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In Te Reo MΔori the word for Autistic
A communal definition of Autistic ways of beingAutistic ways of being are human neurological variants that can not be understood without the social model of disability.If you are wondering whether you are Autistic, spend time amongst Autistic people, online and offline. If... More ways of being is TakiwΔtanga, which means “in their own space and time”. Most Autists are not born into healthy Autistic families. We have to co-create our Autistic families in our own space and time.
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We were no longer aloneAloneness is a characteristic that many creatives embrace and yearn for. Being alone is anything but lonely. Reading, writing, and creating art all demand a personal space where one can... More.
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AutisticSciencePersonWhat I have always been hoping to accomplish is the creation of community.Community is magic. Community is power. Community is resistance.Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century https://www.amazon.com/Disability-Visibility-First-Person-Stories-Twenty-First-ebook/dp/B082ZQBL98/ https://www.amazon.com/Disability-Visibility-Adapted-Young-Adults-ebook/dp/B08VFT4R9T/... More. They need access to autistic mentors. They need to know that the problems they go through are actually common for many of us! They need to know they are not alone. They need to know that they matter and people care
The activities that constitute care are crucial for human life. We defined care in this way: Care is "a species activity that includes everything that we do to maintain, continue,... More about them. They need to see autistic adults out in the world being accommodated and understood and respected. They need to learn how to understand their own alexithymiaAlexithymia (also called emotional blindness) is a condition where you have challenges identifying and describing emotions in the self. Essentially, alexithymia is a difference in emotion processing.The alexithymia & autism guide... More and their own emotionsJustice, equality, fairness, mercy, longsuffering, Work, Passion, knowledge, and above all else, Truth. Those are my primary emotions.Very Grand Emotions: How Autistics and Neurotypicals Experience Emotions Differently Β» NeuroClastic https://youtu.be/uPRa6G2a48E... More. They need to be able to recognize themselves in others. They need to be able to breathe.
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Generally punks can agree to the loose notion that βpunk
Dissertation or Thesis | We accept you, one of us?: punk rock, community, and individualism in an uncertain era, 1974-1985Everything that was normally supposed to be hidden was brought to the front.Punk subculture - Wikipedia The First Rule of Punk: Be Yourself Our Second Rule of Punk: Reframe The... More is an attitude/ individuality is the key.β It was a yearning to be differentOur friends and allies at Randimals have a saying, What makes us different, makes all the difference in the world.Randimals We agree. Randimals are made up of two different animals... More, to distance oneself from the mainstream mass of society. But punk was also a desire for community, a hunger for fellowship with like-minded soulsβ¦
Are you awake or are you sleeping? Are you afraid? We've been waiting for this meeting We have come here for you, and we're coming in peace Mothership will take you on higher, higher This world you live in is not a place for someone like you Come on, let us take you home There is a flaw in man-made matters But you are pure, and we have to get you out of here --A Different Kind of Human by AURORA
I believe all persons with Autism
Loud Hands: Autistic People, SpeakingAutistic ways of being are human neurological variants that can not be understood without the social model of disability.If you are wondering whether you are Autistic, spend time amongst Autistic people, online and offline. If... More need the opportunity to become friends with other Autistic people. Without this contact we feel alien
I believe all persons with Autism need the opportunity to become friends with other Autistic people. Without this contact we feel alien to this world. We feel lonely. Feeling like... More to this world. We feel lonely. Feeling like an alien is a slow death. Itβs sadness, self-hate, itβs continuously striving to be someone weβre not. Itβs waking up each day and functioning in falsehood (French, 1993).


When I meet other people, βautisticβ or not, there is something instinctive in me that looks for where systems in them match systems in me.
Autism: An Inside-Out Approach: An Innovative Look at the βMechanicsβ of βAutismβ and its Developmental βCousinsβ by Donna Williams
When I am around non-autistic people I soon know they function according to a generally alien system of functioning that makes little match with my own. I know this is because they are essentially multi-track and I am essentially mono.
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Aurora Aksnes"Weird Pride Flag" by Ferrous and Autistamatic Be proud of what you are.Weβre weird, and weβre glad we are.Weird Pride Promo 2021 Autistic Pride is inconceivable without weird pride, and... More.
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Staying alive is a lot of work for a disabledThe label "disabled" means so much to me. It means I have community. It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself... More person in an ableist
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Disability justiceDisability justice (and disability itself) has the potential to fundamentally transform everything we think about quality of life, purpose, work, relationships, belonging.Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the 21st Century... More (and disability itself) has the potential to fundamentally transform everything we think about quality of life, purposeSelf-determination Theory (SDT) is... β a model, a macro theory, of human motivation. Itβs one of several models of human motivation, but itβs one that has been confirmed over and... More, work, relationships, belonging.
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