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Category: Accommodations

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Accommodations

April and Accommodations: Stop Asking Me How I Am!

Posted on April 19, 2022April 25, 2022 by Kate Ryan

Instead of asking how I am when you see me, make a comment that I can easily respond to, like something about the weather.

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April and Accommodations: I Need My Technology to Communicate!

Posted on April 18, 2022April 25, 2022 by Ann Memmott

If we say we need a piece of technology, enable that. If a meeting knows I need to use a chat facility for video, enable support for that so that I join in equally.

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Accommodations

April and Accommodations: Answer My Questions, Please! 

Posted on April 17, 2022April 26, 2022 by Ava Gurba

If I don’t have the right information, I risk doing the task incorrectly and having to redo something in a different way and/or having someone get angry with me, angrier than when I was just asking questions.

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Accommodations

April and Accommodations: Don’t Second-Guess What I Tell You!

Posted on April 16, 2022October 31, 2022 by Rhi Lloyd-Williams

If I tell you I need something, listen. I might not have the energy to communicate your way, can we please communicate my way for a little bit?

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Accessibility

April and Accommodations: Listen To What I Tell You!

Posted on April 6, 2022May 9, 2022 by Grace Trumpower

Listen to me. Please. I went to therapy for countless hours over countless years to be able to identify and express my needs and now that I finally can, it seems like it doesn’t matter.

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Accommodations

Why Is Health Care So Inaccessible to Autistic People?

Posted on April 5, 2022October 24, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

We talk with Dr. Mary Doherty and Dr. Sebastian Shaw of Autistic Doctors International about how undetected barriers to health care for autistic people can lead to delayed care, serious complications, and sometimes even fatalities.

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Accommodations

April and Accommodations: Let Me Ask for Clarification

Posted on April 3, 2022May 23, 2022 by Reid Caplan

A huge way to accommodate me is to just ask instead of assuming, or assume good intentions first. It shows you are trying to come from a place of understanding, which is the first step in building trust for me.

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Accessibility

April and Accommodations: Accessible Health Care — Not By Phone!

Posted on April 1, 2022May 27, 2022 by Anne Borden King

Something that would make my life easier would be accessible virtual health care; in other
words, NOT by phone.

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Action Alert: Help Protect Californians With Developmental Disabilities!

Posted on March 5, 2022August 31, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

This means that people cannot conserve disabled people as easily as they used to. It does NOT mean that people with disabilities will be barred from getting the supports they need and deserve.

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Accessibility

Please Stop Playing “Gotcha” With Autistic Accommodations

Posted on January 18, 2022May 10, 2022 by Anne Corwin

Pro tip: it’s fine to want to understand your autistic friends’ sensory and accommodations issues, etc., but please don’t frame it as a “Gotcha.”

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Stephen King's Holly is "a fully realized human being in ways that neurodivergent fictional characters seldom are. […] She knows her own value and has a robust network of friends and partners." @BudrykZack review @washingtonpost, non-paywalled article.

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If I say "huh" or "what" to a question, just wait like 2 seconds and then I'll know what it means and give an answer. Don't get offended or accuse me of not listening. 🥺

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(Example: Cleaning. If you say "clean the kitchen," some might think "dishes, counters, floor." We might go "dishes, pantry, fridge, counters, stove, those splats on the wall from spaghetti sauce, then floor." Sometimes we get stuck with task inertia and perfectionism.)

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And sometimes we find more ASPECTS to a task that need to be done in order for a task to be Actually Complete. You might think we're getting sidetracked by the details, we consider those details important enough that the task is not done until we take care of them.

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