Kelsey Cameron

#actuallyautistic Life is truly a beautiful gift for us to experience ourselves. 🔥 Heal yourself and you heal everyone around you. ❤️She / Her

[Kelsey Cameron @kelcamer]

Attention;
This man aka Debojit Dave "Dave Spirit" is a groomer who targets autistic/ ADHD folks who cannot read signals.

Then, he violates boundaries, backpedals, and exhibits signs of NPD.

He's done this 25+ women online, and abused 2 in person. Please share.

@317dave

[Perc After Dark 💣 @Goddess1Gamer]

@AutisticCallum_ "I thought you hated me so I hated you."

*but I've never even spoken to you/seen you.*

"I know."

*but everyone told you I was nice and you've never seen me try to hurt anyone.*

"oh I know!"

*so... why did you hate me?*

"oh, idk, your face just looked mad : )"

[Callum Stephen (He/Him) @AutisticCallum_]

Autistic life is hearing people say they thought you were rude, arrogant, mean and/or intimidating when they first saw you, but when they got to know you, they realised that you’re none of these things and are actually a great person.

[KatyBird 🇵🇸 @KBird22346764]

@AutisticCallum_ Hearing that word, "careless," always in response to something I had done incorrectly in school, always made me sad and frustrated. I *did* care!

[Callum Stephen (He/Him) @AutisticCallum_]

What my teachers called “silly/careless mistakes” turned out to be executive dysfunction and challenges applying attention, courtesy of Autism and ADHD.

[@[email protected] @AutSciPerson]

Of course there wasn't one thought from this person that there were any disabled people in the room when he said that.

Most abled people truly don't understand just how violent their language can be. Yes, even about a cat.

Language usage about disability affects all of us.

[@[email protected] @AutSciPerson]

I was sitting there with my headphones on thinking about how that cat's brain developed differently. I was thinking of the phrase "broken neurotypical." I was thinking about how I can't run and I walk slowly.

No disabled living *being* on this earth is a broken product.

6/6

[Kelsey Cameron @kelcamer]

@StopTweetingMia Good evening! It’s been a while :) hope you are well Mia!

[Kelsey Cameron @kelcamer]

@AutisticCallum_ Beautiful! 🔥

[Niko Stratis @nikostratis]

@autostraddle I hear from a lot of people who think they can't make big changes past a certain age, and I am here to tell you that is never true. Everything in the past has to be part of who we are here and now, and there is always time and space to make big pivots into new paths.

[Kelsey Cameron @kelcamer]

@AutisticCallum_ Wait....NTs don't do this?! Howwwww

[Callum Stephen (He/Him) @AutisticCallum_]

Autistic people’s spatial awareness may differ to non-autistic people’s. Some of us may have lower spatial awareness and unintentionally bump into other people, furniture and objects, but others of us may have greater spatial awareness and keep far away from people and things.

[Kelsey Cameron @kelcamer]

@gdamnitsamantha I just want to say you're so freaking beautiful 🔥 and your authenticity is admirable to see!

[@[email protected] @AutSciPerson]

Also, this is why autistic people who went through ABA don't want to share their experiences. They've already dealt with trauma and don't want to be continually gaslit about experiencing it.

You can read autistic people's experiences here - https://t.co/U9xfTQ8E79

[Callum Stephen (He/Him) @AutisticCallum_]

Autistic people are often misperceived as rude, because we tend to only give praise/credit where we feel it’s due, and don’t give (what we feel is) undeserved flattery. This can be controversial, as it’s a social custom to offer insincere praise to people *just* to win them over.

[The Tweedy Mutant @the_tweedy]

Maybe I'm trying to understand this in a fundamentally Autistic way and it's not actually that some rules can be bent while others cannot but rather that *which* rules can be bent depends on who is bending them, what their social position is, and how they go about it?

[Callum Stephen (He/Him) @AutisticCallum_]

It’s not a compliment to tell an autistic person they’re too attractive, smart, funny, considerate, likeable or “normal” to be autistic, because: a) you’re implying autistic people can’t be these things; and b) they *are* autistic, so you’re implying *they* can’t be these things.

[Kelsey Cameron @kelcamer]

This

[Callum Stephen (He/Him) @AutisticCallum_]

Society: autistic people are poor communicators.

Autistic me: *I say what I mean and I mean what I say, use precise and direct language, am transparent, share important details, use grammar/punctuation in text and script conversations so I won’t pause, stumble or miss anything*.

[Kelsey Cameron @kelcamer]

@AutSciPerson Just a heads up; that certain mushrooms can fix this 🥰

[@[email protected] @AutSciPerson]

Gene in Bob's burgers: "If there's a thing called being map blind, dad's that."

(There is and a portion of autistic people actually are, fun fact - yes I'm including myself in that statistic)

[Kelsey Cameron @kelcamer]

Absolutely true. I don’t have an eating disorder but there is so much fat phobia in this society it is ridiculous

[Sam Dylan Finch @samdylanfinch]

It takes unbelievable courage to recover from an eating disorder at all.

But it takes a special kind of conviction to do it even when the rest of society believes that you don’t deserve to eat freely, and encourages disordered behaviors under the guise of “health.”