Update

Will share image tomorrow. Tablet wont connect to internet rn fml. But made progress

But legit if I'm not in bed yet, they'll sleep higher up. The moment I get in bed which isn't far from their cage, they go to the perch closest to me where they can see me and cuddle up together

And in the morning they beak grind at me when I wake up or wake them up by saying good morning

Just still are slowly but surely figuring out if my hands are actually so scary lol

Touch training is going well and step up trainings a work in progress but is going well!

They both have nibbled my fingers curiously without treats being nearby

#birbdiaries

Thank you!

...allistic presenting just to be accepted and talked kindly of

We're not flawed. We're just different. Different isn't bad. And needing some accomodations also isn't bad. It's necessary. Just like accomodating anyone with any disabling things is the right thing to do

Rant over

..possible

We aren't really asking for that much

But as with all things that are disabling, we are demonised. We are described as a burden. Our struggles are squished down, and people scream about the struggles of enduring us. As if we're the worst thing

Telling us we're flawed and need to be..

We didn't ask to be used the scapegoat to why your life is so bad and so hard

However hard it is for you, it's a million times harder for us. We live the sensory and social hell. We endure a world that fights us every step of the way

We just need you to listen. To accept us, & accommodate where..

..us and act as if we're the bain of your existence

We didn't ask for endless sensory hell. For a world that is too sensory nasty and inconsiderate of our needs

We didn't ask for people to misread into everything by a thousand into things we say in a straight forward and literal manner

Autistic selves

Fuck autism speaks, and screw those who endorse ABA.

And if you're someone who does want to reply to this before researching and hearing out the autistics who have PTSD because of ABA... Screw you to! I don't care who you think you are. Listen to our community before defending ABA.

.. autistics". No. It's not. It's not a way for autistics to live or be "helped". It's a way for us to be traumatised and further believe we are inherently flawed and need to present as non autistic to not be abused.

It's abuse. End of. It's teaching us we're only good if we conform and hide our

I see it time and time again.

"I do it, it's ethical now". Fun fact, it's never been ethical

"My kids fine after it and is doing better". No, your kid is likely masking and pretending like they've been conditioned into doing. Come speak to me when they're an adult

"It's the only way for..

We all (aside from some of the super far right bellends) seem to know that gay conversion therapy is wrong.

So why the fuck are we trying to reach so far into are asses to convince ourselves and others that ABA autistic conversion "therapy" isn't also horrific and endless abuse?

Do not condone ABA

We don't need to be converted. We just need acceptance.

If anyone tries doing the whole "autism speaks is good" or "ABA has never been abusive and is necessary for autistics", you'll be muted. I'm done with people talking over autistics on this one

Nothing bout us without us!

Autistic.

And certainly, don't speak over autistic voices. Not when you're subscribed to the same playbook as autism speaks. The proven hate group that wants to rid the world of autistics entirely and demonise us.

Supporting ABA is condoning the abuse on autistics that has happened for ages

For being autistic, and only rewarded for presenting as non autistic and squishing all their pain and sensory hell deep down where it continues to cause intense distress.

You can't just bully autism out of us. Learn to live with us, support us, even love us.

Stop trying to convert us to be non

Autistics do not need to become "normal". We are fine the way we are. We do however need accomodations, support and understanding.

ABA is the opposite of this.

"But I practice ABA and it's not that bad"
Well, enjoy saying that and kidding yourself. ABA therapy is abuse

Autistics are punished