Tango🦇

philosopher, alchemist, Self coach || 🔗⬇️ for autistic community

[Tango🦇 @tangofaebatelli]

@mykola I got really nervous abt not being in agreement with you but wanting to answer honestly, and I ended up in ‘trailing off brain fog land’.

Which is conditioning from trauma, funnily enough. 😅

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@mykola also experience. I definitely want more aut folks to realize their struggles are more trauma related than autism related. Nervous system regulation is the kind of healing I hope for all of us.

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@autienelle As someone who used to be way more PDA before doing nervous system regulation work, I believe the behavior is a natural coping mechanism for chronically dysregulated/overwhelmed folks.

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@EvanAKilgore Oh my, I just noticed the “RT to save a life” and 🤢🤢🤢🤮

Plz take your rescuer energy and turn it back on yourself. 🪞

[Tango🦇 @tangofaebatelli]

@EvanAKilgore Did you read what you linked? This is junk science. They just found 2 things present together. That’s the loosest form of correlation. Plus there’s a more rigorous explanation: autistic moms have autistic babies and are more like to experience joint pain. Wow, mystery solved.

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@prntgdcolonized Honestly, the more space & opportunity we get to communicate in ways that feel comfortable, the more likely we are to come around to speech, if that’s *in the stars* for us at all (so to speak😜).

Thank you for this thread. 🥰

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@visakanv Makes me think: fault -> blame game -> victim triangle, which is the hot potato game of avoiding self-responsibility aaaand it’s usually culturally reinforced. We live in age where the fault frame is more positively reinforced than are ability to respond and solve problems.

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@hannamashima I use it bc I’m always hitting the character limit. But now that you ask…idk where it comes from. 😂 My guess is it’s related to prescriptions being shortened to Rx…which I also don’t know the history of either 🧐😅

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@Aella_Girl Well these are mostly conditioned traits so

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@hannamashima The 2 main controversies I know of: 1) professionals not actually knowing enough to diagnose adults w autism, and 2) ppl facing discrimination bc of the official label. It’s not like there’s support that a dx helps us access, so many of us, like myself, will not be seeking a dx.

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@hannamashima Idk the difference between ‘self-dx’ and ‘not getting dx’ in this context 🧐

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@Aella_Girl Welcome to the fractal hologram 🤪

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@autistic_elii I used to be someone who had frequent shutdown and occasional meltdowns, up until my late 20s. But learning my nervous system cues & maintaining boundaries around them has led to having neither in well over a year. 🥹🥰

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@dudeimreading @AutSciPerson How incredibly empathetic of them 🙃🙃🙃

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Pete Buttigieg runs the agency that is literally the regulator of the railroads. He has the power to just ignore the protests of lobbyists & enact better safety rules. Him publicly begging rail CEOs to stop being mean is designed to pretend he can’t do anything, even tho he can.

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@thompoclaire The promotional video of before & after kids made me nauseous. Happy kids to shutdown kids. 🥺🤢

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@ChrisAlvino It’s almost like this rhetorical approach holds up the very profitable American medical system… 🧐

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@autselfadvocacy Glad to see sophistry so alive and well 😑

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Tell me you’re weaponizing a group of ppl you don’t understand in order to continue harming another group of ppl you don’t understand without telling me…

What disgusting way to wield #ActuallyAutistic folks against other groups of ppl also in need of the basic right of housing.

[Autistic Self Advocacy Network @autselfadvocacy]

Affordable housing for adults with I/DD is vital; segregated institutions are not a solution. This plan isn’t intended to support people with I/DD. It’s a loophole to keep BIPOC, low-income people, and other disabled people out of affluent neighborhoods. https://t.co/QIF6y0lwez