Autistic

Autistic representation in media and parenting support for autistic children dominate social conversations, with a focus on self-advocacy and acceptance. Challenges and misunderstandings are also discussed, highlighting ongoing societal issues.

About Autistic

This topic covers discussions, news, and social media content related to autism spectrum disorder.

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[-----] unique social accounts have posts mentioning Autistic in the last [--] hours which is down 7.90% from [-----] in the previous [--] hours Daily Average: [-----]
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Sentiment: 63%

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Current Value: 63%
Daily Average: 67%
[--] Month: 57% -11%
[--] Months: 57% -3%
[--] Year: 57% -19%
1-Year High: 93% on 2025-03-03
1-Year Low: 33% on 2025-04-30

Most Supportive Themes:

• Autistic Representation and Acceptance: (40%) Posts highlighting positive representation of autistic individuals in media and society, emphasizing acceptance and understanding.
• Parenting and Support for Autistic Children: (30%) Content focused on the experiences and challenges of parents raising autistic children, offering advice, resources, and shared stories.
• Autistic Experiences and Self-Advocacy: (25%) Individuals sharing their personal experiences with autism, advocating for their needs, and discussing neurodiversity.

Most Critical Themes:

• Challenges and Misunderstandings: (5%) Posts addressing the difficulties autistic individuals face, societal misunderstandings, and instances of discrimination or exclusion.

Top Autistic News

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"This Actual-Size ENIAC Replica Is the Coolest Thing Youll See Today PCMag It took nearly six months (and [----] hot glue gun sticks) for [--] autistic schoolkids to recreate the massive Army computer which debuted in 1946"
News Link @PCMag 2026-02-15T22:54Z 395.3K followers, 13.9K engagements

"Leon and Otis Clune: Fresh details emerge about autistic brothers news.com.au Australias leading news site for latest headlines New details have been revealed about the two teenagers who died in a suspected murder-suicide in an up-market Perth suburb"
News Link @newscomauHQ 2026-02-08T22:48Z 700.7K followers, 26.1K engagements

"Understanding Autistic Eye Contact Challenges Maintaining eye contact can be difficult or even painful for autistic folks. Let's look at why how to support autistic kids and tricks to improve eye contact"
News Link @Healthline 2024-10-25T16:15Z 67.7K followers, 397.6K engagements

"Elevated rates of autism other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses and autistic traits in transgender and gender-diverse individuals Nature Communications It is unclear if rates of autism and other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses are elevated in transgender and gender-diverse individuals compared to cisgender individuals. Here the authors use data from five different large-scale datasets to identify elevated rates of autism diagnoses diagnoses of other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions and elevated traits related to autism in transgender and gender-diverse"
News Link @NaturePortfolio 2024-06-10T19:23Z 2.1M followers, 169K engagements

Top Autistic Social Posts

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"Always-online is a result of what people are willing to accept in the first place. It's what mass Gamer culture wants & deserves. Even the euphemism "live service" is accepted by these same people fretting over "preserving" something that was never intended to be preserved. Remember when a deeply autistic man obsessed with collecting every virtual experience in existence convinced the entire internet except for me that 'corpos' were going to delete the Nintendo [--] and force you to play Overwatch forever That was strange. https://t.co/gtmssRbRWo Remember when a deeply autistic man obsessed"
X Link @revenant_MMXX 2026-02-17T21:08Z 53K followers, 16.4K engagements

"Not every mother who popped Tylenol has an autistic child but it heightened the risk"
X Link @TRHLofficial 2026-02-17T21:03Z 918.2K followers, [----] engagements

"if people held the shit i say on here against my family bc im autistic i would get my ass beat oh my god"
X Link @WNBAPILLED 2026-02-17T20:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"THEY WOULD NOT. Oh my god I'm dying on this hill but neither Ilya or Shane would ever want to do that. Do yall know these characters at all It's considered way too private and intimate (and frankly cringe) in Europe and is not a thing in Russian so Ilya would absolutely not. And Shane's autistic ass A speech in front of an audience NEVER"
X Link @soot7what 2026-02-17T19:04Z [----] followers, 187.1K engagements

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