideration of #honesty interesting...
So, true #ActuallyAutistic story. When I was little (and even now, though not as much) I was a toe-walker. My grandmother, naively thinking that perhaps I wanted to be a ballet dancer, enrolled me in ballet class. And I was a pretty good dancer. Except I danced to my own drummer, and could not do group dances. My grandmother, who was my saintly advocate, not-so-saintly gave the dance school instructor a helluva talking to -- and the instructor let me do solo pieces, which I excelled at. And then got bored with it. Lol. My grandmother indulged me in a lot of "hobbies" -- bless her heart. I know not everyone has had supportive parents. I lucked out with her (and my grandfather, and my mom who was more my buddy than a parent -- but that's a story for another day).
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#Toewalking #ConstructiveParenting #Autists
So, I'm realizing that behavior that NT's think is "upstaging" is actually a way that #Autists I know communicate. And it's not upstaging, it's our way of RELATING to the other person! Can anyone else relate? #ActuallyAutistic #ND
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@actuallyautistic A while back we were discussing weird food combinations that #Autists like and I forgot to mention my peanut butter and banana sandwiches... My probably NT wife just called me weird, as did my 12yo #AuDHD kid. They don't know what they're missing!
RIP Steve Silberman.
His husband has announced his passing away at https://bsky.app/profile/wardqnormal.bsky.social/post/3l2uljphb2p2e
Very sad news. He was such a kind person and a great ally to #Autists. With a colleague we had a lovely chat with Steve during one of his visits to London in 2019: https://www.flickr.com/photos/acrostich/48127822607/
"Others have proposed that individuals with autism are more prone to reject ideas they perceive as flawed or logically inconsistent (Kristensen & Broome, 2016), such as social conditioning and social norms (Ansara & Hegarty, 2011), and this facilitates 'coming out.'"
