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Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: An Autistic Autism Researcher’s Insights

Posted on November 7, 2019May 31, 2023 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Ehlers-Dahlos syndromes are disorders that affect connective tissues. They are both under-researched, and common co-occurring conditions in autistic people.

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Apologies Twitter has become near-unusable for threading. The full thread for the SNS panel on ND and the legal system is on BlueSky and I will try to re-paste over here in a few.

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Sam Crane: Adult guardianship means a court appoints another person to make decisions for another adult. Guardianship gives another adult a HUGE amount of control over another adult. Like dating, friendships, medical care. It's an incredibly restrictive system, people lose rights

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The Stanford Neurodiversity Summit 2023's Human Rights panel on Neurodiversity, Discrimination, and the Legal System starts in less than 45 minutes! We will be moderating, and will be live-tweeting/skeeting as we can. #neurodiversity

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29 Sep

If you are a parent/caregiver for an autistic person, we beg you to consider our Autism Checklist of Doom: Things that may upset an autistic person & cause distress, but may not be obvious to a bystander. Let's help the autistic people in our lives thrive!

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