Jillian Nelson
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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And honestly, as an autistic community, we we don't always do well there.
Um
I um I remember my early twenties, like I look at pictures and I'm like, why was dating so hard?
I was super cute.
Like, but I was also super awkward and I couldn't like follow all the social rules that went into like early two thousand lesbian land.
Um
So I think we end up almost with our own subculture of like neurodiverse queerness.
I'm really proud to be here at the Autism Society and with our partnerships with Twin Cities Pride.
Um, and all of the work we've been doing regarding accessibility with Twin Cities Pride over the last almost ten years.
Because I think we really are starting to break down some of those barriers.
Um, at least here in the Twin Cities, where we are starting to demand
neurodiverse space and queer spaces and
Those response
are being welcomed.
Um, like for those that haven't ever had a chance to visit Twin Cities Pride, we have a huge sensory space that's right in the middle of the park and we have sensory teams that roam the park to help people that might need support.
before they get to the sensory space and we have accessible space at the parade and this year we're actually gonna have um
a mobile sensory room at the parade so that people can just like sneak away and take a break and come back.
Um, so we we do a lot.
And I think as far as like merging that leadership and those voices, like the first thing that's step one for me in creating autistic queer leadership in queer spaces is
to kind of force the queer community to acknowledge that we exist.
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