This is just a general welcome post for this community.

It’s intended to be a space for autistic people to talk about their experiences - positive and negative - with pride and self worth, where we don’t have to deal with the kind of infantilization and abuse so common in other communities, or be spoken over by Autism Parents™ about ABA.

Share about your special interests, stimming, things you like. As well as your struggles. Of course, remembering to not leak personal details.

It’s also intended to be a community inclusive of self-diagnosed people.

This has no affiliation with the subreddit r/AutisticPride or it’s mod, but it is intended for similar content.

This community is explicitly part of broader neurodivergency stuff. I’m still not that familiar with things like moderation on Lemmy (just came over from reddit ^.), and I don’t really have time or energy to be an actual mod. I just want to kickstart a community and once it reaches approximately 100 members we can collectively decide on a moderation strategy and team (unless there is consensus on doing so earlier).