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DJW 👋🏽💪🏾✌🏿 @Autastic
@autastic.com
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Championing adult-identified & BIPoC autistic life.
Your OG Autistic Auntie dropping unsolicited knowledge.
#AuDHD #Autizzy #AutisticWhileBlack ✊🏽♿☮️
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3 activities to try when you're recovering from Chronic #AutisticBurnout. Free to subscribers of The Reframe from Autastic thanks to patrons who want us to have nice things 🎁

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#AutisticBIPOC #Autism
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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There's a new listing on The Gold Book! Anyone can add any service worldwide that they've found to be accommodating and respectful. Just click "+Add Listing". We're doing this for ourselves 💪

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November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Today on The Reframe from Autastic, Part 3 of the mini-series on emerging from Chronic #Autistic #Burnout. Boost your recovery plan with this reframe created with love for #autisticBIPOC.

Free to all thanks to patrons & subscribers 🙏🏽

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November 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Gifting season is here and a girl's gotta fund her life's work somehow. I've curated The 2025 Autastic Holiday Gift Guide to bring joy & ease. Like these cozy logo beanies, a stealth way to show your #AutisticPride.

http://bit.ly/2025Au...

#autism #autistic #holiday2025
November 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Out here on a Saturday living my Mrs. Roper realness fantasy. Omg. So happy.
October 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Join a virtual #BodyDoubling session tonite:
7:30ET / 4:30PT.
Open to all #adult-identified #AutisticBIPOC.
Free on Google Meet.

RSVP and link with free community signup:
bit.ly/AutasticBIPOC...

#Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticPOC
#autizzy #LateIdentifiedAutistic
Virtual #BodyDoubling. 7:30ET / 4:30PT Fri October 17th. Free on Google Meet. RSVP and link with free community signup. bit.ly/AutasticBIPOCMembership. The Autastic Community. BIPOC Membership.
October 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Social media too fast? Come connect on #AutisticTime in The Autastic Community. Our Black Members' Circle is held exclusively for all adult-identified members of the African Diaspora.
It's free. It's small. It can be yours.
#AutisticWhileBlack
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October 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I bet you're exhausted reading this right now. If you are and if you're #autistic, this is for you.

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#ActuallyAutistic #Autism
#AutisticWhileBlack #AutisticAndIndigenous #AutisticAAPI #AutisticSWANA #AutisticLatine #AutisticBIPoC #AutisticPOC
October 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Sat Oct 18th • Thomas Wiggins: Composing the Future, my episode of PBS' Renegades, is part of Superfest Disability Film Festival (in SF+virtual).

Your OG Autistic Auntie is so proud to bring Wiggins' #AutisticWhileBlack story to the world.

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#ActuallyAutistic
Superfest Disability Film Festival. Sat Oct 18th. Live in San Francisco & Virtual
October 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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🍂Ooh! The new fall Berry colour is on sale for $75 from $170!

Getting a Comfrt weighted hoodie? Get it from Autastic and support our autistic BIPOC members and moderators!

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#ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Autistic #AutisticBIPOC #AutisticPOC
October 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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It's Gabriel Byrne and someone took Judy Parfitt's hand out???

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Judy Parfitt and Gabriel Byrne in Diamond Skulls. A white woman with an auburn updo rests her hand on a white man's shoulder. He looks sullen. Both are in formal dress.
October 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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The Reframe from Autastic is out today! Our new Substack will deliver articles on autistic BIPOC life to your inbox from time to time #ByUsForUs 💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿

#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticWhileBlack #AutisticAndIndigenous #AutisticAAPI #AutisticSWANA #AutisticLatine #AutisticBIPOC
October 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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In case this spreads further.
Recent searches suggest that reports of a Florida autism therapy camp, or similar institution, harassing parents are misinformation. There have been recent arrests in Florida concerning child abuse, as well as multiple cases of abuse at autism therapy centers and camps, but no recent, verified reports connect these issues with parents being harassed or arrested. Misinformation regarding harassing parents In September 2025, an Instagram post falsely claimed that the CDC and Child Protective Services (CPS) were threatening to arrest Florida parents of children with special needs if they did not enroll them in a mandatory autism therapy camp. The post linked this fabricated story to a non-existent executive order signed by former President Donald Trump. The post also misleadingly used inflammatory rhetoric comparing the situation to historical atrocities.
September 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Join us in a cozy, low-pressure space to share your art and be in community with other #QTIBIPOC.

This is a gentle space to bring work-in-progress or just come to listen, witness, and recharge.

No need to have something polished or to perform.

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD

September 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Y'know how from time to time you might say to yourself, self? Am I really autistic tho'? And the screeners say ya b!tch. You is. DEEEEEEPLY #autistic. How-could-you-not-have-had-a-clue-for-forty-years autistic. Are-you-kidding-me autistic.

Hi.

#AutisticWhileBlack #AuDHD
August 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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I bring a labour of love from Autastic Community members for YOU! The #GOLDBOOK is a crowd-maintained directory of #neurodivergent-friendly shops & services worldwide🌍

You (yes you) can add businesses that did you right so others may benefit

Check it at www.goldbook.guide
July 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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📣 We have our very own virtual assistant!

Try it to navigate social situations, work, burnout recovery, or just to make sense of this world.

#AutasticGPT was created by me for us.
May it bring ease to your life.

bit.ly/AutasticGPT

#Autistic #Autism #ActuallyAutistic
AUTASTIC GPT workmark on a circle of teal grass. Text: AI JUST FOR US Need real every day support? Autastic's FREE Al assistant was created by and for #AutisticBIPOC. Try it out. Experience the difference. Link: bit.ly/AutasticGPT
July 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Don’t even think of trying to “thrive” without a full team in place. Gotta keep that multi-billion dollar autism industry complex rolling.
Taking care of yourself is equally key. Parents of children with autism who build a support network experience less stress and better well-being. With the right medical professionals, educators, and ther-apists, as well as close and reliable friends and family, your child and your family can thrive.
July 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Uh oh. I feel a 🧵coming on. It’s how I cope while reviewing media about us. Lemme just leave this here for now.
If you haven't already done it, and your child is younger than 3, contact your state's early intervention program for free services. For older children, "request a school-based assessment to help determine whether your child needs an Individualized Education Program [IEP] or special services," says Papazyan. While public schools provide these ser-vices, private schools may not. Toolan recommends Autism Speaks' free online 100 Days Kit. Your child's intervention plan should combine multiple approaches: behavioral therapies like applied behavior analysis (ABA), developmental services like speech and occupational therapy, and educational supports. "Wait lists for services like ABA can be really long," notes Toolan. Her advice: Contact behavioral intervention providers while working with your school or early intervention program to avoid losing valuable time.
July 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Let's hear it for @MorenikeGO representing in the newest special edition of Time on #autism. #AutisticWhileBlack #AutisticBIPOC #ActuallyAutistic

Borrow from your library or support Autastic with your purchase👇🏽

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Two Time Magazine covers, both autism special editions, one from 2022 and one from 2025. 2022 features a young, white boy gesturing atypically. 2025 is an illustration of a head with a lit-up interconnected web representing the brain.
July 20, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Shout out to the #ActuallyAutistic Black men out there hiding in plain sight. When it comes to being #Autistic, Black men are forced to remain utterly invisible. As are Black gender-expansive folx.
You all know why.

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A young Black man wearing glasses and a pinstriped suit looks up at the camera from a crowd of non-Black people in suits.
July 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Representative & relatable portrayal of #autism is getting better but still, so rare. I have another opportunity to share your collected input with a major broadcaster. Help me do this for us. Comment with #Win and #Fail👇🏽
#AskingAutistics

Need a list?
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Text: Representation. Pass. Fail. Comment with TV, film, & ads that got autism right...and the ones that didn't. Logo: Autastic wordmark. Image: White hand pointing a remote at a television on a bench with potted plants on either side. "Autism" is on the TV in a Netflix-styled wordmark.
July 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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🌡️ bit.ly/ChillBabyChill

#ActuallyAutistic #HeatWave
The Jordan Peele Sweating meme. Text: Cool off. Temperature regulation gear. URL: bit.ly/ChillBabyChill. Logo: The Autastic wordmark.
June 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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When #ActuallyAutistic & #AuDHD nervous systems are overloaded and in distress, our clever brains divert resources away from executive functions such as planning, organizing & prioritizing. Having trouble "pushing through"? That's a sign you really need to stop trying.
#Rest #Reset
June 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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TJ @TheBlackAutist names the double bind #AutisticWhileBlack people face: “too much” or “not enough” to belong--which is one reason he’s in my upcoming book. When your full self doesn’t fit anywhere, THE PROBLEM ISN'T YOU.
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#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Autizzy
A kraft paper notecard: "I am too autistic to fit in with the parts of the black community...I am too Black to fit in the autistic community. -- Timotheus Gordon Jr. "“Black and Autistic in Neo-Nationalist America,” Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture (2025)" Logo: The Autastic wordmark.
June 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM