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A community for respectful discussion and memes related to autism acceptance [https://neurodivergentinsights.com/blog/autism-awareness-acceptance]. All neurotypes are welcome. # Our Community Values - Acceptance - Openness - Understanding - Equality - Reciprocity - Mutuality - Love Rules 1) No abusive, derogatory, or offensive post/comments 2) No porn, gore, spam, ads or trolling 3) Do not promote Autism Speaks [https://youtu.be/CTABNfQvU1A] 4) Do not request donations 5) Be respectful in discussions 6) Do not post misinformation 7) Do not gatekeep 8) Mark NSFW content accordingly 9) Do not link autism to vaccines [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264410X14006367] 10) No racism, homophobia, sexism, ableism, ageism, or religious hatred 11) Respectful venting, including dealing with oppressive neurotypical culture, is okay 12) General Lemmy World rules [https://mastodon.world/about] Encouraged 1) Open acceptance of all autism levels as a respectable neurotype 2) Funny memes 3) Describe posts of pictures/memes using text in the body for our visually impaired users 4) Welcoming and accepting attitudes 5) Questions regarding autism 6) Questions on confusing situations 7) Seeking and sharing support 8) Engagement in our community’s values 9) Expressing a difference of opinion without directly insulting another user 10) 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 [https://lemmy.world/post/161636]. # Helpful Resources - Are you seeking education, support groups, and more? Take a look at our list of helpful resources [https://lemmy.world/post/702381]. # Relevant Communities Autism: - Arctic Autism [https://lemmy.world/c/arcticautism] - Aspie Memes on kbin.social [https://kbin.social/m/aspiememes] - AuDHD [https://lemmy.world/c/autisticandadhd] - Autism on kbin.social [https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]] - Women with Autism [https://lemmy.world/c/womenwithautism] ADHD: - ADHD [https://lemmy.world/c/adhd] - ADHD Memes [/c/[email protected]] - AuDHD [https://lemmy.world/c/autisticandadhd] Bipolar: - Bipolar Disorder [/c/[email protected]] Mental Health: - Mental Health [https://lemmy.world/c/mentalhealth] - Therapy [https://lemmy.world/c/therapy] Misc: - Aphantasia [/c/[email protected]] Neurodivergence: - Neurodivergent [/c/[email protected]] Social: - Social Anxiety [/c/[email protected]] lemmy.world/c/autism will happily promote other ND communities as long as said communities demonstrate that they share our community’s values. Lemmy World Donations The admins of our instance work hard to ensure that we have a good place to host our community. They are also helpful at protecting our community from trolls and other malicious actors. They do this for free, so if you appreciate our community, please consider donating to them. The first link is the preferred method, but both work. - Open Collective [https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld] - Patreon [https://patreon.com/mastodonworld]

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  • BOMBSEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    Thanks for the spotlight, everyone! I find it welcoming and encouraging. Lemmy World has been a special place to create a space, develop support, share information in a respectful fashion, and ultimately establish a community around shared interests that can be used to help improve the lives of all involved. I appreciate the work you guys put in to creating this medium. ❤️

    Founder and a moderator of [email protected],

    BackOnMyBS

    • LW Community TeamOPM
      3•1 year ago

      Thank you for managing a welcoming and caring community!

      • BOMBSEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        You’re welcome :)

  • @ickplantM
    5•1 year ago

    This is a great community, and I really appreciate it as a spouse of an autistic person. My husband is not on lemmy, and I’ll send him an occasional meme or article. And I learn a lot from posts on there.

    • BOMBSEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Thank you! I’m happy you find it helpful and that you are accepting and compassionate with your husband.

      • @ickplantM
        4•1 year ago

        He’s my big teddy bear, so he gets all the love. Reading c/autism’s posts helps me to understand his brain better. That he may express empathy differently, and it doesn’t make it any less heartfelt and authentic. That I can truly be direct, and he appreciates it. That it helps him to know the plans ahead of time… etc. Communities like yours bring more harmony and understanding to the world.