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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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Hello, I'm looking for an inclusive autism community and this looks good (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by taetaetoofs@lemmy.world to c/autism@lemmy.world
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I'm craving community after the older autism spaces became unsafe or fractured. I'm 27F and I like BTS, tornadoes and collecting information into lists. I've been feeling very lonely since the other spaces became unhealthy and harmful. I'm very burned out these days and it's difficult to find things to be happy about.

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[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Glad to have you :) unfortunately Lemmy is not really set up to be a casual conversation tool, it's a little hard to follow users. It's mostly used to chat about specific topics in specific threads on them.

I've been looking for more community as well, but it's hard to find. Everyone I meet locally just seems so different from me.

What "older autism spaces" do you mean? What kind of communities were these? What's BTS stand for?

[–] SpaceTurtle224@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

for chatting we have a matrix server