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Category: Accommodations

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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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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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Accommodations

April and Accommodations: Don’t Speak Over Us!

Posted on April 11, 2022March 20, 2023 by Hassaan

I can only speak for myself but I am aware many autistic people will sadly have the experience of being spoken over by others. The ‘others’ in this scenario may not even be aware they are doing it, but it doesn’t make it less hurtful.

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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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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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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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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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Autism Checklist of DOOM

Posted on January 15, 2022March 12, 2023 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

This checklist is for people who aren’t autistic (or whose autistic traits differ from those of their child/charge) to understand what may upset an autistic person, and cause them distress.

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