Alix Generous 🥀

🕊Autism Neurodiversity Activist 🧠PhD student🎙️ neurospicy speaker✒️👁👁🦄Chorus Girl #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD

[Michelle Dawson @autismcrisis]

"Research in Neurodiversity"?--a new journal "publishing studies that examine the lived experiences of neurodiverse individuals, promote inclusive practices, and showcase innovative approaches to education, employment, and support"? https://t.co/UAAvN9ca8p autism-relevant

[Callum Stephen (He/Him) @AutisticCallum_]

As an autistic person, an important part of my self-confidence journey has been recognising that my perspective is just as important as other people’s and other people seeing something one way doesn’t mean I have to or that my perspective is incorrect or not valid if it differs.

[Autistic Girls Network @AutisticGirls_]

In a world full of systems designed for neurotypical people, Autistic people don’t need to work on their resilience. Some are already hugely more resilient than their peers by just getting through the day. Our blog post explains more - https://t.co/ZfiNTyBZX5  #Autism

[Alix Generous 🥀 @GenerousAlix]

I’ve always been a no sock type of neurodivergent.

[Callum Stephen (He/Him) @AutisticCallum_]

Socks can be a lot to navigate when you’re Autistic. For me to feel comfortable wearing them, I have to make sure they’re positioned perfectly, have no areas where they’re out of shape, there’s a lack of material or even the smallest hole. And if they get even slightly wet… ugh!

[Callum Stephen (He/Him) @AutisticCallum_]

Autistic people are often told they have a bad attitude when their attitude is fine, they simply: don’t tolerate discrimination; value ethics over hierarchy and conformity; dislike pretence; are honest; have succinct facial expressions; and/or have meltdowns when pushed too far.

[The Autistic Coach @AutisticCoach_]

Just waking up in the morning as an #ActuallyAutistic person is tiring. It requires more energy, thought, complex processes, and stress than it does for allistic people. THIS is exactly what contributes to #autism being a disability. It's also what people use to put us down.

[Alix Generous 🥀 @GenerousAlix]

Where my ladies at? Come see me perform this June with an incredibly talented group of women in a Rodgers & Hammerstein concert at the Museum of Tolerance here in Los Angeles! 🎫🎤Tickets are on sale now!

https://t.co/Gn9irFiADL

[Alix Generous 🥀 @GenerousAlix]

Asking #ActuallyAutistic folks: do you have accommodations at work? If so, what are they? Has it helped?

[Alix Generous 🥀 @GenerousAlix]

@AutisticCoach_ Tbh I don’t eat fast food.

[Alix Generous 🥀 @GenerousAlix]

This is so true only because many families cannot afford to get diagnosis’s for themselves. Self diagnosis’s are valid and deserve to be heard.

[Marina Harris, PhD, HSP-P, CMPC @DrMarinaHarris]

Therapists who criminalize self diagnosis 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Listen. Access to mental health is a HUGE problem. And gatekeeping is not the answer.

[Alix Generous 🥀 @GenerousAlix]

This statement is very true. Many late diagnosed adults also have collateral trauma from years of having their needs overlooked and mannerisms misunderstood.

[Alix Generous 🥀 @GenerousAlix]

Our entire identity including being autistic becomes shaped by trauma in response to how others reacts to our quirks.

[Emily♡ @ItsEmilyKaty]

Autistic people are so often ridiculed, bullied and made fun of for things like not understanding jokes, misinterpreting social cues and finding social situations difficult.

It’s no wonder we develop social anxiety. We are traumatised from growing up autistic.

[Alix Generous 🥀 @GenerousAlix]

@ItsEmilyKaty @AutisticGirls_ That we lack empathy.

[Alix Generous 🥀 @GenerousAlix]

Incredibly relatable!!! Tfs

[Alix Generous 🥀 @GenerousAlix]

Just bought textbooks for my classes in Shoah history
•Fritsche, Peter. Germans into Nazis
•Smith, Helmut. The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Antisemitism in a German Town
•Hayes, Peter. Why? Explaining the Holocaust
•Stone, Dan. The Holocaust & Historical Methodology

[Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp]

A new neurodiversity (beyond autism) interdisciplinary academic @SAGEJournals journal is now open for submissions: an opportunity to shape it in a truly neurodiversity-affirming direction.
Free to submit in the first year; will remain free for readers.
See below for details👇

[Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp]

36 journals are participating in a special issue on Neurodiversity. Submissions are due April 30th. It represents a variety of disciplines and neurodivergences. Good opportunity especially for neurodiversity and neurodivergent scholars and advocates.
Link:
https://t.co/BT9I7ccZYI

[Alix Generous 🥀 @GenerousAlix]

Just signed up for classes. Excited to start my PhD in holocaust and genocide studies @GratzCollege this year.

[Callum Stephen (He/Him) @AutisticCallum_]

It fascinates me why a non-Autistic, non-ADHD, non-expert would feel they can offer insightful commentary on the rise in diagnoses. On what basis could they assert Autism and ADHD are over-diagnosed? Fewer diagnoses in the past could simply mean they were under-diagnosed before.

[Reese Witherspoon @ReeseW]

Anti-semitism in any form is deplorable. In person. Online. Doesn't matter where. It's hate and it's unacceptable.