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Neurodiversity Is About Everyone

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Neurodiversity is a vital concept, and understanding the difference between neurodiverse and neurodivergent is much more important than just splitting hairs over linguistics. Here is a comic explainer.

Square graphic with a bright red border and a white background. Black text in the center reads, "The autistic need to prove you can handle stressful situations because you've had so may chances taken away from you without consent, so you end up throwing yourself into anything even if it's damaging."

Let Autistic People Make Their Own Choices!

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When other people take choices away from autistic people, it can make us believe we are useless and destroy our confidence. It can even lead to us putting ourselves in dangerous situations, just to prove we can do things.

Photo of a red humanoid toy with a square head and googly eyes. Its mouth is downturned as though sad, and its limbs are raised toward its head.

Accepting Compliments While Autistic

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Many autistic people find accepting compliments and being kind to ourselves difficult, especially if our experience has been that other people lambast us if we dare to exist openly while autistic.

Photograph of an Asian person with yellow, white, and purple hair in a long straight bob. They have black dots speckled above their nose and between their eyebrows, and yellow makeup above their eyes. Their eyes are looking to the side and their facial expression is one of anxiety.

Considering Interpersonal Skills For Autistic People

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Autistic people are usually left to our own devices when it comes to navigating a social world defined by non-autistic rules. And when we make social errors, it’s very common to wish to retreat. Here are some (hopefully) comforting guidelines for such situations.

selfie of Joseph Krauter, a white man with short dark brown hair, dark sunglasses, and a salt-and-pepper beard. He is on a city street.

Diagnosed Autistic While Incarcerated: An Interview With Joseph Krauter

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Joseph Krauter is an autistic writer and tech worker who was diagnosed as an adult, while serving time at San Quentin Prison in California. We talked with Joseph about how his life could have been different with earlier diagnosis and supports, the difficulty of receiving an autism diagnosis while incarcerated, and how his life has changed since both his autism diagnosis and his re-integration into society.

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