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  • «Demystifying autism and overstimulation»

    6 October 2024
  • «There’s no one way to be autistic»

    6 October 2024
  • Why Autism is a Difference, not a Deficit

    3 October 2024
  • AuDHD is its own category

    28 August 2024

    «People diagnosed with both autism and ADHD represent a distinct clinical entity,» (and therapeutic approaches for them) «need to simultaneously address both conditions — and consider how having both conditions also results in unique challenges.»

    — Geraldine Dawson, cited in «Genome scan spots common variant differences between autism and ADHD» by Charles Q. Choi about «Identification of shared and differentiating genetic architecture for autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and case subgroups.» (Mattheisen et al., 2022)

  • «They glorify suffering, pain, disability»

    7 December 2023

    «[…] They glorify suffering, pain, disability. As if Pain is some holy furnace. Purifying us for a higher purpose.

    Which means, if we can’t do circus monkey tricks like Rainman… or Greta Thunberg? Well, then… we’re not role models. We’re not cheap inspiration. We’re just, ya know, losers.

    Or black sheep. Foodstamp grifters. A disappointment to the family. […]»

    —Read on AutisticAF complete text

  • Hello Brains!

    7 December 2023

    Welcome to Neurodivergency. This is new and it’s made for you and me and us and our brains.

    Old dark red illustration of a brain, top view.

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