They All Fall Down

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for the year of the insane, anne sexton

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ALEXANDRA ELLE, Neon Soul

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“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)

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if I had to pin point my biggest flaw, it would probably be me

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“A person can only be picked up and set down so many times before they feel like they’re not worth being held.”

- Insecurities

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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

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Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

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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

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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. 

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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.

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Recovering from an eating disorder is a much bigger accomplishment than having an eating disorder.

You got this.