Windows 11 user here too. I just install WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) as an alternative as I’m too used to the Windows interface. Maybe one day I’ll fully switch.

There’s a lot of apps out there: this post has a pretty good list.

I’m personally using Memmy, which feels somewhat similar to Apollo to me. It’s also currently the only one I’m aware of that has reached the official App Store (as opposed to being in Testflight like the others). I found it slightly confusing at first to add new users to it, and you won’t be able to create new accounts on it (although this might just be universal among all apps), and when you click on Lemmy links it’ll go to the browser instead. Otherwise, it’s worked very smoothly for me so far.

Much like i woudln’t expect the r/autsim_parenting sub to have a level 3 mod.

Good point, that. Regarding your last point, however, not every parent will be “nasty”—that was one person. Just something to keep in mind if you reconsider this.

Honestly, what you’ve said here is pretty reasonable, and it’s nice that the two communities are partnered. You seem really passionate about this. ^-

I have seen the blog post that you linked in the other comment!

we might be abl to maek a post with defintions and pin it.

This was closer to what I meant, though. There was a lot of discourse surrounding what exactly terms like “nonspeaking” meant.

As for the mod team, it seems like it’s only you so far—perhaps bringing in another higher support needs autistic or a parent who takes care of a higher support needs autistic would help with that (similar to what SpicyAutism did). I don’t know the full story behind the SpicyAutism banning, however, so I can’t say much about that.

I am not the target audience, as I am a level 1. I was mostly a lurker in r/SpicyAutism, as I was curious about how autism affected higher support needs people. I honestly plan to use this community for similar purposes (as a medium for learning authentic first-hand experiences).

Something I never really saw on SpicyAutism, however, were links to helpful posts. There is a lot of misinformation about autism online, and having an easily accessible repository of anecdotes from higher support needs autistics would help combat that. It could also avoid infighting concerning terminology (which I’d observed as SpicyAutism started to grow).

I also noticed that a lot of people in SpicyAutism seemed to be slightly confused about the level system or support needs system—perhaps there could be an article on that as well.