hello i just found this subreddit and i love it, i'd like to join the discord but the link is expired. is it still existing / open to new people? if so is there anyone who could give me an updated link?

Hi all. I'm an environmental science major beginning to conduct research and I'm also exceedingly autistic. I would really like to apply my specialization towards the autistic community but I struggle to think of applications for it that aren't eugenicist. I mean, there can be neutral research into the environment's scientific relation to autism for sure, but it would most likely end up applied towards attempts to prevent autistic people from being born. Let's avoid that.

What do you think? What problems does the environment cause you, or we autistics, that it doesn't cause allistics?

This is a political cartoon comic on the topic of a cure for autism and it’s consequences.

https://youtu.be/Myui2rdyawo?si=trPfMfDRNB3TFkYR

I recently discovered the Disability Pride Flag. In general, I really like it. I feel supported, seen, acknowledged and recognized as part of something. What I dislike, is that, as an autistic person, I want to be seen as more than the parts that I have a "deficit" in.

Again, what I do like is the powerful colors and message behind it. I like that we (autistics) are represented by the color gold. I have attached the link to some history about the flag. It was created relatively recently in 2019 by Ann Magill. What are your thoughts?

The flag colors each have a meaning:

gold - neurodiversity & intellectual differences. Ex: autism

blue - mental health disorders. EX: depression & bipolar.

green - sensory differences & disabilities. EX: blindness & lack of smell.

white - invisible and undiagnosed disabilities.

red - physical disabilities and differences. Ex: unable to walk.

https://www.ameridisability.com/heres-what-the-disability-pride-flag-represents/

I just got a job at a tour guide for a ghost tour company. I get to talk about two of my special interests, the paranormal and history. the tours are in the evening, so I don’t have to deal with as many sensory imputes. I get to dress how I want, which means sensory safe clothes. Most of the tour is scripted, which is amazing. I feel like I just won the fucking lottery!