Lynx Best (they/them)
@lynxbest.bsky.social
| 24 | Autistic, ADHD | Nonbinary |
| Aspiring Self-Advocate |
| B.M. Music Ed, SUNY Potsdam |
| Studying for M.S. in Special Ed. |
| Aspiring Self-Advocate |
| B.M. Music Ed, SUNY Potsdam |
| Studying for M.S. in Special Ed. |
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The Department of Energy is trying to get rid of important rules of #Section504! DOE is trying to change the rules that new buildings must be accessible to people with disabilities. The deadline to send in comments is Monday, June 16, 2025.
Learn how to take action: dredf.org/action-alert...
Learn how to take action: dredf.org/action-alert...
Tell the Department of Energy to Stop Attacking Civil Rights and Section 504 - DREDF
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
dredf.org
June 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The Department of Energy is trying to get rid of important rules of #Section504! DOE is trying to change the rules that new buildings must be accessible to people with disabilities. The deadline to send in comments is Monday, June 16, 2025.
Learn how to take action: dredf.org/action-alert...
Learn how to take action: dredf.org/action-alert...
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HELL YES, PRIDE! As we fight like demons to celebrate and protect LGBTQIA+ rights, remember that autistic people are more likely than other folks to be LGBTQIA+.
Yes, that includes autistics who are non-speaking and/or have intellectual disability.
Research says so: www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Yes, that includes autistics who are non-speaking and/or have intellectual disability.
Research says so: www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
June 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
HELL YES, PRIDE! As we fight like demons to celebrate and protect LGBTQIA+ rights, remember that autistic people are more likely than other folks to be LGBTQIA+.
Yes, that includes autistics who are non-speaking and/or have intellectual disability.
Research says so: www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Yes, that includes autistics who are non-speaking and/or have intellectual disability.
Research says so: www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
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the masked cops thing feels very jarring, it is clear and it's scary, but also the masks also feel like just the most obvious demonstration of how police are already a near-total black box into which public information disappears and that's just routine
June 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
the masked cops thing feels very jarring, it is clear and it's scary, but also the masks also feel like just the most obvious demonstration of how police are already a near-total black box into which public information disappears and that's just routine
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They are literally forcing all of Gazans into a concentration camp in what used to be Rafah in southern Gaza, after destroying it. They are now planning on annihilating Khan Younis.
There’s never been a genocide so thoroughly documented as it was live-streamed straight to our phones.
There’s never been a genocide so thoroughly documented as it was live-streamed straight to our phones.
BREAKING: The Israeli military has issued forced evacuation orders for Khan Younis, Gaza’s second-largest city, warning there will be an “unprecedented attack”.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7w6uku
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7w6uku
May 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
They are literally forcing all of Gazans into a concentration camp in what used to be Rafah in southern Gaza, after destroying it. They are now planning on annihilating Khan Younis.
There’s never been a genocide so thoroughly documented as it was live-streamed straight to our phones.
There’s never been a genocide so thoroughly documented as it was live-streamed straight to our phones.
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I'm so sick of this.
There are good people dying and people are calling them "obvious scams" with no evidence whatsoever
There are good people dying and people are calling them "obvious scams" with no evidence whatsoever
I sincerely hope this isn't about the hundreds of obvious scam GoFundMe campaigns that flood this website daily
May 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I'm so sick of this.
There are good people dying and people are calling them "obvious scams" with no evidence whatsoever
There are good people dying and people are calling them "obvious scams" with no evidence whatsoever
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we are all one bad day away from disability... and discrimination, and poverty.
accessibility and disability rights affect everyone!
accessibility and disability rights affect everyone!
reminder that even if you are the most active person ever, you can always become disabled at any moment.
May 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
we are all one bad day away from disability... and discrimination, and poverty.
accessibility and disability rights affect everyone!
accessibility and disability rights affect everyone!
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WHO IS UNDOCUMENTED IS A POLICY CHOICE
Today's action is the single largest mass-illegalization event in US history.
350,000 people woke up this morning with legal status, living and working here with official permission. They'll go to bed as undocumented immigrants facing deportation.
350,000 people woke up this morning with legal status, living and working here with official permission. They'll go to bed as undocumented immigrants facing deportation.
BREAKING: SCOTUS allows DHS to reinstate Sec. Kristi Noem's order ending Temporary Protected Status for many Venezuelans, but notes the decision does not address challenges to actions "purport[ing] to invalidate" related legal status, work authorization documents, etc., previously granted under TPS.
May 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
WHO IS UNDOCUMENTED IS A POLICY CHOICE
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Check out these "Know Your Rights Guides for Transgender and Non-Binary Workers" from Transgender Law Center and A Better Balance: www.abetterbalance.org/resources/gu...
Know Your Rights Guides for Transgender and Non-Binary Workers (A Better Balance x Transgender Law Center) - A Better Balance
These guides, created in collaboration with Transgender Law Center, are designed to support transgender and non-binary workers in knowing and exercising your
www.abetterbalance.org
May 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Check out these "Know Your Rights Guides for Transgender and Non-Binary Workers" from Transgender Law Center and A Better Balance: www.abetterbalance.org/resources/gu...
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Columbia's Mohsen Mahdawi, fresh out of U.S. detention, walks the graduation stage https://gothamist.com/news/columbias-mohsen-mahdawi-fresh-out-of-us-detention-walks-the-graduation-stage
Columbia's Mohsen Mahdawi, fresh out of U.S. detention, walks the graduation stage
Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, 34, participated in graduation ceremonies Monday for the School of General Studies at Columbia University in Manhattan.
He spent more than two weeks in federal detention before a federal judge ordered his release. [ more › ]
gothamist.com
May 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Columbia's Mohsen Mahdawi, fresh out of U.S. detention, walks the graduation stage https://gothamist.com/news/columbias-mohsen-mahdawi-fresh-out-of-us-detention-walks-the-graduation-stage
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Following public false claims on autism causation and attacks on science, INSAR has released a statement that people are “born with autism”
www.autism-insar.org/page/insarst.... Autism as innate and lifelong is the focus my new free paper (long thread incoming): www.frontiersin.org/journals/int...
www.autism-insar.org/page/insarst.... Autism as innate and lifelong is the focus my new free paper (long thread incoming): www.frontiersin.org/journals/int...
April 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Following public false claims on autism causation and attacks on science, INSAR has released a statement that people are “born with autism”
www.autism-insar.org/page/insarst.... Autism as innate and lifelong is the focus my new free paper (long thread incoming): www.frontiersin.org/journals/int...
www.autism-insar.org/page/insarst.... Autism as innate and lifelong is the focus my new free paper (long thread incoming): www.frontiersin.org/journals/int...
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On autistic stimming: "I can’t describe how exactly stimming feels but I can describe what it feels like to not be able to stim. Holding still makes my skin crawl and makes me feel like there’s lead in my bones. It’s unnatural to me." From Donnie TC Denome:
tsl.news/opinion-loud... #neurodiversity
tsl.news/opinion-loud... #neurodiversity
OPINION: Loud hands are proud hands: The joy, freedom, and pain of stimming - The Student Life
CW: Anti-autistic ableism and mentions of self-harm There’s a beauty in my hands moving in front of me: short, jerking motions that remind me of my brief foray into conducting music in middle school b...
tsl.news
April 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
On autistic stimming: "I can’t describe how exactly stimming feels but I can describe what it feels like to not be able to stim. Holding still makes my skin crawl and makes me feel like there’s lead in my bones. It’s unnatural to me." From Donnie TC Denome:
tsl.news/opinion-loud... #neurodiversity
tsl.news/opinion-loud... #neurodiversity
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"Autism doesn't excuse you from bad behavior"
No one's saying it does. The problem is that people seem to think 95% of autistic behavior is bad even when it's not. We can't do anything without being criticized. All we're asking is that you stop vilifying us for existing. 😫
No one's saying it does. The problem is that people seem to think 95% of autistic behavior is bad even when it's not. We can't do anything without being criticized. All we're asking is that you stop vilifying us for existing. 😫
April 24, 2025 at 2:42 AM
"Autism doesn't excuse you from bad behavior"
No one's saying it does. The problem is that people seem to think 95% of autistic behavior is bad even when it's not. We can't do anything without being criticized. All we're asking is that you stop vilifying us for existing. 😫
No one's saying it does. The problem is that people seem to think 95% of autistic behavior is bad even when it's not. We can't do anything without being criticized. All we're asking is that you stop vilifying us for existing. 😫
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You have a right to protect yourself from illness. Fuck Starbucks.
🧵Confirmation via a friend: Starbucks will forbid employees from masking without a medical note.
Giant US-based MAGAcorp known for union-busting, actively preventing workers from protecting themselves and the public from known workplace health hazards?
Starbucks wants you infected.
👉 #Sickbucks 👈
Giant US-based MAGAcorp known for union-busting, actively preventing workers from protecting themselves and the public from known workplace health hazards?
Starbucks wants you infected.
👉 #Sickbucks 👈
April 24, 2025 at 4:38 AM
You have a right to protect yourself from illness. Fuck Starbucks.
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Apparently RFK is trying to walk back his bullshit comments by saying he doesn't mean autistics like *me* are bad and awful and need to be irradicated; no, he just wants to get rid of the "low functioning" autistics and let me just say FUCK THAT
I'm not more worthy of existing than autistics who 1/
I'm not more worthy of existing than autistics who 1/
April 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Apparently RFK is trying to walk back his bullshit comments by saying he doesn't mean autistics like *me* are bad and awful and need to be irradicated; no, he just wants to get rid of the "low functioning" autistics and let me just say FUCK THAT
I'm not more worthy of existing than autistics who 1/
I'm not more worthy of existing than autistics who 1/
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I'm also seeing increased "my kid's not autistic because nothing is wrong with them"
and nothing is wrong with your kid. your kid is autistic and nothing is wrong with them.
but denying someone is autistic isn't making it easier for someone.
not always a thing to share. but not a thing to deny.
and nothing is wrong with your kid. your kid is autistic and nothing is wrong with them.
but denying someone is autistic isn't making it easier for someone.
not always a thing to share. but not a thing to deny.
April 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I'm also seeing increased "my kid's not autistic because nothing is wrong with them"
and nothing is wrong with your kid. your kid is autistic and nothing is wrong with them.
but denying someone is autistic isn't making it easier for someone.
not always a thing to share. but not a thing to deny.
and nothing is wrong with your kid. your kid is autistic and nothing is wrong with them.
but denying someone is autistic isn't making it easier for someone.
not always a thing to share. but not a thing to deny.
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Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?
April 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?
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Feeling like shit after RFK jr’s speech as someone who can’t work due to disability. Not because I value anything he says but so many ppl are rushing to the defense of autistic ppl who can work. Humans are valuable even when they don’t contribute to society. We shouldn’t have to earn our way to live
April 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Feeling like shit after RFK jr’s speech as someone who can’t work due to disability. Not because I value anything he says but so many ppl are rushing to the defense of autistic ppl who can work. Humans are valuable even when they don’t contribute to society. We shouldn’t have to earn our way to live
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you know what would drop the number of assaults of ICE agents to zero? abolishing ICE.
“Our ICE officers are facing 300% increase in assaults while carrying out enforcement operations.”
April 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
you know what would drop the number of assaults of ICE agents to zero? abolishing ICE.
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Disabled/neurodivergent people are worthy of living regardless of whether they have a job or pay taxes or not.
April 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Disabled/neurodivergent people are worthy of living regardless of whether they have a job or pay taxes or not.
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"Even if [autistics] never created a single piece of art or simply existed, their life would not be a tragedy. There would still be joy. Not because autistic people are naturally angelic, but bc they are human beings with inherent value." @ericmgarcia.bsky.social:
uk.news.yahoo.com/rfk-jr-calls...
uk.news.yahoo.com/rfk-jr-calls...
RFK Jr calls autism an ‘epidemic’ and a tragedy. As an autistic journalist, I have some comments
ANALYSIS: ANALYSIS: Health Secretary wilfully misreads data that should be celebrated, not feared, writes Eric Garcia
uk.news.yahoo.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"Even if [autistics] never created a single piece of art or simply existed, their life would not be a tragedy. There would still be joy. Not because autistic people are naturally angelic, but bc they are human beings with inherent value." @ericmgarcia.bsky.social:
uk.news.yahoo.com/rfk-jr-calls...
uk.news.yahoo.com/rfk-jr-calls...
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Today in (CHEERFUL) autism books: Flap Your Hands by @steveasbell.com, who "wrote and illustrated this book to celebrate & support kids who might stim themselves, but also to share the joy of repetitive self regulation with parents, teachers, caregivers & peers."
www.steveasbell.com#/flap-your-h...
www.steveasbell.com#/flap-your-h...
April 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Today in (CHEERFUL) autism books: Flap Your Hands by @steveasbell.com, who "wrote and illustrated this book to celebrate & support kids who might stim themselves, but also to share the joy of repetitive self regulation with parents, teachers, caregivers & peers."
www.steveasbell.com#/flap-your-h...
www.steveasbell.com#/flap-your-h...
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The world: Autism is a spectrum
Also the world: Everyone's a little autistic
Also the world: Autism is an illness that makes people incapable of doing anything, at all, ever
🤦♀️🙄🤦♀️
Also the world: Everyone's a little autistic
Also the world: Autism is an illness that makes people incapable of doing anything, at all, ever
🤦♀️🙄🤦♀️
April 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
The world: Autism is a spectrum
Also the world: Everyone's a little autistic
Also the world: Autism is an illness that makes people incapable of doing anything, at all, ever
🤦♀️🙄🤦♀️
Also the world: Everyone's a little autistic
Also the world: Autism is an illness that makes people incapable of doing anything, at all, ever
🤦♀️🙄🤦♀️
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When your position on autism is so ignorant, extreme, and evil that it somehow manages even to piss off the people who have made hating their autistic children into their entire personality, brother, you have fucked up.
April 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
When your position on autism is so ignorant, extreme, and evil that it somehow manages even to piss off the people who have made hating their autistic children into their entire personality, brother, you have fucked up.
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Left untreated, autism can cause dangerously antisocial behavior including dumping bears in Central Park, mulching animals in a blender, fondling babysitters, and injecting massive amounts of heroin.
by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
April 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Left untreated, autism can cause dangerously antisocial behavior including dumping bears in Central Park, mulching animals in a blender, fondling babysitters, and injecting massive amounts of heroin.
by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.