Neuro-Ableism
Learn how subtle daily messages like “just try harder” and “you’re too sensitive” are forms of internalized neuro-ableism that neurodivergent people, especially Autistics, absorb and turn against themselves.
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Decolonization Work
for Autistics
- Do you find that the more you learn about your neurodivergence, the harder it gets to pretend the systems you’re living inside are neutral — and the less willing you are to keep paying the price of fitting into them?
- Do you find yourself grieving not just a late autism identification, but an entire life organized around performing for systems that were built to exclude you — and wondering who you’d be if you’d never had to?
- Are you done contorting yourself to meet standards that were designed by and for a very narrow kind of person — and trying to figure out what it would look like to stop, without losing everything?
Quick definition: decolonization work for Autistics
Deconstructing the colonized, capitalist, ableist, white supremacist, neuro-normative biased, patriarchal, and traumatized messages we were trained to believe, that aren’t true, weren’t designed for your brain, and are not serving most people.
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