DON'T LOOK AWAY. DON'T YOU DARE LOOK AWAY.
Amina Ghanem, 13 years old, says. 'We were sleeping and we heard the sound of tanks when they came and walked over the caravan in which I, my father, and my brothers lived. The tank squeezed us inside the tin all night until the morning
solidarity to those ppl who suffer greatly, but continually fall through the cracks b/c others perceive them as too "high-functioning" to have their struggles validated & too "competent" to deserve any help/support. this gray area is a lonely, painful & dangerous place to exist.
them: being Autistic isn’t that bad, you look like you’re fine. stop complaining/making excuses
me, suffering through what they see as ���isn’t that bad’:
The worst part about being Audhd and smart is that you spend so much of your time amassing so much knowledge, both on specific subjects and arbitrary ones, just to be unable to retrieve it in conversation and looking like a goofy when trying to infodump 🤦🏾♀️
your #InternationalWomensDay reminder that 80% of autistic women remain undiagnosed at the age of 18.
autistic women deserve to be listened to, taken seriously, understood and validated.
we still have a lot of work to do!