Tag: actuallyautistic

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autisticexchange:

beatrice-otter:

autisticexchange:

Sign-ups for the Autistic Exchange are now open! Sign-up for the Autistic Exchange!

Sign-ups will close July 7th at 11:59 PM, Eastern Standard Time. You
can add, edit, or delete your sign-up form anytime before sign-ups
close.

What is the Autistic Exchange?
The Autistic Exchange is a fanfiction gift exchange by autistic
people, for autistic people. Our aim is to encourage autistic people to
write stories featuring their favourite canonically autistic or
headcanoned autistic characters, and to receive a story featuring a
desired autistic character in return!

We’d like to see more stories featuring autistic people on AO3. We’d
also like to encourage more diverse representations of autism and
autistic people. We’d love to see autistic characters of colour, multiply disabled autistic characters, autistic women, queer autistic characters, trans and non-binary autistic characters, and more!

Sign-up Form 
Sign-up Guide
Challenge profile on A03, including rules and FAQ.
Tag set (list of all eligible fandoms and characters)

If you are unable, or prefer not to participate, signal boosts are greatly appreciated! 🙂 Please feel free to send an ask if you have any questions!

By the way, here’s the Sign-up Summary (where it tells you how many people request/offer different fandoms).  If you are like me, you may go through looking for “needy” fandoms, i.e. someone has requested them but nobody has offered them.  The thing is, though, when one person has offered and one person has requested a fandom that fandom may still be needy because I can’t be the only person who both requests and offers the same fandoms.  I pretty much always offer to write the fandoms I request (because I love them and would love to write them for someone else), but I obviously can’t be assigned to write my own fic, you know?

So all my fandoms look fine, like they’re not needy at all–except they are, because I’m the only one offering or requesting.

Very helpful, thank you for sharing!

Everyone, Beatrice-otter’s advice above of checking in on the Sign-up Summary is good to know! Keeping an eye on and offering “needy” fandoms (if you feel comfortable doing so!) can be really helpful in making sure we can find matches for everyone. And if you see fandoms you’ve requested are needy, you may want to encourage autistic friends in those fandoms to participate. 🙂

twistmalchik:

I hate when people write stuff about how they don’t understand why some people like being autistic, and write a ton about how they feel like those of us with pride in our neurotype are unimpaired.

I’m glad I’m autistic.

I’m not glad that I haven’t been able to hold a job, that losing speech causes significant barriers, that people think I’m on drugs because I stim, that I almost failed out of college because I was undiagnosed and had no accommodations. I’m not glad that I struggle with hygiene, executive function, and maintaining relationships.

When I say I’m proud of being autistic, I don’t mean that I like those things. I am saying that I accept those things and that my life is worth living. I don’t wish I was different, because if I was different I wouldn’t be me.

I’m saying that the narrative of my life as a tragedy is a false one. I am saying I have agency and that I am powerful.

And none of that is mutually exclusive with autism. It’s not even in spite of autism. Autism is a part of it, and I celebrate it even when I am told I should be ashamed.