Kaylene | Autistic Mama

#Autistic mom of 6 neurodivergent kiddos. #NeurodiversitySquad Advocate. Blogger. #Disabled writer. Her/She.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

After Trump elevated anti-immigrant & anti-Latino rhetoric, we had the deadliest anti-Latino shooting in modern history.

After anti-Asian hate w/COVID, Atlanta.

Tree of life. Emanuel AME. Buffalo.

And now after an anti-LGBT+ campaign, Colorado Springs.

Connect the dots, @GOP.

[Kaylene | Autistic Mama @AutisticMama]

@MeetThePress @oneunderscore__ @oneunderscore__ you looked so sad throughout this whole report, and rightfully so. Hoping you get to look at pictures of puppies or watch whatever your comfort show is after a day like today.

[Kaylene | Autistic Mama @AutisticMama]

@StephTaitWrites This isn't the story that's being told -- @NBCNews @chucktodd @HallieJackson @stephgosk @NBCJoshua @iamjohnoliver

[@[email protected] @AutSciPerson]

Disability is part of diversity.
Disability is part of diversity.
Disability is part of diversity.
Disability is part of diversity.
Disability is part of diversity.
Disability is part of diversity.
Disability is part of diversity.
Disability is part of diversity.

[Erin Ekins (she/her) @QueerlyAutistic]

Anyway, if you're an autistic person who falls outside the culturally accepted 'look' of autism (ie. not a cishet white man with a penchance for trains and numbers), then please know I love you and also we're spectacular 🤗

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

If you stand for racial justice, you must hold space for the self diagnosed in the disability community.

You cannot honestly look at the statistics of those who are denied care and respect in medical settings and think that diagnoses are easily accessed by the marginalized.

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

Y’all...I have HUGE news!!!

I’ve signed with #PresentPerfectLiteraryAgency to represent my first book “‘If I Were You I’d K*ll Myself’ and Other Disabled Compliments.”

So excited to be working with them on this.

[graphic of Imani in pink standing against a wall as a music

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

Lmao, I love this..

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

They withheld FOOD AND WATER from Michael Hickson for SIX DAYS because doctors said his life wasn’t worth living.

I keep thinking to those two white doctors holding up that protest sign that read “what if we ignored people when they said they couldn’t breathe.”

[Kaylene | Autistic Mama @AutisticMama]

@jaime_a_heidel Thanks so much for including me, Jaime! I’ll be sure to share over on the Autistic Mama page!

[Black Autistics @BlackAutistics]

#AutismTooWhite How many Black Autistic bodies are brutalised because their meltdowns are stereotyped as "aggressive, ape-like behaviour?"

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

Disabled people, specifically Matt, predicted this.

Here’s something else you need to hear from the disability community:

Research the medical rationing guidelines in your state. It’s getting to that point. Be prepared.

[Erin Ekins (she/her) @QueerlyAutistic]

Accusing disabled people of 'defending Trump' because we ask you to stop mocking him in an ableist way is the height of bad faith and I think you all know that, actually.

[A. J. Sass - Updates mostly @matokah]

J.K. Rowling’s comments last week have been gnawing at me. I’m nonbinary. I write for all kids but I’m especially aware of how young trans or nonbinary readers might’ve felt seeing her words.

So now I’ve said some of my own, in this op-ed for @TIME.

https://t.co/BZmk1yK7VH

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

I am happy to announce that I’m black disabled and proud.

Thank you for your time

[Kaylene | Autistic Mama @AutisticMama]

@QueerlyAutistic I appreciate this thread. As a cis-het Autistic woman, Autistic Pride Day makes me uncomfortable. I fully believe Autistic Pride Day should exist, but the timing is definitely wrong.

[Kaylene | Autistic Mama @AutisticMama]

My employers are running a live virtual event using #zoom and we want to make it as #accessible as possible. Do you have a way to auto-caption within zoom? #Accessibility #Disabled #Captions

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

The following is a thread of things you can say about trump without resorting to ableism.

A thread>>>

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

Every fucking time you use ableism to address a public figure, you delegitimize your platform in the eyes of disabled people.

If that’s your instinct, I don’t trust you.

But “intersectionality,” right?