Adelaide Tea
@adelaidetea.bsky.social
Tea lover, neurodivergent ally, watcher of politics usually with these faces 😳🥴😵💫
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
THIS
You are not a bad parent for ignoring the snake oil salesmen quacks that think you should “cure” a condition that is largely genetic.
You are not a bad parent for ignoring the snake oil salesmen quacks that think you should “cure” a condition that is largely genetic.
I've said for years that fearmongering about and around autism doesn't just hurt #ActuallyAutistic people: It hurts their parents. It leads them down rabbit holes and expensive "treatments" and if they don't spend on them, they are stigmatized as bad parents.
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This mom has three children with autism. She’s spent thousands on false hope.
With three autistic children, a Michigan mother has been lured into spending thousands on unproven and sometimes risky treatments to ease their symptoms.
wapo.st
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
THIS
You are not a bad parent for ignoring the snake oil salesmen quacks that think you should “cure” a condition that is largely genetic.
You are not a bad parent for ignoring the snake oil salesmen quacks that think you should “cure” a condition that is largely genetic.
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We love this flashback from The 2014 GRAMMYs.
Sara Bareilles & Carole King doing a Beautiful/Brave mashup.
Sara Bareilles & Carole King doing a Beautiful/Brave mashup.
October 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
We love this flashback from The 2014 GRAMMYs.
Sara Bareilles & Carole King doing a Beautiful/Brave mashup.
Sara Bareilles & Carole King doing a Beautiful/Brave mashup.
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If you liked my media hits in The New York Times, MSNBC and CNN and want to learn more about autism, I wrote a book about #Autism, #Neurodiversity and arguing we should stop trying to cure #ActuallyAutistic people and accept them. It's on sale for $15.19.
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We're Not Broken
“This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It’s also...
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September 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
If you liked my media hits in The New York Times, MSNBC and CNN and want to learn more about autism, I wrote a book about #Autism, #Neurodiversity and arguing we should stop trying to cure #ActuallyAutistic people and accept them. It's on sale for $15.19.
www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...
www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...
“The Impossible” comes to mind as I read this article. It does contain the loss of a child.
“I don’t know how long it took—ten seconds, maybe fifteen—for the house to come apart."
During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:
During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:
“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”
The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.
www.texasmonthly.com
July 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“The Impossible” comes to mind as I read this article. It does contain the loss of a child.
Gruffalo and Snail and the Whale forever
In today's @theipaper.com, I had a lovely chat with Julia Donaldson, the children's author and creator of The Gruffalo who this year became Britain's bestselling author, overtaking Dan Brown, JK Rowling and Jamie Oliver. ("It's not a race!" she told me) inews.co.uk/culture/book...
Julia Donaldson: ‘I’m reluctant to read my books to my grandchildren’
The bestselling children's author talks about learning rhyme from Judi Dench, the legacy of 'The Gruffalo' – and touring without her late husband
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April 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Gruffalo and Snail and the Whale forever
Our beloved “expeller of evil” died last week and this thread brought joy to our morning breakfast table. Here’s to all the Very Good Dogs past, present, and future.
No biggie, just an ancient equivalent of a clay photograph that shows a man walking his dog 3,800 years ago in the city of Borsippa 🥹
January 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Our beloved “expeller of evil” died last week and this thread brought joy to our morning breakfast table. Here’s to all the Very Good Dogs past, present, and future.
Eric is a solid follow for autistic information and understanding people with autism. He also wrote a book titled “We’re not Broken”, if you are interested in digging further.
Thanks so much to @steveinskeep.bsky.social and @npr.org for having me on to discuss Robert F Kennedy, vaccines and how his nomination to HHS might harm #ActuallyAutistic people www.npr.org/2024/11/29/n...
www.npr.org
November 29, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Eric is a solid follow for autistic information and understanding people with autism. He also wrote a book titled “We’re not Broken”, if you are interested in digging further.