10. I think increased focus on “masking” is mostly a way for autism professionals to make excuses for pervasive bias against autistic women and girls.
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How so?
jul 28, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
11. CART and ASL are not interchangeable. English and ASL are different languages and not everyone who needs one knows both.
jul 27, 2025, 11:42 pm • 57 10 • view
And also CART is full of errors. It’s usually good enough to be useful to me, but I can really understand why someone who is fluent in ASL might find ASL much more useful than CART.
jul 28, 2025, 12:10 am • 0 0 • view
12. More workers and business owners should know the rules around service animals. They don’t actually have to tolerate poorly behaved dogs in their establishments!
jul 27, 2025, 11:46 pm • 75 5 • view
13. Relatedly, there is a special circle of Hell just for people who abuse the ADA to bring their awful, barely trained pets everywhere.
jul 27, 2025, 11:47 pm • 118 10 • view
14. People like to wax poetic about the bipartisanship of the ADA, but disability advocacy hasn’t been bipartisan on the federal level in a very, very long time.
jul 28, 2025, 12:24 pm • 48 7 • view
15. It is still worth reporting what disabled conservatives think/believe/do. Reporting on disability accurately means reporting on the whole community, not just progressive nonprofit leaders and online influencers.
jul 28, 2025, 12:25 pm • 49 2 • view
16. It isn’t really accurate to say there is a single disability community. There are, instead, many different disability communities with different beliefs and political objectives.
jul 28, 2025, 12:36 pm • 48 8 • view
17. Disability rights is still useful as a framework/way of achieving change.
jul 28, 2025, 12:37 pm • 38 3 • view
18. Relatedly, disability justice is not disability rights plus.
jul 28, 2025, 12:38 pm • 39 2 • view
19. The problem with “Asperger syndrome” as a concept is not that Asperger was a Nazi, and the primary intra-movement fight over the term happened years before the documents showing Asperger’s Nazi sympathies were uncovered.
jul 28, 2025, 12:58 pm • 46 7 • view
20. The biggest cultural gulf in disabled organizing is between people who were born disabled and people who acquired a disability later in life.
jul 28, 2025, 1:00 pm • 60 4 • view
oh God yes, as someone who unfortunately doesn't sign (beyond the alphabet) but still needs hearing-related accomodations
jul 28, 2025, 12:19 am • 1 0 • view
Reading Unmasking Autism at the mp’… say more. I’m intrigued
jul 27, 2025, 8:14 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm interested in more thoughts on this one as well, if @slooterman.bsky.social wants to expand! (ADHD AFAB, here)
jul 28, 2025, 12:16 am • 3 0 • view
Same, as a parent.
jul 28, 2025, 1:39 am • 1 0 • view
Undiagnosed but in treatment for AuDHD, with cPTSD (anxiety & depresssion) Queer AMAB
jul 28, 2025, 1:32 am • 1 0 • view