#autistics
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #autistics from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #autistics
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-24 05:35 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-24 05:35 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-24 05:35 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~8949 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 19:00
Languages: English (40)
Avg boosts / post: 5.1
Top of the latest posts
@autistics @adelinej I just read the Wikipedia article on "Empathy in autistic people", and discovered that there's at least one prominent autism researcher who had already reached the same conclusion I recently did, about the "theory of mi
An observation about "theory of mind deficits" in #autism: what's missing in our relationship to other minds is not a THEORY. It's a set of "click, whirr" automatic shortcut mechanisms for dealing with the social world that neurotypicals us
@KatyElphinstone The whole "lack of #empathy" idea builds on the #TheoryOfMind idea, which is rotten to the core. The basic paper applying it to #autistics (Baron-Cohen, Leslie, and Frith 1985) got the idea from an irredeemably flawed paper
What “autistics” means
Wiktionary · WikipediaAutism, also known as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), is a condition characterized by impairment in social communication and interaction, as well as a need or strong preference for predictability and routine, sensory processing differences, focused interests, or repetitive behaviors. Features of autism are present from early childhood and the condition typically persists throughout life. Autism is classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder, and a diagnosis requires professional assessment that
“Autism” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#autistics across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #autistics straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/autistics