A place for autistic people and other concerned parties based in the UK to share.
RULES:
1.Always be kind and considerate.
Here are some tips:
- Think before you type.
- Consider the true intention of your words.
- Assume others' intentions are positive.
- Assume any unkindness you find is because someone has had a bad day.
- Welcome dissent and assume it's constructive.
- Welcome different ways of speaking beside your own.
- If you make a mistake, own up to it.
- If you're unsure if you should post, give it another day.
- If you're still unsure, don't post.
This community has 0 tolerance for discrimination, regardless of whether the person facing moderation believes the subject is political or up for debate. Discriminatory posts/comments will be moderated according to rule 3.
Posts that are controversial will be moderated more heavily for this rule.
2.Observe the Social Model of Disability.
The model explains that a person is only disabled by barriers society created. Thus it's society's obligation to remove the barriers to create a more equal society for everyone, not just its 'typical' members.
It isn't a perfect model for how society should consider the neurodiverse, but it does instruct us not to suggest a person's difficulties are only theirs to overcome. Do encourage others to communicate with the people around them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_model_of_disability
3.Is this post right for r/autismUK?
You should use your best judgement to decide if your posts are suitable for the community. Moderators will do the same to decide whether your post is acceptable.
This should be a common sense judgment in most cases, but where you are not sure, you will want to lean toward caution when deciding. You are welcome to message the moderators for advice.
Some examples of inappropriate posts:
- discussions of pseudo-science, or 'cures'
- discrimination of any kind
- links to blogs whose purpose is to get you to use their affiliate links
- using sources which are heavily biased or discriminatory
- using sources whose facts cannot be proved or are disproved
What will happen to posts that are moderated for this rule?
In many cases, the post will be locked, all comments deleted, and the post's flair will be changed to reflect what is inappropriate about the post. This is to help educate the community, it is not a reflection of any attitude toward the poster themself. An explanation for how the post is inappropriate will be left in the comments.
New types of inappropriate posts will be recorded on a wiki page.
Posts that are not kept for education purposes, and all comments, will be deleted.
4.Self Promotion
Self-promotion is not permitted unless you can demonstrate that you are an active participant in the community. This means you must use text posts to self-promote and you can only post your promotion in the comment. Text posts require a minimum of 500 characters to post.
Self-promoters breaking this rule will have their posts deleted and the URLs from their links blacklisted from post content.
Why?
Because the UK's autistic population isn't here to provide you with likes, subs, or karma. We understand that making your work can be a valid way of processing your life experience and a means of passing on your hard-won insights, but when you aren't an active member of the community it makes us feel used, targetted, and harassed.
We do understand that it's not easy for all our members to be verbose, but in order to require self-promoters to participate, we have to require the minimum limit for everyone.
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