Here's to all the kids who were born with non-default settings; to all you who put the effort in to figure yourselves out.

You're amazing and deserve to be celebrated.

I'm glad you're here 💝

Unclench your jaw.

Relax your brow.

Go get a drink of water.

See if you've taken your meds

Eat something.

Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing.

Because you do.

You're a wonderful person.

And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through

Autistic unmasking isn’t “letting everything out.”

It’s the slow & challenging work of stopping self-erasure.

Unmasking means learning which environments cost us our health and which ones allow us to stay.

If unmasking looks messy, that’s because the mask was holding everything together.

RE: the last retoot. We need to talk about Luddites.

Your whole life you have been fed a pack of lies about the Luddites. They were not technophobes.

The Luddites were activists, guerillas, saboteurs, a labor movement which did not shy away from action; breaking certain machines that the wealthy were using to kill their livelihoods (lowering wages, worsened working conditions, inferior products), and in some cases stealing their art. Their machine-breaking brought about the Perceval’s Frame Work Bill which enacted a death penalty for machine breaking. A. Death. Penalty.

They were not scared of new technology, the common use of the name now, many were machine operators. They were scared of starvation. Some of them lost their lives at the hand of the govt while fighting back.

This was not a case of the automobile supplanting the horse and buggy, (true, there was some reluctance to change, but that was not the gist) this was the wealthy slowly killing off a class of workers for profit (while working them to death) through loss of livelihood or, if that didn't work, the death penalty.

Agree or disagree with the methods, the Luddites were hard core. Not sniveling technophobes.