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ALEXANDRA ELLE, Neon Soul
“Someone asked me just now, “Does it get better?” and I wanted to share my response: In a way. It gets easier. What once was such a fervent screaming in your head dies down into an echo and I think the goal is that that fades away once you immerse yourself into your life again. It doesn’t go away all of a sudden and I sometimes feel like I’m still so stuck but time really does change things and you learn how to deal with the little bits of life you’ve avoided. It reminds me of the quote by C.S. Lewis that says, “Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back, everything is different…” That’s how it was and still is for me. Now the calories in a cough drop don’t cause me to go into a hysterical fit but that doesn’t mean that I don’t have break downs about how scary real life is. It’s not that I have no worries now it’s just that they’re different. They’re real life worries but I think that shows growth. So, to answer your question yes, yes it does get better.”
— A.M (via adrianaintheraw)
if I had to pin point my biggest flaw, it would probably be me
“A person can only be picked up and set down so many times before they feel like they’re not worth being held.”
- Insecurities
Autistic Voices: A Masterpost
Here is a list of resources about autism, with a focus on actually autistic voices, divided by topic. You will find articles, websites, videos, Youtube channels, etc., most of them created by autistic people. If there are resources you would like to contribute to this post, or if you have other suggestions, don’t hesitate to let me know.
What is autism?
Nick Walker: What is autism?
Autistic Self Advocacy Network: About Autism
Autisticality: Inclusive autistic traits
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic: What is Autism?
Neurodiversity
Identity-First Autistic: The Neurodiversity Paradigm
Nick Walker: Neurodiversity: some basic terms and definitions
Nick Walker: The Neurodiversity Paradigm and the Path of Self-Liberation
Nick Walker: Throw Away the Master’s Tools: Liberating Ourselves from the Pathology Paradigm
Elisabeth Wiklander: Neurodiversity — the key that unlocked my world
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic: What is Neurodiversity
Identity-first language vs person-first language
Autistic Self Advocacy Network: Identity-First Language
Nathan Selove: Autism ACTUALLY Speaking: Person First Language
Autistic Hoya: The Significance of Semantics: Person-First Language: Why It Matters
Social model of disability vs medical model of disability
Identity-First Autistic: Understanding Disability Models
Autistic Hoya: You are not a burden.
Nathan Selove: Autism ACTUALLY Speaking: Models of Disability Discourse
Nathan Selove: Creating A Social Model of Autism Ari Ne’eman at Emory University: Autism and the Disability Community: The Politics of Neurodiversity, Causation and Cure
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #16: Is Autism a Disability?
Functioning labels
Identity-First Autistic: Identity-First Autistic’s stance on ‘functioning labels’
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic: What about Functioning Labels?
autisticliving: What’s Wrong with Functioning Labels? A Masterpost.
Nathan Selove: Autistic ACTUALLY Speaking: High Functioning versus Low Functioning
AUTISTIC WEREWOLF: WHY LABELS EXPECIALLY HIGH & LOW FUNCTIONING AUTISM IS ARE A LOAD OF CRAP! (cw: use of the R-word)
Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism: The Problems with Functioning Labels
Autistic women
Reese Piper: ‘I Thought I Was Lazy’: The Invisible Day-To-Day Struggle For Autistic Women
Fabienne Cazalis: The women who don’t know they’re autistic
Aspergers from the Inside: Female Diagnosis and Self-Advocacy with Geraldine Robertson
Purple Ella: DIFFERENCES AUTISTIC BOYS AND GIRLS
Seventh Voice: The Gas-lighting of Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum
Suicide
AutisticNomad: Speaking to Suicidal Autistics
Science Daily: Coventry University: People with Autism at Greater Risk of Attempting Suicide
Dan Jones: Autism: Diagnosis Saved My Life
Empathy
Rebecca Brewer and Jennifer Murphy for Spectrum News: People with autism can read emotions, feel empathy
Nathan Selove: Autism ACTUALLY Speaking: Empathy
Luna Lindsey: Double-Standards: The Irony of Empathy and Autism
Intersectional Neurodiversity: New Research Suggests Social Issues Are Down to Neurotypicals More than Autistics
Self-advocacy
Nathan Selove: Autism ACTUALLY Speaking: Self Advocacy
Amythest Schaber: Autistics Speaking: Self-Advocacy in a Culture of Cure
Autistic Hoya: What is Self-Advocacy?
Executive function
Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism: Executive Functioning Problems: A Frustrating Aspect of Being Autistic
Reese Piper: ‘I Thought I Was Lazy’: The Invisible Day-To-Day Struggle For Autistic Women
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #25: What is Executive Functioning?
Aspergers from the Inside: Executive Function (a response to Ask an Autistic)
Purple Ella: AUTISM AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING
Special interests
Musings of an Aspie: What’s So Special About a Special Interest?
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #13 - What are Special Interests?
Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism: Autism and Intense Interests: Why We Love What We Love and Why It Should Matter to You
Stimming
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #1 - What is Stimming?
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic: Living Atypically - Self-Injurious Stims
The Artism Spectrum: Stimming 101, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Stim
The Artism Spectrum: The Dark Side of the Stim: Self-injury and Destructive Habits
Meltdowns
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #15 - What are Autistic Meltdowns?
Unstrange Mind: The Protective Gift of Meltdowns
Purple Ella: DEALING WITH MELTDOWNS
Shutdowns
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #20 - What are Autistic Shutdowns?
Unstrange Mind: Autistic Shutdown Alters Brain Function
Passing
AUTISTIC WEREWOLF: ANOTHER WAY AUTISTIC WEREWOLVES HIDE IN THIS NEUROTYPICAL WORLD!
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #2 - What is Passing?
Autistic burnout
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #3 - What is Autistic Burnout?
Musings of an Aspie: Autistic Regression and Fluid Adaptation
Autisticality: Burnout
Autism Information Library: “Help! I seem to be Getting More Autistic!”
Inertia
Autisticality: Inertia
Divergent Minds: A Look at Autistic Inertia
Alexithymia
Unstrange Mind: Alexithymia: I Don’t Know How I Feel
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #27: What is Alexithymia?
What not to say to an autistic person
Autistic Hoya: 15 Things You Should Never Say To An Autistic
Radical Neurodivergence Speaking: What to say, and not to say, to an autistic adult
Nathan Selove: Top 5 Well Meaning Things People Should Stop Saying to Autistics
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #12 - What Shouldn’t I Say to Autistic People?
StimNation: S#!T Ignorant People Say to Autistics
Actually Autistic: 10 Things Not To Say To Autistic People
BBC Three: Things Not To Say To An Autistic Person
Autism and people of color
The Autism Wars - Mrs. Kerima Çevik‘s blog
Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism: Black and Autistic – Is There Room at the Advocacy Table?
Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism: Autistic, Gifted, And Black: An Interview With Mike Buckholtz
Autistic Hoya: I, too, am racialized.
AUTISTIC WEREWOLF: AUTISM: Growing Up BLACK In A NEUROTYPICAL Legal System!
Nathan Selove: Autism ACTUALLY Speaking: Interview Anthony Adams
@nyarutheve - Twitter account
Autism and LGBT+
Maxfield Sparrow: Autism and Gender Variance: Is There a Cause for the Correlation?
Alex Forshaw: The Intersection of Autism and Gender
Evil Autie: Being Trans in Autistic Space
AutisticNomad - Maxfield Sparrow’s Youtube channel
Non-speaking autistic voices
Amy Sequenzia: Non-speaking, “low-functioning”
Amy Sequenzia: “Autism Awareness Month” Awareness
Non-Speaking Autistic Speaking - Amy Sequenzia’s blog
Mel Baggs: In My Language
Mel Baggs: Don’t ever assume autism researchers know what they’re doing
Mel Baggs: Captioned Reply to GRASP/Autism Speaks Articles
Lysik'an: You don’t speak for Low-functioning autistics
Deej - documentary film
Sue Rubin’s website
Autism $peaks/Light It Up Blue/Puzzle Piece
The Caffeinated Autistic: New Autism Speaks Masterpost (Updated 4/4/17)
The Caffeinated Autistic: Autism Speaks *still* does not speak for me
Autistic Anthro: Enough with the Puzzle Pieces
Autistic Anthro: Autism Awareness Month
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #6 - What’s Wrong With Autism Speaks
Nathan Selove: Autism ACTUALLY Speaking: Lighting Up Blue
John Elder Robinson: I Resign My Roles at Autism Speaks
Autistic Hoya: Co-Opting the Movement: Autism Speaks, John Elder Robinson, and Complicity in Oppression
Autistic Hoya: Responding to Autism Speaks
Mel Baggs: Captioned Reply to GRASP/Autism Speaks Articles
Amy Sequenzia: “Autism Awareness Month” Awareness
When autism parents don’t listen
Jim Sinclair: Don’t Mourn For Us
Autistic Hoya: They keep publishing these violent articles
Autistic Hoya: Why we must #BoycottToSiri / An open letter to Judith Newman
Amythest Schaber: #BoycottToSiri
Susie Rodarme: An Open Letter to HarperCollins about TO SIRI WITH LOVE
Kaelan Rhywiol: Why I Believe ‘To Siri With Love’ By Judith Newman Is A Book That Does Incredible Damage To The Autistic Community
Aaron Kappel: When You’re Autistic, Abuse Is Considered Love
Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism: Autism Uncensored: A Dangerous and Spirit-Crushing Book
Service dogs and autism
Nathan Selove: Service Dog Tales
In French
Super Pépette - Julie Dachez’s Youtube channel
La Fille Pas Sympa - Julia March’s blog
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
i’ve lost my youth and young adult life to mental illness and those are years i’ll never fucking get back and it’s not poetic it’s fucking devastating
I talk about mental illness because I once reached rock bottom and nearly fell out of this world. I talk so perhaps you will hold on.
Hetti M. Ross (via depressionarmy)
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You need to remember that you’ve managed to get this far in life. You’ve been in situations where you thought you’d never make it out but you did. You lived to tell the tale. You survived another day. You got through it. You learned from your mistakes, you realised where you went wrong, you grew as a person. You made it. So whatever you’re going through now, you’ll get through that too.
A reminder that eating and not listening to your eating disorder shows strength not weakness. Everyone else sees you as strong for eating not weak.
Recovering from an eating disorder is a much bigger accomplishment than having an eating disorder.
You got this.