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The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) reaffirms that vaccines are a proven, essential tool for protecting people’s health. We join health agencies and associations across the country, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Autism Science Foundation, in confirming that there is no credible scientific evidence linking #vaccines to #autism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/politics/rfk-jr-cdc-vaccines-autism-website.html
What a piece of shit.
Who cares how many people die, as long as you're "right"? /s
I have something to add to the debate: Not only do I have solid grounds for not believing that getting vaccinated caused my autism, but I DON'T CARE! I would tell my parents they did the right thing by getting me vaccinated. Autism didn't ruin my life. Dying of a preventable disease certainly would have, though!
I have a question: does high IQ often correlate with high sensitivity or strong sensory sensitivities?
I've been wondering.
#AuDHD
#Autism
#neuroscience
#neurodivergence
@autistics
A while ago I was listening to the Autistic Culture Podcast and Matt (who's since left) brought up the intense world theory of #Autism, which explains a lot about our brains.
According to studies (in link below), generally, the #Autistic brain generates 42% more information at rest, over-activates upon eye contact and reading faces, and has closer synaptic firing. No wonder we get easily overwhelmed by the world! 😵💫
Three years ago, I hesitantly signed up on my first instance on Fedi and staggered out onto the social media stage for the first time in my life. Why I chose Mastodon for this, is more of a why not, than a why. It was during the great Twitter wave and I'd read a few things about it and it seemed like a good a place as any.
The first thing I did was search the hashtags (even I knew to do that) for my autistic brethren. From that day to this, I have not been disappointed in what I found. Either in the welcome, or the sense of community. Or even, possibly, that I've never come across a bigger bunch of weirdos, misfits and malcontents in all my life (😆) And yet you have all found a place in my heart.
I have learnt and grown so much by being here and continue to learn and broaden my understanding of not just autism, but so much else because of you all. For this and for so much more, I cannot thank you all enough. All of you who make up the Fediverse and who make this such a special place.
All aboard the #Lego #Autism ChooChoo. 😍
"LEGO High-Speed Passenger Train 60051 - First Train Service to the Coal Mine Complex - OnBoard View"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8QLA43Y-uM
Was awesome. @autistics
@autistics
@autism101
Before I knew I was autistic, my social life consisted of pretending to love people I didn't love, to like things I didn't like, to care about things I didn't care about, to miss people I didn't miss, and to find things interesting that I didn't care about.
Thought it was time I posted these again... They also apply a lot to the neuro-diverse ADHD and autistic communities, as there's a lot of crossover with introversion.
A must read article about #AI detection tools and how #ableist those are, and the very negative effects it has against #neurodivergent persons like #Autistics and #ADHD.
Teachers must especially read this!
https://blog.ewancroft.uk/3m6njxcynds2n
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #AutisticActually #AuDHD #education
Long post about Autism and masking - Why Autistic people are not like icebergs
A word to those of you who might be new, or thinking about following me.
Whilst this place obviously runs on algorithms, it doesn't have one to push content onto your timeline. To this end, this place is all about being active. You have to go out and find the content you want. In terms of following the accounts of those whose posts you want to see and also in terms of following the various hashtags that interest you. There are also groups, who solely boost anything posted that tags them, such as @actuallyautistic a group for all autistics and even those who think they might be and not just those officially diagnosed. Follow enough of these things and your timeline can quickly fill, with all that interests you.
However, this is an ongoing process. People come and go. The nature of what they post might vary and no longer interest you. For this reason, unfollowing someone is not a cardinal sin here. Unlike other places, where how many people following you determines your reach, here it really doesn't do anything. Other than affect the quality of your engagement and how many boosts, which do determine reach, and favourites any given post of yours may have.
There are also, always, new people you might want to follow. Or new hashtags that you become aware of that interest you. In fact, over time, you can quite easily end up with an unmanageable timeline. Learning how to use lists, can help you here, separating your various interests into more manageable chunks. You can also hide the boosts of anyone you follow, so that you only see their posts, but not the huge amount of other stuff they might be prone to boosting. But, even with these things, there may come a time when you realise that something has to give and that you can't follow everything. Or, that what you are following is not quite right and that you may need to refresh everything with new follows.
It is, as I said, an ongoing and active process being on here. Both of weeding out the old, or unwanted, and in tending the new. It therefore requires an amount of constant work that puts some people off this place, but which, for most of us, is the beauty of it, once you get the hang of it.
To that end, I therefore do not automatically follow back everyone who follows me. It may be a trick people have learnt in other places and even considered good behaviour because of that. But, as I've explained, it doesn't do much here, where it's all about managing and curating your own timeline. So, if I don't follow back, please don't take offence. I, almost exclusively, wander the #autism spaces and simply like my timeline filled accordingly.
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The common misunderstandings about #Autism I learned:1. Levels. The common misconception is that Levels 1, 2, & 3 refers to "severity", or as a NeuroTypical ("NT") parent said, "stages of autism".…
#Wednesday S02 is super enjoyable!#FOBI = Fear Of Being IncludedYeah, /metoo#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticActually #Autistic #Autism
I'm getting a lot out of the Neurodivergent Insights newsletter by Dr. Megan Anna Neff. For example, this post about the overlap of ADHD and autism:
https://neurodivergentinsights.com/misdiagnosis-monday/adhd-vs-autism/
Dr. Neff is herself AuDHD who turned her hyperfocus on her neurotype into a PhD in psychology. She's also raising a neurodivergent kid with strong PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance, which she calls Pervasive Drive for Autonomy):
https://neurodivergentinsights.com/blog/pda-or-demand-avoidance/
🚨 EMERGENCY MUTUAL AID POST 25/1150 🚨
y'all, I got my due date for the electric bill extended to the 26th but I have to pay in full by then
I need $1150 to pay them
if you can spare anything, please help, my autistic child, my two disabled partners, and me all depend on it
I'm really at a loss, please help 🙏
#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #transmutualaid #disabledmutualaid #bills #electric #help #begpost #autism #disabled #native #adhd #ptsd #helpme
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Kim Dami's character—Yun Ina—seems to be Autistic-coded. It's hard to be sure since Kim Dami explained in an interview that her character was scarred by what she witnessed when she was 19, so she's acting like a 19-year old with an intellect of a 29-year old.#Autism #Neurodivergent #Autistic
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"'[Autistic people] will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date,' Kennedy said"
1. I pay taxes.
2. I ran 5km this morning.
3. My poetry has been published.
4. I've been on dates; I'm married.
Yes, I'm an anarcho-syndicalist, bisexual, gender-fluid, autistic, radical leftist!
I won’t apologize for being an anarchist or for being autistic. Autism rules, and so does anarchism!
#Anarchist #Syndicalist #Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalist #AnarchoSyndicalism #Bisexuality #Bisexual #GenderFluidity #GenderFluid #ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #Autism #RadicalLeftist #Radical #Politics
"Let your voice be heard! VOTE!"
Autistic me: I VOTE FOR ___!
COMELEC: Ssshh! Shade the balot!
#AutisticActually #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Autistics #Neurodivergent #Neuroatypical #Philippines #Pilipinas #Halalan2025 #Eleksyon2025 #ElectionsPH
#Neurodiversity, #Autism, #ADHD picks of the day:
➡️ @autism101 - Resources for newly or self-diagnosed autistic people
➡️ @stimpunks - US non-profit supporting neurodiverse & disabled people
➡️ @GuidingExceptionalParents - Psychologists supporting caregivers of neurodiverse children
➡️ @www.s4nd.org - News feed from UK autism charity led by autistic people
➡️ @www.autismeurope.org.news-publications - News feed of European NGO for rights of autistic people
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