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Autism

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A community for respectful discussion and memes related to autism acceptance. All neurotypes are welcome.

We have created our own instance! Visit Autism Place the following community for more info.

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  • Acceptance
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  • Understanding
  • Equality
  • Reciprocity
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  8. Do not promote Autism Speaks.
  9. General Lemmy World rules.

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  2. Funny memes.
  3. Respectful venting.
  4. Describe posts of pictures/memes using text in the body for our visually impaired users.
  5. Welcoming and accepting attitudes.
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If someone thinks that autists have trouble communicating, they just need to see us talk to each other!

(Also, I often identified as an alien as a kid.)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I remember being called an alien before. XP

What a weird thing to say to someone...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I embrace it, in context of the cosmos aren’t we all creatures of space molded from the infinite potential of dna?

Some people just don't care to develop a sense of self awareness on such scale. Their loss.