Tracy
@holisticautistic.bsky.social
AuDHD Canadian. Fledgling mental health, disability, and autism advocate. @mrs_smashysmash on X.
https://holisticautistic.ca
https://holisticautistic.ca
Great comic, and still very relevant to challenges with #ADHD, #Autism, and especially difficult to experience when engaging #psychiatry
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No, We Won't Calm Down – Tone Policing Is Just Another Way to Protect Privilege - Everyday Feminism
“Calm down so we can discuss this like adults.” Ever said something like this in a conversation on oppression? Tone policing is no way to get justice, and this comic will help you understand exactly w...
everydayfeminism.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Great comic, and still very relevant to challenges with #ADHD, #Autism, and especially difficult to experience when engaging #psychiatry
everydayfeminism.com/2015/12/tone...
everydayfeminism.com/2015/12/tone...
I've been feeling more lost lately. It's hard to recover when injury isn't acknowledged. And when said injury leads to isolation, it's a dark place.
October 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I've been feeling more lost lately. It's hard to recover when injury isn't acknowledged. And when said injury leads to isolation, it's a dark place.
Thank you @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social for naming a road I never knew I walked.
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When the Words Don’t Land: Hyperlexia, Gestalt Language Processing, and the Long Road to Meaning
Reframing hyperlexia as a gestalt pathway—beyond deficit narratives, toward mentorship, patience, and the delayed flood of meaning.
autside.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Thank you @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social for naming a road I never knew I walked.
autside.substack.com/p/when-the-w...
autside.substack.com/p/when-the-w...
I lost a lot of my support circle earlier this year... this happened over a period of time where I was suffering mental distress/ongoing trauma, much of which I have little to no recollection. I wrote about it recently: holisticautistic.ca/2025/10/04/c...
Crazy
I have gone crazy a few times now. Manic episode, psychotic break, mental breakdown, whatever the term, I can’t deny it. I’ll refer to them as “episodes”. My awesome neurops…
holisticautistic.ca
October 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I lost a lot of my support circle earlier this year... this happened over a period of time where I was suffering mental distress/ongoing trauma, much of which I have little to no recollection. I wrote about it recently: holisticautistic.ca/2025/10/04/c...
Reposted by Tracy
A critique of “consensus” in autism research—how inclusion becomes performance, power remains untouched, and cure rhetoric persists. Yet amid it all, autistic-led scholarship rises—quiet, defiant, building truth brick by brick
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Consensus Without Consent: The Myth of Democracy in Autism Research
On the illusion of democracy in autism research—and the quiet, stubborn work of autistic scholars reclaiming the right to define our own existence.
open.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
A critique of “consensus” in autism research—how inclusion becomes performance, power remains untouched, and cure rhetoric persists. Yet amid it all, autistic-led scholarship rises—quiet, defiant, building truth brick by brick
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
I was incredibly honoured last year to have my creative storytelling featured in a magazine published by the University of Toronto's Centre for Advancing Collaborative Health Education. I was going to use another work, initially, but instead opted to use one I'd made for @jonathanconp.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I was incredibly honoured last year to have my creative storytelling featured in a magazine published by the University of Toronto's Centre for Advancing Collaborative Health Education. I was going to use another work, initially, but instead opted to use one I'd made for @jonathanconp.bsky.social
This feels like a good start. I'd hate to think what PTSD Cat would look like... 😅
October 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This feels like a good start. I'd hate to think what PTSD Cat would look like... 😅