Neurodivergent Academy

Autistic. Disabled. Veteran special education teacher. Founder of Neurodivergent Academy: an alternative to the current neuronormative approaches in education.

[Neurodivergent Academy @InAutistic]

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[𝔸sh 🐅🍀 @ashleyann_atx]

‘not everything is about you…’ and ‘don’t read so far into things’ were hurtful things to hear as an autistic person. especially when not autistic and you don’t know that reading into things and sharing personal experiences to relate are autistic traits. so you just feel shame.

[Neurodivergent Academy @InAutistic]

I permanently crashed my health in persuit of my ��why”

I still believe in it. But, I’m beyond the point of believing we can make it happen in the traditional school.

I didn’t set out to be a radical educator. I just believed in and loved the “hard” kids.

[Anthony Boyer @ABoyer_MSEd]

@sage_stage I have to ask: you must have a really good "why" for staying despite the ever-increasing difficulties; what is it? What keeps you coming back everyday? I ask b/c I stayed in the face of adversity and got burned and burned out. Eventually led to my body giving up. 1/2

[Neurodivergent Academy @InAutistic]

I will never regret taking that call. The story could have ended very differently if I hadn’t.

And yes, that kid called me afterward various times after I stopped working there. I just declined the calls and eventually he stopped.

Sometimes it’s the right call. FIN 5/5

[Neurodivergent Academy @InAutistic]

Not exactly intentionally. Back when I worked in residential care, my number was posted when I was on-call.
In 10+ years I had 2 kids call me. First: to say she missed me while I was on vacation. 1/5

[Advocate GOAT @theDRAMAgoat1]

Have you ever given your personal phone number to a student? Why or why not? Reply and tell me why. How do you keep yourself safe if you do?

[Neurodivergent Academy @InAutistic]

I was able to verbally de-escalate him (and the staff he was afraid of) and got him safely situated for the night with another staff on site who was able to keep him calm until morning. (Never underestimate the power of a sweet grandmother in a crisis!)
4/5

[Neurodivergent Academy @InAutistic]

This is Why We’re literally begging you not to call the police to get someone mental health care!

TW for infantilizing language and descriptions of institutional neglect in article https://t.co/VgEB7wh9jU

[The Tweedy Mutant @the_tweedy]

I need every currently nondisabled person to sit with this fact: you're closer to being one of the disabled folks you consider "lazy" than any of your pro athlete "role models".

[Neurodivergent Academy @InAutistic]

@JoannaNoBanana Not on here much. Better to contact me on discord. But DMs remain open.

[Neurodivergent Academy @InAutistic]

NGL, was bummed to discover @GaelynnLea was in Boston recently and I didn’t know about it.

#MissedMoments #ChronicIllnessLife

[Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp]

Non-autistic "participants found it significantly harder to track autistic narrators’ emotions compared to non-autistic narrator’s emotions, esp. when viewing clips of narrators feeling happy and sad...findings support the double empathy problem".
Free 👇: https://t.co/UlRFciBUXk

[Neurodivergent Academy @InAutistic]

Feeling this one today!

[adventures with GD Otto 🙋🏼‍♀️🦮 @LifeWithGDOtto]

@melwardlepoet I get The are you sure? A lot. Sometimes when people ask if I know where I’m going or whether I need help and I say I’m fine and they then say are you sure? In my head I am thinking my disability is blindness not chronic indecisiveness

[Neurodivergent Academy @InAutistic]

@WillieHandler Reminds me of the receptionist who called *and interrupted me taking said medication* to remind me to pre medicate. (After the text, email, and previous phone call.)

Like I know it’s new and different for some folks. But my condition is congenital. I’ve had some practice…

[Black Autistic Kayla @KaylaBeingMe]

Also high support needs autistic people, autistic people from different religions, autistic women and girls, LGBTQIA autistic people, and any autistic people who are marginalized. You can't say you're pro autistic and not including marginalized autistic people in your advocacy.

[Neurodivergent Academy @InAutistic]

OH: I loved how you were explicitly talking about scripting social situations and labeling it as scripting with [student whose verbal speech is heavily scripted].

Me: Yes. This is the “social skills curriculum” I always wanted to teach.

#AutisticTeachers #AutismAcceptance

[Black Autistic Kayla @KaylaBeingMe]

Let's start using #WhitewashAutism because I am tired of white autism parents and white autistic people taking up spaces and not giving the mic to marginalized parents of autistic children/adults or autistic people. It needs to end. And happy autism awareness acceptance month.

[sarah o'brien @SarahMarieOB]

It���s so strange that sci-fi and fantasy create worlds that disability doesn’t exist within, I guess because the laws of the worlds “cure” all disability, but they don’t realise that the real dream is a world without ✨ ableism ✨