Cléa Knight
@cleaknight.bsky.social
full time Autistic. part time music therapist. aspiring music psychologist. somewhat a writer. occasional stop motion animator.
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How many people know that most non-⚪️ cultures had at least one more gender in addition to male and female... and that norm was stamped out by 🇬🇧 invasion of these places?
India sure did. Then these backward-ass Victorians forced their primitive gender binary on us, and we haven't gotten back since.
India sure did. Then these backward-ass Victorians forced their primitive gender binary on us, and we haven't gotten back since.
White people of all genders need to reckon with this ruling and with the white invention of the gender binary. It is part of your white privilege no matter what gender you are.
#trans #lgbtq
#trans #lgbtq
Is anyone really surprised by the UK ruling?
The invented the gender binary - they were never going to give it up
The invented the gender binary - they were never going to give it up
April 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
How many people know that most non-⚪️ cultures had at least one more gender in addition to male and female... and that norm was stamped out by 🇬🇧 invasion of these places?
India sure did. Then these backward-ass Victorians forced their primitive gender binary on us, and we haven't gotten back since.
India sure did. Then these backward-ass Victorians forced their primitive gender binary on us, and we haven't gotten back since.
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regardless of today’s outcome, it is morally indefensible to have a court ruling on something that affects a population, using evidence and findings that did not consult a single member of that population.
April 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
regardless of today’s outcome, it is morally indefensible to have a court ruling on something that affects a population, using evidence and findings that did not consult a single member of that population.
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This is now peer reviewed and out in Neurodiversity - my first published PhD output!
📰 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
📰 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
April 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This is now peer reviewed and out in Neurodiversity - my first published PhD output!
📰 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
📰 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Does anyone know of any neuroaffirming psychotherapists offering face to face sessions in the Northumberland (UK) area? For a woman in her 60s undiagnosed likely autistic and ADHD, but going through treatment for breast cancer.
April 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Does anyone know of any neuroaffirming psychotherapists offering face to face sessions in the Northumberland (UK) area? For a woman in her 60s undiagnosed likely autistic and ADHD, but going through treatment for breast cancer.
i feel personally victimised by this post
A trivial social error has been greatly exacerbated by an autistic person’s unnecessary apology for it, sources have claimed.
www.patreon.com/posts/123134...
www.patreon.com/posts/123134...
March 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
i feel personally victimised by this post
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1st March 2025. Disability Day of Mourning.
Remembering the millions who die every year due to political decisions, hatred and discrimination. Never forgotten.
Today I will be remembering and then get back to fighting the open eugenics of the majority of governments, politicians and institutions.
Remembering the millions who die every year due to political decisions, hatred and discrimination. Never forgotten.
Today I will be remembering and then get back to fighting the open eugenics of the majority of governments, politicians and institutions.
March 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
1st March 2025. Disability Day of Mourning.
Remembering the millions who die every year due to political decisions, hatred and discrimination. Never forgotten.
Today I will be remembering and then get back to fighting the open eugenics of the majority of governments, politicians and institutions.
Remembering the millions who die every year due to political decisions, hatred and discrimination. Never forgotten.
Today I will be remembering and then get back to fighting the open eugenics of the majority of governments, politicians and institutions.
i’m putting together some training about working with autistic colleagues and/or autistic people in the community (e.g. for social workers, teachers etc.) - what’s the number one thing you’re tired of explaining? #askautistics
February 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
i’m putting together some training about working with autistic colleagues and/or autistic people in the community (e.g. for social workers, teachers etc.) - what’s the number one thing you’re tired of explaining? #askautistics
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😒 something for him to blame his shitty behavior on, because he said his ‘symptom’ started after a car accident 😒♾️ #autismnews #autismacceptance #autismawareness #autisticman #autistic #autism #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/f...
Kanye West announces he has been diagnosed with autism
Rapper and fashion designer says he was misdiagnosed as bipolar in podcast appearance where he also opines on the Drake-Kendrick beef and new album Bully
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
😒 something for him to blame his shitty behavior on, because he said his ‘symptom’ started after a car accident 😒♾️ #autismnews #autismacceptance #autismawareness #autisticman #autistic #autism #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/f...
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New interview-based study for autistic parents of autistic children (who realise your autism after your child's). Options include Zoom, Teams (for video, audio-only, or text-only), e-mail or face to face (drivable distance from Horsham, West Sussex). To register interest: research.sc/participant/...
February 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
New interview-based study for autistic parents of autistic children (who realise your autism after your child's). Options include Zoom, Teams (for video, audio-only, or text-only), e-mail or face to face (drivable distance from Horsham, West Sussex). To register interest: research.sc/participant/...
Read this whole thread. This is why I never give training about masking without embedding intersectional experiences. You can’t untangle and separate these experiences from one another, they are complex and nuanced and multifaceted.
1️⃣ Black experiences are constantly redirected. Every time we try to discuss how Black autistic people experience misdiagnosis, masking, or medical neglect, someone jumps in with “Well, all girls struggle with this.”
But we aren’t all struggling in the same way. Let’s talk about it. 🧵👇🏾
But we aren’t all struggling in the same way. Let’s talk about it. 🧵👇🏾
February 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Read this whole thread. This is why I never give training about masking without embedding intersectional experiences. You can’t untangle and separate these experiences from one another, they are complex and nuanced and multifaceted.
I’m watching dawson’s creek and even though I rewatch it every January, some scenes still just hit me so hard. not me sobbing at Joey asking her dad if he loves her 😭
January 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I’m watching dawson’s creek and even though I rewatch it every January, some scenes still just hit me so hard. not me sobbing at Joey asking her dad if he loves her 😭
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"Neurodivergent conditions" gives me the ick. It's creeping into everything, incl. policy. It's like NTs needed a shorthand to make their lives easier while appearing to be neuroaffirming, so they co-opted neurodivergent without any understanding of either the neurodiversity movement or paradigm.
psychiatry is trying to co-opt neurodivergent; a socio-political term by
Using it as a medical / clinical term
saying "neurodivergent conditions" or
“diagnosed as neurodivergent” when you cannot be dx’d with an identity
& reducing it to biological differences.
(Paraphrasing Sonny Jane Wise) 1/2
Using it as a medical / clinical term
saying "neurodivergent conditions" or
“diagnosed as neurodivergent” when you cannot be dx’d with an identity
& reducing it to biological differences.
(Paraphrasing Sonny Jane Wise) 1/2
Sonny Jane Wise says, “many believe psychiatrists and psychologists to be the arbitrator of what is or isn't neurodivergent
but psychiatrists and psychologists cannot be the arbitrator of a socio-political identity.” 💯
YOU are the expert on who you are.
Psych may be related but NOT in charge!
but psychiatrists and psychologists cannot be the arbitrator of a socio-political identity.” 💯
YOU are the expert on who you are.
Psych may be related but NOT in charge!
January 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
"Neurodivergent conditions" gives me the ick. It's creeping into everything, incl. policy. It's like NTs needed a shorthand to make their lives easier while appearing to be neuroaffirming, so they co-opted neurodivergent without any understanding of either the neurodiversity movement or paradigm.
I’m open to changing my mind on this, but does anyone else really hate the term ‘neurospicy’? I find it invalidating and infantilising. Anyone else?
January 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I’m open to changing my mind on this, but does anyone else really hate the term ‘neurospicy’? I find it invalidating and infantilising. Anyone else?
I have one new year’s resolution and that’s to start wordle with a different word each day rather than always using AUDIO.
January 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I have one new year’s resolution and that’s to start wordle with a different word each day rather than always using AUDIO.
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Being disabled is walking the tightrope of proving you're competent enough to matter and disabled enough to require support
December 15, 2024 at 4:21 AM
Being disabled is walking the tightrope of proving you're competent enough to matter and disabled enough to require support
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Yes, to suspire is to utter a deep sigh. It’s all about breath, as are ‘inspire’ (to breathe life into an idea/person), ‘expire’ (breathe out), ‘perspire’ (to breathe through), ‘conspire’ (to breathe together), and ‘spirit’, because the ancients believed the spirit was breathed into the body.
Is that like perspiring? so can you suspire?
November 29, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Yes, to suspire is to utter a deep sigh. It’s all about breath, as are ‘inspire’ (to breathe life into an idea/person), ‘expire’ (breathe out), ‘perspire’ (to breathe through), ‘conspire’ (to breathe together), and ‘spirit’, because the ancients believed the spirit was breathed into the body.
ok so BBC iPlayer has just put up a looooaad of old Eastenders christmas episodes dating as far back as 1986 and I am so here for it. this is the only christmas entertainment I need this december.
December 2, 2024 at 7:30 PM
ok so BBC iPlayer has just put up a looooaad of old Eastenders christmas episodes dating as far back as 1986 and I am so here for it. this is the only christmas entertainment I need this december.
hey #autsky i’m putting together a short presentation for teachers of adult french courses about autism affirming practice.
what are the top things you would want a teacher for an adult class to know for improved access and to get the most out of learning?
#actuallyautistic
what are the top things you would want a teacher for an adult class to know for improved access and to get the most out of learning?
#actuallyautistic
November 28, 2024 at 3:46 PM
hey #autsky i’m putting together a short presentation for teachers of adult french courses about autism affirming practice.
what are the top things you would want a teacher for an adult class to know for improved access and to get the most out of learning?
#actuallyautistic
what are the top things you would want a teacher for an adult class to know for improved access and to get the most out of learning?
#actuallyautistic
It would be really lovely if I could get through one non-fiction health related book without reading “and THIS is the cause of childhood autism spectrum disorders, ADD and ADHD”
November 27, 2024 at 5:27 PM
It would be really lovely if I could get through one non-fiction health related book without reading “and THIS is the cause of childhood autism spectrum disorders, ADD and ADHD”
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"Autistic people are more likely to experience abuse within a relationship than non-autistic people.
The guide, written by a team including academics and autistic advocates, is designed to help autistic people recognize the signs of abusive or unhealthy relationships."
The guide, written by a team including academics and autistic advocates, is designed to help autistic people recognize the signs of abusive or unhealthy relationships."
Autistic Guide to Healthy Relationships - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
November 26, 2024 at 12:58 AM
"Autistic people are more likely to experience abuse within a relationship than non-autistic people.
The guide, written by a team including academics and autistic advocates, is designed to help autistic people recognize the signs of abusive or unhealthy relationships."
The guide, written by a team including academics and autistic advocates, is designed to help autistic people recognize the signs of abusive or unhealthy relationships."
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Clues autism researchers may secretly be Autistic researchers:
Identity first language
Subjective research based on quality of life
Research that suggests ABA is harmful
Focus on adult quality of life
Retreating to hotel room following presentations
The number of figurines in their offices
Swagger
Identity first language
Subjective research based on quality of life
Research that suggests ABA is harmful
Focus on adult quality of life
Retreating to hotel room following presentations
The number of figurines in their offices
Swagger
November 24, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Clues autism researchers may secretly be Autistic researchers:
Identity first language
Subjective research based on quality of life
Research that suggests ABA is harmful
Focus on adult quality of life
Retreating to hotel room following presentations
The number of figurines in their offices
Swagger
Identity first language
Subjective research based on quality of life
Research that suggests ABA is harmful
Focus on adult quality of life
Retreating to hotel room following presentations
The number of figurines in their offices
Swagger
Optimist: “the cup is half full”
Pessimist: “the cup is half empty”
Autistic: “it depends if I like what’s in the cup or not”
Pessimist: “the cup is half empty”
Autistic: “it depends if I like what’s in the cup or not”
Optimist: "the cup is half full"
Pessimist: "the cup is half empty"
Conversation analyst: the action accomplished by the turn in which either phrase is formulated, its sequential position, & its accompanying embodied conduct, will determine whether I want to spend more time with you :-)
#EMCA
Pessimist: "the cup is half empty"
Conversation analyst: the action accomplished by the turn in which either phrase is formulated, its sequential position, & its accompanying embodied conduct, will determine whether I want to spend more time with you :-)
#EMCA
November 23, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Optimist: “the cup is half full”
Pessimist: “the cup is half empty”
Autistic: “it depends if I like what’s in the cup or not”
Pessimist: “the cup is half empty”
Autistic: “it depends if I like what’s in the cup or not”
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Collecting qualitative data remotely? New guidance published by the University of Warwick funded by UKRI, MRC, and NIHR publishing.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/uw...
Qualitative Remote Data Collection Guidance 2024
| University of Warwick Press
publishing.warwick.ac.uk
November 18, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Collecting qualitative data remotely? New guidance published by the University of Warwick funded by UKRI, MRC, and NIHR publishing.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/uw...