#hsn autism

[postmanic]

a comic about different ways autistic people communicate and show we care!

shoutout to @3leafedclover , @mickeymusketeer , and my partner for helping me out with this one and also for letting me use your characters (black cat with shades, orange dog with the mickey plushie, and orange/white dog with the 'nervous' vest, respectively!), y'all are awesomes!

also thank you @3leafedclover for the image ids!

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[youlookkindadead]

mutual aid request !!!! (URGENT!!!! FACING HOMELESSNESS AND NEGLECT)

hi, im muyang, i'm a severely disabled (mental + physical) transfeminine intersex person of color stuck at a neglectful and borderline abusive homeless shelter, to keep it short they don't give us enough food to comfortably live off of most of the time, i just want a little money for groceries for this week that's all thank you. please rb to help i don't know what else to do i can't work a job and i don't have any family left who'd be willing to help. please donate anything you can i'm begging. i hate making posts like this because i've been told before it's guilt trippy and manipulative i don't wanna seem that way i just don't like starving im sorry. thank you to anyone who donates no matter how small.

my cashapp is $muyang7 , this is the code below

i have a paypal as well which is @Muyang777 and a kofi which is here

UPDATE 05/28/26 : this is very VERY URGENT now. i will be forced to move out of my shelter

my homeless shelter is kind of gently kicking me out due to my disabilities and me needing a level of care they cannot provide. this is incredibly short notice, i have until some time next week before this transition will start. i desperately am in need of help. please donate anything you can and contact me if you know of disability friendly housing available in mid michigan. i dont know what else to do. im very distraught i have nowhere else to turn. please help in any way you can. thank you all so much

[stuffieautism]

over six months no functional speech. over six months nonverbal.

mom still won’t accept it. still hear her on phone every week talking about how she just wishes i were “back to normal”. it was only ever normal for her

she says “you are like a ghost to me now” to my face while i sit there with device. i have no response to type. i am not a ghost? i am your kid and i sit here in front of you. i am still me? why don’t you understand? why can’t i be the same person who you have said you love. because i don’t talk.

[disabled-dippy]

Long ass rant incoming:

I recently started my clinical working with very high support needs autistic kids. This is not the first time I’ve worked with disabled students, but this is the first time I’ve worked so in-depth with them. I’m interacting with them for 7+ hours a day, constantly talking to them, helping them learn and develop new skills, taking them to gym and art and all sorts of other things. And this has really solidified the belief I have that 99% of neurotypical who think they know the first thing about autism do not know a damn thing about it.

There are so many people who are literally raging hate campaigns against literal children just because they’re autistic. “You just don’t get what it’s like having to parent them,” “they’re so difficult,” “they can never learn,” “they can’t contribute anything to society,” “they’re missing something inside.”

None of that is true in the fucking slightest. I knew this before, but it has become INFINITELY more apparent. My heart hurts for these kids because it’s so obvious sometimes that people have never even tried to get to know or understand them. They think there’s nothing going on in their heads, that they’re incapable of love, that they can’t learn, meanwhile these are some of the smartest, kindest, and most caring kids I’ve ever been around.

Yes, HSN autism has its challenges. Yes, it can be hard to parent or teach a child with profound needs. Yes, they often need much more attention and care and need help with things their allistic peers do not need help with. But to say that they are incapable of love or learning or that they are “missing something” is completely fucking untrue.

If they are incapable of showing love, then why do they notice when the teachers are upset? Why do they hug us? Why do they offer us their snacks or their treasured toys or stuffed animals? Why do they become distressed when other students are crying and try to help them? Why do they run to us in the mornings and cry at dismissal?

If they are incapable of learning, then how did they learn to use felt boards and AAC devices and sign language? Why are we constantly updating their learning goals because they keep hitting them? Why are they able to learn all the routines we have in the classroom?

I feel so much empathy for these kids because I know life’s been hard to them. I can see it on their faces, in their body language. I can tell that their boundaries have been repeatedly violated, because they are shocked when we listen to their discomforts and their fears. They expect us to keep pushing on with their lessons even when they are upsetting or cause them pain.

We regularly pause when we notice they’re distressed or distracted and it’s clear that they don’t expect us to. If I could describe to you the shock that one student experienced when they said they wanted to play during a lesson, and we found the time to let them play instead of pushing on and insisting it was learning time. Another student cried while we were brushing their hair and was shocked that we took that as a cue to stop and give them a break and let them play with their comfort toy.

We’ve stopped so many meltdowns just by giving students the chance to communicate what is bothering them. People complain that meltdowns are unavoidable, but then they don’t take the time to give the person the opportunity to communicate or try to figure out what’s bothering them. I’d say we avoid a good 80% of the potential meltdowns in our classroom literally just by understanding that these are kids with complex needs who just want a way to communicate what’s wrong.

It just makes me so mad that people cannot see this and think the autistic label means kids are irreparably damaged or some stupid shit like that. Treating these kids like actual human beings is an alien concept to most people. We’re not “miracle workers” or “breaking through the autism” or whatever other ableist bullshit people try to claim. We’re just treating these kids like normal fucking people.

This shit pisses me off so bad. Protect autistic kids (AND autistic adults), especially HSN autistics, because they are so so vulnerable and the world hates them for existing.

[antisinful]

Even though I have somewhere between moderate to high support needs autism, I hate the idea of science ”finding a cure” before there’s been even a genuine attempt at radically changing society into something that’s not actively hurting us.

Because why should I be expected to go through something so potentially personality and life altering, so as to not be a burden to other people? Why is the onus on me and others like me to change for society rather than have society change for us? Why can non autistic people never put in even a fraction of the effort many of us do, just to feel safe and avoid their ire?

This is a genuine political point for me. I don’t think the act of searching for a cure for autism is morally neutral in a world running on capitalism and eugenics.

It has little to do with our well being, it is solely because we are seen as being less worthy of life on a fundamental level, and being punished for suffering from ableism in every aspect of our lives.

If it was for our sake, discussions about what it even means to cure autism and whether or not it will actually be beneficial for us would be at the forefront. There would be extensive talking about the sheer diversity in autistic presentations, and whether or not curing social disability is even possible after birth.

I’m not saying that wanting a cure is bad by any means, I often wish myself that I could have been born without this.

But I just cannot stress enough that the scientific endeavour itself cannot be separated from the discrimination we face. Until we tear down the system that intentionally suffocates us, this matter will remain rooted in violence.

[aac-cabinet]

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Let's talk about the term "Autism [Parent]" (mom,dad,etc.)

Is it just me or does it feel weird when allistic parents call themselves “autism parents”?

Like… something about that wording just gives me the ick.

Your child is autistic. That’s their lived experience. Their brain, their sensory world, their communication, their identity.

You are involved in their life; yes you support them, advocate for them, raise them, but you are not the one experiencing autism.

So why are you labeling yourself with it?

It starts to feel like you’re centering yourself in something that isn’t yours to hold.

And what really gets me is when it’s the same people who say “their autism doesn’t define them”... but then turn around and define themselves by their child’s autism.

Like which is it?? Because that contradiction is loud.

If autism “doesn’t define them,” why is it defining you?

It comes off less like support and more like identity borrowing.

It's like taking something that impacts your child’s entire existence and turning it into a label for yourself; one that gets you community, attention, or authority in conversations that should be led by autistic people.

Yeah, parents deserve support spaces. Raising a disabled child can come with real challenges.

But there’s a difference between:

“I’m a parent of an autistic kid”

and

“I’m an autism parent”

One keeps the focus where it belongs. The other kind of...shifts it.

Autistic people already get talked over enough; especially Autistic POC and HSN & MSN Autistics. Their experiences get filtered, explained, and often overwritten by the people around them.

So when even the language parents use starts pulling that focus away, it doesn’t feel harmless, it feels like part of the same pattern.

Like just… support your kid. Advocate for them. Learn. Listen.

But you don’t need to make their autism your identity to do that.

Please let me know your thoughts in the comments.

Do not talk over autistic people here.

Do not talk over POC or MSN/HSN autistic people either.

If you’re allistic or otherwise not part of those groups, this is a space to listen, not dominate the conversation. You can contribute and ask questions, but you are not the focus here.

Autistic voices,especially those who are most marginalized, should come first.

[cripposting]

There’s something pissing me off that just irks me.

On small businesses like Etsy that do pride flag merch- a lot will have the autistic or ADHD pride flag. But not the disability pride flag. And it’s like. Your telling me, that you would rather make two pride flags that don’t have nearly as much significance, doesn’t cover nearly as many people, have more complicated symbols to make on enamel pins and stuff and you would rather do that? You’d rather make the two flags of the two disabilites that right now in disability advocacy are the most sanitized, acceptable disabilites to have? And definitely not the autisic and ADHD folk that can’t talk or work or take care of their hygiene etc. I think it is so fucking abelist. Like it would literally be easier and get you more sales to just have the disability pride flag. Like I can see the lateral abelism oozing out of this.

Like the disability flag literally stand fits every single disabled person. It literally represents the undiagnosed, invisible, misunderstood, including mental illnesses. I just I can’t fucking stand it. If your a AuDHD’er or someone who is only focused on that advocacy wise- check what the hell your selling on your shops. Uplift those of us who disgust and annoy and arent palatable.

[crispnuqqet]

autism flag for those who like to use the puzzle piece and feel represented by it, this is meant for msn-hsn autistics only (autistics who’s support needs fluctuate from lsn to msn and msn to hsn are included)

there are no color meanings, its just based on the red, yellow, and blue autism puzzle pattern

if you are a no support needs autistic or just low support needs, this flag isn’t for you

recolors and inspired flags are allowed, all i ask is that credit is given