Mastodawn

@pathfinder @autistics And the "could be" is critical. It's only "could be", not "necessarily is".

I hope you're right. But if so, it means that the straightforward, stark contrast between #tantrums and #meltdowns is a gross oversimplification — that many, perhaps most, neurotypical tantrums are much more similar to autistic meltdowns than they're being given credit for.

To me, the stereotyping of neurotypical tantrums as manipulative is almost a mirror image of the stereotyping of autistic communication difficulties as "mindblindness". I do believe it's important to secure more tolerance for meltdowns, but it shouldn't be done by caricaturing their neurotypical counterparts. Maybe ordinary tantrums deserve, at least in many cases, more tolerance than they get. The manipulative worst case shouldn't be assumed as a default, even for neurotypicals.

Douglas Edwards

May 8

I keep seeing the emphatic claim that "Meltdowns are not tantrums", with the supporting argument that #meltdowns are not voluntary or manipulative.

The bizarre part to me is this—

—so you're saying that ordinary neurotypical #tantrums ARE voluntary and manipulative? That whenever a neurotypical kid throws a fit, they're doing it calculatedly and for effect??

That possibility would never have crossed my mind in a million years.

Admittedly, in addition to being autistic, I'm an only child and I have no children of my own. But still, it takes my breath away to think that neurotypical kids would be so cold and reptilian. That even their furious angry outbursts can't be taken at face value, as honest expressions of their feelings.

And neurotypicals compare US to robots and chimpanzees!

Can the world really be like this?

@autistics

Neurodivergent BC

Apr 3

Can we please centre #autistic #self-advocates this month instead of parents of autistic children? I don’t want to see parents posting inspiro porn like filming #meltdowns without consent. Plus let’s also hear directly from #autisticadults about their first hand experiences with the support they received both now and growing up on how #allistics can do better.

SoniaMRompoti Dec 28

Not every meltdown is a tantrum. Sometimes it’s a nervous system in overload, not a child pushing limits. This is a calm, honest look at what’s really happening—and how understanding it changes everything.
#AutismParenting #Meltdowns #Neurodiversity #ParentingWithCompassion

http://soniamrompoti.com/2025/12/28/meltdowns-vs-tantrums/

Meltdowns vs Tantrums

Sonia M. Rompoti, MSc, bsc

🐦‍🔥nemo™🐦‍⬛ 🇺🇦🍉Oct 9, 2025

#REPORT: #Hegseth Is Having "#Manic" #Meltdowns #tyt #yt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35SBG18fwxc

#Karma 💚
#beardo

Pete Hegseth Might Be Completely Losing It…

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PaulaToThePeople 😷Aug 22, 2025

Kids, puppies, kitten, calves, foals - all animals that live with humans should at a young age experience stimming, meltdowns, different gaits, mobility devices and such as normal parts of society. Which. They. Are.

#habituation #stimming #meltdowns #NeuroDiversity #disability #diversity #normativity #education #pedagogy

ABDELAZIZ Aug 19, 2025

Cue Fultishing Meltdowns: Leftists Freak Out Lamar Jackson’s retweeting Charlie Kirk star-news.press/wp

,Cue Fultishing Meltdowns: Leftists Freak Out Lamar Jackson's retweeting Charlie Kirk star-news.press/wp, 2025-08-19 20:00:00 #Cue #Fultishing #Meltdowns #Leftists #Freak #Lamar #Jacksons #retweeting #Charlie #Kirk

https://star-news.press/anti-theists-are-so-fragile-the-left-freaks-out-at-lamar-jackson-retweeting-charlie-kirk-n2417564/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Cue Fultishing Meltdowns: Leftists Freak Out Lamar Jackson's Retweeting Charlie Kirk Star-news.press/wp

Lamar Jackson faces backlash for retweeting Charlie Kirk's post about Jesus.

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Sofasophia Jul 5, 2025

Ich habe eben die Folge 11 des humanrights-Podcasts fertig gehört.
Schlimm. #Autismus im psychiatrischen Kontext. Über die Anwendung von Foltermethoden zur Behandlung von #Meltdowns …

Wie gut, dass es solche Stellen gibt, die aufklären.

https://www.humanrights.ch/de/ueber-uns/podcast-artikel-allefolgen

#Artikel7

Podcast

humanrights.ch lanciert zusammen mit podcastlab.ch einen Menschenrechtspodcast.Hier finden Sie alle Folgen.

Yoram Blumenberg Mar 3, 2025

Doing the taxes the #AuDHD way: more than last minute (too late) and more than 1 year (3) and starting by developing a filing system … incl. finding the right font, setting the labels in InDesign, printing them, cutting them and punching 192 (!) rounded corners … and all that after midnight after having a nice day (on the edges of 1.000 #meltdowns).