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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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I was almost ready to create an ASD community in my instance when I notice this one exists. Thought I'd link back to the ADHD community I'm running as a lot of us (including myself) have both

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As soon as the federation kicks in and links your instance to mine, I'll subscribe! I have ADHD without autism (as far as I know lol), but I've been lurking here out of neurodiverse solidarity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, I love your name! Go Sun-Spider!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you! I may have just watched Across the Spider-Verse when I was making my account 😄

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still need to watch it, I'm so ready to see it too. Sun-Spider actually has the same disorder I do, so it's so cool to see the representation like that!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's so cool! They only appear very briefly, but I immediately went away and looked them up. I didn't know about them before! I have a favourite uncle with a spinal injury who's mostly in a wheelchair, but can get around on crutches, so I immediately felt connected to the character. I'm a huge fan of more disabled representation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I tried to subscribe, but ~~the~~ it seems that lemmy.world hasn't connected with your server yet. Once that happens, I'd be happy to add your community to the lemmy.world/c/autism sidebar if you would do the same for us 🙂

edit: Never mind. It wasn't the Fediverse's fault. I didn't know how to navigate to the community from my instance. I needed to go to https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same!

For some reason, I cannot subscribe to your community. It asks me to login, but I'm not part of the instance. When follow the instructions to find your community from my instance, the instance doesn't show up. Any ideas?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

you need to use lemmy world to reach it. This should work: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ohhhHHHHHhhh! that's what I needed to learn. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Could you change your link to the following: [ADHD Memes](/c/[email protected])? This will ensure correct context and also link natively through each user's own instance so they can post and comment directly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

omg, it's still too early for me rn. let me try again...

yes, I changed it. how does it look to you now?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

how does it look now to you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You are also welcome to check out the ADHD community here on lemmy.world: ADHD

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

nice! I really can't wait for multi-communities in lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should be coming soon and then we can share content

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've added a link to your community and I decided to convert my community to "ADHD Memes" instead. This way we won't compete for the same engagement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I linked back to yours too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Could you change your link to the following: [ADHD Memes](/c/[email protected])? This will ensure correct context and also link natively through each user's own instance so they can post and comment directly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does directly mean that they won't get redirected to another website and instead get "sent to" a kinda subpage on their current one?

(Still very new to this, got the basic concept of instances, communities and the wider fediverse but don't know much about the detaild stuff)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thats a way better link method, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Seeing community owners interact like this is lovely, and gives me hope that this whole communty issue won't even take that long to sort itself out. Thanks for being so awesome guys!

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