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Autism

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A community for respectful discussion and memes related to autism acceptance. All neurotypes are welcome.

We have created our own instance! Visit Autism Place the following community for more info.

Community:

Values

  • Acceptance
  • Openness
  • Understanding
  • Equality
  • Reciprocity
  • Mutuality
  • Love

Rules

  1. No abusive, derogatory, or offensive post/comments e.g: racism, sexism, religious hatred, homophobia, gatekeeping, trolling.
  2. Posts must be related to autism, off-topic discussions happen in the matrix chat.
  3. Your posts must include a text body. It doesn't have to be long, it just needs to be descriptive.
  4. Do not request donations.
  5. Be respectful in discussions.
  6. Do not post misinformation.
  7. Mark NSFW content accordingly.
  8. Do not promote Autism Speaks.
  9. General Lemmy World rules.

Encouraged

  1. Open acceptance of all autism levels as a respectable neurotype.
  2. Funny memes.
  3. Respectful venting.
  4. Describe posts of pictures/memes using text in the body for our visually impaired users.
  5. Welcoming and accepting attitudes.
  6. Questions regarding autism.
  7. Questions on confusing situations.
  8. Seeking and sharing support.
  9. Engagement in our community's values.
  10. Expressing a difference of opinion without directly insulting another user.
  11. Please report questionable posts and let the mods deal with it. Chat Room
  • We have a chat room! Want to engage in dialogue? Come join us at the community's Matrix Chat.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I am one of them, i find it better than Twitter(I don't care how Elon Musk wants to call it)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

@VanHalbgott

In addition to using the hashtag, follow the @actuallyautistic group.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Indubitably

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

@VanHalbgott We are so many! #ActuallyAutistic (for self/professionnally diagnosed and wondering)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Not seen any, nope.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Here, too. My feed's all about architecture, random ramblings, things of nature, music, and of course, Fediverse stuff.

I feel it pleasant to just curate that raftbox of mine to whatever interests I actively do have at the moment, without the vitriolic banter and doomscrolling most other social media platforms have harbored as of late.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Yes, I do. The link is on my profile here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I do. Sometimes i will post here from over there. It makes me feel like a wizard.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yep. It's great. Check out:

#ActuallyAutistic and @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Probably…? Not gonna lie, the question is pretty vague, IMHO. What are you looking for, exactly? An active community of autistic people? The presence of people that happen to be autistic you could follow? Plain curiosity about who uses that platform? Opinions/questions about Mastodon from autistic people on this community?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Maybe any of those things, honestly.

I don’t have much friends where I live now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Yup, it's quite nice.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Used to, left recently. But the autistic community there was easily one of the best parts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

No, but I do remember using the autism(at)a.gup.pe group. Not sure it still exists but I had some nice interactions there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

https://aspiechattr.me/ is the one I was on. It randomly closed down without warning.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Thats pretty brutal. There are quite a lot of niche instances iirc but I have no idea if they’re reliable. Neurodifferent.me comes to mind.

Honestly, the amount of time and money needed to run these properly is tough to come up with without donations. If cant blame peeps for not doing it for free. Warning would be nice though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Yes, there are definitely autistic people who use Mastodon.