Being surrounded by neurotypical people all my life, then finding the neurodiversity and autistic culture movements online and finding other @autistics like me, is like finally being given the guidebook on how to guide my manual car when I’ve been reading the guidebook for automatic cars all my life and struggling. 

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Currently rebinging Bones & still love how she so perfectly & subtly demonstrates many autistic features. This is what autistic characters can look like; intelligent, confident, focused, dedicated & complex.

"Emily Deschanel told Entertainment Weekly that if Bones had been on cable instead of a major network, her character would have likely been diagnosed.

"If it was a cable show, she would have had Asperger's," Deschanel said. "I've heard from younger people who are on the spectrum or have Asperger's themselves that they loved seeing a character who was not dissimilar from them portrayed on television, so that makes me happy to represent that. I know we weren't truly representing someone with Asperger's exactly, but there are qualities that Brennan has."

Read More: https://www.looper.com/370268/the-bones-fan-theory-that-was-confirmed-about-brennan/

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Dear fellow neurodivergent peeps / @actuallyautistic , I'd like to look deeper into #autisticculture - I'd love your input.

If you can recommend any books / art / music by Autistic people, I'd love to hear about it.

If there already is a resource for Autistic culture, I'd love to know about it. If there isn't one, I'll consolidate what I find here & elsewhere on my website / blog.

Please share, comment, link - I want to learn! #ActuallyAutistc

I've been focussing lately on Autistic Culture and what could constitute it. I know many of us still know autism through the medical lense/culture, but we are much more! And we must learn about it, because if we don't, others will appropriate what's ours and use it against us, as many ABA and EMDR therapists are already doing.

There are many examples I can think of from the top of my head as to what could be autistic culture, like stimming, comfortable clothes, noise-canceling phones, taking your time to answer to instant messages (and knowing that this time is ok), alternative ways of communication, fidget or stim toys, dinosaur hands (and the corresponding dinosaur emoji🦖), the golden infinity symbol  , safe foods and safe spaces, etc... But I want to know more from everyone here! Can you help me?

What do you personally consider to be Autistic Culture? Is there anything you personally do related to that? And how is it?

Also, what do you see other autistic people do that you could consider to be Autistic Culture? And why is that?

Also, if you could use the hashtag #ThisIsAutisticCulture it could help me to find your ideas and perhaps we can start understanding that autism is not a disease or a disorder, but a valid social identity with our own shared culture and values! I'll try to add to this toot-line/thread all the other ideas and toots I can find about it!

Thanks!!

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