I haven’t done a ‘cats’ overly specific shoutouts’ in a while so here’s a bunch of them centred around autistic people who I feel are forgotten in the actually autistic community:
- Shoutout to autistics who don’t understand the concept of needing friends or even the concept of friends in general
- Shoutout to autistics who find human existence itself to be overstimulating and have a meltdown everytime there’s more than 2-3 people in a room even if those people are being completely silent
- Shoutout to autistics who used to be able to ADLs but can’t anymore and thus need help
- Shoutout to autistics who’ve never been able to do ADLs and thus need help
- Shoutout to autistic AAC users who need AAC and can’t communicate without it but can’t access it for any reason like cost, their tech being too old for apps, not having the right materials, family being ableist, etc
- Follow up to the above: Shoutout to autistic AAC users who need AAC and can’t communicate without it but can’t access it cause they’re too ashamed, anxious, or nervous to use it
Finally, these folks are included and what’s meant in the above shoutouts but I thought I’d get less specific to make it clear:
- Shoutout to low empathy autistics
- Shoutout to asocial autistics
- Shoutout to msn and hsn autistics
- Shoutout to autistic AAC users
- Shoutout to all AAC users actually, we aren’t included enough