what if we had a vast, well-funded, widely-accessible network of nurses available to make home visits to provide extra care to people experiencing flare-ups without institutionalizing them?

just as if not more*

yea i totally understand that. thanks for that perspective esp since you work so closely with kids who fit those definitions more. it’s easy to forget that how we define something like autism is just based on cultural, emotional understandings like that

i think folks in favor of the medicalization of autism are scared of the ppl who “look more autistic” being left behind. capitalism and austerity create the fear of the services they need being cut bc they’re so heavily reliant on the pathologizing of autism and its cooccuring/coexisting conditions

it’s frustrating because, like, it’s SO easy to separate (but not divorce entirely) autism from its common co-occurring conditions (e.g., ID, LD, DD, etc) and thus understand what unites autistic people across the entire “spectrum”

how, then, are we supposed to have parasocial relationships with you… do explain 🙏

what if we had a vast, well-funded, widely-accessible network of nurses available to make home visits to provide extra care to people experiencing flare-ups without institutionalizing them?

nocturnal like them, too, now 🥸

like, oh i guess i’m not working on that manuscript like i had hoped i would, totally copying older academics i’ve observed to laugh about writing over the holidays as if it’s a requirement to their continued success.

really tho, my life would be so much easier rn if i had guaranteed UBI so i could just plan rest without responsibility, even just for short stretches of time. evidently i need this time to be minimally functional