Hi lemmy.world/c/autism,

We’re autistic and don’t believe in hierarchies. Here’s a 22-minute infodump on it: https://youtu.be/cuflpEQlFQk

This is your community, so we want this place to be your internet home, where you can be free to be your autistic true selves: share your interesting special interests, have meltdowns, be direct, expect others to be direct back, seek support for supposedly simple matters, make mistakes and receive compassionate feedback, be silly, and most importantly, feel included.

As moderators, we need your help. What do you want from the moderation team of /c/autism? Tell us freely. Don’t worry about upsetting us, saying the “wrong” thing, being “too much”, or whatever other unfair lessons we have been taught by society for being us. It’s okay. We get it. Talk to us so we can make this the best autism community we can make!

Some tips

Go to your favorite Lemmy communities, kbin magazines, subreddits, online forums, etc., see what you like about them, and then tell us to see if we can implement that here. Find what’s missing elsewhere that we could include here. Have discussions on our chat to brainstorm. Tell us more tips so we can add them to this list. Yours truly, The moderation team

  • pogosort@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    [2] We have a Helpful resources post that is curated by our other moderator BackOnMyBS

    I have taken a look at that and most of the resources are not location-specific except for the inclusion of the Asperger/Autism Network (AANE), which only provides services to the United States. This should be clearly stated as this is a global community and many people aren’t from the United States. Most online communities assume and default to an audience exclusive to the United States (referred to as US-centrism, US-defaultism or Americentrism).

    [3] Im not sure what you mean here please elaborate

    I elaborated on it in a recent post which you have commented on but to summarise my point, people should be able to use the terminology they want to refer to themselves without people trying to “correct” their language or harass them. I find that this behaviour goes under the radar because it is done with good intentions but I think it is harmful to the community.

    [4] The Matrix space is checked by me every day

    I’ll message you about this one.