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Autism in Africa | CRPD

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Guidance from autistic people in Africa aligned to the UN Convention on the Rights of People With Disabilities • #AutismInAfrica #ActuallyAutistic #CRPD #UNCRPD

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We provide information to help leaders, caregivers, autism professionals and others with an interest in autism in Africa to support autistic people according to the CRPD.
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Wherever we do autism advocacy in Africa, we must also do advocacy for the rights of LGBTQ+ people, because of the intersection between the two. Often autistic people in Africa face a ban on who they are are.
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PotatoPatota@WTKraic·
@iamSivN i think frankly its often misdiagnosed. people jump too quickly to the autism diagnosis now. as far as i understand it its when the brain dont make all the connections at birth. tbh one can be quit and just be an introvert what teh vark. and function at a higher ...
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Femi Taiwo is an autistic Web programmer of Nigerian origin, living in South Africa. Here he talks about collaborating with neurodivergent people such as himself in the workplace. youtu.be/BwXNadquIBE?si…
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Distilling multidimensional ideas and thoughts using sentences is such a mess.
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SavoyGirl@savoy_girl·
@omgsidewalks @ekverstania Yep. I’ve lost track of the number of people assuming gentle parenting is permissive parenting and, when I’ve explained what it is they say “but that’s just normal parenting”.
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Somelele🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦📍
@kwets11 They were always there. Mostly kept indoors and mostly not properly diagnosed. For instance, someone with Schizophrenia, black folks would say unamaDimoni or amaFufunyana or amDlozi. Someone with Bipolar, till today we just say “uyamazi uZiban-bani, unenkani neengcwangu”…
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Karen Muriuki
Karen Muriuki@karen_muriuki·
Autistic people are bullied a freeking whole lot for our existence and for our autistic traits and it's no secret that we have bone the brunt of physical and emotional abuse as well as struggling with our mental health for years because of that
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@BeruTheSimp @polidemitolog You don't believe the evidence, or you don't believe they're serious when they say those things? Just like they aren't serious when they promote torture and acts of extermination, and then people take them literally and go and do those things?
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич)
The alternative to a united Europe is a bunch of tribal ethnic states at each other's throats, easy pickings for China, the US, and Russia. It's a no-brainer for anyone who can see beyond their own resentment politics.
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Тania Melnyczuk
Тania Melnyczuk@ekverstania·
NGOs like Mashav partner with alumni of IDF intelligence/engineering units, reflecting Israel’s civil–military pipeline. This mirrors Israel’s broader pattern: infrastructure, water, and aid sectors staffed by former IDF professionals. 🧵
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Тania Melnyczuk
Тania Melnyczuk@ekverstania·
“No electricity, no food, no fuel, no water.” Yoav Gallant, 🇮🇱 Defence Minister, announcing Gaza siege, 2023. (Arrest warrant issued for Gallant by ICC in 2024.) 🧵
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@ekverstania @BeruTheSimp @polidemitolog I'm gobsmacked, though, that this person has an Israeli flag in their name, but it's the first time they hear of any of this. Maybe it's not such a common topic of discussion among supporters of Israel who live outside of Israel?
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Тania Melnyczuk@ekverstania·
@BeruTheSimp @polidemitolog Yep. Just kidding. All the articles out there about this are just me hacking various international news media and editing Wikipedia. No point in me sharing any of those sources with the words of Netanyahu or Smotrich, it's all a big hoax which I sucked out of my thumb. /s
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AM I DISABLED? 🧵 1/
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Many autistic people tell us that they are not disabled. Some parents of autistic children say their children are not disabled. 2/
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