Tzipporah Johnston

New comic- Explaining the Double Empathy Theory (with apologies to @milton_damian) The most revolutionary theory of autism of recent years, told via the medium of🐈 &🐕 Download: bit.ly/TTdemp alt text: bit.ly/DEalt Created for the Quiet Space @TeTuhiArt

Do you know why @HeidiBachram gets abuse from people like Owen Jones? Do you know what she did? Her husbands family were attacked, their 18 year old daughter Ma’ayan was killed and the family held and streamed live. They were crying, shocked, bloodied. Tsachi the father was taken hostage and murdered in Gaza. Every week Heidi and Adam hold memorial ceremonies for the murdered and terrorised people of Israel. They prayed for the kidnapped and celebrated their return. They’ve documented Jew hate in the constant marches. They’ve been threatened. Their memorial desecrated. That’s why she’s attacked Because she cares Because she won’t shut up Because she won’t blame the Jews for their own murder and pain That is the by Owen hates her That’s why we love her and Adam Because they’re proud, strong and kind. That’s all I just like to remind the world why Heidi is targeted

@naomicfisher Are you making money off this or something?

Masking has no scientific validity, says Uta Frith, after sixty years of autism research. Yet masking resonates with so many autistic people. It feels true and it feels like an explanation. Both of those things can be true at the same time. Masking does resonate with many people. It describes something important about their experience. In fact, in my clinical experience masking resonates far beyond autism. It resonates for those who are socially anxious, those with OCD and those with depression. It resonates for people living in cultures they were not born into. It resonates for people going into unfamiliar or challenging environments. It resonates for many women in male-dominated workplaces. Whether or not they are autistic. And this is one of the problems. Masking is talked about as if it’s specific to autism, but the research hasn’t been done to demonstrate that. To draw that sort of conclusion, you need large scale quantitative research on representative samples. You need a carefully chosen comparison group. Online survey studies are unlikely to fulfil these criteria. Lived experience isn’t enough - no one can conclude from their lived experience whether something is autism-specific or not. There are other scientific problems with the idea of masking. It means different things to different people, and it is highly expansive. It is used to explain many different experiences - and researchers have found that there is no agreed upon definition. A third scientific problem with the concept of masking is that the evidence base is unrepresentative. Most of the research has been done on late-diagnosed females without intellectual disability - but it’s been assumed that this generalises to all autistic people. We simply don’t know if this is the case. There are other problems with the concept of masking, but these are three key issues identified in a recent review of the literature on masking/camouflaging. They looked at 389 studies. Number of papers published isn’t enough to make a concept scientifically valid. Other things matter too. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

The fight for access to diagnosis for women & girls for a neurodevelopment disability (which was seen as being present in only boys and men) has been long & hard won. Seeing privileged feminists deciding to deconstruct the work of women -many autistic women is horrible & shameful

People with tourette's are twice as likely to be violently assaulted than the general public. women with TS are 4 times more likely to be targeted by sexual violence. 1 in 4 of us try to kill ourselves. over half self harm. The stereotype that we are secretly evil people who use Tourette's to get away with being an asshole is literally life threatening to us. So fuck SNL. I'm tired of spending my life begging for understanding. I have to rely on public attiutudes just to have basic rights. Just to leave the house, to use a bus, to eat at a restaurant, to go to work, use a public restroom, ANYTHING. People are calling for us to be segregated! I spend 8 years teaching millions of people about this only to still feel like we are at square one.

@StanCollymore If only there was a film they could watch to learn about his condition and his consequences.

His statement has the context needed in the circumstances. 1. He's not apologising for being ( his disability) 2. He's apologised for any pain, hurt and misunderstanding. 3. He reached out to both men personally. He doesn't need to apologise for anything but as I wrote last week it would be customary to call the men and informally explain his condition and its consequences.

@y_alibhai Just say Jews, Yasmin, this is taking forever

Uber Zionist Margaret Hodge will, we hear, become Ofcom chair after uber Zionist Michael Grade steps down. A two step solution to ensure the Palestine & Palestinian suffering are denied proper coverage. And the Israeli state gets away with atrocities.

When it was “good” to be European, Jews were Middle-Eastern. When it is “good” to be Middle-Eastern, Jews are European. When whiteness was good, Jews lacked it. When it’s bad, they exemplify it. When it wad good to have a home, Jews lacked it. When it’s bad, Jews have it. &c.

@Daniel_Sugarman Going to put a pack of bamba in my window

Presumably next they’ll be giving those of us who aren’t interested some sort of badge to wear on our clothes.

@carolinefff Fremdschämen

I suffer third party embarrassment reading this (long German word for that?). How on earth do we stop grown adults asking Nanny State to sort out their tiffs?

@Daniel_Sugarman An Israeli man posted on a local Edinburgh group today saying that he had been assaulted in a hate crime. The moderater deleted it because so many people claimed he made it up to make Muslims look bad.

The thing you have to remember is that people like this start with the default position that all Israelis are evil and then have to retrofit their entire worldview to try and explain away why they see the world's only Jewish state differently to literally everywhere else.

@chap42chap @lachancenaomi27 Finally someone said it!

@lachancenaomi27 The usual move is for authors to pick fake brand names that they think are funny but are actually terrible. Margaret Atwood is the worst for this.

Product placement in books is not common and has not been successful in the past

@HowardA_AtLaw Firebombed a building? Are you sure?

If you think this is meaningless, remember that in Boston, ultra wealthy white girl and walking dysenteric fecal sample Calle Walsh published a similar list in MA. She later fire bombed a building after chainlocking the doors shut with people inside because they were Jewish

@NiohBerg I mean married women were chattel so yeah...

Imagine having to travel 500 years back in time to find anything resembling modern islamic law. And to answer your question, yes they probably were.

@OrganizerMemes Honey, when they show you who they are, believe them.

I like how all the pearl-clutching accounts on Dsa twitter who called me uncomradely for being mean to other members are completely silent as members downplay an antisemitic mass murder event

@OrganizerMemes Is the non-antisemitic Pro-Palestine movement in the room with us now? I despair of the Israeli govt but the Pro-Palestine movement is infused with both Soviet + Islamic religious antisemitism from top to bottom. The credible opposition is basically Omdim Beyachad and that's it

It so frustrating to go to my Jewish community to try to explain that the pro Palestine movement isn't antisemitic and is fighting to end the violence and then they see the worst parts of the left downplaying or conspiracizing slaughtering random jews

@tatertotsconor tired, sad

I’m tired of people pretending like antisemitism doesn’t exist or making excuses for violence against Jews. I can’t even fathom how Jews feel at this point.

@ZealouslyQuoted Nope. But then they didn't after October 7th, so why now?

Doing a quick straw poll... Have any non-jewish friends reached out to you today?

@craigspencerUTT @AdamWagner1 In UK law, Jews are recognised as both a racial group (based on Mandla v Dowell Lee) and as a religious group. They are protected under both the “race” and “religion” provisions of the Equality Act 2010. This is basic stuff.

@AdamWagner1 Jewish performers cannot be excluded based on their nationality or ethnicity Is Judaism a nationality - No Is Judaism a race - No

An important development: A music venue in Bristol has apologised to Oi Va Voy, a band of Jewish musicians who brilliantly combine Jewish and other cultures, and are non-political. The venue, Strange Brew, cancelled the band's appearances at the last minute under pressure from activist groups. They have now apologised and recognised that under the Equality Act Jewish performers cannot be excluded based on their nationality or ethnicity. This is not an isolated incident and has been happening across the UK to Jewish people especially since 7/10/23. strangebrewbristol.com

@AlistairMay @AdamWagner1 The two situations only map onto each other if you treat “being Israeli” as equivalent to “being pro-Kremlin”. But that is exactly the discriminatory leap the venue admitted making.

florence welch was right, i also, don't know how i don't just stand outside and scream