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it really is so uncomfortable being a trans man in cis centric conversations of feminism. I just wonder. do they know about people like me? do they care? if I brought it up to them, how would they react? Do they expect me to be their human shield?

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Secret about autistic people: a lot of times we don’t actually miss a social cue. We see it. We just decide to ignore it because we think it’s a stupid social cue.

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Transgender people in my phone you’d better live you’d better love you’d better live long enough to become old and annoy your great grandnephews you’d better watch trashy movies you’d better meet new people you love and hate and forget and remember you’d better hang in there for better and worse you’d better smell the dust after the rain and remember that you’re alive and full of beautiful sturdy bones you’d better hold onto that friend and never let them go you’d better keep living and living and living and never stop

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autism is a spectrum and people present differently this is true but I just saw a video of a woman going "Hey if you are wondering if youre autistic but have no social skill issues and have never had any social skill issues, you might not be!" and half the comments were calling her a gatekeeper when like. she's right.

and yes there's the complicated issue of "masking and/or obliviousness might make someone think they have no social issues!" but that's why, like, extended lists/explanations of how social issues can present exist. and that's why consulting your friends and family exists. idk. it's not helpful to "nuh uh" the criteria because some people might not realize they apply to that criteria, we need to just... show them how they do/don't and what counts??

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miss swift you are not a tortured poet you are a billionaire

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Made a great post it got lost to wifi anyway. Fuck you level 1 autistics who excuse ableism because it doesn't affect you.

"Acoustic jokes aren't that bad. Ree is kinda funny" Yeah cause you're not the one the jokes are about. Who is it then? Literally half [or more!] of the autistic community, the 'caricatures' you laugh at, the level 2&3 people who have a more severe disability than you that you ignore because we're not normal enough for you. Fucking great, incredible even, that you get to act normal, low support needs, masking to a point where people respect you, actually get to embody your fucking 'high functioning' label. A lot of us don't!

I love that for you people don't call you the r slur & make fun of you 5 feet away from where you're sitting because they think you're too stupid to notice. I love that for you people don't treat you like a pet because they don't think you have autonomy. I fucking LOVE that for you life is relatively normal because your disability isn't moderate or severe. Great. Live your life. But fucking let me have mine.

I'm losing my shit over here at how you're so happy the world has progressed to a point where you don't need to worry about yourself anymore. Congrats. Every day I have to sit quietly on the floor & try not to act any way at all just to avoid people trying to get a reaction out of me that I can't control. All while listening to their damn jokes that you don't say anything to, because they're 'not that bad.'

Really, It's amazing that you don't need daily support. Think of us who do or get the fuck out of the community.

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I get so frustrated when talking about the fact I’m nonverbal and people go “well you type good so you’re fine” and that makes me so frustrated because like…typing doesn’t replace the fact I can’t speak! It doesn’t replace the fact that I’ve had hours upon hours of intensive therapies to get me to type the way I can, to express myself the way I can. And some were emotionally damaging. That doesn’t go away.

It doesn’t take away the ableism I face. Or the fact that if im trying to communicate with someone, our disabilities could collide and make it difficult to communicate. It doesn’t change that. And it doesn’t change the continued regression I am going through. It doesn’t change any of that! It doesn’t change that I’m constantly frustrated because my device is so slow compared to my thoughts. Or that other people find it very slow and get annoyed with me.

It’s honestly frustrating when people say this, because although I’m privileged to be able to type in the first place, that doesn’t change the ableism, frustrations, and therapies that I’ve gone through. I’m not “just fine” I’m constantly struggling to try and adapt to a situation and world that wasn’t meant for me. That is continuously ableist.

Im privileged, but that doesn’t mean I still don’t struggle.

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trans people are not exempt from having transphobic opinions or ideals. everyone and anyone can have internalized prejudice toward groups they occupy

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I've reached 35 responses! They're very interesting, but the sample size is still small, and I don't think it's at all representative of the Tumblr autism community. If I can't reach at least 100 responses, I don't think I'll be able to analyze Tumblr community views on support needs in depth. I'll still post descriptive statistics for the overall sample, but I won't have the statistical power to do anything else.

I'd really appreciate if everyone could help by taking the survey and reblogging this post to their followers!

As a reminder, the survey is meant to understand how people use support needs labels. For example, what makes someone low support needs and not moderate support needs? The survey also helps show what the community is like in general in terms of demographics and experiences!

A summary of the current survey results are under the Read More. Again, especially if a community that you're in is under-represented, please help by spreading the survey link! I'd especially love to hear from more people AMAB, racial/ethnic minorities, people who are not yet diagnosed or were diagnosed as adults, and higher support needs individuals!

Age: Most participants are young; 60% are under age 25%, and 20% are under 18.

Gender: Over half of the sample is AFAB nonbinary, almost 1/3 is trans men, and almost all of the remainder (14%) is cis women. Only 2 people who are AMAB have taken the survey.

Race/Ethnicity: Non-Hispanic White people are very over-represented, making up 82% of the sample.

Diagnosis: 57% are professionally diagnosed, 20% are informally or soft-diagnosed, and 14% are seeking a diagnosis. Only 9% are neither diagnosed nor seeking a diagnosis.

The most common diagnoses are ASD with no level (33%), level 1 ASD (25%), and "mild autism" (13%).

16% were diagnosed before age 8, 24% between ages 9 and 15, 32% between ages 16 and 18, 12% between ages 19 and 25, and 16% over age 25.

Autism Support Needs: The most common self-identified support needs label is "low-moderate" (43%), followed by low (23%) and moderate (14%). Most would benefit from but do not need weekly support (31%), only need accommodations and mental health support (17%), or rarely need any support (6%).

Autism Symptoms: On a severity scale of 0 (not applicable) to 3 (severe), the average is 1.7 overall, 1.8 socially, and 1.7 for restricted-repetitive behaviors. The most severe symptom is sensory issues (2.1), and the least severe are nonverbal communication and stimming (both 1.5).

83% are fully verbal, and 97% have no intellectual disability.

38% can mask well enough to seem "off" but not necessarily autistic. 21% can't mask well or for long.

Most experience shutdowns (94%), difficulties with interoception (80%), meltdowns (71%), alexithymia (71%), echolalia (69%), and autistic mutism (66%). Very few experience psychosis (14%) or catatonia (11%).

Self-Diagnosis: 20% think it's always fine to self-diagnose autism, 29% think it's almost always fine, 31% think it's only okay if an assessment is inaccessible, 71% think it needs to be done carefully, and 11% think it's okay to suspect but not self-diagnose.

15% think it's always fine to self-diagnose autism DSM-5 levels (including if the person has been told they don't have autism), 15% think it's fine as long as autism hasn't been ruled out, 21% think it's almost always fine, 18% think it's only okay if an assessment is inaccessible, 36% think it needs to be done carefully, and 36% think it's okay to suspect but not self-diagnose.

26% think it's always fine to self-diagnose autism support needs labels (including if the person has been told they don't have autism), 29% think it's fine as long as autism hasn't been ruled out, 37% think it's almost always fine, 29% think it's only okay if an assessment is inaccessible, 43% think it needs to be done carefully, and 6% think it's okay to suspect but not self-diagnose.

Disability: 71% feel disabled by autism, 17% feel disabled by another condition but not autism, and 11% are unsure.

Comorbidities: The most common mental health comorbidities are anxiety (68%), ADHD (62%), and depression (56%).

The least common mental health disorders are schizophrenia spectrum disorders (0%), bipolar disorders (3%), tic disorders (6%), substance use disorders (6%), personality disorder (9%), and OCD (9%).

The most common physical health comorbidities are gastrointestinal issues (29%), connective tissue disorders (29%), autoimmune disorders (24%), neurological disorders or injuries (24%), and hearing/vision loss (24%). All others are below 20%.

Overall Support Needs: When considering comorbidities, the most common self-identified support needs label is moderate (37%), followed by low-moderate (31%) and low (17%).

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Zionists can honestly be hilarious. Like one moment they're acting like a normal human being and then the next they're blaming innocent babies for the world going bad.

Like no bro.

The babies aren't the problem.

It's the guy who kills the babies.

Though I know that might be a bit confusing.

Free Palestine.

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Posting at the speed of light! /pos

Yayyy thank you

Though I am a little confused by this comment since I haven’t posted that much recently

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Sudan still desperately needs aid--it needs a lot of things, but it is approaching a dangerous point with famine and mass death due to hunger imminent.

These are the kinds of headlines we're getting now:

Here's an ongoing fundraiser:

I linked it before, to help with Ramadan, but it's an ongoing initiative, the need has not stopped.

I picked this gofundme because it's been boosted by people I trust and you can see pictures online of the food they've provided, e.g.:

But I also picked this because you can see the amount of donations. It's 2pm ET on Saturday, April 20th right now? For the next week, whatever's donated, I'll match for a total up to $2,000 (we'll say 2,750 CAD, since the gofundme is in Canadian dollars).

You don't have to send me a receipt, I just ask that you donate and boost.

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You guys do know you're supposed to reblog things, right

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🇵🇸🔻I need everyone to remember: we must not get desensitised to the words genocide, ethnic cleansing, occupation, massacre, colonialism, imperialism, white supremacy, colonial violence, settler violence and war crime

do not let the gravity of those words, or the actions they describe, be lost on you. do not let them lose meaning in your mind just because we use them so often in our speaking out for Palestine.

letting our minds forget the sheer atrocity of these words is what "israel" is banking on, because the instant they just become what we tag Palestine posts with, or part of the copy pasted outrage we caption our posts with, or part of the usual paragraphs we see on posts from those in Gaza, we will lose steam because our brains will switch off

DO NOT BECOME DESENSITIZED TO WHAT ZIONISTS IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE, THE USA, THE UK, AND THE WEST ARE DOING TO PALESTINIANS

DO NOT LET YOURSELF BECOME ACCUSTOM TO WHAT ZIONISTS ARE DOING. DO NOT LET YOUR BRAIN ALLOW IT TO BECOME A NORMAL OCCURANCE AND NORMAL NEWS

IT IS NOT NORMAL. WHAT "ISRAEL" AND THE USA AND THE UK AND THE WEST ARE DOING IN GAZA AND THE WEST BANK AND PALESTINE IS NOT NORMAL.

IT IS INHUMAN. IT IS EVIL. NEVER FORGET. NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER.

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This IS BEYOND unacceptable -FU to Doug Ford and ANY politician/public figure in the Ontario Legislature who agrees with this. A keffiyeh is a traditional scarf worn by many Arab people, and people in West Asian communities. It does represent/symbolize Palestinian resistance and solidarity (among many aspects, of course), but that's not a crime -and trying to censure someone's right to wear traditional garments because you'd rather pander to zionists (as this article notes, many wear religious wear every day in office), is the real issue here -this is discrimination. This is legislated discrimination and is hateful.

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platforming palestinian joy is just as important as sharing the suffering they're enduring during this genocide. despite continued displacement and bombardment, you cannot steal their joy and spirit. happy birthday to this sweet baby 🖤🇵🇸 may they grow up to see a free palestine