Double empathy

“Imagine being on holiday somewhere and you don’t speak the local language.

You go out for dinner and make no attempt to order your food using the language written on the menu or the language spoken by the server.You expect the server to speak your language.

Being the server in that restaurant is what it feels like to be autistic communicating with someone who is non-autistic.”

Catherine Asta

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Non-speaking doesn’t mean non-listening

"I believe that there should be no divide seen between autistic people who speak, those who do not speak, those who use AAC all the time or part-time, and those who speak part-time.

There can be an incorrect assumption that an adult who cannot speak also cannot listen, think, or engage."

Niamh Garvey

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Stimming for joy

“As parents of autistic children, it’s our job to educate society on what stimming looks like for our children and the importance of allowing autistic individuals to freely stim."

Adriece Al-Rifai

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Neurodivergence as neutral

"While the Pathology Paradigm implies that disorder is inherently negative, the Neurodiversity Paradigm is implying that neurodivergence is neutral…

At the end of the day, we all have fundamental needs; it’s just that some needs have been normalized while other needs have been framed as unreasonable or unnatural."

Sonny Jane Wise

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