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Reminder that nonverbal means you do not verbally speak ever, while verbal shutdown means you have periods of time/episodes where you don't speak verbally.
Don't say you're "going nonverbal", say you're having a verbal shutdown. Nonverbals do not like their language being misused to treat nonverbality as a temporary thing.
(This is not a judgemental post to anyone who has misused the term in the past. It's a common mistake. Just please take this information in stride for the future.)
autism not an intellectual disability (ID).
intellectual disability be singular diagnosis give to people who struggle with intellectual functioning & adaptive functioning (e.g living skills), rated from mild to profound. it affect everything every single aspect about person.
(UK: learning disability, not to be confused w specific learning disability or UK term learning difficulty. so far only find UK use this term difference.)
intellectual disability often comorbid with autism - different source n study say different things but many place say 30% or more autistic ppl have intellectual disability.
autism (& adhd, specific learning disability like dyslexia, down syndrome, cerebral palsy, etc) be part of wider umbrella called developmental disability (DD).
(technically, intellectual disability also a developmental disability. but because so many other developmental disability comorbid with ID, & ID affect everything single aspect of person, ppl often give it extra emphasis, abbreviating both of them as intellectual / developmental disability (I/DD))
intellectual disability experience & intellectual disability activism need center actual intellectually disabled people / people with intellectual disability. whenever autistic people without ID mistake autism as “an intellectual disability,” it speak over people with ID. it decenter people with ID from their own word / experience / space.
people insulting & mistreating you as autistic person without ID by confuse you with or compare you to people with intellectual disability cry, are saying you “just as bad”, n not mean you affected in same way as people with intellectual disability.
things targeting people with intellectual disability target people with intellectual disability first. they be most affected.
you can (& should) advocate for group of people you not without claim to be one of them. but most of time when people do this, they not even advocating.
autistic people without ID (and people without ID in general) need stop derailing things about people with intellectual disability.
If autistic people need to tell you exactly what they need in order to get help from your org, your org is literally inaccessible to a hugely massive portion of autistic people
This applies to a lot of disabilities and health conditions tbh but I am fucking sick of seeing nurses and doctors and caretakers and parents constantly mistake an autistic person's speech loss for anger and potential violence
People who don't have a lifelong, serious, visible disability don't get to lecture me about my Incredibly mixed feelings this month. This is a month of grief for me. I grew up knowing I would die from my disability. I grew up fighting every school system I was ever in for accessibility. I grew up missing every fun thing my friends got to do because they weren't accessible. I Never Got To Be A Child, I was viewed as "other". This is a month to remember how horrifyingly many disabled people are abused and tortured and experimented on. This is a month to remember the cognitively disabled people America were shoveled into the war machine and called "the moron corps" This is time to remember mass killings of disabled people All Over The World. This is a time to remember how in 2020 the FEDERAL procedure for disabled people with covid was to give them life saving medical care LAST over able bodied people with covid. This is time to remember that on a LOWBALL average - one disabled person A WEEK is murdered by their care staff and NO ONE CARES. This is a time to remember how when I was in college 5 years ago I was instructed by head of staff for my dorm that the written procedure for a fire was to let me burn down with the building since I couldn't self-evacuate.
I'm glad you all feel pride in your disability. I'm glad you all can celebrate. I have no fucking "pride" in being disabled. This is a life I did not choose to live. A life that is markedly worse than my peers in every aspect. All I can feel is grief.
Please understand that high support needs are substantially more than low support needs.
I hate to say it, but if you can hold a job with minimal accommodation from others, drive a car or take public transport independently, and handle most bADL’s and iADL’s with self-management strategies, you are not high support needs.
I by no means am trying to invalidate people, but it’s incredibly important to recognize where you actually lie on the full spectrum of disability. Otherwise we risk speaking over people who genuinely are HSN.
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I think people have forgotten what high support needs means. It makes me frustrated. You are not high support needs if you can live on your own and hold a full time job. I am not sorry to say this.
Yes. It's totally okay to be frustrated with not having your needs taken seriously and wanting them to stop going unmet. And wanting to express that.
It's not okay to appropriate terms meant for people whose lives are very different from yours. People with high support needs need intensive daily support, e.g. help with tasks like bathing and getting dressed, and often a lot of supervision. This is a life with very little freedom and very little power.
This is one reason I think we should be using the term "higher LSN*" for people who can live independent "normal lives" while also finding the demands difficult. It's important to acknowledge your struggle without speaking over the most vulnerable.
*LSN = Lower Support Needs
Because when you take others' words, you silence their experiences. You sideline them and overwrite their stories with your own, instead of putting yours alongside theirs. And we should be valuing all experiences, not only yours.
from someone with medium support needs
I think a lot of autistic people get so frustrated with the lack of support they get, which is totally valid, but then they direct that frustration towards the groups that are supposedly “taking all those supports for themselves”.
Like bestie no. None of us are getting the support we need. The ones that are (which are few and far between), are exceptions, and even then I doubt people are really getting all the support they deserve from this very ableist society.
And ofc this affects everyone. I’ve seen lsn people go “ugh I wish I was higher support needs so people would take me seriously!!” not realising that it doesn’t help. (Disclaimer here that I am lsn so I don’t have any experience with being msn or hsn). But ive also seen higher support needs people (and their caregivers) overestimate the amount of support lsn people actually get, and underestimate the amount a lot of us need.
However, hsn people need more support. It’s literally in the name. Plus, capitalism being capitalism, a lot of available support is focused on people that can contribute to the economy, so when you can’t, society just doesn’t care as much about you.
I am smart. Throughout school there were a lot of expectations on me as a result of this, and simultaneously I wasnt being challenged at my level. This was, and still is, deeply frustrating. But I got my diagnosis. And because I struggle with a lot of aspects of school, now I’ve got several people at my school making sure they can keep my grades high enough for me to graduate. It’s still hard, but man, am I getting a lot of support.
Now what if I wasnt smart? What if I didnt have ‘potential’? Would I still get the same level of support? The same level of effort put into making sure I could finish my education? I don’t think so.
What I feel people frequently forget about autistic special interests is that they aren't always information based. They may simply be visual or mental
Someone may have a special interest in a show, but instead of that meaning that they will talk about that show often, it may mean they watch that show extremely frequently.
Special interests are ways of regulating, not simply encyclopedias we have in our heads. Sometimes it's watching something frequently. Maybe only listening to one genre of music, maybe it's a collection, maybe it's an action. I'm tired of it only being seen as autistic people's personal encyclopedias
There is so much casual ableism towards people with intellectual-cognitive disabilities. I was listening to a podcast I listen to religiously (and is a very very leftist podcast) and they hit me with the "you'll understand this unless you are Three Years Old." And it was something I didn't understand. And this podcast (that I love!) does this quite frequently. The hosts would never purposely make fun of someone for their disability- but they say things like "no one is that stupid" or similar quite frequently. And as someone who is that stupid- it kinda fucking sucks.
Pixies First book with adult aac users !
And !
First time ever see any kind of media with 2 aac users actually talking to each other using their AAC devices !!!
For anyone wondering, the book is This Is How We Talk: A Celebration of Disability and Connection
Hey gang just saw a post equating being racist to brain damage Yet Again. Can we. Can we stop doing that please. You aren't #owning anyone you are just making your mutual with brain damage feel like shit
My first ever comic! I’m still really proud of it and honestly the way the UK govt is going right now it feels ever more relevant.
Remember that there is no reason to use someone's spelling, or choice of words against them. There are many reasons why someone my make spelling mistakes, or speak in a simple or unclear way, and most of them are not "because they are wrong and stupid"
Additionally, you're not sure you understand something, ask, instead of assuming the worst.
Sometimes people will make mispells because of a disability, or because they are tired, or do not speak the language, or any other reason.
Sometimes people will use the wrong word or formulation for thinngs, because of a disability, being tired, or not speaking the language, or any other reason.
Your default answer should always be communication, making sure you actually understand each other, and thus, understanding.
If you ever made fun of someone or used as cudgel in an argument the fact that someone misswrote a word, or used the wrong word, i need you to learn to stop doing this, or to leave this blog forever.
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Asked Wrestling shirt for my birthday. I didn't get wrestling shirt. I got *bluey* shirt and was told it was more "appropriate" for me. I'm 23.
I just read the sentence “mildly disabled people don’t exist. You’re either disabled or you’re not.” The post was dated 2026.
I thought we were past that. I thought we were finally ready to acknowledge that you can be mildly disabled.
Someone having level 8 pain every day doesn’t mean your level 3 pain isn’t painful. You can still complain. You can still participate in the conversation.
It’s when you speak over severely disabled people or, goodness forbid, say severely disabled people are privileged that you’re in the wrong.
Some autistic people can’t mask btw. Some of us are visibly disabled and visibly autistic, and that’s okay.
This does mean some of us are more vulnerable to ableism and violence, as we are unable to mask even temporarily for our safety.
Autistics who can’t mask/can’t mask well deserve to be included too.
