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Do NOT open your door for any authority unless they have a warrant — from a court, signed by a judge. NO warrant, NO entry. If they arrest you, you ALWAYS have the right to remain silent, even if they don’t read you any rights. The ONLY thing to say: “I want a lawyer.”

submitted 37 days ago • 223 comments

Anti-autistic ableism isn't just deadly for autistic people. When 'tackling the autism epidemic' = systematically attacking vaccines, it means anti-autistic ableism is deadly for all of society. And you can't push back against that threat without centring the fight against anti-autistic ableism.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

I'd also like to mention that THIS is exactly why seemingly proposed plans to cut the Access to Work scheme and put more responsibility on employers to accommodate disabled people will NEVER work.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

The doctor who claimed MMR “causes autism” lost his license for falsifying data and also had developed a vaccine to compete with MMR, so he made it up to make money. Don’t come into my mentions with this shit.

submitted 37 days ago • 32 comments

Not that this is news to many of us, but the past few months have really shone fresh light on how corporations are not and will never be on your side. They have to be forced to be even tepidly progressive and inclusive, and when that force is taken away, they'll drop everyone in an instant.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

People will say "what, at a time like this, how is this your biggest issue?" and it's not my biggest thing but it's a small thing you can do in yourself that primes you for noticing things and being a better accomplice and support and community member.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

(Regarding the hope that people will stop using ableist takes about evil people.) How we TALK about people shapes how we TREAT people. If you take it as a given that verbal abuse isn't right, doesn't that reinforce the idea that physical abuse isn't right?

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

The effect of all the worst, biggest sex pest fuckups on earth claiming autism as an excuse for their dipshittery, will be increased eugenics. Each time one of these dipshits announces autism as a justification, they cement the public perception of autism as dangerous, antisocial, predatory, etc

submitted 39 days ago • 16 comments

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submitted 43 days ago • 5 comments

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

submitted 38 days ago • 16 comments

'Access to Work' is a badly administered and bizarrely inaccessible scheme. It's also one of the only things the UK government does to help disabled people to access work at all.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

submitted 38 days ago • 534 comments

Some members of the queer community need to be strongly schooled about the shoulders of the strong and brave trans people upon which they stand. It seems they’re forgetting who they owe so much to. There will be no trans exclusion or erasure. We will not allow it to happen. We must fight it.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

This is bananas. Access to Work is a scheme that specifically helps disabled people work in paid employment. The minister's comments suggest too many people know about it so it needs paring back - and responsibility shifted to employers, who as we know just lurve more responsibilities

submitted 38 days ago • 15 comments

Schedule your vaccinations now. Like now now. Don’t put it off

submitted 39 days ago • 5 comments

This Valentine's Day we have digital billboards across the city centres of Glasgow & Aberdeen, and a digital ad van in Edinburgh, to raise awareness of harmful conversion practices. If you spot our ad, tag us & use #EndConversionPracticesScotland. equality-network.org/EndConversionPracticesScotland

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Every time we see reports of the number of autism diagnoses going up, I see people responding with 'alarm' and 'concern', when all I feel is relief. Because every rise in number represents less people living their whole lives struggling to understand why everything is just so much harder for them.

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments

A fine day to remember that if you think that DEI hiring policies means that unqualified people are getting jobs, then what you actually believe is that cisallohet abled neurotypical white men are somehow naturally the only people qualified for certain jobs. And there's a fucking word for that.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

All of this, and let me add... -If you are in charge of any kind of space (store, library, office, house of worship, online communities, etc), you need to be doing everything you can to make it safe for trans people AND hostile to transphobes.

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

So far, there's a lot more evidence that fighting back can work than that it can't, whether it's through the courts, mobilizing public opinion, or even in some reported cases GOP politicians complaining.

submitted 46 days ago • 7 comments

Ooh, wow, there's a lot of you who have accumulated whilst I've been away! Apologies for not being more active this year - I've been working on final touches for my next book (I hope to share news soon!) and dealing with a family tragedy simultaneously. Hoping to see all of you more on here soon!

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

Want to make friends when you're autistic but also want to be on your own is hard actually.

submitted 45 days ago • 7 comments

Pro-tip: if you're going to dramatically swan-dive arse-over-tit into a brand new hyperfixation, make sure you do it a few weeks before your birthday.

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

It's my 33rd birthday today, so, to celebrate, have a throwback photo of me in my natural habitat - getting very excited about finding another leaf to add to my extensive collection of leaves, rocks and twigs.

submitted 70 days ago • 8 comments

Friends, a petition I've created to go to Parliament for the protection of Trans Healthcare in the UK has just gone live. If you are in the United Kingdom, please sign and share this. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please share it. #Trans #LGBTQ #UK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 74 days ago • 62 comments

When you have TWO assistants with you as you work, and they are BOTH slacking.

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Whenever someone claims that Elon Musk acts 'like that' because he's autistic, I come back to this story to draw a distinction. Having strong aversions to colours? That's autism. Banning your employees from wearing safety clothes because of your aversion to a certain colour? That's NOT autism.

submitted 74 days ago • 4 comments

Doubting someone's autistic because of one specific trait, or specifically a trait that's not part of the diagnostic criteria or not common amongst others is disrespectful behaviour, please don’t do it.

submitted 80 days ago • 10 comments

💚 Good News of 2024! This year we covered feel good news via our series Three Queer Cheers presented by @s3xtheorywithdee.bsky.social Here are just some good news highlights! We will be back in 2025 with more mid-week pick me ups! 👇

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

The fireworks are ridiculous tonight, so I'm currently cranking my noise-cancelling headphones up to a (probably dangerously) high level whilst blasting a heavy playlist. Replacing loud noise I can't control with loud noise that I CAN control is sometimes the only way to get through it.

submitted 82 days ago • 3 comments

Well folks, we got through another one. Here's to surving the next as best we can. And some dogs to make all the nonsense of life just that little easier.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Okay I cannot even keep track of the number of people who have lost things in the rain in Gaza last night so I’m going to make a thread of accounts I’ve shared before who have contacted me today

submitted 83 days ago • 14 comments

For all those autistics who find Christmas difficult. I see you. Please take care and take all the time you need to rest.

submitted 89 days ago • 4 comments